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Controversies: American Writing of the 1960s
How Philip Roth's writing alienated him from the Jewish community in America.
Joan Williams
Novelist Joan Williams, after a promising start, just disappeared. Why?
Five Cellos: Lost and Found
The Soul of Music
Kate Kennedy reflects on her quest to find Pal Hermann's cello, and his soul.
The Bee Cello
The story of an abandoned cello that a physicist has filled with 400,000 bees.
The Auschwitz Cello
How the cellist of Auschwitz, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch's life was saved by her cello.
The Shipwrecked Cello
The unlikely story of the reconstruction of the 'Mara' Stradivarius.
The Flat-Pack Cello
Kate Kennedy reflects on a reimagined cello whose story is yet to begin.
Highland Tails
The Reindeer
An Essay and reflection in poetry on the reintroduction of wild animals into the Highlands
The Sea Eagle
The Wallabies
The Beaver
The Bison
On Disappointment
Creative
Rachel Cooke takes a wry look at artistic disappointment.
Love
Rachel Cooke takes a wry look at the let-downs and disappointments of love.
Food
Rachel Cooke takes a wry look at disappointment with food.
Politics
Rachel Cooke looks at why political ambition invariably turns to disappointment.
Travel
Rachel Cooke takes a wry look at disappointing holidays, and how to avoid them.
Multitrack
The Djembe Drum: Beyond West Africa
A journey into the history and present of West Africa’s djembe drum.
Rhythm of the Run
Radio-maker and runner Ricardo Burt hits the London streets with DJ run crews.
An Turas / The Journey
A linguistic tour of modern Scotland, created as part of the Multitrack Audio Fellowship.
To Odesa
1. Ears
Ukrainian-American poet Ilya Kaminsky (author of Deaf Republic) on the city of his birth.
2. Departure
3. Watching
4. Crossing
5. Return
The Enormous Condescension of Posterity
On reading The Making of the English Working Class
Sheila Rowbotham re the catalytic influence of Edward and Dorothy Thompson.
The Making of EP Thompson
Historian Geoff Andrews explores EP Thompson's experience of adult education.
Those Thompson Left Behind
Christienna Fryar on the inspiration of EP Thompson's classic work of social history.
The Rescuer
David Aaronovitch explores EP Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class.
Breaking Class
Writer Natasha Carthew on the inspiration of EP Thompson's classic work of social history.
Looking at Leeds
Malika Booker
The city of Leeds seen through its public art past, present and future.
