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Avr 29, 2018, 1:52 am

Sunday 29th April 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)

Japan's Never-Ending War.

Rana Mitter visits Tokyo to talk to directors, critics and students about how Japan remembers World War Two today through its movies - and how that perspective differs from China's.

2antimuzak
Mai 6, 2018, 1:26 am

Sunday 6th May 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)

Oh Dr Kinsey, Look What You've done to me!

Matthew Sweet looks at the impact of Kinsey's 'Sexual Behavior in the Human Male', first published seventy years ago.

3antimuzak
Juil 18, 2018, 1:41 am

Wednesday 18th July 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)

The Other Third.

Alan Dein explores the 'other voice' of the Third Programme - not the plummy accent, or the rarefied readings and art music, but the articulate and expressive voice of so-called ordinary people, brought to the airwaves via a group of producers fascinated with everyday lives and the wild sounds they could collect beyond the confines of the radio studio. Featuring Andrew Barrow, Alecky Blythe, Dame Julia Cleverdon, Tim Dee, Johnny Handle, Doreen Henderson and Sir Jonathan Miller.

4antimuzak
Juil 19, 2018, 1:45 am

Thursday 19th July 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)

Whatever Happened to the Avant-Garde?

Paul Morley asks where we can find the avant-garde today and whether it still exists, meeting artists, musicians, comedians and writers who think it still lives. In the company of art historian Anne Massey, Morley goes on an avant-garde tour, beginning at the one-time home of surrealist Roland Penrose and photographer Lee Miller, going on to the modernist masterpiece of Erno Goldfinger, 2 Willow Road, before meeting its architect, Peter Salter. Paul also delves into the archives of Jasia Reichardt and husband Nick Wadley, as well as talking to former head of Central St Martins College Willie Walters, jazz pianist Steve Beresford, Gregor Muir of the ICA and the Tate, comedian Simon Munnery, former Gang of Four member Jon King and evolutionary neuropsychologist Gilly Forrester.

5antimuzak
Sep 9, 2018, 1:59 am

Sunday 9th September 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)

Act louder! Act better! When Ken Campbell died in 2008, the world lost a madcap genius with a singular approach to acting and directing, partly summed up by his own maxim - 'Is it heroic?'. 2018 marks the 10th anniversary of Campbell's death, but his influence lives on through the acting talent he inspired, such as Jim Broadbent - 'I realised that life would be divided into before Illuminatus and after Illuiminatus"; Sylvester McCoy, whose ferret/ trouser antics have gone into the Guinness Book of Records, and Toby Jones, who regarded Ken's one man show 'Pigspurt' as the show he had been waiting for all his life. Ken changed lives and careers, including presenter David Bramwell - who tracked him down for help with a one man show that needed to be shaken up. So what were Ken's specific techniques when it came to directing, and why did 'the most audacious talent in British theatre' finally retreat with his dogs and parrot to an isolated house in Epping Forest? Bramwell, a fervent but late convert to Cambellism, meets the Campbell Clan - his daughter Daisy and granddaughter Dixie, who have both inherited the brilliant storytelling skills, and Prunella Gee, (Ken's ex-wife), and with them he delves into the unopened archive of Ken - a lifetime's worth of monologues, scripts and recordings. Bramwell gets taught how to 'Ken', in a class run by Jeremy Stockwell, who regularly organises 'Do you Ken?' workshops for actors, and hears of underwater shows, tie acting and 53 hour improvathons from Oliver Senton. There are also tales of tantrums, hilarity, eccentricity and brilliance, that those who came under his directoral command will never forget, summed up by the maxim - "I will give you impossible things to do, and then shout at you when you can't do them." According to one fellow actor, 'he came out of the womb certain about everything.' Ken's own influences were many, director Lindsay Anderson, The Bishop of Colchester (!) and Warren Mitchell, who he performed alongside for many years in 'In Sickness And in Health'. Funny, sweet, weird and inspiring, we hear from those closest to him, and those who wanted to be like him. Oh, and there is a wonderful rendition by Daisy in Pidgin English.. Producer: Sara Jane Hall Music by David Bramwell.

6antimuzak
Sep 30, 2018, 1:50 am

Sunday 30th September 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)

Author Colm Toibin profiles the turbulent and brilliant life of American poet Robert Lowell, once considered the greatest living poet in English. Four decades ago, the American poet Robert Lowell died quietly in the back of a New York taxi. In his arms, he clutched a priceless portrait of his third wife, the Guinness heiress Lady Caroline Blackwood. Yet Lowell was on his way to see - and hopefully reconcile with - another woman: his beloved second wife, Elizabeth Hardwick. At the time of his passing, he had - almost unwittingly - embroiled both former wives in a scandal that had polarised the American literary community. It was a strange, tragic end to what was one of the most brilliant careers in the history of 20th century letters. In his lifetime, Robert Lowell was arguably the most celebrated poet in America - not just a writer, but a major public figure: a "Boston Brahmin" whose ancestors had arrived on the Mayflower and helped found the American nation. Lowell's groundbreaking 1959 volume "Life Studies" had introduced a generation of readers to the idea of "confessional" poetry - stanzas that drew candidly from the poet's experience - and he was a teacher to Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton and several other poetic giants. Erudite, charming and hugely personable, Lowell not only attracted a large and loyal circle of friends, but poured his vast intellectual powers into verses that were dense with historical allusion, dazzling linguistic turns and deep emotional insight. Everything - all of history, all of humanity - seems at Lowell's fingertips, and in his finest poems - among them "For The Union Dead", "Skunk Hour", "The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket" and "Man and Wife" - he seems uniquely to be placing his own experience and history on a vast, almost unimaginable canvas of human history. In his pomp, his poems seemed to carry on the great, sweeping modernist tradition of TS Eliot, WH Auden and Ezra Pound. Yet Lowell's vast literary and intellectual imagination carried with it deep personal cost. Lowell suffered for most of his life with what would now be thought of as bipolar disorder. Not only did his "manias" cause him to be repeatedly institutionalised, they irreparably fractured many of his relationships, hurt those closest to him, and scarred his ability to create. Only in recent times can we understand his behaviour as a hereditary mental illness - as part of the same great, difficult inheritance that brought him wealth, fame and privilege as a member of the American aristocracy. Forty years on, Lowell's star has waned. His reputation seems no longer to be in the highest reaches of the poetic firmament: he's a writer who is more read-about than actually read. In 2017, is his poetry simply too difficult, too wilfully intellectual, too privileged, too white and male? Or does the secret of his decline lie in that murky scandal - a still-raw controversy about the limits of a poet's private and public worlds - one that still inflames passions today? Written and presented by the writer Colm Toibin, in this documentary Robert Lowell's remarkable life and career is remembered and appraised by those closest to him, shedding new light on one of the giants of 20th century poetry. Producer: Steven Rajam.

7antimuzak
Oct 7, 2018, 2:06 am

Sunday 7th October 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)

Sir Hubert Parry is largely remembered today for a handful of iconic works including Jerusalem, I was Glad, Blest Pair of Sirens, and for writing the hymn tune to Dear Lord and Father of Mankind. But Parry was far more significant than these few works which have remained in the public consciousness. In this centenary year since the composer's death, Simon Heffer argues for a reevaluation of Parry not only as a composer, but as a writer and educationalist. In interview with biographer Jeremy Dibble, he puts Parry back on the map and explores the composer's influence over younger generations of musicians including Vaughan Williams, Gurney and Howells. Parry promoted as both a writer, and a teacher at the Royal College of Music, that music should have a moral and social purpose, and that musicians should have the widest education and training. Simon Heffer visits the Royal College of Music to discuss these points with its Director, Professor Colin Lawson, and also to look at the handwritten score of a work that has been hailed as the beginning of a musical renaissance in England, Parry's Scenes from Prometheus Unbound. Parry's own interests originally lay in the music of Brahms and Wagner, and it is through the fusion of these two Germanic schools within his own music that a musical renaissance is seen to have begun, especially in British symphonic music. Dr Wiebke Thormahlen and Dr Kate Kennedy discuss Parry's influence upon younger generations of composers through not only his music, but also his teaching, where he'd often make arrangements of music by the likes of Palestrina and Lully, so that his students could perform this music during his illustrated lectures. Simon Heffer also takes a trip to Shulbrede Priory where many letters, diaries and photos associated with Parry are held, to get a better understanding of Parry the man including his relationship with his wife, his interest in the women's suffrage movement, and also his interest in driving cars very fast, or deliberately sailing in stormy waters. Produced by Luke Whitlock for BBC Wales.

8antimuzak
Oct 21, 2018, 1:45 am

Sunday 21st October 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)

Author Carlo Gebler has spent nearly three decades working in the Northern Ireland prison system as a teacher of creative writing. He's been in all the prisons there - including the notorious Maze/Long Kesh H-Blocks - and has done everything from basic literacy to high end literature; letters to victims to Open University essays. As many of the prisoners Carlo has worked with in their cells would testify, he's spent a long time inside. Now Carlo wants to know if prison arts and education made any difference to the lives of those he taught. He meets the inmates attending classes in the education and skills section of HMP Magilligan on Northern Ireland's north coast. He visits his former boss who each day would tell him his job was not to teach, but to be a human being. He catches up with some of the former prisoners he worked with over many years and finds out what they're doing now. Looking back at both the protocols and practices which characterised his prison work, Carlo asks about the true potential of arts and education when it comes to punishment and rehabilitation. Producer: Conor Garrett for BBC Northern Ireland.

9antimuzak
Oct 28, 2018, 2:44 am

Sunday 28th October 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)

Sean Williams introduces tonight's Sunday Feature that offers twin presentations by two of this year's crop of Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers. "Spreading her arms abroad, she cried with a loud voice as though her heart should have burst asunder, for in the city of her soul she saw verily and freshly how our Lord was crucified..." In the middle ages, the passion of Jesus Christ was a real presence in the lives of the devout. Marjery Kempe was one of many whose recorded dreams of Christ's suffering was as real as the pain of those whose suffered in daily life around her. Hetta Howes travels to Rievaulx Abbey on the path of another devout dreamer, Abbot Aelred and explores the nature of these uncannily transcendental experiences that marked many medieval lives. And Eleanor Lybeck is on the trail of her Great Grandfather, Albert James, a comic performer with the famous D'Oyly Carte Opera company. D'Oyly Carte now has a reputation as the staid and unyielding preservers of the Gilbert and Sullivan flame maintaining for a century, unchanged, the productions that were such a success in late 19th century Britain. But through Albert's scrapbooks, notices and other documents describing his work with the touring wing of the company, a very different story emerges in which performers felt able to adapt material to the empire venues in which they found themselves, from South Africa to the furthest reaches of the UK. Eleanor gets to know the professional world inhabited by her Grandfather and, in the process, a great deal more about the man himself.

10antimuzak
Nov 4, 2018, 1:50 am

Sunday 4th November 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)

Sean Williams introduces tonight's Sunday Feature that offers twin presentations by two of this year's crop of Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers. Is it wrong to have children? I really love my children but are they the biggest moral mistake I ever made? This is the question posed by moral philosopher Dr Simon Beard. In this Sunday Feature, Simon sets out to explore the moral ramifications of his decision to have two children. Meeting academics, campaigners and ordinary parents, Simon asks whether having a child is ever the right or wrong thing to do. And, in a world of overpopulation and climate change, do we need to change the way we think about family life? Simon Beard is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge's Centre for the Study of Existential Risk Producer: Georgia Catt Do terrorists have a problem with Shakespeare? Terrorists across the globe have cited Shakespeare as a motivation for their actions, but why do some extremists hate the Bard - and why are others inspired by him? From Osama bin Laden, whose diaries revealed he visited - and hated - Shakespeare's birthplace, to Guy Fawkes who held links to Shakespeare and his family, the world's most famous playwright has been a strange fascination for terrorists over the centuries. What is it that draws audiences to Shakespeare's bloodiest plays, in the same way that staged beheadings of Isis draw millions of views on YouTube? And what has led terrorists to attack theatres and actors, like the bombing of a 2005 Qatari performance of Twelfth Night? Dr Islam Issa begins by attempting to understand the mindset of a terrorist, talking to criminologist Imran Awan. They also explore the human attraction to violent displays in such productions as Titus Andronicus:.....five times he hath return'd Bleeding to Rome, bearing his valiant sons In coffins from the field; And now at last, laden with horror's spoils, Returns the good Andronicus to Rome, Renowned Titus, flourishing in arms. The show also investigates why Nazi extremists were drawn to Shakespeare's most iconic characters, as well as Shakespeare's ominous presence in the Abraham Lincoln assassination. Dr Issa also visits Stratford-Upon-Avon, meeting Paul Edmondson to discuss how Shakespeare lived through the threat of the UK's biggest ever terror plot - The Gunpowder Plot. Shakespeare would have been familiar with the conspirators, and had the plot been carried out, it would have been more devastating than even the 7/7 bombers intended: "Thirty-thousand persons would have perished at a stroke... a spectacle so terrible and terrifying". With insight from the critic Ewan Fernie, Dr Issa also investigates why Nazi extremists were drawn to Shakespeare's most iconic characters, as well as Shakespeare's ominous presence in the Abraham Lincoln assassination.

11antimuzak
Déc 30, 2018, 1:52 am

Sunday 30th December 2018 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)

Les Miserables

The story behind the writing of Victor Hugo's classic novel is one of adultery, revolution, political intrigue and exile. It was begun in Paris, when Hugo was part of the political and literary establishment, but the revolution of 1848 led to Hugo falling foul of the authorities and he had to flee for his life in disguise. He was reunited with his precious manuscript days later when it was brought to him in Brussels by his long-time mistress Juilette Drouet. Eventually ending up in Guernsey, it was twelve years later that Hugo finally took his manuscript out and finished it. But the events of the intervening years caused Hugo to make huge additions to the manuscript, transforming it from a novel into a masterpiece.

12antimuzak
Jan 5, 2019, 1:54 am

Saturday 5th January 2019
Time: 12:15 to 13:00 (45 minutes long)

Acclaimed actor Simon Russell Beale is fascinated by the concerto and how the role of the soloist has evolved from baroque times to now. In this Sunday Feature (exploring the theme of this year's Free Thinking Festival - The One and the Many), Simon explores the complex dynamics between the soloist and orchestra, drawing parallels between the world of the concerto and that of the stage. He asks whether the concerto really is a competition between the soloist and the orchestra or a deeper musical communion. He also asks why the concerto has endured beyond the symphony and ponders whether the spectacle of the virtuosic solo voice pitted against the many is the secret success behind the concerto. Simon Russell Beale talks to violinists and period-performance experts Margaret Faultless and Simon McVeigh about the emergence of the baroque concerto, to the violinist Nicola Benedetti about what it is like to be a soloist in a highly virtuosic work like the Beethoven Violin Concerto, and to the conductor Marin Alsop about her role in a concerto performance. He also talks to Cliff Eisen about how the rise of the virtuoso led to more heroic concerto writing in Mozart, Beethoven and Liszt, and to composer and clarinettist Mark Simpson about what the concerto means today. Plus musicians from the Philharmonia as they prepare to perform Bartok's democratic masterpiece, the Concerto for Orchestra, and pianist Lucy Parham with whom he studies the piano and has collaborated in concerts of words and music. Simon Russell Beale is one of the most respected actors in the UK, playing great Shakespearean roles from Benedict in Much Ado about Nothing to Richard III and King Lear. More recently, he has won Best Supporting Actor at the Evening Standard Film Awards for his role as the malevolent Lavrentiy Beria in Armando Iannucci's satirical film, The Death of Stalin. Simon Russell Beale is also a keen musician who was educated as a chorister and still plays the piano. He has also made TV programmes on choral music and the symphony.

13antimuzak
Jan 13, 2019, 1:59 am

Sunday 13th January 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)

In our new series 'Afterwords', we explore the ideas of great writers in their own words - as archive recordings in which they articulate their approach interweave with the thoughts of contemporary writers, academics and activists. In this first episode we focus on the words of Martha Gellhorn, one of the most prescient and insightful journalists of the 20th Century. During her sixty year career Gellhorn's reporting often focused on the 'sufferers of history' - those who find themselves caught up in the decisions of leaders from which they neither have the influence nor means to extricate themselves. Through her ideas contemporary writers and journalists reflect on modern reporting - on capturing truth amidst the chaos of conflict, on the responsibility of the reporter, on memory, objectivity and the failures of political imagination. Featuring contributions from Patrick Cockburn, Rosie Boycott, John Pilger, Lindsey Hilsum and others this programme explores how her approach might inform the way we document the world we live in.

14antimuzak
Jan 20, 2019, 1:52 am

Sunday 20th January 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)

In our new series 'Afterwords', we explore the ideas of great writers in their own words - as archive recordings in which they articulate their approach interweave with the thoughts of contemporary writers, academics and activists. Through the '60s and '70s up to her death in 2004, Susan Sontag was the embodiment of the fashionable, metropolitan, 'public intellectual'. Her writings on 'camp', on photography, on illness (she survived and then died from cancer at a time when the C word was almost taboo) and so much more, together with her activism and her art, came to be shared with millions through the medium for which she had very little time as a viewer - television. And her radio interviews on the BBC and elsewhere cemented her reputation. With contributions from her West Coast friend (Prof) Terry Castle, the war correspondent Allan Little who got to know her well during the Siege of Sarajevo, the writer and broadcaster Lisa Appignanesi who achieved a rare intimate revelation in one interview for Night Waves, and the writer Elif Safak who continues to work in Sontag's long shadow, we take a close listen to the American writer and examine her legacy.

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Mai 5, 2019, 1:48 am

Sunday 5th May 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)

John Ashbery - Portrait in a Convex Mirror.

Colm Toibin presents a profile of poet John Ashbery, talking not about his subject's work, but about the minutiae of his day-to-day world.

16antimuzak
Mai 26, 2019, 1:53 am

Sunday 26th May 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)

Robinson Crusoe Road-Trip.

It's exactly 300 years since Daniel Defoe published Robinson Crusoe on April 25th 1719. Never out of print, the novel's themes and images go deep into our culture, from Karl Marx and James Joyce to Desert Island Discs and Love Island. Emma Smith sets off on a road-trip to trace its popularity across the centuries but also to ask whether Defoe's defence of slavery makes it too unpalatable a read today. Might this be the end of the road for Robinson Crusoe? She's delighted to discovers a fabulous read, the intriguing suggestion of a more radical novel-that-might-have-been, and huge potential for a rewrite. Emma traces the story across seven versions and their readers, from the first edition in the British Library to a children's spin-off. She talks to scholars Alan Downie, Nicholas Seager and Judith Buchanan, and novelists Jane Gardam and Jasmine Richards. She visits the London haunts of Charles Gildon, the envious hack who wrote a vitriolic satire, Cherryburn in Northumberland, where the young Thomas Bewick ran naked across the fell in imitation of the "savages"; and Kent to meet Jane Gardam, author of Crusoe's Daughter. But it is at the Crusoe Collection at Reading University that Emma has her greatest insight. In the company of scholar Rebecca Bullard and writer Jasmine Richards, who is also the founder of a Storymix which develops inclusive stories for children, she hears what a future Crusoe might be like, but is also won over by a counter-factual argument that Defoe might have expedited the abolition of slavery if only he had created a different relationship between Crusoe and Friday.

17antimuzak
Mai 29, 2019, 1:56 am

Wednesday 29th May 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)

Landmark: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.

Rana Mitter is joined by guests Tony Juniper, Emily Shuckburgh, Dieter Helm and Kapka Kassabova to discuss how writing can inspire an environmental movement, focusing on Rachel Carson's passionate book, Silent Spring, first published in 1962.

18antimuzak
Juin 2, 2019, 1:49 am

Sunday 2nd June 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)

Literary Pursuits - Lord of the Flies.

Lord Of The Flies was written when William Golding was a teacher at Bishop Wordsworth School, in a school exercise book in his spare time between and sometimes during lessons. Having already had three earlier books turned down for publication, this story was inspired by what he knew at first hand about how boys really behaved. The manuscript was only narrowly saved from rejection by rookie Editor Charles Monteith at Faber and Faber. After asking for substantial editorial changes, including cutting a whole section at the start of the novel, and altering the title, the tale of stranded boys descending into savagery on a desert island went on to become a classic. Sarah Dillon goes in search of the story of determined perseverance, compromise and incredible luck behind the publication of novel.

19antimuzak
Juin 16, 2019, 1:50 am

Sunday 16th June 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:15 to 19:30 (15 minutes long)

New Generation Thinkers - The Art of Rowing with Mary Wollstonecraft.

Mary Wollstonecraft, the great feminist pioneer, is best known for her book, 'A Vindication of the Rights of Women'. She was never afraid to make waves. But after the book came out in 1792, she embarked on perhaps her greatest and most personal experiment in modern womanhood - travelling alone as a single mother. She hadn't planned her life this way. Her passionate affair with an American adventurer, Gilbert Imlay, had come to an end when he abandoned her and their baby daughter, Fanny. Undeterred, she set off for Scandinavia, where she hoped to impress Imlay by tracking down some business assets that seemed to have been lost at sea. Mary turned the letters she wrote during her travels into her next book, and it gives us a vivid picture of a single mother who is fully engaged in the world around her -- a fallen woman refusing to stay at home and play the victim. In the end, the book impressed a much worthier man, Mary's fellow radical activist and writer, William Godwin. 'If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book,' he said. We join Professor Lisa Mullen, herself a single mother with experience of the vicissitudes of travel-with-child , as she sets off on a voyage of the imagination in the company of one of the greatest intellects of western culture, to 18th-century Sweden and Norway. Restlessness, sex and single motherhood - treacherous waters indeed.

20antimuzak
Juil 31, 2019, 1:52 am

Wednesday 31st July 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)

Laura Ingalls' America.

Samira Ahmed considers the controversial legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the Little House on the Prairie novels, and how she is regarded in modern-day America.

21antimuzak
Août 2, 2019, 1:58 am

Friday 2nd August 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 22:00 to 22:45 (45 minutes long)

Literary Pursuits - Jekyll and Hyde.

Sarah Dillon discovers the story behind the writing of RL Stevenson's horror classic Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Written at speed in Bournemouth while Stephenson was recuperating from a serious illness, this is the book that finally made his name and fortune. He later said it was inspired by a dream, and his wife Fanny claimed it was her influence that caused him to burn the first draft and re-write it in three days. However, interviews with author and broadcaster Christopher Frayling, biographer Claire Harman, author and journalist Jeremy Hodges and Professor Richard Dury reveal that the myth of the books composition can be challenged. Sarah Dillon discovers there are many other possible influences on the novel, including the death of a friend by alcoholic poisoning; a contemporary investigative journalist report who exposed child prostitution - a real-life murderer who Stevenson knew in Edinburgh and a wardrobe with a disturbing history from his childhood bedroom.

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Août 7, 2019, 1:54 am

Wednesday 7th August 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 21:30 to 22:15 (45 minutes long)

Exit Burbage - The Man who Created Hamlet.

Imagine where we'd be without Shakespeare's plays. It's difficult to contemplate now. But it was thanks to another man that many of them were brought to life. Today, Richard Burbage is a not a household name, but he's the man for whom many of the great Shakespearean roles were created. One of the founding members of the Lord Chamberlain's Men, playing at the newly built Globe in 1599, he's one of the foundations upon which British theatre was built. Andrew Dickson talks to leading actors, rummages among the archives and dissects some of the greatest parts in acting to discover Burbage's crucial role - and realises that without Richard Burbage, there could be no Shakespeare.

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Août 13, 2019, 1:49 am

Tuesday 13th August 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 21:30 to 22:15 (45 minutes long)

A Column For Infinity.

Patrick McGuinness travels to Targa Jiu in Romania, to explore Constantin Brancusi's First World War memorial The Endless Column, now considered a modernist masterpiece. This is a story about a war memorial, but this is no ordinary piece of commemorative public art. It carries no specific reference to the dead of 1916 or of their heroic actions and their sacrifices. No names or dates are engraved into it. There are no slogans or mottoes, horses or lions or statesmen, saints or soldiers. In theory we were allies, and it's easy in Britain to assume that there was one war - our version of it of course - and everyone was fighting for the same thing. In Romania World War One is also known as the War of National Unification. Could the expansion of Romania be symbolically represented in Brancusi's memorial? Constanin Brancusi was born in 1876 to a large peasant family. As a boy he worked as a shepherd and carved birds and animals from the oak wood he found in the forest or from rocks along the riverbed. As a young man he studied in the new arts and crafts school in nearby Craiova, then in Bucharest before he set out for Paris, the art capital of the world. He joined in the ferment of Modernism, finding his own artistic language but without abandoning his roots. Whether he's young or old, in a Paris brasserie with his artist friends or alone in his studio. He's mostly pictured wearing a rough woven Romanian peasant jacket, wooden clogs and a big bushy beard. Sophisticated Parisian artist or Romanian peasant? Brancusi was both. Patrick McGuinness lived in Bucharest in the 1980s and later wrote the novel The Last Hundred Days drawing on his experience of the end of the Ceausescu era. He talks to leading Romanian poet Ana Blandiana, historians Lucian Boia and Ioana Vialsu, Brancusi's engineer's daughter Sorana Georgescu Gorjan and artist Antony Gormley among others.

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Sep 10, 2019, 1:54 am

Tuesday 10th September 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 21:30 to 22:15 (45 minutes long)

Under the Water.

Eight thousand years ago, the area between what is now Britain and the Continent was a fertile land of rivers, forests and hills, inhabited by our forefathers. It might even have still been possible to walk between England and Denmark, despite rising water levels following the last ice-age. That all ended when a huge underwater landslide off the coast of Norway created a tsunami that flooded this landscape submerging the Dogger Hills and creating the North Sea and the English Channel - "the first Brexit". In this documentary, the celebrated Danish feature-maker Rikke Houd accompanies a team of maritime archaeologists to a Mesolithic site at Bouldnor Cliff, off the southern coast of England. The team races against time and the tide to explore layers of sediment that bury memories of prehistoric existence. As the currents reveal treasures held for thousands of years in the mud, they become vulnerable to being washed away for ever. At every opportunity they retrieve artefacts from this settlement that reimagine the understood chronology of human development in these parts - its climate, skills and lifestyle . With contributions from Garry Momber and Jan Gillespie of the Maritime Archaeology Trust and Professor Nigel Nayling from the University of Wales, Trinity St David's.

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Oct 6, 2019, 1:53 am

Sunday 6th October 2019 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:15 to 19:30 (15 minutes long)

New Generation Thinkers: Moral Machinery - The Invention of Mental Healthcare.

Dr Sophie Columbeau visits the York Retreat - the first mental health institute to condemn inhumane treatment of the mentally ill. The York Retreat, founded by the Quaker merchant William Tuke in 1792, led the world in the humane treatment of the mentally ill. Horrified by the brutal conditions at the nearby York Lunatic Asylum - including beatings, confinement, and underfeeding - Tuke set out to launch a different kind of care for the mentally ill, based on the Quaker recognition of the inner light of God in each and every patient. The aim wasn't to simply keep patients out of wider society, but, radically , for the time, to bring them back to reason and recovery. Corporal punishment was to be avoided, restraint kept to a minimum, and occupational therapy pioneered in order to help patients return to their reason. This radical approach began a series of reforms, and ignited a new kind of understanding of mental health, throughout the 19th century - one that is still influential today. Of course, it wasn't a perfect set up from the beginning - early inmates had to be Quakers in order to received treatment.. God's children were not entirely equal. But over time, the benign and caring influence of the York Retreat led to a revolution in mental health care, across Europe and beyond. Columbeau visits Dr Kim Bevans, Chief Officer of the York Retreat today, and discovers an institution within 40 acres of beautiful countryside, that lies at the hear of a revolution in treatment of the mentally ill.

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