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5. The Meaning of Nowhere
Seán Williams on the Italian real crime drama that became a myth of art, sex and death. Read more
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Death in Trieste
Seán Williams on the Italian real crime drama that became a myth of art, sex and death.
Charles Aznavour in Five Songs
1: Emmenez-moi, by Muriel Zagha
The oeuvre of Charles Aznavour in just five songs.1: Emmenez-moi, by Muriel Zagha.
2: La Bohème (1965)
The astonishing oeuvre of Charles Aznavour in five songs. 2: La Bohème, by Lucy O'Meara.
3: Après l’amour, by Paul Morley
Charles Aznavour's astonishing oeuvre in five songs. 3: Après l’amour, by Paul Morley.
4: The Old Fashioned Way, by Paul French
Charles Aznavour's genius in five songs. 4: The Old Fashioned Way, by Paul French.
5: They Fell, by Nare Mkrtchyan
Charles Aznavour's astonishing career in five songs. 5: They Fell, by Nare Mkrtchyan.
Journeys to the Grave
Lauren Elkin on Oscar Wilde
Five writers go in search of the final resting places of their literary heroes.
Paul Muldoon on WB Yeats
Diana Souhami on Radclyffe Hall
Anita Sethi on Anne Brontë
Paterson Joseph on Ignatius Sancho
Naomi Alderman on Mary Wollstonecraft
Five more writers go in search of the final resting places of their literary heroes.
Tracy Chevalier on Thomas Hardy
Series 2. Five writers go in search of the final resting places of their literary heroes.
Helen Mort on Sylvia Plath
Brandon Taylor on Langston Hughes
Geoff Dyer on DH Lawrence
Black Country Secrets
Liz Berry on Gorge Road, Sedgley
Writers choose a Black Country scene to reveal something of this strangely hidden region.
Emma Purshouse on St Bart’s Church, Wednesbury.
Brendan Hawthorne on Toll End Road, Tipton
R.M. Francis on Wren’s Nest, Dudley
Roy McFarlane on Bilston
Another Northern Ireland
Traybakes
Author Jan Carson on the women who kept her church supplied with tea and traybakes
Searching with Shorelines
Poet Gail McConnell on the inspiration of the sea in Louis MacNeice's work and her own.
The Art of Staying
Poet Míchéal McCann navigates the careful etiquette of a rural Northern Irish wake.
Chalk on the Wall
Writer Claire Mitchell peels back the layers of her hometown to find a radical history.
Euphoria
Novelist Glenn Patterson on Belfast's hairdressers and clothes shops during the Troubles.
1. Susannah Dickey: Two Pills
Poet and novelist Susannah Dickey assumes a new identity at a local pharmacy.
2. Nandi Jola: Neither Here Nor There
Nandi Jola finds some surprising connections between Africa and Northern Ireland.
3. Nick Laird: Animal Life
Nick Laird wonders if his children are missing out on the rural upbringing he enjoyed.
4. Darran Anderson: Map Making
Darran Anderson draws an alternative map of Ulster for his young son.
5. Bernie McGill: Our Art
During the Troubles, Bernie McGill was often told to be careful about what she said.
