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Discussing actor, film director, radio producer and theatre impresario Orson Welles

Being Orson homepage

Columnist and historian Simon Heffer discusses the lives and work of British comic actors.

British Film Comedians homepage

Series of essays exploring parts of the Lord's Prayer

On Earth, as It Is in Heaven homepage

Martin Gayford recounts his encounters and friendships with five leading jazz musicians.

Meeting the Giants of Jazz homepage

Five writers recall memorable swims, experienced in different waters

Swimming Stories homepage

Celebrating women who have been unacknowledged heroines of classical music down the ages

Classical Music's Unsung Heroines homepage

Series of essays on different aspects of the emotion of fear

Fear Itself homepage

Series focusing on historically important yet little-known photographs

The Five Photographs that (You Didn't Know) Changed Everything homepage

People in the arts revisit an early piece of work and explain what they think about it now

Just Juvenilia homepage

Writers reflect on the continuing power of castles

The Fall and Rise of the British Castle homepage

People involved in the arts discuss the books that inspired them in their careers

The Book that Changed Me homepage

Exploring how Venetians and others have adapted to live in 21st-century Venice

Venice Unravelled homepage

Tom Shakespeare celebrates five disabled artists

The Genius of Disability homepage

Series of essays giving an international perspective on World War One

World War One Round the World homepage

Series in which five writers reveal something they have never told anyone before

I've Never Told Anyone This Before homepage

Series of essays about the voice and radio

Shaping the Air - Writers and Radio homepage

Series of essays about 19th-century German composer Johannes Brahms

Brahms Experience homepage

Michael Goldfarb recalls his time driving a taxi in 1970s New York as an aspiring actor

Trip Sheets homepage

How pieces of music would have been appreciated by the audiences who heard them first

Music in Its Time homepage

Series of essays about playwright Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett - Happy Days homepage

Scottish ex-pat writer and comedian AL Kennedy reflects on what Scottishness means to her.

Homage to Caledonia homepage

Writers from countries involved in WWI reflect on a turning point in their own histories

Goodbye to All That homepage

How great artists and thinkers responded to World War I in individual works of art

Minds at War: Series 1 homepage

Writers and artists on their connections to the work of Welsh poet and writer Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas Centenary homepage

Series focusing on key figures of the Georgian era

Georgian Portraits homepage

Five writers explore the distinctive history and culture of the English Midland

In Praise of the Midlands homepage

Journalist Madeleine Bunting explores the impact of the decline of Christianity in Britain

The Retreating Roar homepage

Novelist and academic Ian Sansom explores the history and symbolism of furniture

Furniture - A Personal History of Movable Objects homepage

Series in which writers recall their observations on walks in early spring

Springwalks homepage