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1antimuzak
Sunday 5th April 2015 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Matthew Sweet explores the science fiction futures imagined by three neglected writers: Naomi Mitchison, Rose Macaulay and Margot Bennett. Matthew interweaves his own new dramatisation of Mitchison's novel Memoirs of a Spacewoman with specially composed music from the Vile Electrodes evoking the lost sound of early BBC science fiction programmes. Matthew also discusses Rose Macaulay's comedy sci-fi story What-Not and Margot Bennett's post-apocalyptic The Long Way Back and learns about the history of radicalism that unites all three writers' biographies and backgrounds.
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Matthew Sweet explores the science fiction futures imagined by three neglected writers: Naomi Mitchison, Rose Macaulay and Margot Bennett. Matthew interweaves his own new dramatisation of Mitchison's novel Memoirs of a Spacewoman with specially composed music from the Vile Electrodes evoking the lost sound of early BBC science fiction programmes. Matthew also discusses Rose Macaulay's comedy sci-fi story What-Not and Margot Bennett's post-apocalyptic The Long Way Back and learns about the history of radicalism that unites all three writers' biographies and backgrounds.
2antimuzak
Sunday 12th April 2015 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Doing Goya Justice - The Curator's Story.
A feature following the work of curator Xavier Bray as he puts together an exhibition of Goya's paintings at the National Gallery in London. The programme begins in October 2013 as Bray reveals the trials and tribulations of bringing together many great works of art. Trying hard to secure for the exhibition the greatest portraits he can, he finds many still hanging in the private palaces of the Spanish families who originally commissioned them. He travels to New York and Madrid to persuade owners, curators and directors of the museums and private collections who are the keepers of these great paintings, including some that have never been seen before. Bray reveals that that Goya was an artist who spent most of his life working as court painter to the King of Spain, he produced some of the most beautiful and moving portraits ever made, he enjoyed hunting and bullfights and was an artist of the Enlightenment as much as he was of war, horrors or the wilds of imagination. With contributions from Goya biographer Juliet Wilson Bareau, Goya expert at the Museo Nacional del Prado Manuela Mena, curator Norman Rosenthal plus artists Marlene Dumas, Catherine Goodman and Timothy Hyman. With Alun Armstrong as the voice of Goya.
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Doing Goya Justice - The Curator's Story.
A feature following the work of curator Xavier Bray as he puts together an exhibition of Goya's paintings at the National Gallery in London. The programme begins in October 2013 as Bray reveals the trials and tribulations of bringing together many great works of art. Trying hard to secure for the exhibition the greatest portraits he can, he finds many still hanging in the private palaces of the Spanish families who originally commissioned them. He travels to New York and Madrid to persuade owners, curators and directors of the museums and private collections who are the keepers of these great paintings, including some that have never been seen before. Bray reveals that that Goya was an artist who spent most of his life working as court painter to the King of Spain, he produced some of the most beautiful and moving portraits ever made, he enjoyed hunting and bullfights and was an artist of the Enlightenment as much as he was of war, horrors or the wilds of imagination. With contributions from Goya biographer Juliet Wilson Bareau, Goya expert at the Museo Nacional del Prado Manuela Mena, curator Norman Rosenthal plus artists Marlene Dumas, Catherine Goodman and Timothy Hyman. With Alun Armstrong as the voice of Goya.
3antimuzak
Sunday 19th April 2015 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
A Secret Life - Uwe Johnson in Sheerness.
Patrick Wright investigates why German writer Uwe Johnson chose to live in Sheerness from 1974 until his death ten years later. Patrick hears from Johnson's Sheerness neighbour and other friends who knew the writer during his years there. He also hears about Johnson's earlier life, growing up under Hitler and then Stalin, and how this shaped his approach to writing fiction. Including new translations by Damion Searls of Johnson's writings from Sheerness.
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
A Secret Life - Uwe Johnson in Sheerness.
Patrick Wright investigates why German writer Uwe Johnson chose to live in Sheerness from 1974 until his death ten years later. Patrick hears from Johnson's Sheerness neighbour and other friends who knew the writer during his years there. He also hears about Johnson's earlier life, growing up under Hitler and then Stalin, and how this shaped his approach to writing fiction. Including new translations by Damion Searls of Johnson's writings from Sheerness.
4antimuzak
Sunday 17th May 2015 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Merchant Ivory - Classics, Celluloid and Class.
Laurence Scott re-assesses the work of the film-making team collectively known as Merchant Ivory, responsible for works such as A Room with a View, Howards End and The Remains of the Day. Comprising director James Ivory, producer Ismail Merchant and frequently writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Merchant Ivory garnered much praise and many awards as well as a certain degree of criticism. Laurence asks if this criticism was fair and hears from James Ivory about his lifetime spent making films, during preparation for his latest work. There are also contributions from Helena Bonham Carter, whose career was launched by the team, veteran Indian actress Madhur Jaffrey, who brought Merchant and Ivory together and starred in a number of their Indian films, and novelist and screenwriter Kazuo Ishiguro. Plus, the man who as a schoolboy managed to have Ivory and Merchant to star in his home movies and went on to run the company, Richard Macrory.
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Merchant Ivory - Classics, Celluloid and Class.
Laurence Scott re-assesses the work of the film-making team collectively known as Merchant Ivory, responsible for works such as A Room with a View, Howards End and The Remains of the Day. Comprising director James Ivory, producer Ismail Merchant and frequently writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Merchant Ivory garnered much praise and many awards as well as a certain degree of criticism. Laurence asks if this criticism was fair and hears from James Ivory about his lifetime spent making films, during preparation for his latest work. There are also contributions from Helena Bonham Carter, whose career was launched by the team, veteran Indian actress Madhur Jaffrey, who brought Merchant and Ivory together and starred in a number of their Indian films, and novelist and screenwriter Kazuo Ishiguro. Plus, the man who as a schoolboy managed to have Ivory and Merchant to star in his home movies and went on to run the company, Richard Macrory.
5antimuzak
Sunday 31st May 2015 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Left-Handed Liberty.
Amid the 800-year celebrations of the signing of Magna Carta, theatre critic Andrew Dickson explores one of the more provocative attempts 50 years ago to commemorate the charter as well as the radical theatre culture of 1965. He focuses on the forgotten story of the City of London's commissioning of the play Left-Handed Liberty, written by Marxist playwright John Arden and focusing on the charter's failure, for performance in front of the Queen. Andrew pieces together the haphazard genesis of the play and its staging at the Mermaid Theatre in London. And he reassesses Arden, nicknamed Britain's Berthold Brecht, and a key figure in the radical theatrical culture of 1965, which also featured Edward Bond's notoriously violent Saved and John Osborne's controversial and provocative A Patriot for Me.
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Left-Handed Liberty.
Amid the 800-year celebrations of the signing of Magna Carta, theatre critic Andrew Dickson explores one of the more provocative attempts 50 years ago to commemorate the charter as well as the radical theatre culture of 1965. He focuses on the forgotten story of the City of London's commissioning of the play Left-Handed Liberty, written by Marxist playwright John Arden and focusing on the charter's failure, for performance in front of the Queen. Andrew pieces together the haphazard genesis of the play and its staging at the Mermaid Theatre in London. And he reassesses Arden, nicknamed Britain's Berthold Brecht, and a key figure in the radical theatrical culture of 1965, which also featured Edward Bond's notoriously violent Saved and John Osborne's controversial and provocative A Patriot for Me.
6antimuzak
Sunday 7th June 2015 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Wb Yeats and the Artifice of Eternity.
Theo Dorgan explores the way the poet WB Yeats is still an important presence in the cultural and public life of Ireland and the wider world, 150 years after he was born. While Yeats's early poems, drawing on fairy tales of ancient Ireland, are often dismissed as whimsy, Ireland Professor of Poetry Paula Meehan argues that throughout his life magic was crucial to Yeats. At the Abbey, created by Yeats and Augusta, Lady Gregory as a national theatre, its director Fiach Mac Conghail reveals how the poet was a practical man of the theatre and a modernist, absorbing dramatic styles from all over the world. Declan Kiberd, a leading Yeats scholar, reveals the complexities of Yeats's character, including his political opinions, his relationships with women, his ambitions and his 'Irishness'. Historian Diarmaid Ferriter explains that the poet was very effective as a senator and Catriona Crowe of the National Archives of Ireland explains what records reveal of Yeats's place in the national memory. And Irish president Michael D Higgins considers what Yeats would think of the Ireland today and the place of poetry in contemporary politics. With poetry readings by Jim Norton.
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Wb Yeats and the Artifice of Eternity.
Theo Dorgan explores the way the poet WB Yeats is still an important presence in the cultural and public life of Ireland and the wider world, 150 years after he was born. While Yeats's early poems, drawing on fairy tales of ancient Ireland, are often dismissed as whimsy, Ireland Professor of Poetry Paula Meehan argues that throughout his life magic was crucial to Yeats. At the Abbey, created by Yeats and Augusta, Lady Gregory as a national theatre, its director Fiach Mac Conghail reveals how the poet was a practical man of the theatre and a modernist, absorbing dramatic styles from all over the world. Declan Kiberd, a leading Yeats scholar, reveals the complexities of Yeats's character, including his political opinions, his relationships with women, his ambitions and his 'Irishness'. Historian Diarmaid Ferriter explains that the poet was very effective as a senator and Catriona Crowe of the National Archives of Ireland explains what records reveal of Yeats's place in the national memory. And Irish president Michael D Higgins considers what Yeats would think of the Ireland today and the place of poetry in contemporary politics. With poetry readings by Jim Norton.
7antimuzak
Sunday 14th June 2015 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Clocks and Clouds - An Adventure Around Gyorgy Ligeti.
A portrait of Hungarian composer Gyorgy Ligeti, considered to be the most widely loved of post-war modernist composers. Including an exploration of the man, his personal history as a Jew in Nazi- and Soviet-occupied Hungary, his music and his legacy. With a recording of Ligeti himself from 1997, much of which has never been broadcast, interwoven with new interviews from Ligeti's son Lukas, a New York-based composer and percussionist. Plus contributions from Louise Duchesneau, the composer's assistant for over 20 years, American musical analyst Amy Bauer, British composer Christopher Fox and Dublin-based academic Wolfgang Marx.
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Clocks and Clouds - An Adventure Around Gyorgy Ligeti.
A portrait of Hungarian composer Gyorgy Ligeti, considered to be the most widely loved of post-war modernist composers. Including an exploration of the man, his personal history as a Jew in Nazi- and Soviet-occupied Hungary, his music and his legacy. With a recording of Ligeti himself from 1997, much of which has never been broadcast, interwoven with new interviews from Ligeti's son Lukas, a New York-based composer and percussionist. Plus contributions from Louise Duchesneau, the composer's assistant for over 20 years, American musical analyst Amy Bauer, British composer Christopher Fox and Dublin-based academic Wolfgang Marx.
8antimuzak
Sunday 21st June 2015 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
An Anatomy of Singing.
As part of Radio 3's Classical Voice season, Mary King investigates how advances in knowledge of anatomy are changing the way people sing. She hears from Andrew Watts, Toby Spence and Connie Fisher, three singers whose personal vocal experiences have resulted in contrasting relationships with their vocal anatomy. Mary gathers the latest findings from within the music and scientific community and tests out some of the more popular theories of yesteryear. And at the Royal College of Surgeons, Dr Sam Alberti explains what our forebears would have discovered by dissecting specimens of the larynx and thorax, still on display today.
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
An Anatomy of Singing.
As part of Radio 3's Classical Voice season, Mary King investigates how advances in knowledge of anatomy are changing the way people sing. She hears from Andrew Watts, Toby Spence and Connie Fisher, three singers whose personal vocal experiences have resulted in contrasting relationships with their vocal anatomy. Mary gathers the latest findings from within the music and scientific community and tests out some of the more popular theories of yesteryear. And at the Royal College of Surgeons, Dr Sam Alberti explains what our forebears would have discovered by dissecting specimens of the larynx and thorax, still on display today.
9antimuzak
Sunday 28th June 2015 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
A Most Ingenious Paradox - Loving G&S to Death: Martin Handley explores contemporary attitudes to the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan. He asks who is now staging them, as well as how and why. Martin speaks to directors Mike Leigh, who wants to let the operettas speak for themselves, Jonathan Miller, whose famous production of The Mikado continues to be revived 32 years on, young director John Savournin, who puts on small-scale shows in pub theatres, and Sasha Regan, whose all-male productions are bringing the works to a whole new audience. Martin also hears from singers Barry Clark, who speaks of the dying days of the D'Oyly Carte Company, Dame Felicity Palmer, who has taken on several of the 'older woman' roles, and also younger singers who have not grown up with the tradition. There are also contributions from people on the amateur and student environment, as well as scholars Dr Ian Bradley and Dr Carolyn Williams reflecting on the social landscape of Gilbert and Sullivan participation and fandom, the male-dominated world of the lyric-quoting obsessive and the 'conflicted' female view.
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
A Most Ingenious Paradox - Loving G&S to Death: Martin Handley explores contemporary attitudes to the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan. He asks who is now staging them, as well as how and why. Martin speaks to directors Mike Leigh, who wants to let the operettas speak for themselves, Jonathan Miller, whose famous production of The Mikado continues to be revived 32 years on, young director John Savournin, who puts on small-scale shows in pub theatres, and Sasha Regan, whose all-male productions are bringing the works to a whole new audience. Martin also hears from singers Barry Clark, who speaks of the dying days of the D'Oyly Carte Company, Dame Felicity Palmer, who has taken on several of the 'older woman' roles, and also younger singers who have not grown up with the tradition. There are also contributions from people on the amateur and student environment, as well as scholars Dr Ian Bradley and Dr Carolyn Williams reflecting on the social landscape of Gilbert and Sullivan participation and fandom, the male-dominated world of the lyric-quoting obsessive and the 'conflicted' female view.
10antimuzak
Sunday 5th July 2015
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Hg and the H-Bomb.
Samira Ahmed uncovers the extraordinary role of HG Wells in the creation of the nuclear bomb 70 years ago and how a simple, devastating idea led to the world we know today. In his 1914 novel The World Set Free, Wells imagined bombs that could destroy civilisation and lead to a new world order. How did this idea become a reality? Samira discovers the strange conjunction of science fiction and fact that spawned the bomb as Wells mixed with key scientists and politicians such as Lenin and Churchill. In London's Russell Square, Samira retraces the steps of Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard who conceived the neutron chain reaction. She is also joined by nuclear physicist Dr Elizabeth Cunningham, author Graham Farmelo, Professor Lisa Jardine, Science Museum curator Andrew Nahum and author Michael Sherborne.
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Hg and the H-Bomb.
Samira Ahmed uncovers the extraordinary role of HG Wells in the creation of the nuclear bomb 70 years ago and how a simple, devastating idea led to the world we know today. In his 1914 novel The World Set Free, Wells imagined bombs that could destroy civilisation and lead to a new world order. How did this idea become a reality? Samira discovers the strange conjunction of science fiction and fact that spawned the bomb as Wells mixed with key scientists and politicians such as Lenin and Churchill. In London's Russell Square, Samira retraces the steps of Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard who conceived the neutron chain reaction. She is also joined by nuclear physicist Dr Elizabeth Cunningham, author Graham Farmelo, Professor Lisa Jardine, Science Museum curator Andrew Nahum and author Michael Sherborne.
11antimuzak
Sunday 12th July 2015 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Looking for the Moor.
In preparing to take on the role of Othello for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Hugh Quarshie goes in search of the wisdom of others about the ethical conundrums of a black actor playing Othello. Hugh is not convinced that Shakespeare actually knew any black people and wonders if the persona of Othello is simply derived from literary and theatrical convention. He also suspects that if Shakespeare had little or no awareness of black people, his characterisation of Othello could be regarded as lazy. If he did, then Hugh believes his approach borders on bigotry and that the role should be seen as a stereotype about which black actors should think twice.
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Looking for the Moor.
In preparing to take on the role of Othello for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Hugh Quarshie goes in search of the wisdom of others about the ethical conundrums of a black actor playing Othello. Hugh is not convinced that Shakespeare actually knew any black people and wonders if the persona of Othello is simply derived from literary and theatrical convention. He also suspects that if Shakespeare had little or no awareness of black people, his characterisation of Othello could be regarded as lazy. If he did, then Hugh believes his approach borders on bigotry and that the role should be seen as a stereotype about which black actors should think twice.
12antimuzak
Sunday 23rd August 2015 (starting in 1 day)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Andy Warhol's Factory Friends.
Paul Morley visits New York talk to those who lived, worked and partied in Andy Warhol's Factory, a magnet for artists from the 1960s to the 80s and a creative centre for counterculture. Paul meets Bibbe Hansen, mother of the musician Beck and a Warhol 'superstar' at the age of 14, Robert Heide, a playwright and witness to intimate moments in Warhol's relationship with Edie Segdwick, and Vincent Freemont, a film-maker and self-confessed Warhol 'lifer'. There are also contributions from Bob Colacello, editor of Interview magazine, and photographer Christopher Makos, a Californian surfer who was friends with Warhol until his death. Plus artist Robert Yucakis, who left the Factory and is now caretaker at the Lower East Side Tenement Musuem, a celebration of the Warhol collection at Moma and contribution from film-maker Catherine O'Sullivan-Shorr.
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Andy Warhol's Factory Friends.
Paul Morley visits New York talk to those who lived, worked and partied in Andy Warhol's Factory, a magnet for artists from the 1960s to the 80s and a creative centre for counterculture. Paul meets Bibbe Hansen, mother of the musician Beck and a Warhol 'superstar' at the age of 14, Robert Heide, a playwright and witness to intimate moments in Warhol's relationship with Edie Segdwick, and Vincent Freemont, a film-maker and self-confessed Warhol 'lifer'. There are also contributions from Bob Colacello, editor of Interview magazine, and photographer Christopher Makos, a Californian surfer who was friends with Warhol until his death. Plus artist Robert Yucakis, who left the Factory and is now caretaker at the Lower East Side Tenement Musuem, a celebration of the Warhol collection at Moma and contribution from film-maker Catherine O'Sullivan-Shorr.
13antimuzak
Sunday 11th October 2015 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Arthur Miller - Speaking of New York.
Ben Brantley of the New York Times describes how the city provided language, characters and a moral vision that informed Arthur Miller's work.
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Arthur Miller - Speaking of New York.
Ben Brantley of the New York Times describes how the city provided language, characters and a moral vision that informed Arthur Miller's work.
14antimuzak
Sunday 25th October 2015 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
This Story Shall the Good Man Teach His Son - Agincourt, England and France. Marking 600 years since the Battle of Agincourt, Adam Thorpe explains what happened then, what it means now in Britain and in France and the response to it in literature, music, theatre and film. Adam visits Azincourt with Anne Curry, the leading authority on the battle, to find out what really happened and hears Christophe Gilliot, the director of the Museum there, give a suprising assessment of Henry V. Actor Robert Hardy, an authority on the longbow, explains the crucial impact of this weapon, while Gregory Doran, director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and its current production of Shakespeare's Henry V, reveals how the British attitude to the battle is conditioned by the play and how it is bent to the concerns of the day. Adam also finds out how Agincourt is regarded in France with historians Stephen Cooper and Bertrand Schnerb, who trace the literary responses to it, and hears from David Owen Norris about how composers have responded.
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
This Story Shall the Good Man Teach His Son - Agincourt, England and France. Marking 600 years since the Battle of Agincourt, Adam Thorpe explains what happened then, what it means now in Britain and in France and the response to it in literature, music, theatre and film. Adam visits Azincourt with Anne Curry, the leading authority on the battle, to find out what really happened and hears Christophe Gilliot, the director of the Museum there, give a suprising assessment of Henry V. Actor Robert Hardy, an authority on the longbow, explains the crucial impact of this weapon, while Gregory Doran, director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and its current production of Shakespeare's Henry V, reveals how the British attitude to the battle is conditioned by the play and how it is bent to the concerns of the day. Adam also finds out how Agincourt is regarded in France with historians Stephen Cooper and Bertrand Schnerb, who trace the literary responses to it, and hears from David Owen Norris about how composers have responded.
15antimuzak
Sunday 1st November 2015 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
I Have Been Here Before.
Francis Spufford explores how An Experiment with Time, an essay published in 1927 by former soldier and aircraft designer JW Dunne, had a profound influence on JB Priestley and other writers for decades. The work, which explored time, immortality and pre-cognitive dreaming, proved inspirational for artists and the public alike. Writers as diverse as Priestley, Rumer Godden, John Buchan, HG Wells, Flann O'Brien and Jorge Luis Borges all found their imaginations sparked by Dunne's theories. Francis considers how Dunne's essay obsessed Priestley, who wrote a succession of popular plays with the theme of time at their centre. He also reveals little-known facts about Dunne's life and work and reads archived dream letters sent to Priestley following his appearance on the BBC's Monitor programme in the 1960s.
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
I Have Been Here Before.
Francis Spufford explores how An Experiment with Time, an essay published in 1927 by former soldier and aircraft designer JW Dunne, had a profound influence on JB Priestley and other writers for decades. The work, which explored time, immortality and pre-cognitive dreaming, proved inspirational for artists and the public alike. Writers as diverse as Priestley, Rumer Godden, John Buchan, HG Wells, Flann O'Brien and Jorge Luis Borges all found their imaginations sparked by Dunne's theories. Francis considers how Dunne's essay obsessed Priestley, who wrote a succession of popular plays with the theme of time at their centre. He also reveals little-known facts about Dunne's life and work and reads archived dream letters sent to Priestley following his appearance on the BBC's Monitor programme in the 1960s.
16antimuzak
Sunday 15th November 2015 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:08 (23 minutes long)
The Science of Baby Laughter.
Tiffany Watt-Smith explores the long history of scientific inquiry into the understanding of laughter in infants and what it tells us about ourselves.
Time: 18:45 to 19:08 (23 minutes long)
The Science of Baby Laughter.
Tiffany Watt-Smith explores the long history of scientific inquiry into the understanding of laughter in infants and what it tells us about ourselves.
17antimuzak
Sunday 15th November 2015 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:08 to 19:30 (22 minutes long)
The Life and Life of Richard Baxter.
Professor Tom Charlton explores the thoughts and life of Richard Baxter, a church leader, theologian and polemicist at the heart of England's upheaval amid the Civil War and Restoration in the 17th century.
Time: 19:08 to 19:30 (22 minutes long)
The Life and Life of Richard Baxter.
Professor Tom Charlton explores the thoughts and life of Richard Baxter, a church leader, theologian and polemicist at the heart of England's upheaval amid the Civil War and Restoration in the 17th century.
18antimuzak
Sunday 6th December 2015 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Above Sixty, Below Zero.
As part of Radio 3's Northern Lights season, writer, journalist and Nordic obsessive Lesley Riddoch follows the 60th parallel north to discover how climate change is altering the relationship between humans and the landscape in the far north. Lesley visits the Swedish city that is about to fall into the world's largest underground iron ore mine. In Iceland she meets farmers, entomologists and fishermen dealing with the most rapid climate warming on the planet. She hears how hunting and fishing patterns are changing for the Inuit of Baffin Island and also considers how the people can maintain an identity forged in a harsh climate.
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Above Sixty, Below Zero.
As part of Radio 3's Northern Lights season, writer, journalist and Nordic obsessive Lesley Riddoch follows the 60th parallel north to discover how climate change is altering the relationship between humans and the landscape in the far north. Lesley visits the Swedish city that is about to fall into the world's largest underground iron ore mine. In Iceland she meets farmers, entomologists and fishermen dealing with the most rapid climate warming on the planet. She hears how hunting and fishing patterns are changing for the Inuit of Baffin Island and also considers how the people can maintain an identity forged in a harsh climate.
19antimuzak
Sunday 20th December 2015 (starting this evening)
Time: 19:00 to 19:45 (45 minutes long)
Freeze - Thaw.
As part of Radio 3's Northern Lights season, Hayden Lorimer discusses ice with poets, musicians, explorers, doctors and physicists. With location recordings from a petrol station forecourt, the largest ice house in Scotland and the ice fields of Tromso, north of the Arctic Circle. Including contributions from poets Lavinia Greenlaw, Jo Shapcott, Kathleen Jamie, Fiona Sampson, Jen Hadfield, Frances Leviston, Paul Farley and Nick Drake, writers Gavin Francis, Joanna Kavenna, musician Karen Powers, painter Kurt Jackson and scientist Stephen Harrison.
Time: 19:00 to 19:45 (45 minutes long)
Freeze - Thaw.
As part of Radio 3's Northern Lights season, Hayden Lorimer discusses ice with poets, musicians, explorers, doctors and physicists. With location recordings from a petrol station forecourt, the largest ice house in Scotland and the ice fields of Tromso, north of the Arctic Circle. Including contributions from poets Lavinia Greenlaw, Jo Shapcott, Kathleen Jamie, Fiona Sampson, Jen Hadfield, Frances Leviston, Paul Farley and Nick Drake, writers Gavin Francis, Joanna Kavenna, musician Karen Powers, painter Kurt Jackson and scientist Stephen Harrison.
20antimuzak
Sunday 3rd January 2016 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Matthew Sweet explores the science fiction futures imagined by three neglected writers: Naomi Mitchison, Rose Macaulay and Margot Bennett. Matthew interweaves his own new dramatisation of Mitchison's novel Memoirs of a Spacewoman with specially composed music from the Vile Electrodes evoking the lost sound of early BBC science fiction programmes. Matthew also discusses Rose Macaulay's comedy sci-fi story What-Not and Margot Bennett's post-apocalyptic The Long Way Back and learns about the history of radicalism that unites all three writers' biographies and backgrounds.
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Matthew Sweet explores the science fiction futures imagined by three neglected writers: Naomi Mitchison, Rose Macaulay and Margot Bennett. Matthew interweaves his own new dramatisation of Mitchison's novel Memoirs of a Spacewoman with specially composed music from the Vile Electrodes evoking the lost sound of early BBC science fiction programmes. Matthew also discusses Rose Macaulay's comedy sci-fi story What-Not and Margot Bennett's post-apocalyptic The Long Way Back and learns about the history of radicalism that unites all three writers' biographies and backgrounds.
21antimuzak
Sunday 10th January 2016 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Literary Pursuits.
Sarah Dillon explores the stories behind the stories of how great works were written, starting with Dickens's Great Expectations to reveal a tale of money and passion.
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Literary Pursuits.
Sarah Dillon explores the stories behind the stories of how great works were written, starting with Dickens's Great Expectations to reveal a tale of money and passion.
22antimuzak
Sunday 17th January 2016 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Literary Pursuits.
Sarah Dillon explores the stories behind the stories of how great works were written, continuing with the arduous composition of Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea.
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Literary Pursuits.
Sarah Dillon explores the stories behind the stories of how great works were written, continuing with the arduous composition of Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea.
23antimuzak
Sunday 31st January 2016 (starting this evening)
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Cecil Sharp's Appalachian Trail.
Andy Kershaw follows in the footsteps of British folk song collector Cecil Sharp, who in the spring of 1916 set out on a voyage to America planning a give a series of lectures on English folk music and discovered a treasure trove of folk songs. Many of them were English folk songs he had never encountered before. Andy follows Sharp's Appalachian trail through Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Tennessee, hearing some of the songs he collected both in their original versions and in present-day interpretations in specially recorded sessions with contemporary singers. Part of Radio 3's Folk Connections weekend, celebrating folk music and the influence of folk on classical music.
Time: 18:45 to 19:30 (45 minutes long)
Cecil Sharp's Appalachian Trail.
Andy Kershaw follows in the footsteps of British folk song collector Cecil Sharp, who in the spring of 1916 set out on a voyage to America planning a give a series of lectures on English folk music and discovered a treasure trove of folk songs. Many of them were English folk songs he had never encountered before. Andy follows Sharp's Appalachian trail through Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Tennessee, hearing some of the songs he collected both in their original versions and in present-day interpretations in specially recorded sessions with contemporary singers. Part of Radio 3's Folk Connections weekend, celebrating folk music and the influence of folk on classical music.
24antimuzak
Sunday 28th February 2016 (starting this evening)
Time: 6:45 PM to 7:30 PM (45 minutes long)
Real Pretenders.
Film critic Antonia Quirke investigates the evolution of acting, asking some of Britain's best actors, from Michael Sheen to Robert Hardy, what makes a spellbinding performance.
Time: 6:45 PM to 7:30 PM (45 minutes long)
Real Pretenders.
Film critic Antonia Quirke investigates the evolution of acting, asking some of Britain's best actors, from Michael Sheen to Robert Hardy, what makes a spellbinding performance.
25antimuzak
Sunday 6th March 2016 (starting this evening)
Time: 6:45 PM to 7:30 PM (45 minutes long)
The Venice Ghetto.
To mark the 500th anniversary of establishment the Venice Ghetto, Jerry Brotton travels to the city to discover how this place became to be the first of its kind in the world. He finds that rather than living in isolation, the Jewish community of Venice was open to cultural exchange with Christian neighbours. It became a place of refuge and attracted Jewish migrants from other parts of Europe to live on the island in the city. Jerry brings the story up-to-date with an examination of what the word 'ghetto' means to us today, in a North American context and with reference to contemporary events in Europe.
Time: 6:45 PM to 7:30 PM (45 minutes long)
The Venice Ghetto.
To mark the 500th anniversary of establishment the Venice Ghetto, Jerry Brotton travels to the city to discover how this place became to be the first of its kind in the world. He finds that rather than living in isolation, the Jewish community of Venice was open to cultural exchange with Christian neighbours. It became a place of refuge and attracted Jewish migrants from other parts of Europe to live on the island in the city. Jerry brings the story up-to-date with an examination of what the word 'ghetto' means to us today, in a North American context and with reference to contemporary events in Europe.
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