Writers reflect on how particular rocks shape landscapes and people over time.
Cornerstones homepage
Writers who have a passionate connection with a building celebrate British architecture.
Brick, Stone, Steel, Glass homepage
Author and broadcaster David Hepworth reflects on pop music's struggles with authenticity.
Nothing Is Real - Pop's Struggle with Authenticity homepage
Five radio producers hijack The Essay for a mini-series of Radio 3's Between the Ears
Between the Essays homepage
Ian Sansom resumes his imaginary correspondences with the world's great writers.
More Letters to Writers homepage
Authors, artists and historians describe works by inspirational and visionary artists
Ten Artists that Shook the World homepage
Fiona Stafford explores our relationship with some more of the UK's best-known flowers.
The Meaning of Flowers - Series 2 homepage
Five creative individuals examine their own encounters with opera as an art form
Stories That Sing homepage
Series of essays exploring the significance of memory
The Strangeness of Memory homepage
Why does stuff have such an emotional hold on us? Why can't we just let it go?
Stuff Happens homepage
Poet Don Paterson reflects on five poems he wishes he had written
Five Poems I Wish I Had Written homepage
Michael Goldfarb returns to his cab driving and acting days in 1970s New York
Trip Sheets 2 - An Actor's Life homepage
Milton's epic poem comes under the microscope 350 years after its publication
Paradise Lost homepage
Programmes reflecting on the 70th anniversary of the Partition of India and Pakistan
The Culture of Partition homepage
Exploring significant and enduring gay partnerships among important figures in the arts.
The Love that Wrote Its Name homepage
From the York Festival of Ideas, talks given by the 2017 cohort of New Generation Thinkers
New Generation Thinkers 2017 homepage
How great artists and thinkers responded to the First World War in individual works of art
Minds at War: Series 4 homepage
Five writers offer their thoughts on how to write a book
Hay Essays: How to Write a Book homepage
Writer Polly Coles explores what makes a true Venetian.
True Venetian homepage
Discussions about Martin Luther and other people who brought about the Reformation
Luther's Reformation Gang homepage
Series of reflections about writing as one becomes older
Late Style homepage
Author Andrew Martin celebrates social phenomena that are just about surviving
Hanging On homepage
Military historian Hew Strachan explores the long road to peace after the First World War.
The Long Road to Peace homepage
New Generation Thinkers give talks in front of an audience at Free Thinking 2017
Free Thinking 2017 homepage
Sarah Churchwell describes the spell female film stars of the 1930s and 40s have over her.
Five Screen Goddesses homepage
Five writers, some of whom knew him in person, reflect on the talents of Anthony Burgess
Burgess at 100 homepage
Stuart Kelly explores Scotland's close historical relationship with Germany
The Other Auld Alliance homepage
Strange Beds homepage
Five writers talk about what black and white evokes for them
Black and White homepage
Series of talks given by specialists in the field of guns and gun culture
Gun Culture homepage
