Literature
Sunday Feature. This Land of Words and Water. Audio, 44 minutes
A journey into the Ireland of Louis MacNeice’s poetic imagination.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Open Book. Behind locked doors with Claire Keegan; Alan Cumming's book he would never lend. Audio, 28 minutes
Claire Keegan talks to Chris Power about her new book, Small Things Like These.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted11 December 2021
The Essay. Another Northern Ireland, Chalk on the Wall. Audio, 14 minutes
Writer Claire Mitchell peels back the layers of her hometown to find a radical history.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted5 December 2021
Sunday Feature. In Search of the Sublime. Audio, 44 minutes
In Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, artist Emma Stibbon RA explores the idea of the sublime.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted29 November 2021
Desert Island Discs. Neil Gaiman, writer. Audio, 35 minutes
Neil Gaiman, writer, shares the soundtrack of his life with Lauren Laverne.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Arts & Ideas. Romanian history and literature. Audio, 45 minutes
Novelists Mircea Cărtărescu, Georgina Harding & Philippe Sands join Anne McElvoy
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Sunday Feature. Afterwords: Mary Oliver. Audio, 44 minutes
A dive into the world of American writer Mary Oliver, with recordings of the poet herself.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted20 November 2021
The Strange Affair of... Frankenstein. Video, 30 minutes
Robert Symes investigates the background to Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein. (1986)
- AttributionBBC
- Available for over a year
The Bronte Business. Video, 25 minutes
Joan Bakewell visits Haworth in Yorkshire, home of the Brontes. (1977)
- AttributionBBC
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted17 November 2021
BBC Live Lessons. World Book Day 2021 Live Lesson. Video, 28 minutes
Ben Shires and Mr Smith are joined by authors giving helpful tips and advice.
- AttributionBBC Bitesize
- Available for 4 months
Dostoevsky and the Russian Soul. Audio, 28 minutes
Rowan Williams considers what Dostoevsky’s life and work can tell us about Russia today.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
