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Anglo-Saxon Portraits

Episode 26

Historian Pauline Stafford assesses the life of Queen Emma of Normandy.

• 15 mins

Anglo-Saxon Portraits

Aethelred the Unready

Simon Keynes discusses the life of the Anglo-Saxon monarch Aethelred.

• 15 mins

Anglo-Saxon Portraits

Edward the Confessor

Stephen Baxter creates a portrait of the remarkable Anglo-Saxon king Edward the Confessor.

• 15 mins

Anglo-Saxon Portraits

Harold Godwinson

Clive Anderson discusses the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, Harold Godwinson.

• 15 mins

Anglo-Saxon Portraits

The Makers of the Bayeux Tapestry

Gale Owen-Crocker explores the making of the Bayeux Tapestry.

• 15 mins

Unknown Cities

Hobart

Nicholas Shakespeare on Hobart's convict and whaling past, and the story of a monkey.

• 15 mins

Unknown Cities

Kunming

Romesh Gunesekera on Kunming, considered to be unlike any other modern Chinese city.

• 15 mins

Unknown Cities

Makhachkala

Vanora Bennett on Makhachkala in Russia, which she describes as 'beyond the mountains'.

• 15 mins

Unknown Cities

Asmara

Michela Wrong on the Italianate buildings and futurist constructions in Asmara, Eritrea.

• 15 mins

Unknown Cities

Holguin

Travel editor Simon Calder recalls the small-scale delights of Holguin in Cuba.

• 15 mins

Wagner's Philosophers

Wagner and German Idealism

Roger Scruton explores the philosophical background that influenced the young Wagner.

• 15 mins

Wagner's Philosophers

Wagner and the Philosophy of Revolution

AC Grayling focuses on the crucial years before and after the Dresden uprising of 1849.

• 15 mins

Wagner's Philosophers

Wagner and Schopenhauer

Christopher Janaway explores Wagner's encounter with the philosophy of Schopenhauer.

• 15 mins

Wagner's Philosophers

Wagner and Nietzsche

Michael Tanner explores the relationship between Wagner and Friedrich Nietzsche.

• 15 mins

Wagner's Philosophers

Wagner and Adorno

Professor John Deathridge explores the posthumous reputation of Wagner in the 20th century

• 15 mins

Heffer on British Film

It Always Rains on Sunday

Simon Heffer discusses the gritty world of the 1947 film It Always Rains on Sunday.

• 15 mins

Heffer on British Film

The Browning Version

Simon Heffer discusses the 1951 film The Browning Version.

• 15 mins

Heffer on British Film

The Long Memory

Simon Heffer on how the film The Long Memory shows Britan as depressed and worn out by war

• 15 mins

Heffer on British Film

Yield to the Night

For the 鲍鱼tv's Sound of Cinema season, Simon Heffer discusses the film Yield to the Night.

• 15 mins

Praising Powell and Pressburger

The Red Shoes

Deborah Bull on Powell and Pressburger's classic 1948 film The Red Shoes.

• 15 mins

Praising Powell and Pressburger

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

Ian Christie on The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, dubbed the 'British Citizen Kane'.

• 15 mins

Praising Powell and Pressburger

A Matter of Life and Death

Richard Coles on the classic Powell and Pressburger film A Matter of Life and Death.

• 15 mins

Praising Powell and Pressburger

Black Narcissus

Film critic Peter Bradshaw on Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's film Black Narcissus

• 15 mins

Praising Powell and Pressburger

I Know Where I'm Going

AL Kennedy discusses the 1945 Powell and Pressburger film I Know Where I'm Going.

• 15 mins

Sound of Cinema: You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet

The Sounds of Early Cinema

Matthew Sweet discusses the sounds of cinema's beginnings.

• 15 mins

Sound of Cinema: You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet

Miklos Rozsa

Novelist Jonathan Coe explores how composer Miklos Rozsa came to write for film.

• 15 mins

Sound of Cinema: You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet

Camille Paglia

Writer Camille Paglia discusses the film music which has inspired her since childhood.

• 15 mins

Sound of Cinema: You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet

David Thomson

Writer and film critic David Thomson explores how film composers create mood.

• 15 mins

Sound of Cinema: You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet

Matthew Sweet

Matthew Sweet explores silence in film and the effect on sound of digital technology.

• 15 mins

If Walls Could Talk

Susan McKay

Journalist Susan McKay returns to her native Derry to ask what is a 'City of Culture'?

• 15 mins