The Romantic Road
A Journey Through the Literatures of Europe, BBC Radio 3
Use the audio player to listen to all 20 episodes
- The Spain of Cervantes
- A Fine Thief: Alain-René Lesage
- Heinrich von Kleist: “with cut eyelids”
- The Netherlands: does Dutch literature exist?
- Boredom and Longing: the state of Denmark
- The Stones of Portugal
- Austria: a century without qualities
- Europe’s Crossroads: the Czech Republic and Slovakia
- Italy: a European polyphony
- Greece: the universality of little places
- Alexander Pushkin: a secret freedom
- Ukraine’s Three Worlds
- The Polish Complex
- Hungary: standing up to history
- Iceland: all time is eternally present
- Sweden: literature is news that stays news
- The Baltic states: Quixote is dead! Long live Quixote!
- The north Balkans: “who the hell would seek out literature in this country?”
- Albania & Kosovo: a sane sense of freedom
- What are novels for? with A S Byatt, Philip Hensher, Ingo Schulze, Slavenka Drákulic
Other radio features
Click the links to download MP3s
- Chekhov’s Death: a matter of life and fiction, BBC Radio 4
- A Day in the Country, the story of a country house in southern Ukraine, BBC Radio 3
- François Rabelais: do what you will, a portrait of Rabelais, BBC Radio 3
- Prisoner of the Caucasus, a story of Pushkin’s exile, BBC Radio 3
- The Temptation of St Anthony, a radio life of Anton Chekhov, BBC Radio 3
- The Authority of Failure, a centenary portrait of F Scott Fitzgerald, BBC Radio 3
- RLS: Tusitala, The First Modernist, a portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa, BBC Radio 3
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