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Sunday Feature Episodes

  1. New Generation Thinkers

    One of the latest crop of New Generation Thinkers stretches their broadcasting wings.

  2. The Music Man for Africa

    A celebration of the life and work of broadcaster and cultural ambassador Leo Sarkisian.

  3. New Music New York

    Richard King explores the conditions for musical creativity in New York City in the 1970s.

  4. Reeking of Cowpats - Peer Gynt

    150 years on, how have Ibsen鈥檚 play and Grieg鈥檚 incidental music stood the test of time?

  5. Wolf Biermann - the German Bob Dylan exiled by the GDR

    Why was Wolf Biermann - the German Bob Dylan - exiled from East Germany?

  6. One Singular Sensation

    Celebrating the 50th anniversary of a musical theatre classic, 'A Chorus Line'.

  7. Taped letters

    How exchanging cassette tapes connected communities world wide in the pre-digital age.

  8. The Russia I Lost

    Tatyana Movshevich explores her Russian cultural past.

  9. James Blades - Pandemonium of the One-Man Band

    A journey through the life and work of James Blades, famous 20th-century percussionist.

  10. The Great Egyptian Music Mystery

    Ellie Chan traces the story of a set of unique and puzzling manuscripts

  11. When the Words Leave

    The poet Caroline Bird explores the silences when it feels like the words have left you.

  12. Sir Henry Unton's Music

    Christina Faraday looks at possibly the first image of amateur music playing in England.

  13. The Waltz Paradox

    John Suchet unlocks the complex makeup of the Waltz King, Johann Strauss II.

  14. Requiems for the Firestorm - Dresden's Musical Aftermath

    Katja Hoyer explores many musics created in the aftermath of Dresden's fiery destruction.

  15. The Artificial Composer - Music and AI

    Composer Tarik O'Regan explores the collision of classical music and AI in Silicon Valley.

  16. Joining the dots - 200 years of Braille Music

    The story of Braille music and its impact on blind musicians over the last 200 years.

  17. The Man Who Played The Kremlin's Tune

    Lucy Ash uncovers the murky story of Tikhon Khrennikov, Stalin鈥檚 musical enforcer.

  18. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Paul Laurence Dunbar

    Leah Broad explores Coleridge-Taylor's musical settings of Dunbar's poetry.

  19. Delius - A Yorkshireman?

    Presenter Nick Ahad explores the influence of Bradford on the composer Frederick Delius.

  20. Sound Sources

    Elizabeth Alker joins the dots between rock, pop and the classical avant garde.

  21. The Hiawatha Phenomenon

    Uchenna Ngwe charts the changing fortunes of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor鈥檚 Song of Hiawatha.

  22. Erik Satie - the Minimalist Muse

    Jude Rogers explores the unique legacy of composer Erik Satie, 100 years after his death.

  23. The February House

    When a house share in Brooklyn became an epicentre of Western music and literature.

  24. New Generation Thinkers: How Lullabies Work

    Historian (and father) Oskar Jensen on the history and the magic behind Hush-a-bye Baby.

  25. Liza Lehmann

    Naomi Paxton on the life and music of singer and composer Liza Lehmann (1862-1918).

  26. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: Behind the Voice

    Benjamin Appl presents a personal tribute to the great baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.

  27. Queer Gothic

    Sarah Waters traces the queer roots of early gothic literature and architecture

  28. Make Everybody as Uneasy as Possible: Edward Gorey at 100

    Chris Riddell celebrates the centenary of the American artist and writer Edward Gorey.

  29. Conscripting Beethoven

    How two women used Beethoven's piano music to shape wartime culture in Germany and Britain

  30. Tango Goes East

    Juliette Bretan hears how tango danced east to Poland and beyond in the interwar years.

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