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Dear George Eliot...
Dear Virginia Woolf...
A letter of apology to Virginia Woolf from novelist, Ian Sansom.
Dear Agatha Christie...
Novelist Ian Sansom has a theory to put to Queen of crime, Agatha Christie.
Big Emotion
New Generation Thinker Laurence Scott asks if feelings are becoming data, do they change?
Italy Outdoors
The Piazza
Writer Polly Coles reads The Piazza, her first essay on the life of Italy’s public spaces.
La Strada
Writer Polly Coles reads the second of her essays about Italy’s public spaces, La Strada.
Walls
Writer Polly Coles reads Walls, the third essay in her series about Italy’s public spaces.
The Garden
Writer Polly Coles reads The Garden, her fourth essay about Italy’s public spaces.
The Church
Writer Polly Coles reads The Church, her final essay about Italy’s public spaces.
A Bard's Eye View of Wales
Dinogad's Jerkin – The oldest lullaby in Britain
Poet and musician Twm Morys tells the story of the oldest lullaby in Britain.
Ma-Hw
Twm Morys looks at the poetry of ploughing songs
Saint Teilo - A Surplus of Arms
Poet Twm Morys delves into the cultural links between Brittany and Wales
Devils
Twm Morys tells the story of Jack Ystumllyn, an African man in North Wales in the 1770s
Why the Lloyd George museum is so small
Twm Morys looks into the reputation of Lloyd George in the village of his birth
My Life in Food
Origins
Since early childhood, Joanna Robertson has been lured by both real and fictional food.
Artists
Joanna Robertson's deep connection with food leads her to top artists and musicians.
Disorder
Joanna Robertson's deep and intimate relationship with food goes disastrously wrong.
Family
Joanna Robertson's deep connection with food has created families, and changed them.
Fate
Joanna Robertson now lives in France, but more despite the food than because of it.
Music of the Spheres
Music: The First Theory of Everything
Listen to the harmony of the heavens with astronomer Dr Stuart Clark.
The Sound of the Moon
Can you resist the music of the sirens? Dr Stuart Clark continues his cosmic journey.
Our Inner Music
What's your inner harmony? Dr Stuart Clark explores the first theory of everything.
Music and Astronomy in Crisis
The first theory of everything starts to fall apart.
The True Harmony of the Universe
5/5 Kepler figures out what the universe really sounds like.
Forests
The Wood Beyond the World
Enjoy the lush, romantic delights of the Pre-Raphaelite forest.
Brothers Grimm
Dare to enter the dark Germanic forest of the Brothers Grimm.
Mirkwood
The forests of Middle Earth explored by Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough.
The Jungle Book
Join Mowgli and Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough in the forest of Kipling's imagination
100 Acre Wood
Brian Sibley guides Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough around the home of Winnie the Pooh.
Telegraph Wires - Five Views of Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes and Animal Encounters
Poet Helen Mort reads Hughes's poems about creatures in light of her own animal phobia.
Ted Hughes v Philip Larkin
Sean O'Brien returns to his native Hull to consider the work of two very different poets.