Five essays from Birmingham
Coming Home homepage
Personal essays exploring the history, layers and nuances of British Sign Language.
Sign Language Is My Language homepage
Essays by five contemporary poets marking the centenary of Philip Larkin (1922-1985).
Larkin and Believing homepage
Michael Goldfarb explores the emergence of a postwar avant-garde in 1940s America.
Bohemians in T-Shirts homepage
The Essay celebrates the everyday moments that shape, frame and colour our lives.
Moments of Being homepage
Writers go in search of the final resting places of their literary heroes.
Journeys to the Grave homepage
Five reflections on his life by Adrian Edmondson: comedian, actor and writer.
Adrian Edmondson - Signs of Life (Series 2) homepage
A personal exploration of poetic inspiration from writer Inua Ellams.
Poetic Provocations homepage
A series of essays marking the 30th anniversary of Marlene Dietrich's death in May 1992.
Dietrich in Five Songs homepage
The latest crop of New Generation Thinkers stretch their broadcasting wings
New Generation Thinkers 2021 homepage
Hybrid war came to Ukraine in 2014. Its poets have been responding to it ever since.
Words for War homepage
Diarmaid MacCulloch explores the many varieties of spiritual silence.
Talking about Silence homepage
Archaeologist Rose Ferraby explores traces of human history around the British Isles.
EarthWorks homepage
Artists, writers and thinkers explore how their work has been informed by their bodies.
Ways of Being homepage
Five landscapes of sounds and words in response to remains of Hadrian's Wall in Newcastle.
The Sounds of Tyne homepage
New short features from audio producers who are underrepresented in the audio industry.
Multitrack homepage
Five Essays on different aspects of fashion.
Fashion Stories homepage
The Essay celebrates JS Bach's landmark collection of Preludes and Fugues in all 24 keys.
The Well-Tempered Clavier homepage
Five Irish writers re-read James Joyce's difficult classic novel Ulysses.
Reading Ulysses homepage
The Essay unearths the peoples of Iron Age Britain, from warrior queens to Lindow Man.
Unearthing Britannia's Tribes homepage
Writer Colin Grant's personal take on the cultural history of cannabis.
Herb homepage
Jennifer Higgie re-evaluates the influence of spiritualism on art in the past 150 years.
Artists and the Spirit World homepage
Madeleine Bunting explores whether public and private ritual has outlived its usefulness.
The Meaning of Ritual homepage
Five writers explore their relationship with the natural world and British nature writing.
Into the Wild homepage
The hidden histories of a Northern Ireland that outsiders rarely get to hear about.
Another Northern Ireland homepage
Michael Goldfarb tells the stories of Americans who fought in World War II.
Our Fathers' War homepage
Chris Watson recalls his quests to record sound in some of nature's most isolated places.
Sounds of Isolation homepage
Andrew Martin muses on how the day used to be punctuated by rituals, now almost lost.
The Lost Hours homepage
Five commissioned short stories from Europe marking a refugee puppet's astonishing journey
Walk with Amal homepage
Essays from artists engaging with the future of the multicultural city of Coventry.
Postcards from Coventry homepage
