The Radio 3 Documentary

An Explosion of Geraniums - The International Surrealist Exhibition of 1936 19.06.2016 43:43 ↓

Ian McMillan on the International Surrealist Exhibition of 1936,that changed everything

Antonio Carlos Gomes, the Brazilian who conquered La Scala 15.06.2016 43:59 ↓

Travelling to both Brazil and Milan, Fabio Zanon tells how Carlos Gomes, the Brazilian mixed-race composer, conquered La Scala in the 19th century, becoming a hero at home too.

Literary Pursuits: Dubliners 05.06.2016 43:29 ↓

Sarah Dillon on James Joyce's epic struggle to publish his first book, Dubliners.

Literary Pursuits: Jane Austen's Persuasion 29.05.2016 43:43 ↓

Sarah Dillon discovers how Jane Austen's last completed novel, 'Persuasion' was written. The novel has sometimes been viewed as Austen's valedictory novel - written while she was suffering with her final illness. But Sarah Dillon uncovers a more complex story: dates of revisions on the manuscripts in the British Library confirm her sister's story that Persuasion was completed almost a year before...

Sunday Feature: Arnold Wesker 15.05.2016 43:38 ↓

Arnold Wesker, who died in April of this year,looking back at his life and career.

Sunday Feature: First Folio Road Trip 25.04.2016 43:39 ↓

Emma Smith traces how Shakespeare's First Folio helped make our national poet

Sunday Feature: Menuhin at 100 17.04.2016 43:27 ↓

Menuhin at 100 marks the life and career of this prodigy, through the interviews he gave.

Brainwash Culture 13.03.2016 43:53 ↓

If brainwashing is a just a Cold War myth, why does it still trouble us? With Daniel Pick

The Venice Ghetto 06.03.2016 43:45 ↓

Jerry Brotton travels to Venice to tell the story of the first ghetto founded in 1516.

Step Inside: A 21st-Century Gallery Guide 21.02.2016 43:56 ↓

Paul Morley on the changing world of the art galleries of Britain.

South Korea: The Silent Cultural Superpower 14.02.2016 43:55 ↓

Rana Mitter finds out how South Korean culture manages to punch far above its weight

Folk Connections: Cecil Sharp's Appalachian Trail 31.01.2016 44:01 ↓

Andy Kershaw follows song collector Cecil Sharp's Appalachian trail in the spring of 1916

Charles Dickens: Great Expectations 10.01.2016 43:48 ↓

Sarah Dillon goes on the hunt for the story behind how Great Expectations was written.

Northern Lights: True Norse 13.12.2015 43:13 ↓

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough asks if there is a shared culture in the north of Europe.

Above Sixty, Below Zero 06.12.2015 43:11 ↓

Lesley Riddoch examines the changing relationship between man and nature in the North.

Making an Entrance - Asian Theatre in Britain 22.11.2015 43:34 ↓

Sarfraz Manzoor charts the history of Asian theatre in Britain

New Generation Thinkers: The Science of Baby Laughter & The Life and Life of Richard Baxter 15.11.2015 43:55 ↓

The history of the science of baby laughter. The Life of Richard Baxter

Hardy and the Animals and Who's Afraid of Anthropomorphism? 08.11.2015 44:39 ↓

Alasdair Cochrane on Thomas Hardy and animals; Will Abberley on evolutionary psychology.

This Story Shall the Good Man Teach His Son - Agincourt, England and France 25.10.2015 43:45 ↓

Adam Thorpe visits Azincourt to find out what really happened at the battle.

How Celtic are We? 04.10.2015 43:44 ↓

Cultural historian Dai Smith interrogates the Celtic myth.

Why Music? 27.09.2015 59:59 ↓

Philip Ball asks scientists and musicians why music is such a universal human trait.

Sunday Feature: You're Tearing Me Apart: Rebel without a cause at 60 20.09.2015 43:53 ↓

Drawing on rare archive Alan Dein explores the making & meanings of Rebel Without a Cause

Sunday Feature: A Most Ingenious Paradox: Loving G&S to Death? 28.06.2015 44:05 ↓

Martin Handley explores contemporary attitudes to the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan.

Classical Voice Season: An Anatomy of Singing 21.06.2015 43:46 ↓

Mary King investigates how advances in our anatomy knowledge are changing the way we sing

Sunday Feature: W B Yeats and the Artifice of Eternity 07.06.2015 43:44 ↓

Theo Dorgan explores the continuing importance of W B Yeats, 150 years after he was born.