1antimuzak
Monday 5th May 2025 (starting this evening)
Time: 21:45 to 22:00 (15 minutes long)
On the 80th anniversary of VE Day, Emma Smith uncovers five unexpected stories about how the Second World War changed books and reading forever. She begins on the night of 29th December 1940, when the Nazis dropped tens of thousands of incendiary bombs onto the historic quarter of London surrounding St Paul's Cathedral. The damage to Paternoster Row, the street which had been synonymous with British publishing for centuries, was particularly dramatic and over five million books were destroyed, but Emma tells the story of one unique manuscript which was saved by chance from the conflagration, and of another book which rose, phoenix-like, from the ashes to become a 20th-century classic.
(Episode 1)
Time: 21:45 to 22:00 (15 minutes long)
On the 80th anniversary of VE Day, Emma Smith uncovers five unexpected stories about how the Second World War changed books and reading forever. She begins on the night of 29th December 1940, when the Nazis dropped tens of thousands of incendiary bombs onto the historic quarter of London surrounding St Paul's Cathedral. The damage to Paternoster Row, the street which had been synonymous with British publishing for centuries, was particularly dramatic and over five million books were destroyed, but Emma tells the story of one unique manuscript which was saved by chance from the conflagration, and of another book which rose, phoenix-like, from the ashes to become a 20th-century classic.
(Episode 1)
2antimuzak
Monday 12th May 2025 (starting this evening)
Time: 21:45 to 22:00 (15 minutes long)
Norfolk. Episode 1.
Matthew Bannister travels across England to find out about the music discovered in County Record Offices and reimagined for the 21st century by the folk musician Nancy Kerr, Matthew begins in Norwich and the Norfolk County Record Office, where researchers have found some remarkable manuscripts including an 18th-century music book from a village band in Mileham and a ballad written by a woman ousted from her home in the 17th century.
(Episode 1)
Time: 21:45 to 22:00 (15 minutes long)
Norfolk. Episode 1.
Matthew Bannister travels across England to find out about the music discovered in County Record Offices and reimagined for the 21st century by the folk musician Nancy Kerr, Matthew begins in Norwich and the Norfolk County Record Office, where researchers have found some remarkable manuscripts including an 18th-century music book from a village band in Mileham and a ballad written by a woman ousted from her home in the 17th century.
(Episode 1)
3antimuzak
Monday 16th June 2025 (starting this evening)
Time: 21:45 to 22:00 (15 minutes long)
Who Wrote Carmen? Episode 1.
Stephen Wyatt examines the role of librettists and lyricists in opera and musical theatre, beginning by making the case for a proper consideration of people who he considers the unsung heroes behind the creation of operas and musicals. He points out the skills involved in providing the underlying structure of words that every opera, operetta and musical needs to have and asks why these skills are so underappreciated, and uses Bizet's opera Carmen as an example.
(Episode 1)
Time: 21:45 to 22:00 (15 minutes long)
Who Wrote Carmen? Episode 1.
Stephen Wyatt examines the role of librettists and lyricists in opera and musical theatre, beginning by making the case for a proper consideration of people who he considers the unsung heroes behind the creation of operas and musicals. He points out the skills involved in providing the underlying structure of words that every opera, operetta and musical needs to have and asks why these skills are so underappreciated, and uses Bizet's opera Carmen as an example.
(Episode 1)
4antimuzak
Monday 7th July 2025 (starting this evening)
Time: 21:45 to 22:00 (15 minutes long)
Fibonacci. Episode 1.
Katie Derham delves into the surprising connections between classical music and gardening, with guests who have a passion for both. She begins by finding outabout the Fibonacci sequence and why gardeners and musicians are drawn to this series of numbers, with mathematician Marcus Du Sautoy revealing which composers have been drawn to it, how it appears in music, and how we can recognise the Golden Ratio.
(Episode 1)
Time: 21:45 to 22:00 (15 minutes long)
Fibonacci. Episode 1.
Katie Derham delves into the surprising connections between classical music and gardening, with guests who have a passion for both. She begins by finding outabout the Fibonacci sequence and why gardeners and musicians are drawn to this series of numbers, with mathematician Marcus Du Sautoy revealing which composers have been drawn to it, how it appears in music, and how we can recognise the Golden Ratio.
(Episode 1)
5antimuzak
Monday 22nd September 2025 (starting this evening)
Time: 21:45 to 22:00 (15 minutes long)
Psychotherapist Philippa Perry explores music therapy, beginning by focusing on group sessions. In east London, she meets music therapist Donald Wetherick, who works with adults experiencing the most serious mental health conditions including psychosis, schizophrenia and severe depression. She then meets newly qualified music therapists at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh.
(Episode 1)
Time: 21:45 to 22:00 (15 minutes long)
Psychotherapist Philippa Perry explores music therapy, beginning by focusing on group sessions. In east London, she meets music therapist Donald Wetherick, who works with adults experiencing the most serious mental health conditions including psychosis, schizophrenia and severe depression. She then meets newly qualified music therapists at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh.
(Episode 1)
6antimuzak
Monday 13th October 2025 (starting this evening)
Time: 21:45 to 22:00 (15 minutes long)
Frida Kahlo. Episode 1.
Mental health and addiction specialist Sally Marlow looks at the work of five female artists and asks what their work reveals about their addictions and the nature of addiction, beginning by exploring how Frida Kahlo medicated her pain.
(Episode 1)
Time: 21:45 to 22:00 (15 minutes long)
Frida Kahlo. Episode 1.
Mental health and addiction specialist Sally Marlow looks at the work of five female artists and asks what their work reveals about their addictions and the nature of addiction, beginning by exploring how Frida Kahlo medicated her pain.
(Episode 1)
7antimuzak
Monday 3rd November 2025 (starting this evening)
Time: 21:45 to 22:00 (15 minutes long)
Liz Berry - Selly Oak Library, Birmingham. Episode 1.
Poets explore the beauty and melancholy of abandoned spaces, beginning with Liz Berry returning to the now empty Selly Oak Library in Birmingham, where her mother was a librarian. As Liz reflects on the building's history and her personal connection to it, she examines how libraries nurture belonging, enlightenment and imagination, and mourns their disappearance.
(Episode 1)
Time: 21:45 to 22:00 (15 minutes long)
Liz Berry - Selly Oak Library, Birmingham. Episode 1.
Poets explore the beauty and melancholy of abandoned spaces, beginning with Liz Berry returning to the now empty Selly Oak Library in Birmingham, where her mother was a librarian. As Liz reflects on the building's history and her personal connection to it, she examines how libraries nurture belonging, enlightenment and imagination, and mourns their disappearance.
(Episode 1)
8antimuzak
Tuesday 25th November 2025 (starting this evening)
Time: 21:45 to 22:00 (15 minutes long)
09/04/2024. Episode 2.
Michael Goldfarb talks about Maxim Gorky's Summerfolk, a play about the Russian upper middle classes at their summer homes as their country teeters on the brink of revolutionary catastrophe. He focuses on Russian theatre as it is performed in Russia, Britain and the US, theatrical friendships and aftershow drinking.
(Episode 2)
Time: 21:45 to 22:00 (15 minutes long)
09/04/2024. Episode 2.
Michael Goldfarb talks about Maxim Gorky's Summerfolk, a play about the Russian upper middle classes at their summer homes as their country teeters on the brink of revolutionary catastrophe. He focuses on Russian theatre as it is performed in Russia, Britain and the US, theatrical friendships and aftershow drinking.
(Episode 2)
9antimuzak
Wednesday 26th November 2025 (starting this evening)
Time: 21:45 to 22:00 (15 minutes long)
10/04/2024. Episode 3.
Michael Goldfarb talks about performing The Count of Monte Cristo with the Jean Cocteau Repertory in New York City. He reveals how it was the play that made playwright Eugene O'Neill's actor father James O'Neill rich and his family miserable, as depicted in Long Day's Journey Into Night.
(Episode 3)
Time: 21:45 to 22:00 (15 minutes long)
10/04/2024. Episode 3.
Michael Goldfarb talks about performing The Count of Monte Cristo with the Jean Cocteau Repertory in New York City. He reveals how it was the play that made playwright Eugene O'Neill's actor father James O'Neill rich and his family miserable, as depicted in Long Day's Journey Into Night.
(Episode 3)
10antimuzak
Monday 5th January 2026 (starting this evening)
Time: 21:45 to 22:00 (15 minutes long)
Johnny Flynn, Violin. Episode 1.
Playing a musical instrument rarely follows a simple trajectory of practice and progress, making psychological as much as physical demands that can come to define a person. Alan Hall talks with five musicians about the nature of their relationship to their chosen instrument. He begins with actor and accomplished violinist Johnny Flynn, who shares the stash of instruments piled up in a little room at the top of his house.
(Episode 1)
Time: 21:45 to 22:00 (15 minutes long)
Johnny Flynn, Violin. Episode 1.
Playing a musical instrument rarely follows a simple trajectory of practice and progress, making psychological as much as physical demands that can come to define a person. Alan Hall talks with five musicians about the nature of their relationship to their chosen instrument. He begins with actor and accomplished violinist Johnny Flynn, who shares the stash of instruments piled up in a little room at the top of his house.
(Episode 1)
11antimuzak
Monday 16th March 2026 (starting this evening)
Time: 21:45 to 22:00 (15 minutes long)
Gold. Episode 1.
Kenneth Steven combines the Scottish landscape and geological history with his own poetry, beginning by telling the story of Scotland's short-lived gold rush in 1869, when 600 gold miners made their way to Sutherland in the hope of a major find.
(Episode 1)
Time: 21:45 to 22:00 (15 minutes long)
Gold. Episode 1.
Kenneth Steven combines the Scottish landscape and geological history with his own poetry, beginning by telling the story of Scotland's short-lived gold rush in 1869, when 600 gold miners made their way to Sutherland in the hope of a major find.
(Episode 1)
12antimuzak
Monday 30th March 2026 (starting this evening)
Time: 21:45 to 22:00 (15 minutes long)
Anna Linstrum's fictionalised autobiography of the 12th-century German Benedictine abbess, composer and polymath, performed by Juliet Stevenson. A childhood filled with visions Hildegard can't explain changes abruptly when she is given away to the Church at the age of 14 to become an anchoress and shut away in a cell attached to a church.
(Episode 1)
Time: 21:45 to 22:00 (15 minutes long)
Anna Linstrum's fictionalised autobiography of the 12th-century German Benedictine abbess, composer and polymath, performed by Juliet Stevenson. A childhood filled with visions Hildegard can't explain changes abruptly when she is given away to the Church at the age of 14 to become an anchoress and shut away in a cell attached to a church.
(Episode 1)
13antimuzak
Monday 13th April 2026 (starting this evening)
Time: 21:45 to 22:00 (15 minutes long)
A Musical Education. Episode 1.
Olivia O'Leary talks to the Irish fiddle virtuoso, who describes learning the instrument as traditional musicians have for centuries, by watching and imitating others, including his father PJ and uncle Paddy Canny. He explains the different regional styles of playing in Ireland and reveals how he is always in search of the soulful nature of music.
(Episode 1)
Time: 21:45 to 22:00 (15 minutes long)
A Musical Education. Episode 1.
Olivia O'Leary talks to the Irish fiddle virtuoso, who describes learning the instrument as traditional musicians have for centuries, by watching and imitating others, including his father PJ and uncle Paddy Canny. He explains the different regional styles of playing in Ireland and reveals how he is always in search of the soulful nature of music.
(Episode 1)
14antimuzak
Monday 20th April 2026 (starting this evening)
Time: 21:45 to 22:00 (15 minutes long)
Death in Deptford. Episode 1.
Historian Jerry Brotton presents a 10-part exploration into the life and work of the Elizabethan playwright Christopher ‘Kit’ Marlowe. Notorious for his violent death in a brawl in Deptford on the banks of the Thames, there’s perennial interest in Marlowe’s writing, his sexuality, his relationship with Shakespeare, the suspicion that he was a spy and the big “what-if” he had lived longer and produced even greater work. As the artistic co-director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Daniel Evans says in the first programme – if things had been different, might he himself be working for the “Royal Marlowe Company”?
Step-by-step, Jerry Brotton traces Kit Marlowe’s life and career, takes us through his key plays, including Tamburlaine, Dr Faustus and Edward II, examines why they resonate with us now and talks to those today who are still fascinated by Kit’s legacy and influence.
The first episode opens with the infamous murder of Christopher Marlowe in 1593. Was he murdered by dark political forces or simply the victim of a dispute over the bill, or ‘reckoning’? As well as establishing a murder mystery around Kit, this episode introduces him as an outsider in his class, sexuality and outlook. Jerry argues that it is Marlowe, not Shakespeare, who creates the conditions for Elizabethan drama as we know it today, which remains the DNA of all later English theatre.
(Episode 1)
Time: 21:45 to 22:00 (15 minutes long)
Death in Deptford. Episode 1.
Historian Jerry Brotton presents a 10-part exploration into the life and work of the Elizabethan playwright Christopher ‘Kit’ Marlowe. Notorious for his violent death in a brawl in Deptford on the banks of the Thames, there’s perennial interest in Marlowe’s writing, his sexuality, his relationship with Shakespeare, the suspicion that he was a spy and the big “what-if” he had lived longer and produced even greater work. As the artistic co-director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Daniel Evans says in the first programme – if things had been different, might he himself be working for the “Royal Marlowe Company”?
Step-by-step, Jerry Brotton traces Kit Marlowe’s life and career, takes us through his key plays, including Tamburlaine, Dr Faustus and Edward II, examines why they resonate with us now and talks to those today who are still fascinated by Kit’s legacy and influence.
The first episode opens with the infamous murder of Christopher Marlowe in 1593. Was he murdered by dark political forces or simply the victim of a dispute over the bill, or ‘reckoning’? As well as establishing a murder mystery around Kit, this episode introduces him as an outsider in his class, sexuality and outlook. Jerry argues that it is Marlowe, not Shakespeare, who creates the conditions for Elizabethan drama as we know it today, which remains the DNA of all later English theatre.
(Episode 1)
15antimuzak
Wednesday 29th April 2026 (starting this evening)
Time: 21:45 to 22:00 (15 minutes long)
Mad About the Boy. Episode 8.
Jerry Brotton explores Kit Marlowe's taboo-breaking play, Edward II, in which he offered the most explicit depiction of same-sex desire ever performed on an English stage. It also portrayed a shocking regicide. Jerry speaks to Daniel Evans and Simon Russell-Beale, who have both played notable Edward IIs, to understand Marlowe's queer legacy. Christopher Marlowe is read by Justice Ritchie and the other voices are read by Tonderai Munyevu.
(Episode 8)
Time: 21:45 to 22:00 (15 minutes long)
Mad About the Boy. Episode 8.
Jerry Brotton explores Kit Marlowe's taboo-breaking play, Edward II, in which he offered the most explicit depiction of same-sex desire ever performed on an English stage. It also portrayed a shocking regicide. Jerry speaks to Daniel Evans and Simon Russell-Beale, who have both played notable Edward IIs, to understand Marlowe's queer legacy. Christopher Marlowe is read by Justice Ritchie and the other voices are read by Tonderai Munyevu.
(Episode 8)
16antimuzak
Monday 11th May 2026 (starting this evening)
Time: 21:45 to 22:00 (15 minutes long)
Becoming David Munrow. Episode 1.
Edward Blakeman reflects on the music-making, ambitions and legacy of the musician and historian who helped transform Britain's understanding of early music in the 1960s and '70s. Edward begins by tracing the unlikely path that set Munrow on course for a groundbreaking career, from a childhood fascination with wind instruments to a formative trip to Peru collecting Andean pipes, and the early encounters with historic instruments that would shape his future.
(Episode 1)
Time: 21:45 to 22:00 (15 minutes long)
Becoming David Munrow. Episode 1.
Edward Blakeman reflects on the music-making, ambitions and legacy of the musician and historian who helped transform Britain's understanding of early music in the 1960s and '70s. Edward begins by tracing the unlikely path that set Munrow on course for a groundbreaking career, from a childhood fascination with wind instruments to a formative trip to Peru collecting Andean pipes, and the early encounters with historic instruments that would shape his future.
(Episode 1)
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