Sakamoto - Art Is Long, Life Is Short
Reflecting on the legacy of Ryuichi Sakamoto, a year on from the composer's passing.
- 44 mins
- 21 Apr 2024
BBC Sounds - Sunday Feature - Available Episodes
Sunday Feature
In-depth documentaries which explore music, history, science, philosophy, film, visual arts and literature.
Episodes (461 Available)
- Never Failed Me Yet
The story of Gavin Bryars' iconic composition, Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet.
- 44 mins
- 14 Apr 2024
- The Golden Age of the MGM Musical
To mark the centenary of MGM, Neil Brand looks at the magic of Hollywood musicals.
- 44 mins
- 07 Apr 2024
- Flaming Creatures - Sound of Cinema Sunday
Diarmuid Hester re-examines Flaming Creatures, a film swamped by its notorious reputation.
- 14 mins
- 10 Mar 2024
- Bath Time
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough explores the lingering rites of Roman Bathing.
- 14 mins
- 03 Mar 2024
- Waiting for the Flood
As we brace ourselves for storm tides, storm surges are a way of life in the Wadden Sea.
- 14 mins
- 18 Feb 2024
- American Rhapsody
Olivia Giovetti examines the legacy of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue.
- 44 mins
- 11 Feb 2024
- Time Canvasses: Morton Feldman and Abstract Expressionism
How friendship with Philip Guston and Mark Rothko took American music in new directions.
- 44 mins
- 04 Feb 2024
- Bayard Rustin: Activism and Early Music
How the African American Civil Rights leader Bayard Rustin used Early Music in activism.
- 44 mins
- 21 Jan 2024
- Classical Africa
Leon Bosch explores the remarkable - often unheard - array of art music from Africa.
- 44 mins
- 14 Jan 2024
- The Divine Ms Bernhardt
Ms Bernhardt lived in a blaze of publicity. We celebrate the first global superstar.
- 44 mins
- 31 Dec 2023
- While Shepherds Watched: The hidden world of the South Yorkshire village carol sings
Elizabeth Alker steps into the world of South Yorkshire village pub carol sings.
- 44 mins
- 24 Dec 2023
- Recording on the Nomads' Trail
A journey into the work of Deben Bhattacharya, an uncelebrated pioneer of field recording.
- 44 mins
- 10 Dec 2023
- Turning Picasso
New evidence that the CIA tried to turn Picasso to the American side in the Cold War.
- 44 mins
- 03 Dec 2023
- Afterwords: Ursula Le Guin
Discover other ways of being, with science-fiction writer Ursula K Le Guin.
- 44 mins
- 26 Nov 2023
- Afterwords: Maurice Sendak
Dive inside the wild, feverish imagination of Maurice Sendak.
- 44 mins
- 19 Nov 2023
- Afterwords: Richard Hoggart
The life and ideas of literary critic and cultural theorist Richard Hoggart.
- 44 mins
- 12 Nov 2023
- Shakespeare's Rival
How neglected playwright Robert Greene offers an alternative history of English theatre.
- 44 mins
- 05 Nov 2023
- The Murder Capital of Medieval England
New Generation Thinker Hetta Howes explores the murder capital of medieval England.
- 14 mins
- 29 Oct 2023
- The musical mouse that roared: the pioneering baroque revival of 1973
Sir Nicholas Kenyon looks back at 1973, a momentous year when early music changed forever.
- 44 mins
- 22 Oct 2023