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28 minutes
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Swordsmiths and blacksmiths, Dead Rats and butcher boys - musician Nathaniel Mann creates an orchestra worthy of the underworld, in a secret bronze age smelting foundry. Show more
28 minutes
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Cheryl Strayed, Ocean Vuong and Sharon Olds put pen to paper in Emily Dickinson's writing room. What do these very modern writers learn about themselves and the enigmatic Emily? Show more
30 minutes
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Producer Louise Morris explores the growing interest in ephemeral art - art that must be witnessed in a moment rather than displayed in galleries. Show more
30 minutes
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Echoes have forever been a source of both fear and wonder. Composer Sarah Angliss reveals why we find them so compelling and how we've tried to capture their thrill down the ages. Show more
30 minutes
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The world shrinks as you rise weightless from the ground below as the horizon expands. Poets Miles Chapman and Rebecca Tantony join composer Dan Jones in an inspiring flight. Show more
30 minutes
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The biggest art project in the world today is James Turrell's Roden Crater. Leonardo DiCaprio has been booked to open it. Lindsey Chapman seeks out art an antidote to speediness. Show more
30 minutes
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Making dance to poems inspires two choreographers in very different ways. Ben Duke chooses Milton's Paradise Lost and Julie Cunningham creates a work to poems by Kate Tempest. Show more
28 minutes
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Artist Emma Critchley meets dancers, sculptors and painters who are drawn beneath the sea to create underwater art, hearing the joys and challenges of using the ocean as a canvas. Show more
28 minutes
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What does climate change sound like? Artist Peter Shenai casts bells from Hurricane Katrina data and asks New Orleanians who lived through the storm to ring each one. Show more
28 minutes
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Dress historian Amber Butchart meets embroidery artists at the forefront of liberating embroidery from its past, helping it flourish into a new and radical form of progressive art. Show more
28 minutes
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Colombian born artist Alison Turnbull works alongside Colombian scientist, butterfly expert Blanca Huertas, on an expedition in the Pacific rainforest in search of butterflies. Show more
28 minutes
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Fiona Talkington explores the rooms and gardens of Monk's House in search of the musicality and sonic landscape of Virginia Woolf's world - with Tamsin Greig as Virginia Woolf. Show more
28 minutes
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Struck by the beauty of spider webs Tomás Saraceno made them into sculptures and discovered that when spiders move the silken strands make tiny sounds - that he makes into music. Show more
