Performance art
The Essay. The Escape Artist, 2: The Boxer. Audio, 14 minutes
The extraordinary life of Arthur Cravan and his influence on modern art.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Essay. The Escape Artist, 1: The Poet. Audio, 14 minutes
The extraordinary life of Arthur Cravan and his influence on modern art.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Kalki Presents: My Indian Life. The drag king. Audio, 25 minutes
“I can be whoever I want to be.” Bidisha is a singer and she performs as a Persian prince
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Art of Now. Rwanda's Returnees. Audio, 28 minutes
Artists from Rwanda’s diaspora are returning. Dr Zoe Norridge explores why.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Art of Intimacy. Part 2. Audio, 28 minutes
Novelist Eimear McBride looks at how artists and performers depict sexual consent.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Dwelling. Strange Boats. Audio, 28 minutes
The stories of migration past and present that have shaped the Derry and Donegal region.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Dwelling. A House With Two Rooms. Audio, 28 minutes
Can the arts help Marie Louise Muir understand her autistic daughter’s world?
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Dwelling. 27 Clarendon Street. Audio, 28 minutes
Marie-Louise Muir invites four artists to her childhood home in Derry-Londonderry.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Pursuit of Beauty. Art Beneath the Waves. Audio, 28 minutes
Underwater artists who paint, sculpt and dance beneath the sea.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Rhythm of Life. The Symphony Within. Audio, 30 minutes
Virtuoso percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie explores the body's internal rhythms.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Pursuit of Beauty. Slow Art. Audio, 30 minutes
Illuminated snails dancing, sculpted volcanoes and music playing for 1,000 years.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Pursuit of Beauty. Dancing the Poem. Audio, 30 minutes
Creating dance to poems inspires two choreographers in very different ways.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
What Makes Us Human. Maria Alyokhina from Pussy Riot: What Makes Us Human? Audio, 20 minutes
A member of the controversial Russian punk band answers the question What Makes Us Human?
- AttributionBBC Radio 2
- Available for over a year
Finding Harpo's Voice. Audio, 28 minutes
The cellist Steven Isserlis explores the silence of his idol, Harpo Marx.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Dance Your Life Away. Audio, 30 minutes
Contemporary community dance in Oxford, from the cradle to the grave
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
One to One. Mark Lawson talks to Marvin Gaye Chetwynd. Audio, 15 minutes
Mark Lawson talks to the artist and Turner Prize nominee Marvin Gaye Chetwynd.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Finish the Bottle, Marina Abramovic. Audio, 15 minutes
Art historian Martin Gayford meets the 'grandmother of performance art', Marina Abramovic.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
On Your Farm. Panto Farmers. Audio, 22 minutes
He's behind you! Anna Jones meets the pantomime farmers.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Sunday Feature. Living and Present: Laurie Anderson on Performance Art. Audio, 45 minutes
Pioneering artist Laurie Anderson traces the roots of contemporary performance art.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Doing It In The Street. Audio, 30 minutes
Martin Reeve follows the fortunes of street theatre in Britain over 40 years.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4 Extra
- Available for over a year