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Christmas Close Up

Star of Wonder

Space scientist Monica Grady reflects on the symbolic power of the Star of Bethlehem.

• 15 mins

Christmas Close Up

Nativity Characters - Beyond the Christian Story

What Jesus and Mary represent to Muslims beyond the story of the Incarnation.

• 15 mins

Christmas Close Up

Black Magus

Theologian Robert Beckford reflects on the magi as a symbol of cultural inclusion.

• 15 mins

Christmas Close Up

Holy Innocents

The resonance of the Feast of the Holy Innocents for Christians in the Middle East.

• 15 mins

Breaking Free

Sarah Walker

Sarah Walker on learning and playing Schoenberg's Suite for Piano, Op 25, for her MA.

• 15 mins

Breaking Free

Stephen Johnson

Stephen Johnson discusses Schoenberg's String Quartet No 2.

• 15 mins

Breaking Free

Gillian Moore

Gillian Moore talks about Alban Berg's relationships with the women in his life.

• 15 mins

Breaking Free

Tom McKinney

Tom McKinney on his 'first contact' with the music of Webern: Five Pieces for Orchestra.

• 15 mins

Breaking Free

Bethany Bell

Journalist Bethany Bell on living in Modling, a town near Vienna where Schoenberg lived.

• 15 mins

Cornerstones: Quartz

Linda Cracknell reflects on the appeal of the quartz on Ben Lawers, her local Munro.

• 13 mins

Cornerstones:Millstone

Derbyshire poet and climber Helen Mort visits Stanage Edge, famed for its millstone grit.

• 13 mins

Cornerstones:Coal

Writer Paul Evans traces a family line back through Shropshire's seams of coal.

• 13 mins

Cornerstones: Fire Rocks

Novelist Sarah Moss discusses basalt and dolerite, the fire rocks that underpin castles.

• 13 mins

Cornerstones: Chalk

Poet Alyson Hallett is drawn to chalk landscapes and the large horse at Westbury in Wilts

• 13 mins

Cornerstones

Quartz

Linda Cracknell reflects on the appeal of the quartz on Ben Lawers, her local Munro.

• 15 mins

Cornerstones

Millstone

Poet Helen Mort reflects on the Peak District's Stanage Edge, famed for its millstone grit

• 15 mins

Cornerstones

Coal Mines

Writer Paul Evans traces a family line back through Shropshire's seams of coal.

• 15 mins

Cornerstones

Fire Rocks

Novelist Sarah Moss discusses basalt and dolerite, the fire rocks that underpin castles.

• 15 mins

Cornerstones

Chalk

Alyson Hallett on being drawn to chalk landscapes and the large horse at Westbury in Wilts

• 15 mins

Heffer on Film - Kitchen Sink Cinema

Room at the Top

Simon Heffer re-examines the 1959 British New Wave film Room at the Top.

• 15 mins

Heffer on Film - Kitchen Sink Cinema

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

How Alan Sillitoe's novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning was made into a film.

• 15 mins

Heffer on Film - Kitchen Sink Cinema

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

Simon Heffer explores the 1962 film The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.

• 15 mins

Heffer on Film - Kitchen Sink Cinema

This Sporting Life

Simon Heffer examines the powerful 1963 film version of This Sporting Life.

• 15 mins

Heffer on Film - Kitchen Sink Cinema

Billy Liar

Simon Heffer explores Billy Liar, the 1963 British New Wave film starring Tom Courtenay.

• 15 mins

Taking Aim - Renaissance-style

Catherine Fletcher unveils handguns' explosive Renaissance origin

• 13 mins

The Essay: Gun Culture: Gotham's Gun Baron

Brian DeLay reveals the life & arms deals of the most dangerous man you've never heard of

• 13 mins

The Essay: Gun Culture: Pistols At Dawn

John Gallagher duels with the noisy story of guns 300 years ago

• 13 mins

The Essay - Gun Culture - Sniper

Nicholas Rankin explores the emergence of the deadly 'force reducer' that is the sniper

• 13 mins

The Essay - Gun Culture -The Howth Mauser

Heather Jones explores the deadly symbolism of the Howth Mauser

• 13 mins

Gun Culture

Taking Aim - Renaissance-Style

The origins of gunpowder-fired weapons on the battlefields and in Renaissance Italy.

• 15 mins