Stories shortlisted for the National Short Story Award

Protest, Power, Revolution, Resistance is a concert with something urgent to say. Conducted by Johanna Malangré, Music Director of the Orchestre de Picardie in France, the programme showcases her elec...

Marlowe's tragedy of a man who gains control over nature but loses control of himself.

YouTube video by Athole Still Artists

The enduring song of quiet courage and acceptance in the face of passing time.

An original, eerie story, written and read by Jeanette Winterson.

Will Ye Go Lassie Go?

Historian Michael Wood on the place of the Norman Conquest in British cultural imagination

Written by Dolly Parton... sent stratospheric by Whitney Houston.

Why a disco song about a Russian priest still brings joy today.

A missing woman. A private detective with clairvoyant powers. Jenni Adams is on the case.

Harriett Gilbert meets an education activist and an actor to discover books they love.

The children’s author and the chart topper talk favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.

Harriett Gilbert is with a comedian and a writer to talk favourite books.

Archaeologist Dr Brenna Hassett examines how over the millennia we have come to make music