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Blue Canvas: The Artist Miles Davis
A musical portrait of how the jazz trumpeter Miles Davis became a painter in later life.
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Field Notes: The Irishman Who Invented the Nocturne
Alistair McGowan uncovers the sensational, creative life of the Irish composer John Field.
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The Sprung Floor
Dane Hurst takes a dance floor to South Africa for use by underprivileged children.
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Attenborough at 90
To celebrate his 90th birthday, David Attenborough shares his life and career highlights.
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Finding Harpo's Voice
Cellist Steven Isserlis explores the silence of his screen idol, Harpo Marx.
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The Perfect Strangers
Meet 80 year olds Mo and Jo, who recently became honorary Gurkhas.
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The Day the Refugees Came
Michael Palin's story of a group of refugees welcomed to Somerset.
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Tim Key Delves Into Daniil Kharms And That鈥檚 All
Tim Key gives his surreal and startling take on the Soviet absurdist writer Daniil Kharms.
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This Farming Life
Documentary following the struggles and triumphs of very different farming families.
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The Greatest Ever Faker
Gareth Gwynn uncovers the fantastical world of a Welsh cultural lodestone, Iolo Morganwg
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JD Salinger: Made in England
How 3 months in rural Devon influenced one of the greatest chroniclers of urban New York
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Jarvis on McCullers
Jarvis Cocker celebrates the life and work of literary wunderkind Carson McCullers.
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Bus Lines
First bus company run a writing competition for their drivers. Hop on board...
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Blood, Sex and Money: The Life and Work of Emile Zola
Glenda Jackson presents a documentary in Paris of France's great writer鈥揈mile Zola.
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Alice in Teesside
Lewis Carroll's roots in the North East of England are uncovered by Simon Farnaby.
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The Compass
With ideas too big for a single episode, The Compass presents mini-series about society
麻豆社 World Service
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Youth of Today
Three local young people find out what life is like in Shetland for 'the youth of today'.
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The Last Days of WG
Charlie Connelly searches for the real WG Grace, a cricketer obscured by fame and myth.
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Fiery Inspiration: Amiri Baraka and the Black Arts Movement
Novelist Bernardine Evaristo on the complex man at the heart of the black arts movement.
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Something Old, Something New
From Sheffield to South Carolina, Johny Pitts explores alternative Black British identity.
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Natural History Heroes
Scientists select and discuss predecessors who inspired their work and lives.
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Ginny in the Hut
A reflection in sound on the life of Virginia Fiennes, first wife of explorer Sir Ranulph.
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The Jacqueline Effect
Can there be too many cellists? How Jacqueline du Pr茅 created a surfeit of cellists!
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Philip Glass: Taxi Driver
In the 1970s the composer Philip Glass drove a taxi around Manhattan to make ends meet.
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A Walk of One's Own: Virginia Woolf on Foot
Virginia Woolf's biographer Alexandra Harris takes four walks that inspired her.
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Archie Shepp's Message from Paris
Saxophonist Archie Shepp on life as a black American in Paris.
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The Kampala Dream House
In a children's home in Kampala every child is given a musical chance for a future.
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The Achalasia Diaries
Femi Martin finds fulfillment as a writer and performer as a result of a chronic illness.
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The Man of the Mani
John Humphrys visits the Greek home of travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor.
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Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast
Music requests and special messages for the staff at the British Antarctic Survey
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Mrs Thatcher and The Writers
Three Booker Prize winners give their view on Margaret Thatcher's influence on fiction.
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The Light
Author Bernard Hare recalls a terrifying childhood experience which changed his life.
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Shadow of the Sun King
Professor Julian Swann marks the 300th anniversary of the death of Louis XIV of France.
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The Fishwives鈥� Tale
The women who overcame grief through friendship and sea shanties
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Billie Holiday: Fine and Mellow
An exploration of the dramatic life and jazz legacy of singer Billie Holiday
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This is Me Totally Sausage
Henning Wehn looks at the difficulties of speaking and understanding English.
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Jane Russell and the Springtown Mother
The story of an adoption which became an international scandal in the 1950s
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Man with the Mohican
David Morrissey explores the life Roger Hill, theatre director, DJ and transvestite artist
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Churchill's Grave
William Crawley visits Winston Churchill's final resting place in Bladon, Oxfordshire
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The Real MacColl
John Cooper Clarke looks back at the life of broadcaster and folk singer, Ewan MacColl.
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The True Story of Abner Jay
Laura Barton pieces together the true story of Abner Jay, a most unusual musical talent.
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Kitch!
Musician and poet Anthony Joseph tries to get to the heart of Calypso star Lord Kitchener
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The Secretaries of Juliet
Jolyon Jenkins meets the women of Verona who answer letters sent to Shakespeare's Juliet
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