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I Know an Island - RM Lockley

Jon Gower uncovers the work of the pioneering naturalist RM Lockley.

• 43 mins

v. is for Tony

To mark Tony Harrison's 80th birthday, Paul Farley profiles the unique poet. (R)

• 43 mins

The Killers

Adam Smith traces the birth and afterlife of Hemingway's explosive short story.

• 43 mins

Monteverdi's Women

Catherine Fletcher explores Monterverdi's pioneering use of female roles and performers

• 43 mins

Ken Campbell As Never Heard Before

Actors Jim Broadbent, Toby Jones and Sylvester McCoy join David Bramwell to celebrate Ken

• 43 mins

Sunday Feature: A Life in Study: Robert Lowell

Colm Toibin profiles the turbulent and brilliant life of American poet Robert Lowell.

• 43 mins

A Portrait of Parry

Simon Heffer argues for a new understanding of Sir Hubert Parry

• 43 mins

Forests of The Imagination

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough searches the Autumn forest, looking for stories.

• 43 mins

Inside Stories

Author Carlo Gebler on the role of prison arts in punishment and rehabilitation

• 43 mins

Sunday Feature: New Generation Thinkers Hetta Howes and Eleanor Lybeck

Two Features by R3 New Generation Thinkers Hetta Howes and Eleanor Lybeck.

• 43 mins

Sunday Feature: New Generation Thinkers

Two features by R3 New Generation Thinkers. Dr Simon Beard and Dr Islam Issa

• 43 mins

The Kristapurana

Amazing travels of the first Englishman in India & a hunt for a lost poetic masterpiece.

• 43 mins

Harlem on Fire

Afua Hirsch goes on the search of a long-lost masterpiece from the Harlem Renaissance

• 43 mins

Sunday Feature: Into the Forest - The Pine Tree

The magical story of the tree that sits at the heart of Christmas day - the Pine tree.

• 43 mins

Literary Pursuits: Victor Hugo's Les Miserables

Sarah Dillon explores the stories behind how great works of literature were written.

• 43 mins

A History of the Tongue

A succulent & mouth watering portrait of one of the least talked about organs of the body.

• 43 mins

Jazz Japan

An exploration of the rich and surprising history of jazz in Japan.

• 42 mins

The Deluxe Edition

Dr Seán Williams takes a first class trip through the enduring contradictions of luxury.

• 43 mins

Hotel Genius

Sally Marlow uncovers the creative legacy of residents at the Institute for Advanced Study

• 43 mins

John Ashbery - Portrait in a Convex Mirror

Colm Toibin presents an intimate portrait of the American poet John Ashbery

• 44 mins

WATERLOG

Wild swimming enthusiast Alice Roberts examines the legacy of Waterlog by Roger Deakin.

• 43 mins

Alexander Korda: Producer, Director, Exile, Spy

Matthew Sweet unearths the film-maker Alexander Korda's wartime role as a British agent.

• 43 mins

Robinson Crusoe Road-Trip

300 years since Robinson Crusoe was published, Emma Smith traces it across the centuries

• 43 mins

Literary Pursuits: Lord of the Flies

Golding's classic novel was saved from being rejected by Faber by the luckiest chance.

• 43 mins

A Unicorn Quest

Hetta Howes sets off to find the unicorn of myth in 21st century Britain.

• 14 mins

Sir Isaac Newton and the Philosopher's Stone

Dafydd Mills Daniel investigates Isaac Newton's more obscure studies in Alchemy.

• 13 mins

Cold War in Full Swing - Louis Armstrong in the GDR

Kevin Le Gendre discovers how Louis Armstrong came to play jazz in communist East Germany

• 44 mins

Plot 5779: Unearthing Elizabeth Siddall

Actor Lily Cole plays Elizabeth Siddall who climbs out of her grave to tell her story.

• 46 mins

Al Andalus - The Legacy

Andrew Hussey journeys through Andalusia searching for the legacy of Muslim Spain

• 43 mins

Power Plays

How theatre challenged the East German government - but was swept aside as communism fell

• 43 mins