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Acting Unrehearsed

How to become an actor?

Geoffrey Colman discusses drama schools in his second Essay on acting.

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Acting Unrehearsed

On stage and on screen

Geoffrey Colman explores the differences between acting on stage and on screen.

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Acting Unrehearsed

How reality TV has changed acting

Geoffrey Colman describes the ways in which reality TV has changed acting.

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Acting Unrehearsed

The acting coach

Geoffrey Colman invites us to join him on a walk through a day as an acting coach.

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Science Notes

Enlighten

Broadcaster James Burke links organisms that might not exist to a freemason鈥檚 opera.

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Science Notes

Romance

James Burke links planetary orbits, the teeny-weeny and fake Scottish literature.

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Science Notes

Impression

James Burke connects Italian electricity to Debussy via a baron's seances and your fridge.

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Science Notes

Ivories

James Burke touches on pine trees, chintz, bowler hats 鈥� and ends up on the ivories.

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Science Notes

Wind

James Burke leads us via steam engines and iron coffins to the modern orchestra.

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Becoming Animal

Isabel Galleymore

Poet Isabel Galleymore imagines herself as a limpet.

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Becoming Animal

Belinda Zhawi

Writer and sound artist Belinda Zhawi imagines life as a southern African plains Zebra.

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Becoming Animal

Ned Beauman

Writer Ned Beauman explores the world of the Devon beaver.

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Becoming Animal

Sarah Kosar

Playwright Sarah Kosar flies in the night sky with the soprano pipistrelle bat.

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Becoming Animal

Toby Litt

Writer Toby Litt is inspired by the world of the brown hare.

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Rainsong in Five Senses

India and the Sound of Rain

Nandini Das curates essays from across the globe on five different experiences of rain.

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Rainsong in Five Senses

Japan and the Taste of Rain

Nandini Das curates essays from across the globe on five different experiences of rain.

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Rainsong in Five Senses

Australia and the Smell of Rain

Nandini Das curates global essays on five different sensory experiences of rain.

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Rainsong in Five Senses

Paris and the Look of Rain

Nandini Das introduces another essay about the global differences in our response to rain.

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Rainsong in Five Senses

England and the Touch of Rain

Nandini Das curates essays from across the globe on differing sensory responses to rain.

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Shakespeare's Sisters

Maria Anna Mozart

Lucy Powell explores what happened to 'Nannerl' Mozart.

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Shakespeare's Sisters

Sarah Fielding

Lucy Powell asks why history has forgotten the achievements of novelist Sarah Fielding.

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Shakespeare's Sisters

Fanny Dickens

The brilliant women whose success was often eclipsed by their more famous brothers.

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Shakespeare's Sisters

Katharine Wright

Where is Katharine Wright's place in aviation history?

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Shakespeare's Sisters

Madame E Toussaint Welcome

Lucy Powell remembers one of the first African American film directors.

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John Halifax, Gentleman

2/5 Clare Walker Gore explores how Dinah Mulock Craik subverted Victorian expectations

• 13 mins

Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: Sindhubala

Preti Taneja on the writing and politics of Bengali author and activist Mahasweta Devi

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Books to Make Space For On The Bookshelf: Closer

4/5 New Generation Thinker Diarmuid Hester on the transgressive writing of Dennis Cooper

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Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf: There's No Story There

Lisa Mullen looks at depictions of war-time factory workers in the novel by Inez Holden

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Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf

The Black Lizard

New Generation Thinker Christopher Harding reads the Japanese equivalent of Conan Doyle.

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Books to Make Space For on the Bookshelf

John Halifax, Gentleman

Clare Walker Gore explains how Dinah Mulock Craik subverted Victorian expectations.

• 14 mins