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Twelve jury , Norse gods, eggs, tone composition, bar blues and Force 12.
Jonathan Keeble and Emily Pithon with readings from Trollope to Larkin and Imtiaz Dharker.
From Nigel Slater to Nina Simone's Forbidden Fruit and Handel's Ruddier than the Cherry.
From the Harlem Renaissance and the Great Gatsby to the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb.
Jade Anouka and Lorde’s children read Lorde's work, from her poems to her cancer diaries.
From Philip Pullman and music inspired by the aurora borealis to candlelight in poetry.
From tattoos to massage, pregnancy to posture devices, excavations to emotional outbursts.
From clam shells to barbers, sharp words to sharp notes.
Music from Beethoven to Evelyn Glennie. Readings of Milton, Alice Walker and Sue Townsend.
Sule Rimi and Alibe Parsons find beauty and wisdom in digits, numerals, and counting.
Readings from Donne, MR James, Mary Karr. Music includes The Wicker Man, Britten & Bartok.
The Spanish colonisation of the Americas depicted by indigenous peoples and the invaders.
Noma Dumezweni reads from Dorothy's journals - Roger Ringrose reads her brother's poems.
Poets and novelists reflect on time spent in groups. Read by Souad Faress and Raj Ghatak.
Doctors, nurses, teachers, parents.
Actors Emily Bruni and Nicholas Farrell read poems on lambs, cats, pigs and a donkey
Inspired by Robert Oppenheimer's work on the first atomic bomb and the fall-out from that.
Readings by Clarke Peters and Maggie Service in the run up to 100 years of the BBC Singers
Poets and writers reflect on their childhoods. Read by Rebecca Lacey and Abraham Popoola.
Poems of pause and peace, read by David Ajao and Florence Roberts.
Tales of telephones and miscommunication, read by Jonathan Keeble and Briony Rawle.
Barbara Flynn and Hugo Speer with readings and music on imaginative and physical flight.
Sam West reads the letters of Charles Dickens, marking the 150th anniversary of his death
Inspired by the words of EM Forster, we explore ways of connecting in music and literature
Tilda Swinton and Samuel Barnett with readings from and inspired by Derek Jarman's work.
Florence Nightingale to VE day, Clive James on critics to Audrey Hepburn's note of thanks.
From Easter flowers to over meals and midnight church services.
An exploration of women, sacred and profane, from Medusa and Circe to the Madonna.
Lars Mikkelsen and Vera Vitali read from a dark seam of Nordic literature.
Jane Lapotaire and John Heffernan enter the world of the simple, the small and the lost.
