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Into the Wild

Meditation on Landscape, Bodies and Writing

Alycia Pirmohamed explores ecological poetry in the context of brown women鈥檚 bodies.

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Into the Wild

When The Birds Sing We Are Safe

Are we a part of nature鈥檚 orchestra? Hanan Issa listens to a world of poetry and birdsong.

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Into the Wild

The Colour of Your Mind

Will Harris asks how dreams and poems can teach us to look at the world differently.

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Into the Wild

The Hidden Valley

Alinah Azadeh takes us on a walk from the edge of the South Downs towards the sea.

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The Meaning of Ritual

The End of Ritual?

Madeleine Bunting explores whether public and private ritual has outlived its usefulness.

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The Meaning of Ritual

Shaping Time

Madeleine Bunting reflects on how ritual marks the passage of time.

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The Meaning of Ritual

Rituals of State

Madeleine Bunting considers the benefits and pitfalls of state and military ritual.

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The Meaning of Ritual

Rituals and the Life Cycle

Madeline Bunting explores the decline of rituals marking key life events.

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The Meaning of Ritual

The Reinvention of Ritual

Madeleine Bunting asks whether it鈥檚 time to value ritual afresh.

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Artists and the Spirit World

Hilma af Klint鈥檚 The Ten Largest

Jennifer Higgie traces the impact of the spirit world on modernist art.

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Artists and the Spirit World

Wassily Kandinsky鈥檚 Composition V

The roles of spiritualism and women artists at the beginning of western abstraction.

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Artists and the Spirit World

Estella Canziani's The Piper of Dreams

Fairy fever and art鈥檚 response to World War I.

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Artists and the Spirit World

Ithell Colquhoun鈥檚 Scylla

Celebrating the artist who championed automatism, feminism and the value of other realms.

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Artists and the Spirit World

Donna Huddleston鈥檚 Witch Dance

How alternative ways of understanding the world are inspiring contemporary artists.

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Marijuana Made Me

Writer Colin Grant's personal take on the cultural history of cannabis.

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Burkina Faso's Incorruptible People and the Drum

Colin Grant examines the relationship between cannabis and the global poor.

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Leaf of Life

Colin Grant looks at the rise of medical marijuana.

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The Fall of the House of Crosskill

Colin Grant wonders to what extent cannabis can be deemed a 'gateway drug'.

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The Binoculars of Jah

Colin Grant ponders the relationship between musical creativity and cannabis.

• 14 mins

Reading Ulysses

Anne Enright on Telemachus

Anne Enright gives us a close reading of the opening pages of James Joyce's Ulysses.

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Reading Ulysses

John Patrick McHugh on Calypso

Short story writer John Patrick McHugh chooses the fourth episode of Ulysses: Calypso.

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Reading Ulysses

Colm T贸ib铆n on Sirens

Colm T贸ib铆n explains singing in Ulysses, exploring a passage from the Sirens episode.

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Reading Ulysses

Mary Costello on Ithaca

Mary Costello chooses a passage from an episode towards the end of Ulysses: Ithaca.

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Reading Ulysses

Nuala O'Connor on Penelope

Nuala O'Connor explores a passage from the novel's final episode, Molly Bloom's soliloquy.

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Unearthing Britannia's Tribes

The Cantiaci

Archaeologist David Miles tells the story of the Cantiaci of Kent.

• 14 mins

Unearthing Britannia's Tribes

Cornwall

Caradoc Peters reveals a formative period of Cornwall's past that still resonates today.

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Unearthing Britannia's Tribes

The Parisi

Melanie Giles describes the chariot burials that distinguish the Parisi of East Yorkshire.

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Unearthing Britannia's Tribes

Queen Cartimandua and the Brigantes

Historian Nicki Howarth-Pollard pieces together Queen Cartimandua's reign and fate.

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Unearthing Britannia's Tribes

The Demetae

Poet Menna Elfyn senses the enduring presence of the Demetae in Carmarthen.

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Unearthing Britannia's Tribes

Boudicca - Warrior Queen

The Essay unearths the peoples of Iron Age Britain. Writer Ilka Tampke dreams of Boudicca.

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