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Silent Witness: John Cage, Zen and Japan

How experimental composer John Cage came to write his infamous silent piece, 4鈥�33鈥�

• 43 mins

New Generation Thinker short Feature: COVID and The Black Death, an imperfect fit.

Medievalist Dr Seb Falk questions the comparisons between COVID19 and The Black Death.

• 13 mins

The Silence of My Pain

Hannah French explores a hidden disability for many musicians: pain.

• 44 mins

Sunday Feature: The Fake Poet

Why does the image of the forlorn and abandoned poet Thomas Chatterton haunt us today?

• 43 mins

Sunday Feature - Dissecting Beethoven

An exploration of Beethoven鈥檚 music through the body that gave him so much trouble.

• 43 mins

The Apple and the Tree

Carlo G茅bler, son of Edna O鈥橞rien, asks why the children of writers often become writers

• 43 mins

NGT The Balcony

Dr Islam Issa celebrates the importance of Balconies, from Cairo to the Capulet's garden.

• 13 mins

New Generation Thinker short feature: Hilltop Histories

Archaeologist Seren Griffiths tells the multiple stories of a Sandstone ridge in Cheshire

• 13 mins

More Kershaw Tapes

Andy Kershaw introduces his own cassette recordings of music from his travels.

• 43 mins

Even more Kershaw Tapes

Andy Kershaw introduces his own cassette recordings of music from his travels.

• 43 mins

Then there was Light - Stockhausen and LICHT, his opera cycle based on the seven days of the week

How famous German avant-garde composer Stockhausen wrote an opera for each day of the week

• 43 mins

Tchaikovsky's Island of Inspiration

How a trip to a remote island monastery inspired Pyotr Tchaikovsky's First Symphony

• 46 mins

Sunday Feature: Florence Price鈥檚 Chicago and the Black Female Fellowship

The remarkable female musicians and activists who helped Florence Price's music to thrive

• 43 mins

Briggflatts - A Northern Poetic Odyssey

Rory Stewart in search of Basil Bunting鈥檚 neglected masterpiece about love, loss and time

• 43 mins

Sunday Feature: Shostakovich and the Battle for Babi Yar

The story of Shostakovich's Symphony No 13 and the trailblazing poem which inspired it

• 44 mins

What Walls Hold

Charles Dickens鈥� life was shaped by an extraordinary house. Docudrama with Alex Jennings.

• 43 mins

Unlocking Anne

Poet Clare Pollard introduced us to forgotten female sonneteer, Anne Lock.

• 43 mins

Scott Ross - Harpsichord Rebel

Phil Hebblethwaite traces the complex life of an early music maverick.

• 43 mins

Yiddish Glory

Musician Alice Zawadzki explores long-lost Yiddish songs from World War II

• 44 mins

Rebel Sounds: Musical Resistance in Barbados

Peter Brathwaite discovers the music of his black enslaved & white slave-owning ancestors

• 44 mins

Metal City

How has metalworking affected the culture of Birmingham over hundreds of years?

• 43 mins

O Sole Mio

On the streets of Naples, Joanna Robertson celebrates the city's unique musical tradition

• 43 mins

Tutu - A Portrait of Nigeria

Chibundu Onuzo tells the fascinating story of 鈥楢frica鈥檚 Mona Lisa鈥� and artist Ben Enwonwu

• 43 mins

Government Song Woman

Rhiannon Giddens investigates the folk song collector Sidney Robertson Cowell.

• 43 mins

Heinrich Heine: The First Modern European

Michael Goldfarb tells the story of playwright, poet and essayist Heinrich Heine.

• 43 mins

X-Ray Vision: Rudolph Fisher in Harlem

Lindsay Johns makes the case for writer Rudolph Fisher's portraits of Black American life

• 43 mins

Sunday Feature - Shakespeare's Brum Ting

Islam Issa celebrates Birmingham's unique public ownership of Shakespeare's first Folio.

• 13 mins

The Black Cantor

The story of a Black tenor who sang Jewish music in America in the early 20th century

• 43 mins

The Pleasures and Pains of Denton Welch

New arts feature exploring the brief but brilliant career of writer Denton Welch.

• 44 mins

New Generation Thinkers: The Perfect Balance

Dr Anindya Raychaudhuri searches for different perspectives on the idea of balance.

• 13 mins