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New Generation Thinkers at 10

Should biographers imitate their subjects?

Deep diving into the trail of an Indian guru: Martin Goodman's adventures in life writing

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New Generation Thinkers at 10

Byron, celebrity and fan mail

Would Byron have embraced twitter? Corin Throsby considers the letters fans sent him.

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers at 10

Beastly Politics

Alasdair Cochrane re-imagines a political world that takes animal rights seriously.

• 14 mins

New Generation Thinkers at 10

Politician and Pioneer: Writing the Life of Arthur Kavanagh

Clare Walker Gore on what a C19th MP without hands and feet tells us about stereotypes.

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New Generation Thinkers at 10

When Shakespeare Travelled with Me

New Generation Thinker Islam Issa looks at Shakespeare in 1916 Egypt to Arabic pop songs.

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Secret Admirers

Hannah French on Barbara Strozzi

Radio 3 presenter Hannah French celebrates the Venetian composer Barbara Strozzi

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Secret Admirers

Elizabeth Alker on Sofia Gubaidulina

Radio 3 presenter Elizabeth Alker celebrates the Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina

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Secret Admirers

Ian Skelly on Jean Mouton

Radio 3 presenter Ian Skelly celebrates the French composer Jean Mouton

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Secret Admirers

Jumok茅 Fashola on Nina Simone

Radio 3 presenter Jumok茅 Fashola celebrates the American singer-songwriter Nina Simone

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Secret Admirers

Jess Gillam on Bach

Radio 3 presenter Jess Gillam celebrates German composer Johann Sebastian Bach.

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The Frozen River

First Flight

A perilous winter pilgrimage to the source of Britain鈥檚 highest river.

• 14 mins

The Frozen River

Cairn Toul

A perilous winter pilgrimage to the source of Britain鈥檚 highest river.

• 14 mins

The Frozen River

The Sundial

A perilous winter pilgrimage to the source of Britain鈥檚 highest river.

• 14 mins

The Frozen River

Garbh Choire

A perilous winter pilgrimage to the source of Britain鈥檚 highest river.

• 14 mins

The Frozen River

The Wells of Dee

A perilous winter pilgrimage to the source of Britain鈥檚 highest river.

• 14 mins

Mug Shots

Know Thy Selfie

Polly Coles reads the first of her essays on portraiture and our obsession with ourselves.

• 14 mins

Mug Shots

Portraits of Love and Hate

Polly Coles reads the next of her essays on portraiture and our obsession with ourselves.

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Mug Shots

Fame and Infamy

Polly Coles reads the third of her essays on portraiture and our obsession with ourselves.

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Mug Shots

Sitting - Our Place in the World

Polly Coles reads the next of her essays on portraiture and our obsession with ourselves.

• 14 mins

Mug Shots

Heads, bodies and legs

Polly Coles reads the last of her essays on portraiture and our obsession with ourselves.

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Odes to Essex

Metropolitan Essex

Billy Bragg explores the London-Essex borderland that fuelled his childhood imagination.

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Odes to Essex

Washed Up in Essex

Writer AL Kennedy takes us on a watery journey through the county she now calls home.

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Odes to Essex

The Refusal of Place

Writer Lavinia Greenlaw takes us back to the formative landscape of her childhood.

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Odes to Essex

Brightening from the East

Writer and social historian Ken Worpole introduces us to Essex's radical past.

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Odes to Essex

The Essex Way

Writer Gillian Darley celebrates the unsung and lesser-known delights of mid-Essex.

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Acting Unrehearsed

What is good acting?

Geoffrey Colman considers the art of acting and asks: what makes a great actor?

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Acting Unrehearsed

How to become an actor?

Geoffrey Colman discusses drama schools in his second Essay on acting.

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Acting Unrehearsed

On stage and on screen

Geoffrey Colman explores the differences between acting on stage and on screen.

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Acting Unrehearsed

How reality TV has changed acting

Geoffrey Colman describes the ways in which reality TV has changed acting.

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Acting Unrehearsed

The acting coach

Geoffrey Colman invites us to join him on a walk through a day as an acting coach.

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