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Scenes from Childhood—Music in Its Time

3/10 Exploring how Schumann's Scenes from Childhood were listened to by their first audiences.

2/10 Exploring the impact of Victoria's Lamentations on listeners in Counter-Reformation Rome.

1/10 Exploring the impact of Haydn's Military Symphony on its first audiences in 1790s London.

5/5 Photographer John Minihan on taking some of the best-known photographs of Samuel Beckett.

4/5 Director Netia Jones on the relationship between words and music in Samuel Beckett's work.

3/5 Beckett expert Dr Mark Nixon on editing a Beckett story 80 years after it was written.

2/5 Commentator Fintan O'Toole on themes of mortality and death in Samuel Beckett's work.

1/5 Actress Lisa Dwan describes the demands of performing in works by Samuel Beckett.

5/5 AL Kennedy on what Scottishness means to her, discussing Scotland's many hidden identities

4/5 Writer and comedian AL Kennedy celebrates the language of Scotland.