Visual Arts
The Way Out: The Disabled Avant-Garde
Tuesday 15 March
11:30am - 12:00pm
BBC Radio 4
Deaf performance artist Aaron Williamson explores whether the practice of pursuing his craft could revolutionise mainstream public perceptions of disability in a way that political agitation has never achieved. He reveals how his group, the Disability Avant-Garde, has staged political pranks, comedy sets and cabaret acts in an effort to broaden horizons. Features interviews and sound art produced by the organisation.
When Harry Benson Met Albert Watson
Tuesday 15 March
10:00pm - 10:30pm
BBC2 Scotland
3/3
Photographers Albert Watson and Harry Benson, who first met while working for French Vogue 40 years ago, chat about their most famous images. The pair's combined portfolio contains portraits of subjects such as the Beatles, Alfred Hitchcock and a selection of American presidents, and documents many key moments in modern history. Last in the series.
Civilisation
Wednesday 16 March
10:00pm - 10:50pm
BBC HD
Protest and Communication
6/13
Art historian Kenneth Clark takes up the theme of protest and communication as he assesses the effect of the Reformation in 16th-century Europe. He explores the Germany of Albrecht Durer and Martin Luther, the France of Montaigne, and uses extracts from Shakespeare to illustrate Elizabethan England, performed by William Devlin, Ronald Lacey, Eric Porter, Ian Richardson and Patrick Stewart.
Framing Wales: Art in the 20th Century
Thursday 17 March
7:30pm - 8:00pm
BBC2 Wales
4/4
Kim Howells explores the art revolution of the 1960s, including the ideas of Ifor Davies, who attached explosives to his work, and Terry Setch, whose large paintings criticised consumer society. He also examines how Welsh identity was seen in different ways in the art of Iwan Bala and Tim Davies. Last in the series.
Lives in a Landscape
Friday 18 March
11:00am - 11:30am
BBC Radio 4
Passion at Glasgow Cross
1/5
New series. Alan Dein explores why David Adam's 2010 picture of Christ crucified hangs above one of Glasgow's oldest fish and chip shops. He uncovers the secret meaning behind the painting, which depicts with Mary as a customer and the takeaway's owner poised to sing against a background of the city.
Culture
The Company of Poets
Sunday 13 March
4:30pm - 5:00pm
BBC Radio 4
Susannah Clapp explores the unknown poetry of Angela Carter, accompanied by the late novelist's friends and colleagues Salman Rushdie, Andrew Motion, Marina Warner and Carmen Callil. They discuss how the pieces anticipated Carter's later works, reflecting her thematic interests in fairy tales, politics, the 18th century and feminism, and explore the literature that influenced her at the time. With readings by Olivia Williams.
Civilization: Is the West History?
Sunday 13 March
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Channel 4
The Siege
2/6
Niall Ferguson looks at the Ottoman empire's siege of Vienna in 1683, and investigates why this battle did not bring about global dominance for the Eastern powers. The historian argues the West was able to maintain its superiority through technological rather than military prowess - and that a lack of interest in scientific subjects among modern-day students should be a major cause of concern for world leaders.
Words and Music
Sunday 13 March
10:30pm - 11:30pm
BBC Radio 3
Ice
In the second of two programmes based on Robert Frost's poem Fire and Ice, Carolyn Pickles and Alex Jennings read poetry and prose inspired by ice, including work by Wordsworth, Byron, Jenni Diski, Helen Dunmore and TS Eliot. Music includes pieces by Tchaikovsky, Wolf, Vaughan Williams and Liszt.
Composer of the Week: Igor Stravinsky
Monday 14 March – Friday 18 March
Daily at12:00pm - 1:00pm
BBC Radio 3
Looking West
1/5
Donald Macleod introduces a week of programmes devoted to Stravinsky (1882-1971), beginning by focusing on the years building up to the composer's departure from Europe for America, when he was already writing works for American patrons. Stravinsky: Praeludium. Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Symphony of Psalms. Monteverdi Choir, London Symphony Orchestra, conductor John Eliot Gardiner. Jeu de cartes (excerpt). Cleveland Orchestra, conductor Igor Stravinsky. Concerto in E flat (Dumbarton Oaks). Endymion Ensemble, conductor John Whitfield.
The Gun Goes to Hollywood
Monday 14 March
2:15pm - 3:00pm
BBC Radio 4
Mike Walker's drama follows the behind-the-scenes turmoil of the 1957 Hollywood film The Pride and the Passion, an adaptation of The Gun by CS Forester and set during the Napoleonic Wars. Earl Felton, a script doctor hired to save the project, tries to salvage what he can of the movie starring Frank Sinatra and Cary Grant, while revealing an intimate account of the stars' personal lives.
The Essay
Monday 14 March
11:00pm - 11:15pm
BBC Radio 3
The Book That Changed Me
1/5
In the first of five programmes, Alan Johnston explains how Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell inspired him to become a journalist - and taught him some dark truths about politics. At one point Johnston seemed destined for a career in town planning, but that all changed when he discovered Orwell's book on the Spanish Civil War, which set him off down a path that would take him to wars and upheaval in the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Afghanistan under the Taleban. The journey would eventually lead to his being kidnapped in Gaza.
Seaside Secrets
Tuesday 15 March
12:05pm - 12:20pm
Channel 4
The Ups and Downs of the Scenic
Tony Livesey visits Margate's Scenic Railway rollercoaster.
The View
Tuesday 15 March
11:25pm - 12:10am
RTE1
Poet Theo Dorgan, Irish Times online editor Hugh Linehan and journalist Marion McKeone join John Kelly to review Ken Loach's Iraq-set conspiracy thriller Route Irish, starring Mark Womack and comedian John Bishop. Also examined are Billy Roche's play Lay Me Down Softly, and a touring exhibition of posters produced by international artists as a protest against the Al-Mutanabbi Street bombings in Baghdad.
The Essay
Tuesday 15 March
11:00pm - 11:15pm
BBC Radio 3
The Book That Changed Me
2/5
Potter and writer Edmund de Waal explains how Primo Levi's novel The Wrench inspired him, revealing how he found in it a work of fiction that spoke to an artist about the beauty and magic of making objects.
Seaside Secrets
Wednesday 16 March
12:05pm - 12:20pmChannel 4
Childhood Rocks!
Tony Livesey relives his childhood seaside memories as he takes a trip to Flamborough in East Yorkshire, where he first developed a love for the coast.
The Essay
Wednesday 16 March
11:00pm - 11:15pm
BBC Radio 3
The Book That Changed Me
3/5
Writer Bernadine Evaristo describes her love for the book For Coloured Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf, by Ntozake Shange. This collection of poems inspired her to break into experimental black theatre and ultimately find her own voice as a novelist.
In Our Time
Thursday 17 March
9:30pm - 9:59pm
BBC Radio 4
The Medieval University
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the emergence of universities in medieval times. The first modern example was built in Bologna, and Paris, Oxford and other European cities quickly followed. The centres taught grammar, logic and rhetoric and were initially founded to train the clergy, but revolutionised intellectual life in Europe.
The Essay
Thursday 17 March
11:00pm - 11:15pm
BBC Radio 3
The Book That Changed Me
4/5
Scientist Colin Blakemore praises Charles Darwin's lesser-known work The Expressions of the Emotions in Man and Animals.
The Essay
Friday 18 March
11:00pm - 11:15pm
BBC Radio 3
The Book That Changed Me
5/5
Academic Mona Siddiqui discuses her affection for Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and explains how it speaks over the centuries directly to her personal experience. In it she finds a work of fiction that mirrors all the conventions of arranged marriage between two very different cultures - Austen's English Regency values and her own Indian Muslim views on love and loyalty to the family.
Psychology / Society
Sunday Feature
Sunday Feature
Sunday 13 March
9:45pm - 10:30pm
BBC Radio 3
The Life and Afterlife of Wilhelm Reich
An edition tracing the legacy of Wilhelm Reich, whose idea of sexual revolution helped shape the post-war world - but who died in an American prison in 1957, his books banned and burned. Reich advanced the theory that ordinary Germans' appetite for Hitler's leadership had its roots not in national character or economic troubles alone, but in the authoritarian nature of German families. He began to argue that sexual repression underpinned many social ills, and that the release of pent-up sexual energy would allow people to become freer, and lead to a transformation of society. He also developed Freud's therapy in a radical new direction, based on the notion that repression is found not just in the mind but the body, and should be tackled physically as well as verbally. Matthew Sweet explores Reich's life and impact, and reveals that his influence may be evident in an unlikely place - the children's film Shrek, based on a book by William Steig, a close associate of Reich who deeply valued his ideas.
Families in the Wild
Monday 14 March
9:35pm - 10:35pm
RTE1
1/4
New series. Clinical psychologist David Coleman takes three families to the isolation of the Kerry wilderness for seven days of activities and therapy. Over the course of the week, the participants learn to work together as a team, communicate effectively and build trust, in the hope they can use their new-found skills to lead a more harmonious life on their return home.
True Stories: Marilyn, The Last Sessions
Tuesday 15 March
10:00pm - 12:00am
More4
An insight into the relationship between Hollywood star Marilyn Monroe and the Freudian psychoanalyst Ralph Greenson, making use of recordings and transcripts of their meetings to develop a portrait of the actress in the months prior to her death in 1962. Features archive footage of Monroe and the people who surrounded her in her final days, including the Kennedys, Arthur Miller, John Huston and Truman Capote.
Leaving Amish Paradise
Wednesday 16 March
9:00pm - 10:00pm
BBC2 Northern Ireland
Andrew Tait's film follows two Amish families as they leave their roots and community behind. Shunned by their friends and relatives, the outcasts try to get to grips with all the commodities of the modern world, after spending their lives living exactly as their forebears did 300 years ago.
My New Best Friend
Thursday 17 March
8:00pm - 9:00pm
BBC4
Cheltenham
1/3
Exploring the transition from primary to secondary school. The first programme follows four 11-year-old girls' attempts to make friends and settle into a new environment as they leave their prep schools and join the prestigious Cheltenham Ladies' College.
Love Hurts
Thursday 17 March
4:00am - 4:30am
BBC2 Northern Ireland
The stories of how relationships go wrong and how they become hurtful.
Coping
Thursday 17 March
4:30am - 5:00am
BBC2 Northern Ireland
Documentary discussing issues of teenage mental health.
Media / Communications
The Narrowcasters
Tuesday 15 March
9:30am - 9:45am
BBC Radio 4
2/5
Nigel Cassidy examines the work of producers and presenters at Romania's Money Channel, a 24-hour business TV station. He witnesses a live broadcast from Bucharest, and explores how the network is helping to provide inspiration for budding entrepreneurs in the former communist state.
IT in the Workplace
Wednesday 16 March
5:30am - 6:00am
BBC2 Northern Ireland
A series of short films examining how IT is used in a variety of workplaces, including a Premier League football team, a teen magazine, a chocolate factory and a car manufacturer.
Science / Nature
In Doubt We Trust
Sunday 13 March
1:30pm - 2:00pm
BBC Radio 4
2/2
Mark Vernon concludes his exploration of the importance of doubt in the modern world by investigating its role in science, philosophy and religion, and argues that these three disciplines are all underpinned by the ability to doubt well. He also speaks to former Bishop of Durham David Jenkins and religious scholar Karen Armstrong.
Wonders of the Universe
Sunday 13 March
9:00pm - 10:00pm
BBC2 Northern Ireland
Stardust
2/4
Professor Brian Cox continues his exploration of the origins of mankind by investigating the matter from which everything on Earth is formed. At a Hindu cremation in Nepal, he discusses the faith's philosophy of life as an eternal cycle of creation and destruction, and draws a parallel with the lives of the universe's stars - before revealing why everything on Earth was once a part of something else.
The Herschel Space Telescope
Tuesday 15 March
9:00pm - 9:30pm
BBC Radio 4
1/2
Part one of two. Examining the work of engineers and astronomers who worked for 20 years on one of the most important missions in the history of European spaceflight. Jonathan Amos speaks to Professor Matt Griffin and his international team as they prepare for the launch of their telescope - the largest ever constructed for deployment in space.
Science Betrayed
Thursday 17 March
9:00pm - 9:30pm
BBC Radio 4
1/2
Adam Rutherford assesses the impact of scientific scandals that have hit the headlines in recent years, and explores the possible reasons behind their occurrence. Cases include South Korean geneticist Hwang Woo-Suk's false claim that he was the first to clone human embryonic stem cells, and researcher Jan Hendrik Schon's made-up data, regarded by some as the biggest fraud in physics in the past 50 years.
Ireland
The Story of Ireland
Tuesday 15 March
10:15pm - 11:25pm
RTE1
The Age of Nations
5/5
Fergal Keane examines Ireland's recent history, from the Boer War onwards. He highlights the rebellion of 1916 in the context of the First World War, and the Sinn Fein election in 1919 against the backdrop of world peace brought about by the Treaty of Versailles. He also investigates financial fortunes over the past 40 years, revealing how Sean Lemass brought economic openness to the South during the formation of the state, and takes a look at key moments during the Troubles. Last in the series.
Hill Walks
Thursday 17 March
10:50am - 11:20am
RTE1
Clare Island
3/5
The third programme in the series features a walk on Clare Island off the coast of Co Mayo.
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