Timon Screech introduces listeners to the sensual experience of the Japanese rains of the fifth month, the samidare, and their impact on Japanese language and culture. Show more

Australian poet Mark O'Connor writes of the complex Australian relationship with rain, where a special name has been coined for the smell of rain on parched land: petrichor. Show more

Nandini Das's curated series of essays about the rich variety of global responses to rainfall, cultural and literal, reaches Paris, where Lauren Elkin celebrates the look of rain. Show more

In the first of her essays on the way different cultures experience rain, Professor Nandini Das enjoys the sound of rainfall and the way it seeps into Indian culture and language. Show more

The last of Nandini Das's curated essays about different responses to rain across the globe arrives in Britain, where Dr Tess Somervell recalls and relishes the touch of rain. Show more