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  1. Play Schubert for Me - Episode 8

    Romance proved difficult for Schubert - he stood barely five feet tall, with a long a...

  2. Play Schubert for Me - Episode 7

    During the 19th century public performance became polite and professional.

  3. Play Schubert for Me - Episode 6

    Night Waves' Philip Dodd reflects on the paradoxes on snow in music and literature and...

  4. Play Schubert for Me - Episode 4

    The novelist Clare Morrall imagines what may have happened during one of Schubert’s...

  5. Play Schubert for Me - Episode 3

    Schubert's voice emerges uniquely from song which emanates from poetry.

  6. Play Schubert For Me - Episode 2

    Attempts to explain both Schubert's achievements and mood swings through theory, often...

  7. Play Schubert For Me - Episode 1

    The journey Sir George Grove made to Vienna by train was one of vision and passion.

  8. Peter Weir, Garry Kasparov & The King's Speech

    Director Peter Weir talks about his new film, The Way Back. Chess grandmaster, Garry...

  9. Pause for Thought

    From the bracket & exclamation mark to emojis - Florence Hazrat's history of punctuation

  10. Opium Tales

    Ways of seeing the trade triangle from Confessions of an Opium Eater to modern novels.

  11. Not Quite Jean Muir

    How does sewing a dress add to Jade Halbert's understanding of disappearing skills?

  12. Not Quite Jean Muir

    How does sewing a dress add to Jade Halbert's understanding of disappearing skills

  13. Nightwaves

    Anne McElvoy talks to the Egyptian cultural historian Leila Ahmed about her new book a...

  14. Night Waves - Weekly highlights: 7

    In this edition of weekly highlights, David Benedict reviews the New Year Blockbuster...

  15. Night Waves - Tokyo Story

    50 years ago this month director Yasujiro Ozu died after making 53 films.

  16. Night Waves - Opium & TV Dramas

    Matthew Sweet on 'Opium: Reality's Dark Dream. ' Corruption and pain relief, war and in...

  17. Night Waves - Doctor Who at 50

    50 years of Dr Who is celebrated this weekend by the BBC. Matthew Sweet discusses the...

  18. Night Waves

    We ask does the West really understand India? Director Peter Kosminsky discusses his...

  19. Niall Ferguson, Joanna Hogg & Tom Hiddleston

    Niall Ferguson talks about his new series, Civilisation and the importance of 'killer...

  20. New Thinking: Writing the NHS

    Dr Kim Moore and Dr Kim Wiltshire on how hospital staff have been helped by writing

  21. New Thinking: Writing exile and overcoming statelessness

    The lives of Bengalis in Pakistan/a novel about a Lebanese boy wanting to be an astronaut

  22. New Thinking: Work and protest

    From Luddite protests in 1811 in textile mills to school strikes in 1911

  23. New Thinking: Women in Virtual Reality

    Hetta Howes learns how Sylvia Xueni Pan and Sarah Ellis are pushing the VR envelope

  24. New Thinking: women and football

    Newspaper reports of the Lionesses analysed + early reports of women in American football

  25. New Thinking: Waiting

    What does it mean to wait and how has that changed over time?

  26. New Thinking: Uncovering Queer Communities

    Hidden LGBTQ+ histories in Northern Ireland and queer cinema in contemporary China

  27. New Thinking: The Box Office Bears project

    From digging for bones to the connection between bear baiting and Elizabethan theatre

  28. New Thinking: Telling new sporting stories

    A look at changing attitudes about sportswomen, once dubbed unfeminine, & LGBT athletes

  29. New Thinking: Shakespeare's Language

    From Juliet's uncertainty, to finding a phrase for descending the stairs

  30. New Thinking: Rubble culture to techno in post-war Germany

    Forgotten stories from cultural diplomats, British army bases and Berlin dancefloors

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