The Radio 3 Documentary

Paul McCartney, Jean-Michel Jarre and Lee Renaldo on their debt to classical music.

In a remarkable moment after WWII New York became the centre of the art world, simultaneou... more

"For the next hour, I need your ears". It's 1974 and someone is trying to recruit you for ... more

Via ports and truck-stops, fulfilment centres and ring roads, Aidan Tulloch follows the su... more

Dr Anindya Raychaudhuri searches for different perspectives on the idea of balance.

Denton Welch lived the last years of his short life in Kent during the Second World War. H... more

Known in Yiddish as Der Schvartze Khazn--the Black Cantor--Thomas LaRue Jones was an Afric... more

Over a century ago, in 1881, the city of Birmingham purchased a copy of Shakespeare's firs... more

Lindsay Johns makes the case for writer Rudolph Fisher's portraits of Black American life

One day, three decades after the event, the German poet and man of letters, Heinrich Heine... more

American musician Rhiannon Giddens investigates the fascinating life and recordings of the... more

Chibundu Onuzo tells the fascinating story of ‘Africa’s Mona Lisa’ and artist Ben Enwonwu.... more

“All Neapolitans were born to be musicians, to be singers,” says musicologist Dr Dinko Fab... more

Metalworking has been central to the rise and success of Birmingham over hundreds of years... more

From 1627-1807, nearly 400,000 human beings were kidnapped, sold and shipped in horrific c... more

During World War II, approximately 1.6 million Soviet, Polish and Romanian Jews survived t... more

In 1984, an American harpsichord player called Scott Ross quit a teaching job in Canada an... more

Anne Lock, a woman living in 16th-century England, wrote the first ever sonnet sequence in... more

London. Tavistock House. 1851. It shaped Charles Dickens’ life and career. Home to The Sm... more

Dmitri Shostakovich’s Thirteenth Symphony was inspired by an unflinching poem about the ‘H... more

Rory Stewart travels across Cumbria and Northumbria from an ancient Quaker meeting house i... more

The remarkable female musicians and activists who helped Florence Price's music to thrive

If it hadn’t been for Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s love of jam, he may never have completed his fir... more

LICHT, the vast opera cycle composed by Karlheinz Stockhausen between 1977 and 2004 is an ... more

During the 1980s and 1990s, DJ Andy Kershaw travelled around Africa and the Americas searc... more

In this episode, Andy meets Kenyan harpist Ayub Ogada on a beach in Cornwall, the Antioch ... more

Seren Griffiths uses a walk along a sandstone ridge in Northern Cheshire to explore the wa... more

New Generation Thinker Dr Islam Issa has a strong cultural attachment to the Balcony. In h... more

When he was a boy and returned to the family home from primary school in the afternoon, Ca... more