BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature

Opera across the Waves

Flora Willson traces the roots of global opera broadcasting to old New York.

Kevin LeGendre presents a portrait of musician and spiritual leader Alice Coltrane.

Samira Ahmed explores how Victorian art critic John Ruskin revolutionised girls' education

Soweto Kinch discovers the remarkable story behind the apartheid-era musical, King Kong.

Kwame Kwei-Armah explores how Black Mountain College launched many American artists.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch investigates the artistic community of New Mexico.

The story of how three trips to South America in the 1950s changed Pierre Boulez's life.

Shirli Gilbert reveals the complex history of music composed in the Nazi camps and ghettos

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough explores how different cultures have viewed the apocalypse.

Stephen Johnson explores Sigmund Freud's enigmatic relationship with music.