Sunday Feature: Philip French and the Critical Ear
Laurence Scott on the radio producer and esteemed film critic Philip French
Oct 02, 2016•44 min
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In-depth documentaries which explore a different aspect of history, science, philosophy, film, visual arts and literature. The Sunday Feature is broadcast every Sunday at 6.45pm on BBC Radio 3.
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Episodes
The Envy of the World: Rudely Truncated
Part two of Humphrey Carpenter's history of the Third Programme. First broadcast 1996
Sep 28, 2016•45 min
The Envy of the World: No Fixed Points
Humphrey Carpenter's history of the Third Programme. First broadcast in 1996.
Sep 28, 2016•43 min
Dawn on the Somme
Kate Kennedy explores the Somme through the lives of musicians who took part
Jul 07, 2016•43 min
Sherlock, Sigmund and Signor Morelli
Giovanni Morelli, exposer of fakes and European man of mystery, who may have inspired Conan Doyle's detective, and Freud's theory of the unconscious. Naomi Alderman investigates.
Jun 26, 2016•44 min
An Explosion of Geraniums - The International Surrealist Exhibition of 1936
Ian McMillan on the International Surrealist Exhibition of 1936,that changed everything
Jun 19, 2016•44 min
Antonio Carlos Gomes, the Brazilian who conquered La Scala
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.
Jun 15, 2016•44 min
Literary Pursuits: Dubliners
Sarah Dillon on James Joyce's epic struggle to publish his first book, Dubliners.
Jun 05, 2016•43 min
Literary Pursuits: Jane Austen's Persuasion
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 Austen's death, but it was only published posthumously. By talking to Dr Kathryn Sutherland from St ...
May 29, 2016•44 min
Sunday Feature: Arnold Wesker
Arnold Wesker, who died in April of this year,looking back at his life and career.
May 15, 2016•44 min
Sunday Feature: First Folio Road Trip
Emma Smith traces how Shakespeare's First Folio helped make our national poet
Apr 25, 2016•44 min
Sunday Feature: Menuhin at 100
Menuhin at 100 marks the life and career of this prodigy, through the interviews he gave.
Apr 17, 2016•43 min
Brainwash Culture
If brainwashing is a just a Cold War myth, why does it still trouble us? With Daniel Pick
Mar 13, 2016•44 min
The Venice Ghetto
Jerry Brotton travels to Venice to tell the story of the first ghetto founded in 1516.
Mar 06, 2016•44 min
Step Inside: A 21st-Century Gallery Guide
Paul Morley on the changing world of the art galleries of Britain.
Feb 21, 2016•44 min
South Korea: The Silent Cultural Superpower
Rana Mitter finds out how South Korean culture manages to punch far above its weight
Feb 14, 2016•44 min
Folk Connections: Cecil Sharp's Appalachian Trail
Andy Kershaw follows song collector Cecil Sharp's Appalachian trail in the spring of 1916
Jan 31, 2016•44 min
Charles Dickens: Great Expectations
Sarah Dillon goes on the hunt for the story behind how Great Expectations was written.
Jan 10, 2016•44 min
Northern Lights: True Norse
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough asks if there is a shared culture in the north of Europe.
Dec 13, 2015•43 min
Above Sixty, Below Zero
Lesley Riddoch examines the changing relationship between man and nature in the North.
Dec 06, 2015•43 min
Making an Entrance - Asian Theatre in Britain
Sarfraz Manzoor charts the history of Asian theatre in Britain
Nov 22, 2015•44 min
New Generation Thinkers: The Science of Baby Laughter & The Life and Life of Richard Baxter
The history of the science of baby laughter. The Life of Richard Baxter
Nov 15, 2015•44 min
Hardy and the Animals and Who's Afraid of Anthropomorphism?
Alasdair Cochrane on Thomas Hardy and animals; Will Abberley on evolutionary psychology.
Nov 08, 2015•45 min
This Story Shall the Good Man Teach His Son - Agincourt, England and France
Adam Thorpe visits Azincourt to find out what really happened at the battle.
Oct 25, 2015•44 min
How Celtic are We?
Cultural historian Dai Smith interrogates the Celtic myth.
Oct 04, 2015•44 min
Why Music?
Philip Ball asks scientists and musicians why music is such a universal human trait.
Sep 27, 2015•1 hr
Sunday Feature: You're Tearing Me Apart: Rebel without a cause at 60
Drawing on rare archive Alan Dein explores the making & meanings of Rebel Without a Cause
Sep 20, 2015•44 min
Sunday Feature: A Most Ingenious Paradox: Loving G&S to Death?
Martin Handley explores contemporary attitudes to the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan.
Jun 28, 2015•44 min
Classical Voice Season: An Anatomy of Singing
Mary King investigates how advances in our anatomy knowledge are changing the way we sing
Jun 21, 2015•44 min
Sunday Feature: W B Yeats and the Artifice of Eternity
Theo Dorgan explores the continuing importance of W B Yeats, 150 years after he was born.
Jun 07, 2015•44 min
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