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Weird England

Horn Dance

Poet Lila Matsumoto visits Abbots Bromley in Staffordshire and the ancient Horn Dance.

• 14 mins

King Raedwald

Martin Carver on the inhabitant of the magnificent Sutton Hoo ship burial

• 15 mins

Cuthbert

Historian Tony Morris explores the life of Cuthbert, the popular saint of the Northeast/

• 15 mins

Eadfrith the Scribe

Richard Gameson explores the literary, historical and artistic legacy of scribes..

• 15 mins

The Beowulf Bard

The late Seamus Heaney's exploration of the great bard of the Anglo-Saxon epic, Beowulf.

• 15 mins

Bede, the Father of English History

Scholar of the Anglo Saxons Lilian Groves explores the life and times of St Bede.

• 15 mins

Alfred the Great

Michael Wood discusses Alfred the Great, King of Wessex and king of the Anglo-Saxons.

• 15 mins

The Smith - Gold and Black

Leslie Webster on the life of the smith and his ambivalent status in Anglo-Saxon society.

• 15 mins

Aethelred the Unready

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

• 15 mins

Edward the Confessor

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

• 15 mins

Harold Godwinson

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

• 15 mins

An Ode to John Keats

Alice Oswald on Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn

Alice Oswald explores Keats's great poem, Ode on a Grecian Urn.

• 14 mins

An Ode to John Keats

Sean O'Brien on Ode on Melancholy

Sean O'Brien explores the depth and meaning of Keats's Ode on Melancholy,

• 14 mins

An Ode to John Keats

Frances Leviston on Ode to Autumn

Frances Leviston celebrates perhaps Keats's Ode to Autumn.

• 14 mins

An Ode to John Keats

Sasha Dugdale on Ode to a Nightingale

John Keats's stunningly fertile year - 1819 - celebrated by five contemporary poets

• 14 mins

An Ode to John Keats

Paul Batchelor on Ode to Psyche

Paul Batchelor explores possibly the least familiar of the great Keats odes of 1819.

• 14 mins

Yorkshire

21/01/2019

Andrew Martin's five essays that muse on the county of his birth and upbringing.

• 14 mins

Yorkshire

22/01/2019

Andrew Martin's five essays that muse on the county of his birth and upbringing.

• 14 mins

Yorkshire

23/01/2019

Andrew Martin's five essays that muse on the county of his birth and upbringing.

• 14 mins

Yorkshire

24/01/2019

Andrew Martin's five essays that muse on the county of his birth and upbringing.

• 14 mins

Yorkshire

25/01/2019

Andrew Martin's five essays that muse on the county of his birth and upbringing.

• 14 mins

Voices On, Voices Off

Voices, Voices, Everywhere

AL Kennedy on the power of voice.

• 14 mins

Voices On, Voices Off

Not Killing Conversation

Writer and broadcaster AL Kennedy on voice and the importance of being heard.

• 14 mins

Voices On, Voices Off

Words, Words, Words

Writer and broadcaster AL Kennedy continues her exploration of voice.

• 14 mins

Voices On, Voices Off

Your Master's Voice

Writer and broadcaster AL Kennedy explores voice.

• 14 mins

Voices On, Voices Off

Make Some Noise

Writer AL Kennedy concludes her exploration of voice.

• 14 mins

Five Screen Gods

Clark Gable

Sarah Churchwell celebrates various stars of the silver screen from the 1930s and 1940s.

• 14 mins

Five Screen Gods

Frederic March

Sarah Churchwell celebrates various stars of the silver screen from the 1930s and 1940s.

• 14 mins

Five Screen Gods

Charles Boyer

Sarah Churchwell celebrates various stars of the silver screen from the 1930s and 1940s.

• 14 mins

Five Screen Gods

Joel McCrea

Sarah Churchwell celebrates various stars of the silver screen from the 1930s and 1940s.

• 14 mins