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Music in Its Time

Music in Its Time - Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks

The spectacular state-of-the-art first performance of Handel's Royal Fireworks.

• 15 mins

Inspiring Women in Music

Inspiring Women in Music: Sarah Connolly

Mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly on her career, her family and characters she has played.

• 15 mins

Inspiring Women in Music

Inspiring Women in Music: Nicola LeFanu

Composer Nicola LeFanu discusses her musical career, spanning over half a century.

• 15 mins

Inspiring Women in Music

Inspiring Women in Music: Kathryn McAdam

Soprano Kathryn McAdam discusses her life in music as well as what and who inspires her.

• 15 mins

Inspiring Women in Music

Inspiring Women in Music: Alice Farnham

Alice Farnham, one of Britain's leading female conductors, discusses her life in music.

• 15 mins

Inspiring Women in Music

Inspiring Women in Music: Zoe Martlew

Cellist, performer, composer, blogger and educator Zoe Martlew discusses her life in music

• 14 mins

Crisis of Care

Episode 1

Untangling the many definitions of 'care' we may encounter over the course of a life.

• 15 mins

Crisis of Care

Episode 2

Untangling the many definitions of 'care' we may encounter over the course of a life.

• 15 mins

Crisis of Care

Episode 3

Untangling the many definitions of 'care' we may encounter over the course of a life.

• 15 mins

Crisis of Care

Episode 4

Untangling the many definitions of 'care' we may encounter over the course of a life.

• 15 mins

Crisis of Care

Episode 5

Untangling the many definitions of 'care' we may encounter over the course of a life.

• 15 mins

Desperately Seeking Eternity

Desperately Seeking Eternity: Peter Owen-Jones

How eternity should be reclaimed from those who have tried to place it out of our reach.

• 15 mins

Desperately Seeking Eternity

Desperately Seeking Eternity: Mona Siddiqui

Muslim theologian Mona Siddiqui speaks on the prospect of immortality.

• 15 mins

Desperately Seeking Eternity

Desperately Seeking Eternity: Anders Sandberg

Anders Sandberg argues that ageing and mortality may be transformed by future technology.

• 15 mins

Desperately Seeking Eternity

Desperately Seeking Eternity: Naomi Alderman

Novelist and game creator Naomi Alderman spekas on mathematical theories about infinity.

• 15 mins

Desperately Seeking Eternity

Desperately Seeking Eternity: Lucy Winkett

Lucy Winkett argues efforts to give eternity a shape and momentum are temporary and futile

• 15 mins

Dawnwalks

Nicholas Shakespeare

The attractions of daybreak... when five writers set off on foot - and report back.

• 15 mins

Dawnwalks

Nicola Barker

The attractions of daybreak... when five writers set off on foot - and report back.

• 14 mins

Dawnwalks

Kamila Shamsie

The attractions of daybreak... when five writers set off on foot - and report back.

• 15 mins

Dawnwalks

Ian Sansom

The attractions of daybreak... when five writers set off on foot - and report back.

• 15 mins

Dawnwalks

Lucy Hughes Hallett

The attractions of daybreak... when five writers set off on foot - and report back.

• 15 mins

A Body of Essays: Series 2

William Fiennes - The Bowel

Author William Fiennes, a sufferer of Crohn's disease, discusss the bowel.

• 15 mins

A Body of Essays: Series 2

A Body of Essays: Chibundu Onuzo - The Fire of Life: The Thyroid

Author Chibundu Onuzo investigates the 'goldilocks' nature of the thyroid gland.

• 15 mins

A Body of Essays: Series 2

A Body of Essays: Philip Kerr - Breaking Brain

Crime writer Philip Kerr explains how brain surgery has advanced over the years.

• 15 mins

A Body of Essays: Series 2

Annie Freud - The Kidneys

Poet and artist Annie Freud discusses the kidneys, the body's most hard-working organs.

• 15 mins

A Body of Essays: Series 2

Thomas Lynch - Whence and Whither: Some Thoughts on Uteri, on Wombs

Michigan-based undertaker and poet Thomas Lynch reflects on the uterus.

• 15 mins

Minds at War: "Ulysses"

The writer Fintan O'Toole reflects on James Joyce's novel "Ulysses"

• 13 mins

Minds at War: "The Last September"

Dr Heather Jones of the LSE explores Elizabeth Bowen's novel "The Last September"

• 13 mins

Minds at War: "O' Connell Street"

Poet and academic Gerald Dawe explores Francis Ledwidge's poem "O'Connell Street".

• 13 mins

Minds at War: Father Browne's war photograph

Photographer John D McHugh explores one of the war photos taken by Fr Francis Browne

• 13 mins