| Series | Episode | Title | First Broadcast | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Day At The Proms | 19950903 | Producer: N. WILKINSON Next in series: CEAUCESCU'S COURT JESTERS Previous in series: THE QUINTESSENTIAL PAUL TORTELIER Broadcast history 03 Sep 1995 17:45-18:30 (RADIO 3) Recorded on 1995-08-12. | ||
| Conlon Nancarrow | 19960114 | Producer: D. PAPP Next in series: STATION ISLAND - Seamus Heaney Previous in series: POSTHUMOUS LIFE OF John Keats Broadcast history 14 Jan 1996 17:45-18:30 (RADIO 3) 31 Aug 1996 17:45-18:30 (RADIO 3) 16 Aug 1997 17:45-18:30 (RADIO 3) Recorded on 1996-01-05. | ||
| 07 | The Baltic States | 20011209 | `The Romantic Road: A Journey through the Literatures of Europe'. Julian Evans continues exploring the novel-writing traditions of European countries. 7: `The Baltic States'. | |
| Paris 1900-1968: From Arcades To Barricades | 20020120 | To begin Radio 3's Paris season, Tim Marlow explores Paris's status as the capital of the arts world through seven decades. | ||
| 20020217 | A drama-documentary presented by Richard Holmes exploring the creation and impact of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. | |||
| 20020317 | Brothers Simon and Gerard McBurney travel to Drohobycz in Ukraine, home of Bruno Schulz, the Polish-Jewish writer shot in 1942, and meet some of the handful of Jews who knew him. | |||
| Looking For Isaac Babel | 20020428 | Prof Jim Riordan talks to relatives and friends of the Russian writer shot in 1940 by the Soviet secret police in search of the man and his lost work. | ||
| Filling The Empty Space: What Is Theatre For? | 20020512 | Rachel Halliburton presents an exploration of a 1968 statement by Peter Brook about the nature of theatre. | ||
| The Darker Brother: A Blues For Langston Hughes | 20020825 | Fred D'Aguiar investigates the life and work of the African-American writer Langston Hughes in the centenary year of his birth. | ||
| 20030126 | A feature on the life of philosopher Edith Stein, who was born in 1891 into a German Jewish family, died in Auschwitz in 1942 and was made a saint in 1998 by Pope John Paul II. | |||
| Prof Stuart Hall Assesses The Legacy Of Black American Sociologist, Writer And Political Activist W | 20030223 | E B Dubois (1868-1963). | ||
| Our Man In Berlin | 20030316 | In September last year, Simon Rattle took over as music director of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Richard Morrison charts his first months in charge of one of the world's finest orchestras. The Philharmonic is steeped in the tradition of Karajan, but with Simon Rattle the orchestra is going through a revolution. Over six months in Berlin, Rattle introduces new repertoire by Thomas Ades, takes a different look at standard repertoire of Mahler and Stravinsky, starts an ambitious education programme, working towards creating an orchestra for the 21st century. Evening Morning. | ||
| 20030406 | The John Tusa Interview: Series of conversations with some of the world's greatest artistic originators. This week John meets the painter, teacher and father of Brit Art, Michael Craig-Martin. | |||
| Looking For Isaac Babel | 20030413 | Before the NKVD shot him in the back of the head in January 1940, Isaac Babel made one final plea "let me finish my work". Along with Babel, 27 folders of his work were swallowed up in the confines of the Lubyanka. Ever since rumours, myth and secrets have swirled around this greatest of Russian writers. Now Professor Jim Riordan talks to friends, lovers and family who reveal the man, and looks for clues to Babel's lost work from those who ceaselessly search the mouldering Moscow archives. | ||
| The John Tusa Interview: Continuing His Series Of Conversations With Some Of The World's Greatest Ar | 20030504 | The John Tusa Interview: Continuing his series of conversations with some of the world's greatest artistic originators. This week he meets the architect Renzo Piano. | ||
| The John Tusa Interview: John Tusa Continues His Series Of Conversations With Some Of The World's Gr | 20030601 | The John Tusa Interview: John Tusa continues his series of conversations with some of the world's greatest artistic originators. This week he meets the sculptor Anthony Gormley. | ||
| Another Country 2. Half A World Away Award Winning Poet Owen Sheers Grew Up In Wales But Was Born In | 20030615 | Fiji in 1974. In accordance with local tradition his umbilical chord was buried under the roots of a coconut tree, a practice which is said to guarantee the person's return to the land of their birth. As he travels through Fiji's lush interior and coral-fringed coast, he finds himself following in the footsteps of another young poet who fell in love with the islands, Rupert Brooke. Evening Morning Afternoon / "Another Country 2. Half A World Away Award winning poet Owen Sheers grew up in Wales but was born in Fiji in 1974. In accordance with local tradition his umbilical chord was buried under the roots of a coconut tree, a practice which is said to guarantee the person's return to the land of their birth. As he travels through Fiji's lush interior and coral-fringed coast, he finds himself following in the footsteps of another young poet who fell in love with the islands, Rupert Brooke. Evening Morning Afternoon ". | ||
| Another Country A Series Of Four Personal Journeys 3. The Red In My Mind The English Poet Lavinia Gr | 20030622 | Another Country A series of four personal journeys 3. The Red in My Mind The English poet Lavinia Greenlaw travels to Amherst in Massachusetts, the lifelong home of the great 19th century American poet Emily Dickinson. She famously published only a handful of poems in her life and lived an increasingly reclusive existence in her bedroom in the family home. Was she mad or did she know what she was up to? Lavinia Greenlaw, who spent some time teaching writing in Amherst, revisits the town and tests her own feelings for the place, its hostilities and hemmed in quality, with those of Emily Dickinson. With contributions from poet James Lasdun, critic Helen Vendler and museum curator Betty Falsey. | ||
| 20030629 | Another Country 4. Two Cultures? Last in the series of four personal journeys. Sunetra Gupta is a Reader in Epidemiology at Oxford University; she is also a novelist. She was born in Calcutta, raised in Ethiopia and Zambia, and spoke Bengali and Amharic long before she mastered English - the language she now works and writes in. These intersections of cultures - science and the arts - and traditions - the Bengal of Tagore and the scientific prose of 'Nature' - inform her life. How does she move between these other countries of the mind and heart? | |||
| My Father's Leg The Russian Émigré Novelist And Broadcaster Zinovy Zinik Returns To Moscow To Look F | 20030713 | or his father's legs - the real left one which was torn from his father's body by a German shell in WWII and then the succession of artificial ones that he made do with in the fifty years after the war until his recent death. Crossing the border back to Russia, Zinovy Zinik crosses the borders between life and death in the shabby mortuaries and crematoria of Moscow as he goes behind the curtain to watch the pathologists, priests and ovens at work and to think about the Soviet preoccupation with limblessness, Lenin's embalmed body and the Russian way of death. | ||
| 20030720 | Baptising The Gods: Travel writer Rory Maclean searches for traces of the classical past in the orthodoxy of modern Greece. | |||
| 20030727 | Curiouser And Curiouser. Ligeti At 80: Tom Service presents a portrait of Hungarian composer György Ligeti, including a substantial recent interview with him, and contributions from close friends and collaborators including Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Heinz-Otto Peitgen. The endless twists and turns of Ligeti's musical development have encompassed Hollywood sci-fi, African rhythms, Alice in Wonderland, and chaos theory. So what is it that makes all this music sound unmistakeably his own? | |||
| 20030824 | The Real O'Byrne Arnold Bax, composer of Tintagel Knight of the Realm, Master of the King's Music. Dermot O'Byrne, hibernophile friend of revolutionaries in the 1916 Easter Rising, poet whose work was banned as seditious by the British Military Centre. Strange though it may seem these two contradictory figures were the same man. Bax, born into Victorian prosperity in South London, travelled to Ireland first in 1902, inspired by the poet WB Yeats. He was to spend large periods of his life in the country until he died half a century later. Petroc Trelawny explores Bax's Ireland, revealing the enigma of this establishment figure who felt happiest in Ireland. | |||
| 20030907 | Chile: Heart And Soul 30 years ago in Chile following the brutal coup d'etat of September 11th 1973, books and records were burnt on the streets while thousands were arrested and tortured, exiled and disappeared. Chilean culture and society was devastated. Journalist Jan Fairley was teaching in the south of the country at the time - thirty years on she returns to find a heady cocktail of sex and human rights integral to the new culture emerging as Chileans finally get to grips with their bloody past and forge a new open identity. | |||
| Peter The Great Drove Thousands To Death To Create His Dream City - St Petersburg, 'a Window Onto Eu | 20030908 | rope'. Great violence and haunting beauty have marked the metropolis ever since. On the 300th anniversary of its foundation, writer Kevin Jackson evokes the spirit of Peter's city and questions the legacy of the Tsar's enlightened despotism. With reflections from Count Nikolai Tolstoy, descendant of one of Peter the Great's ambassadors; Hermitage curator Aleksei Leporc; travel-writer Colin Thubron, and other distinguished contributors. Readers: Eleanor Bron and Roger Allam | ||
| Tropicalia The Story Of Brazil's Popular Music Revolution Of The 1960s, Which Was Played Out On Tele | 20030914 | vision talent shows against the backdrop of an oppressive military dictatorship. Tropicalia was the name taken by a small group of poets, singers and composers whose radical performances in 1968 led to the arrest and exile of their leaders Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil. Will Hodgkinson tracks down the various members of this cult collective, visiting the busy urban sprawl of São Paolo and the northern state of Bahia, birthplace of Veloso and Gil as well as other important Tropicalia artists such as Tom Zé and Gal Costa. | ||
| You Dance Because You Have To | 20030921 | In the 1930s and 40s, two pioneering African-American dancers and choreographers independently set out to reclaim their dance heritage. Katherine Dunham travelled to Haiti and the Caribbean, Pearl Primus' destination was Africa. They returned to America with the authentic rhythms and dances of Africa and the Caribbean, reinvigorating a tradition that had been degraded by years of slavery and then diluted into minstrel shows and vaudeville. The dancer and writer Thea Barnes explores their work - its impact, its energy, and its political passion - and how their legacy has influenced today's generation of choreographers and dancers, including Judith Jamison, Artistic Director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre; Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, founder of Urban Bush Women; Robert Garland of Dance Theatre Harlem; and British choreographer Sheron Wray. | ||
| Dr Weiner's Library: Robert Mcnab Visits The Wiener Library In Central London, One Of The World's Gr | 20030928 | eat collections of materials relating to the Nazi era and the Holocaust, founded by Alfred Wiener. | ||
| 20031102 | The John Tusa Interview. John Tusa talks to Israeli-born video artist Michal Rovner. | |||
| 20031116 | Journeys In Thought 1. Wittgenstein In Ireland In the spring of 1948, Ludwig Wittgenstein abandoned his post as Chair of Philosophy at Trinity College Cambridge in search of solitude and simplicity. He was determined to finish the Philosophical Investigations - the work which would be his masterpiece and which would dominate the philosophical landscape of the twentieth century. In the first of a new series exploring turning points in the lives of great thinkers, Jonathan Rée travels to the west of Ireland in Wittgenstein's footsteps. | |||
| 20031207 | John Tusa continues his series of conversations with some of the world's greatest artistic originators. This week, he meets the veteran New York choreographer and dancer, Merce Cunningham. | |||
| The John Tusa Interview: In His Series Of Conversations With Some Of The World's Greatest Artistic O | 20040104 | The John Tusa Interview: In his series of conversations with some of the world's greatest artistic originators, John Tusa meets the Turner prize-winning sculptor, Rachel Whiteread. | ||
| Jimmy's Blues The Writer James Baldwin Was One Of The Giants Of Twentieth Century American Literatur | 20040111 | e. In many ways his essays, plays and novels explored and mirrored aspects of his own life - from growing up in the church in Harlem and fleeing segregated America for Europe to becoming one of the most articulate voices of the civil rights movement. The writer and critic Darryl Pinckney presents a portrait of James Baldwin in his own words. | ||
| 20040222 | The Day Carlos Died By Paul Heritage On July 16th 2003 Carlos Calchi was murdered. Carlos never stood a chance. In a moment Paul Heritage's life changed, as his lover was gunned down in a random act of slaughter. The tragedy is that Carlos, a talented theatre director who wanted to change lives, was at the very receiving end of those he wanted to help. This single ugly act led Paul Heritage and Kate Rowland in search of an answer. The Day Carlos Died combines elements of the murder investigation with interviews with artists, politicians and prisoners. One question dominated - does art matter when there is a war going on around you? Produced by Kate Rowland | |||
| 20040307 | The John Tusa Interview: John Tusa continues his series of conversations with some of the world's greatest artistic originators. This week, he meets Canadian film director Atom Egoyan. | |||
| 20040314 | A Portrait of Salvador Dali 100 years after his birth, Dali is still a controversial figure. Eric Shanes asks whether the artist sold out in his later career and became merely a wealthy showman. Shocking! A Portrait of Salvador Dali 100 years after his birth, Dali is still a controversial figure. Eric Shanes asks whether the artist sold out in his later career and became merely a wealthy showman. | |||
| Oscar Niemeyer: The Architect With Rio In His Eyes | 20040321 | British architect David Adjaye profiles the maverick auteur whose startling buildings have come to symbolise modern Brazil. Niemeyer's buildings are visions of the future, inspired he says by the curves of Rio and the women of Copacabana beach. | ||
| Art, Sex And Revolution: The Life And Work Of Tina Modotti | 20040328 | Tina Modotti, '20s film star, spy and famed beauty, is remembered above all for her photographs. But in her short life, she was a woman who inspired passion on both sides of the lens. The programme is a vibrant profile of Modotti, recorded on location in Mexico City where she and other notorious artists including Diego Rivera worked to create a post-revolution culture in the 1920s. Presented by art critic and broadcaster Louisa Buck, principal contributors include literary light in Mexico, Elena Poniatowska. | ||
| Jean-jacques Rousseau In 1766 The Swiss-born Writer Jean-jacques Rousseau Sought Refuge In England. | 20040411 | His books, considered both highly subversive, had been burnt in both France and Switzerland, and the Scottish philosopher David Hume helped Rousseau flee to Britain. But, as Jonathan Ree discovers in this series about turning points in the lives and thoughts of famous thinkers, Rousseau's time here was far from happy, and with his benefactor David Hume, there would be an almighty row. | ||
| Journeys In Thought Karl Marx In 1843, A Young Journalist Called Karl Marx Arrived In Paris. Already | 20040425 | he was becoming notorious throughout Europe as a polemicist and trouble-maker, but his economic and political ideas were still in their infancy. In Paris, Marx met radicalized artisans, and befriended Heinrich Heine and Friedrich Engels. In Journeys In Thought, Jonathan Ree goes to Paris, retracing Marx's steps. Last in the series. In Journeys In Thought, a series about turning points in the lives and thoughts of famous thinkers, Jonathan Ree travels to Basel in the footsteps of Friedrich Nietzsche. | ||
| John Tusa Continues His Series Of Conversations With Some Of The World's Greatest Artistic Originato | 20040502 | John Tusa continues his series of conversations with some of the world's greatest artistic originators. This week, he meets David Hockney. | ||
| Jonathan Glancey Investigates Europes Largest And Most Controversial Regeneration Initiative The Tha | 20040509 | mes Gateway Project. This fast track urban development is set to transform the South East of England forever, creating a string of townships and rejuvenating industrial land on both sides of the river from the Tower of London to the sea. This feature describes the ambitions of the Thames Gateway project. It explores how such a complicated and far reaching master plan (the biggest urban intervention in Britain for decades) came into being, and answers some of the urgent questions that are being asked of it. Is the Thames Gateway a work of enlightened planning or more urban sprawl? | ||
| Persepolis Regained Persepolis Was The Spiritual Centre Of The Ancient Achaemenian Empire, Ruled By | 20040516 | the kings of kings Cyrus the Great, Darius, Xerxes and Antaxerxes. Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis of the British Museum visits her homeland of Iran and Persepolis to find out why this extraordinary complex of palaces, adorned with hundreds of exquisitely carved reliefs, is so important to modern Iranians. What the Persians of old had to say to the world resonates across 2,500 years, bringing the remaining great columns and marching immortals careering into the modern consciousness. Persepolis Regained Persepolis was the spiritual centre of the ancient Achaemenian Empire, ruled by the kings of kings Cyrus the Great, Darius, Xerxes and Antaxerxes. Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis of the British Museum visits her homeland of Iran and Persepolis to find out why this extraordinary complex of palaces, adorned with hundreds of exquisitely carved reliefs, is so important to modern Iranians. What the Persians of old had to say to the world resonates across 2,500 years, bringing the remaining great columns and marching immortals careering into the modern consciousness. | ||
| 20040523 | Something About Eleanor She died 800 years ago; she lived for 82 years - a life that swirled with music, poetry, intrigue and infamy. Mother of Richard the Lionheart, wife to the Kings of England and France, Eleanor of Aquitaine was the most powerful and enigmatic women of her age. She has enchanted biographers ever since yet each has warped the mirror that they have held up to her. She's been portrayed as the Queen of Courtly Love, as a murderess and even as a witch - all of this eclipsing her reputation as a politician, a diplomat and the founder of a dynasty of kings. The classical historian and author Bettany Hughes travels from Poitou to Winchester, chasing the shadows of a powerbroker, a poetess and a female icon. | |||
| 20040530 | Going to Jonestown A quarter of a century ago in a remote jungle settlement in Guyana almost a thousand people and their leader Jim Jones killed themselves. Ever since, the writer Fred D'Aguiar, who grew up in Guyana, has been preoccupied by Jonestown, which put that country on the map and blighted its history. In a journey that echoes those of the victims, D'Aguiar - a black person living in America - travels from the United States into Guyana's jungle interior to Jonestown itself. He searches for what it means to the Guyanese, talking to the writers Wilson Harris, Ian McDonald and Ruel Johnson, to sculptors Philip Moore and the Arawak Oswald Hussein, to people who knew Jones and the settlement and students who were not even born when the atrocity happened. Exploring the social, political and mythic significance of Jonestown, D'Aguiar tests his imagination against the reality and responds with new work. Music composed and performed by the Guyanese flautist, Keith Waithe. | |||
| 20040606 | Landscape with Figure Three days after D-Day, Keith Douglas, a tank commander in the Sherwood Rangers and probably the finest poet of World War Two, was killed by a shell burst in a field overlooking the Normandy village of St Pierre. It was death that Douglas, a veteran of the desert campaign, anticipated in poems, such as Simplify Me When I'm Dead, written even before the experience of battle. Sean Street retraces Douglas' last movements in an attempt to understand a soldier-poet 'by distance simplified'. Also taking part are the poets J C Hall, Anne Stevenson and Tim Kendall, as well as Douglas' biographer Desmond Graham, Stuart Hills of the Sherwood Rangers and archive recordings of Douglas' last girlfriend, Betty Jesse, his comrade John Bethell-Fox and the Padre who buried him. | |||
| 20040613 | On the Air Steven Connor breathes in and out and thinks about the air, that most overlooked essential of all our lives. Air is more than a universal physical necessity: the ideas of air and breath are diffused through the poetry, rituals and symbolism of all cultures. We not only live on air, we also subsist on the complex idea of air. Contributions from medical historians, classicists, air-therapists, musicians and the sound of the air itself help explore three aspects of the air: its positive associations with power; its negative associations with corruption, disease and intoxication; and the emerging idea of the air as a medium or habitat. | |||
| The John Tusa Interview: A Series Of Conversations With Some Of The World's Greatest Artistic Origin | 20041010 | The John Tusa Interview: A series of conversations with some of the world's greatest artistic originators. This week, John meets leading British potter Edmund De Waal. | ||
| 20041017 | Unweaving the Rainbow Kodwo Eshun investigates the growing field of sci-art collaborations, talking to funding bodies, scientists, artists and collaborators, examining the theory and practice behind this new frontier in arts practice. The Arts Council has recently unveiled a raft of grants available to artists interested in working within scientific environments, in collaboration with scientific researchers. But CP Snow's 1959 definition of two isolated cultures suggests perhaps they are not the easiest bedfellows. Contributors Include: Wayne McGregor, Dr Rosaleen McCarthy, Steve Wilson, Stanza, Jane Prophet, Lewis Wolpert, Sain Ede, Tim Marlowe, Jem Finer, Sarah Diamond, Marcus Dusautoy, Bronar Ferrin, Hannah Redler, Gabby Campbell Johnson, Nick Tandavanitj, Ken Arnold, Sid Thomas, Heather Ackroyd, Dan Harvey, Pam Winfrey, Roger Malina, and Dr Tom Humphries. | |||
| 20041024 | You Dance Because You Have To In the 1930s and 40s two pioneering African-American dancers and choreographers independently set out to reclaim their dance heritage. Katherine Dunham travelled to Haiti and the Caribbean, Pearl Primus' destination was Africa. They returned to America with the authentic rhythms and dances of Africa and the Caribbean, reinvigorating a tradition which had been degraded by years of slavery and then diluted into minstrel shows and vaudeville. The dancer and writer Thea Barnes explores their work - its impact, its energy, and its political passion - and how their legacy has influenced today's generation of choreographers and dancers including Judith Jamison, Artistic Director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, founder of Urban Bush Women, Robert Garland of Dance Theatre Harlem, and British choreographer Sheron Wray. | |||
| The John Tusa Interview: John Tusa Continues His Series Of Conversations With Some Of The World's Gr | 20041107 | The John Tusa Interview: John Tusa continues his series of conversations with some of the world's greatest artistic originators. This week he meets leading British playwright David Hare. | ||
| 20041114 | The Meeting of Minds 1. The Berlin Conference, 1884 Meetings of Minds is a series looking at the dynamics of deliberation at three moments in history. Frances Stonor Saunders explores meetings which had huge significance beyond their four walls - beginning with the Berlin Conference of 1884, during which the European Powers formalised the Scramble for Africa and the interior was partitioned. Perhaps unsurprisingly for these colonial times not a single African was among the 14 delegations from across Europe, Russia and America. Frances examines how this diplomatic meeting was to have a consequence for the continent that can be traced to today and asks how straightforward is it when diplomacy dictates discussion. How do such meetings of minds work? | |||
| 20041121 | 2. The Philadelphia Convention, 1787 The Philadelphia convention of 1787 was a landmark in American and world history. Both its handiwork- the American constitution- and its example of the people's representation to govern themselves had a profound influence on subsequent experiment in government. The revolutionary era was both exhilarating and disturbing - a time of progress for some, dislocation for others. Meetings of Minds discovers what happened at this gathering of what one historian called "the well-bred, well fed, well wed, and well read" and how its legacy is one we live with today. | |||
| 20050320 | A Rebel with a cause - Pierre Boulez at 80 No one in contemporary music arouses such fierce passion as the eminent conductor and composer Pierre Boulez, who celebrates his 80th birthday later this week. At one time a young firebrand who wanted to blow up opera houses, he's now an immensely powerful and much resented figure in the musical world. Ivan Hewett looks at the enigmatic, restless creator behind the public figure, through interviews with friends and colleagues such as the conductor, Daniel Barenboim, the composers Betsy Jolas, George Benjamin and Maurice Jarre, the pianist, Pierre-Laurent Aimard and critics in London, France and New York. | |||
| 20050612 | John Tusa continues his series of conversations with some of the world's greatest artistic originators. He meets the novelist William Trevor. | |||
| 20050703 | As part of the Africa Lives on the BBC season, poet and playwright, Gabriel Gbadamosi investigates the role of the book in Sub-Saharan Africa. Talking to writers, publishers and readers he traces the history of book production and consumption from the 19th century to present day - from vanity publishing in dingy backrooms, to short stories in cyber-space, and the prize-winning literature of Soyinka, Ngugi Wa Thiongo and Ben Okri on sale internationally. He talks to Cyprian Ekwensi, who at 84 is one of Africa's oldest living writers, and examines a new generation of young writers, like 28 year old Chimamanda Adichie, author of Purple Hibscus, who are reaching new readers, both within and outside Africa. Set against this is the hard economic and social reality of a continent where poverty, insecurity and escapism mean good fiction often come second to motivational books, Christian tracts, romances and thrillers. | |||
| 20051113 | John Tusa ends his interview series with an investigation into the origins of creativity itself. Contributors include Bernardo Bertolucci, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Bill Viola, Simon McBurney, Merce Cunningham and Frank Auerbach. | |||
| Charles Correa: Finding A New Indian Architecture | 20060108 | David Adjaye profiles Charles Correa, the modernist architect whose ground-breaking work has helped forge a national identity in post-colonial India. This is a journey through that land, as David travels to Correa's milestone building projects, talks to political and religious figures, and India's architectural elite, as well as the men and women who use the buildings and whose lives have been changed by his progressive philosophy. Interviews with: Charles Correa Sam Miller - BBC journalist in Delhi Sen Kapadia - colleague of Correa Dr Jyotindra Jain Romi Khosla Nalini Thakur JC Kapur Professor Doshi Presented by David Adjaye. | ||
| 20060319 | Writer and singer Shusha Guppy tells the fascinating story of how Islamic philosophers brought the treasures of classical Greek thought to the West. By the 9th Century, the works of philosophers like Plato and Aristotle had largely been lost in the Latin West. In the Islamic East it was a very different story. For centuries they had been translating these and other Greek philosophical school works, harvesting the knowledge they contained and in turn, writing their own commentaries. As the Islamic empire spread to Europe, that knowledge travelled with it. | |||
| 20080323 | Nature writer Richard Mabey presents an exploration of spring and its influence on literature and art, with bird expert Mark Cocker, nature writer Ronald Blythe and Cornish artist Kurt Jackson, best known for his dramatic landscapes and his ecological artistic work. | |||
| 20080608 | A Tale of Two Skulls Artist Jane Wildgoose explores the complex issues surrounding the possession, scientific analysis and public display of human remains by tracing the history of two human skulls in her own private collection. After inviting counsel from an array of experts in diverse fields, she then takes action to secure an appropriate fate for the two skulls. | |||
| 20080706 | Ideas - The British Version Series exploring the origins of British intellectual traditions and their subsequent influence here and abroad. 2/3. Historian and broadcaster Tristram Hunt explores how the rise of Socialism in the early 20th century prompted liberal British thinkers to develop a 'middle way' between the red-blooded Left and unfettered capitalism. | |||
| 20080706 | Ideas - The British Version Series exploring the origins of British intellectual traditions and their subsequent influence here and abroad. 2/3. Historian and broadcaster Tristram Hunt explores how the rise of Socialism in the early 20th century prompted liberal British thinkers to develop a 'middle way' between the red-blooded Left and unfettered capitalism. | |||
| 20080713 | Ideas - The British Version Series exploring the origins of British intellectual traditions and their subsequent influence here and abroad. 3/3. The Free Market Exploring the origins of British liberalism, historian and broadcaster Tristram Hunt looks at the economist Adam Smith's theories of the free market and sees how they have shaped modern economic thinking. | |||
| SF | 20080824 | Vaughan Williams: Valiant for Truth Marking the 50th anniversary of the death of Ralph Vaughan Williams, Stephen Johnson presents an elegiac portrait of the man and composer. Travelling across England - the country Vaughan Williams so loved - to see the places he lived and worked, and meet the people who knew him, Johnson tries to get a little closer to an underrated mind. With contributions from the philosopher AC Grayling, biographers Simon Heffer and Michael Kennedy, Vaughan Williams's musical assistant Roy Douglas as well as friend and colleague Simona Pakenham. |
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