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Nothing Is Real - Pop's Struggle with Authenticity

The rock'n'roll funeral

David Hepworth asks if pop music has any place in the great ceremonies of life and death.

• 14 mins

Cornerstones

Flint

Alan Garner sparks with flint, the stone that has enabled human civilisation.

• 14 mins

Cornerstones

Lewisian Gneiss

Writer Sara Maitland conjures with Lewisian gneiss, two-thirds the age of the earth.

• 1 min

Cornerstones

North Sea Oil and Gas

Esther Woolfson contrasts Aberdeen, the 'Granite City', with its oil and gas industry.

• 1 min

Cornerstones

Gypsum and Alabaster

Archaeologist Rose Ferraby gets to grips with gypsum, the key mineral in plaster.

• 1 min

Cornerstones

Clay Bricks

Poet Fiona Hamilton contrasts clay's different states, before and after it's baked hard.

• 1 min

Transformations: 5 stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses

Ceyx and Alcyone

The first of five stories about love dramatized from tales told in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

• 15 mins

Transformations: 5 stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses

Pygmalion

The second of five dramas about love drawn from tales told in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

• 15 mins

Transformations: 5 stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses

Orpheus and Eurydice

The third of five dramas about love drawn from tales told in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

• 15 mins

Transformations: 5 stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses

Byblis and Cannus

The fourth of five dramas about love drawn from tales told in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

• 15 mins

Transformations: 5 stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses

Philemon and Baucis

The fifth of five dramas about love drawn from tales told in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

• 15 mins

Forgetting

Modern Amnesia

Francis O'Gorman examines how the modern world makes forgetfulness a daily routine.

• 15 mins

Forgetting

The Pleasure of Forgetting

Rose Ruane asks can someone with the ability to remember everything ever learn to forget?

• 15 mins

Forgetting

The Missing Teenager

Writer Mark Illis explores why he has forgotten much of his teenage years.

• 15 mins

Forgetting

Forgetting Ourselves

Francis O'Gorman wonders how much of what we think is remembering is actually forgetting.

• 15 mins

Forgetting

Pieces of You, Pieces of Me

Amanda Dalton explores the role of material objects in our quest to preserve our past.

• 15 mins

Looking Good

James Fox

Five writers consider the art of viewing a phenomenon or social activity closely.

• 14 mins

Looking Good

Lauren Elkin

Five writers consider the pleasures of viewing a phenomenon or social activity closely.

• 14 mins

Looking Good

Nicholas Shakespeare

Five writers consider the pleasures of viewing a phenomenon or social activity closely.

• 14 mins

Looking Good

Rachel Cooke

Five writers consider the pleasures of viewing a phenomenon or social activity closely.

• 14 mins

Looking Good

Lavinia Greenlaw

Five writers on the pleasures of viewing a phenomenon or social activity closely.

• 14 mins

All Miss Brodie's Girls

Ali Smith

Ali Smith presents the first in a series of essays celebrating the work of Muriel Spark.

• 14 mins

All Miss Brodie's Girls

Kate Clanchy

Kate Clanchy discusses the work of Muriel Spark - poet.

• 14 mins

All Miss Brodie's Girls

Janice Galloway

Janice Galloway discusses Muriel Spark- code maker and code breaker.

• 14 mins

All Miss Brodie's Girls

Val McDermid

Val McDermid discusses Muriel Spark - crime novelist.

• 14 mins

All Miss Brodie's Girls

Louise Welsh

Louise Welsh reflects on the uncanny in the novels of Muriel Spark.

• 14 mins

Walking The Lobster

Episode 1

Writer John Walsh explores the male desire to stand out, sartorially and in attitude.

• 15 mins

Walking The Lobster

Episode 2

Writer John Walsh examines the male desire to stand out, sartorially and in attitude.

• 15 mins

Walking The Lobster

Episode 3

Writer John Walsh examines the male desire to stand out, sartorially and in attitude.

• 15 mins

Walking The Lobster

Episode 4

Writer John Walsh examines the male desire to stand out, sartorially and in attitude.

• 15 mins