Renewing the Past: The BBC and Early Music

1970s, Into the Mainstream

Nicholas Kenyon explores early music at the BBC in the 1970s.

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Listen Harder

Communication Withheld

Actor Sophie Stone explores communication, performance and deaf identity.

• 14 mins

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Forms of Communication

Actor Sophie Stone explores communication, performance and deaf identity.

• 14 mins

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Visibility as Communication

Actor Sophie Stone explores communication, performance and deaf identity.

• 14 mins

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Ownership of Communication

Actor Sophie Stone explores communication, performance and deaf identity.

• 14 mins

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Unspoken Communication

Actor Sophie Stone explores communication, performance and deaf identity.

• 14 mins

A Landscape for Recovery

Pennie Stuart on cancer recovery above Loch Ness

Pennie Stuart describes her recovery from breast cancer in the woods close to her home.

• 14 mins

A Landscape for Recovery

Katharine Norbury on Companionship on the Thames

Writer Katharine Norbury explores our relationship with the non-human world.

• 14 mins

A Landscape for Recovery

Amy Liptrot on Motherhood in Owl Woods

Writer Amy Liptrot traces two years of visiting Owl Woods in Calderdale, West Yorkshire.

• 14 mins

A Landscape for Recovery

Louise Kenward on the Ocean as Mirror at Bexhill-on-Sea

Writer, artist and psychologist Louise Kenward describes her relationship with the sea.

• 14 mins

A Landscape for Recovery

Amanda Thomson on Slowing Down in Abernethy Forest

Writer and artist Amanda Thomson shares her close observations of the natural world.

• 14 mins

Postcards from the Floating Coast

In the Minds of Dogs

Bathsheba Demuth looks at the shifting relationship between humans and dogs in the Arctic.

• 14 mins

Postcards from the Floating Coast

In the Country of Whales

Bathsheba Demuth examines how different Arctic peoples have valued bowhead whales.

• 14 mins

Postcards from the Floating Coast

In the Company of Walruses

Historian Bathsheba Demuth seeks human and animal traces in the Arctic ice and tundra.

• 14 mins

Postcards from the Floating Coast

In the Land of Reindeer

Bathsheba Demuth explores the impact of reindeers' sensitivity to the Arctic climate.

• 14 mins

Postcards from the Floating Coast

In the Lives of Salmon

Bathsheba Demuth journeys to the Yukon River to investigate our relationship with salmon.

• 14 mins

Behind the Veil: The story of Irish nuns

Chastity and Lots of Praying

Convent-educated, lapsed Catholic Olivia O'Leary asks where all the Irish nuns have gone.

• 14 mins

Behind the Veil: The story of Irish nuns

Liberated Women

Convent-educated, lapsed Catholic Olivia O'Leary asks where all the Irish nuns have gone.

• 14 mins

Behind the Veil: The story of Irish nuns

Class and the Convent

Convent-educated, lapsed catholic Olivia O'Leary asks where all the Irish nuns have gone.

• 14 mins

Behind the Veil: The story of Irish nuns

The Rebels

Convent-educated, lapsed catholic Olivia O'Leary asks where all the Irish nuns have gone.

• 14 mins

Behind the Veil: The story of Irish nuns

A Dying Breed

Convent-educated, lapsed Catholic Olivia O'Leary asks where all the Irish nuns have gone.

• 14 mins

Art and Uncertainty

The Benefit of Doubt

Margaret Heffernan explores how artists embrace uncertainty to create their work.

• 14 mins

Art and Uncertainty

Where am I?

Margaret Heffernan considers how artists use uncertainty when starting a new project.

• 14 mins

Art and Uncertainty

In the Bottom of the Well

Margaret Heffernan explores how artists tolerate the fear of uncertainty.

• 14 mins

Art and Uncertainty

Are we done?

Margaret Heffernan explores how an artist knows when to stop.

• 14 mins

Art and Uncertainty

Prepared Minds

Margaret Heffernan explores the benefits of uncertainty in both life and art.

• 14 mins

From Biltong to Bobotie - Journeys in South African Cuisine

Black South African Cuisine

Lindsay Johns samples the cuisines of South Africa’s Xhosa and Zulu township communities.

• 14 mins

From Biltong to Bobotie - Journeys in South African Cuisine

White South African Food

Lindsay Johns finds out about the place of meat in white South African cuisines.

• 14 mins

From Biltong to Bobotie - Journeys in South African Cuisine

Coloured South African Food

Lindsay Johns introduces us to snoek, pickled fish and the Gatsby steak sandwich.

• 14 mins

From Biltong to Bobotie - Journeys in South African Cuisine

South African Indian Food

Lindsay Johns introduces us to bunny chow, a curry dish invented in Durban.

• 14 mins