The Radio 3 Documentary Podcast
In-depth documentaries which explore a different aspect of history, science, philosophy, film, visual arts and literature. The Sunday Feature is broadcast every Sunday at 6.45pm on BBC Radio 3.
Episodes to download
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Sunday Feature: Left-Handed Liberty
Sun 31 May 2015
Amidst the 800 year celebrations for Magna Carta, Andrew Dickson hears about one of to...
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John Berger - About Song and Laughter
Tue 5 May 2015
Sukhdev Sandhu introduces a rare radio-minded feature by the celebrated critic, and...
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Sunday Feature: In Their Own Write: Notes from the Congress of Vienna
Sun 26 Apr 2015
Using diaries and memoirs Michael Goldfarb tells the story of the Congress of Vienna...
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Sunday Feature: A Secret Life: Uwe Johnson in Sheerness
Sun 19 Apr 2015
The leading German writer Uwe Johnson lived in Sheerness from 1974 until his death in...
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Sunday Feature Doing Goya Justice The Curators Story
Wed 15 Apr 2015
Xavier Bray is a curator on a nail-biting journey to put together the greatest of by...
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Sunday Feature: Memoirs of the Spacewomen
Sun 5 Apr 2015
Matthew Sweet delves into the science fiction futures of Naomi Mitchison, Rose and...
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Sunday Feature: From Convent to Concert Hall
Tue 10 Mar 2015
Dr Kate Kennedy appraises four female string players from different eras and who were...
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Sunday Feature: The Day of the Locust
Sun 22 Feb 2015
Adam Smith unearths the roots of Nathanael West's great 1938 Hollywood novel The Day...
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Sunday Feature: Cuba Clasica
Mon 16 Feb 2015
Andrew McGregor visits Havana to investigate Cuba's classical music scene today.
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Sunday Feature: Eric Ravilious: Chalk & Ice
Mon 9 Feb 2015
Eric Ravilious is considered one of the best watercolourists of the twentieth century.
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Sunday Feature: Palace of Shame
Sun 1 Feb 2015
It's a story of loot, revenge and devastated beauty that looms over British-Chinese...
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Sunday Feature: Beautiful Death
Sun 25 Jan 2015
Stephen Johnson connects Mahler's beliefs about death to Viennese funeral customs, and...
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Andy Warhol's Factory Friends
Sun 18 Jan 2015
Candy Darling and Edie Sedgwick are now the stuff of legend, but many of those with of...
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Sunday Feature: Thom Gunn - Appropriate Measures
Sun 4 Jan 2015
Author Colm Tóibín profiles the Anglo-American poet Thom Gunn, self-professed lover...
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Matthew Sweet's Palace of Great War Varieties
Sun 28 Dec 2014
Matthew is joined by historians and performers to explore World War 1 popular culture...
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Sunday Feature: The Supernatural North
Sun 14 Dec 2014
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough journeys to northern Norway in search of the supernatural...
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Sunday Feature: The Fundamentalist Queen
Sun 7 Dec 2014
Samira Ahmed explores the extraordinary rise and fall of the Lady Protectress wife of...
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Sunday Feature: A Cultural History of the Plague
Sun 30 Nov 2014
Laura Ashe tells the story of the Black Death and discovers how plague changed our and...
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Sunday Feature: In the Shadow of the Tower
Sun 23 Nov 2014
Andrew Hussey travels across Paris to understand how the Eiffel Tower, and the huge to...
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Sunday Feature: New Generation Thinkers
Sun 16 Nov 2014
Christopher Harding explores the influence of Freud in India, China and Japan, and on...
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Sunday Feature: God and the Great War
Sun 9 Nov 2014
Frank Cottrell Boyce on the impact of the First World War on religion at home and at...
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Kitty Marion and The Poetry of Science
Mon 3 Nov 2014
Gregory Tate explores why many C19th scientists wrote poetry, as do several today.
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Enter the Dragon Chinese Theatre in the 21st century
Mon 20 Oct 2014
Rana Mitter travels to Beijing to explore the recent flourishing of theatre in China...
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Sunday Feature: Who Was Richard Strauss?
Sun 12 Oct 2014
Richard Strauss's works are staples of both concert hall and opera house, and yet is...
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Sunday Feature: Global Classical Music - A New World Symphony
Sun 5 Oct 2014
In the final programme in the series Petroc Trelawny measures the impact and of in and...
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Sunday Feature: Global Classical Music - A New World Symphony
Sun 28 Sep 2014
The second programme in Petroc Trelawny’s series looking at the new Global passion...
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Sunday Feature: Global Classical Music- A New World Symphony
Mon 22 Sep 2014
Petroc Trelawny presents a three part Sunday Feature series looking at the way Western...
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I Have Been Here Before
Sun 14 Sep 2014
Francis Spufford explores how An Experiment with Time, written by former soldier and J...
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The Devastation of British Art
Fri 8 Aug 2014
Diarmaid MacCulloch tells the story of iconoclasm during the English Reformation.
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How Did Scotland's Artists Turn Nationalist
Sun 13 Jul 2014
Scotland goes to the polls on the 18th September to decide its constitutional future.
