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Fiona Sampson on Mother Courage

Fiona Sampson on her favourite fictional female. Recorded at the Hay Festival 2018.

• 13 mins

Wisdom from fictional females

Afua Hirsch on Maggie Tulliver

Afua Hirsch on her favourite fictional female. Recorded at the Hay Festival 2018.

• 15 mins

Wisdom from fictional females

Bettany Hughes on Helen of Troy

Bettany Hughes on her favourite female from literature. Recorded at the Hay Festival 2018.

• 15 mins

Wisdom from fictional females

Fiona Sampson on Mother Courage

Fiona Sampson on her favourite fictional female. Recorded at the Hay Festival 2018.

• 15 mins

Wisdom from fictional females

Francesca Rhydderch on Orlando

Francesca Rhydderch on her favourite fictional female. Recorded at the Hay Festival 2018.

• 15 mins

Wisdom from fictional females

Mab Jones on Jane Eyre

Mab Jones on her favourite fictional female. Recorded at the Hay Festival 2018.

• 15 mins

Kaleidoscope of Muses

Sacred Monsters

A personal exploration of writers' unexpected muses - place, people and memories.

• 14 mins

Kaleidoscope of Muses

The Glass Constellations

A personal exploration of writers' unexpected muses - place, people and memories.

• 14 mins

Kaleidoscope of Muses

Hell's Rainbow

A personal exploration of writers' unexpected muses - place, people and memories.

• 14 mins

Kaleidoscope of Muses

Gutted Arcades

A personal exploration of writers' unexpected muses - place, people and memories.

• 14 mins

Kaleidoscope of Muses

The Haunted Lullaby

A personal exploration of writers’ unexpected muses – place, people and memories.

• 15 mins

Travels for My Art

Romania

Martin Gayford recounts his worldwide journeys in search of rare pieces of art.

• 14 mins

Travels for My Art

Naoshima

Martin Gayford travels to Naoshima Island in Japan, a paradise of contemporary art.

• 14 mins

Travels for My Art

Lorenzo Lotto

Martin Gayford goes to the Marche in Italy on a quest to find pictures by Lorenzo Lotto.

• 14 mins

Travels for My Art

Iceland

A perplexed Martin Gayford is in Iceland to look at artist Roni Horn's Library of Water.

• 14 mins

Travels for My Art

Anselm Kiefer

Martin Gayford goes to France to experience the strange personal museum of Anselm Kiefer.

• 15 mins

Ned Beauman: the Appendix

Five writers choose an organ of the body on which to reflect. In this edition, Ned Beauman

• 14 mins

Forests

Forest Folk

Singer Nancy Kerr explains why forests provide such perfect metaphors in folk music.

• 14 mins

Forests

Outlaws of the Forest

Forests are the perfect place for outlaw artists to hide, says writer Will Ashon.

• 14 mins

Forests

Scents of the Forest

Perfumer, Roja Dove, explains the power of the heady scents of the forest.

• 15 mins

Forests

Forest Fire

What's the most creative force in the forest? Andrew C Scott believes that it's fire.

• 15 mins

New Generation Thinkers

Rehabilitating the Reverend John Trusler

Sophie Coulombeau challenges the way we look at failure in the story of a C18 entrepreneur

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers

The Forgotten German Princess

The tale of Mary Moders, a C17 bigamist and media sensation, is retold by John Gallagher.

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers

Sarah Scott and the Dream of a Female Utopia

Lucy Powell tells the story of a radical community of women set up in 1760s rural England.

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers

John Gower, the Forgotten Medieval Poet

Curing lovesickness or learning alchemy's secrets. Seb Falk on Chaucer's friend John Gower

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Women's Rights

Joanna Cohen looks back at the manifesto which remodelled the Declaration of Independence.

• 14 mins

To The Lighthouse

Dr Rita Charon traces literary parallels in the responses of New Yorkers to 9/11.

• 13 mins

Never Let Me Go

What does it mean to be human, and how can physicians respond to life's mysteries?

• 13 mins

The Wings of the Dove

Finding a model for the physician in the pages of Henry James.

• 14 mins

Sonny's Blues

How James Baldwin's short story helped break down divisions of class, age and race.

• 13 mins