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Tom Stoppard: A Life by Hermione Lee
Alex Jennings reads this vivid new biography of one of theatre's leading playwrights.
BBC Radio 4
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Inside Culture
A look at the latest culture and media through the eyes of creators and audiences.
BBC Two
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Cannadine on Class
Professor David Cannadine argues historians and politicians have overplayed the class card
BBC Radio 4
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Hip-hop’s Laughing Stock
Joe Jacobs is a failing rapper trying to make a career as a stand-up comedian.
BBC Radio 4
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The Green Lady in the Toilets
Emmy the Great seeks musical inspiration from the ghosts of the school toilets.
BBC Radio 4
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Miles Jupp Is Literally Unputdownable
Miles Jupp investigates how to write an unputdownable story.
BBC Radio 4
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Beacons: Short Films from Wales
Short films produced through Ffilm Cymru and BFI Network's Beacons scheme.
BBC Two Wales
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Pause the Plié
Tatum Swithenbank explores the meaning of creativity after a life changing diagnosis.
BBC Radio 4
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Life, Death and the Foghorn
Jennifer Lucy Allan presents a eulogy for the disappearance of the foghorn.
BBC Radio 4
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Simon Schama: The Great Gallery Tours
Simon Schama conducts a virtual tour of fourworld-class galleries.
BBC Radio 4
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Art of Persia
Broadcaster and journalist Samira Ahmed reveals the remarkable story of Iran.
BBC Four
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Knight Fights Giant Snail
Dr Alixe Bovey presents a surreal journey through the world of medieval marginalia.
BBC Radio 4
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The Pebble In Your Pocket
Why do people love pebbles? What do pebbles tell us about the world – and about ourselves?
BBC Radio 4
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Lee Miller: A Life on the Front Line
Celebrating Lee Miller, a model turned photographer turned war reporter.
BBC Two
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The Dam
A true story from Northumberland's wild Kielder valley of the music submerged in us all.
BBC Radio 4
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The Poet Laureate Has Gone to His Shed
Poet Laureate Simon Armitage talks to guests about life, language and music in his shed.
BBC Radio 4
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Unchained
Poet Brenda Birungi shares personal accounts of criminal justice that's failing women.
BBC Radio 4
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My Final Wish
Sushma Puri reveals why many British Hindus want their ashes scattered in the Ganges.
BBC Radio 4
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The City That Sings
Singing together is bringing hope to a struggling South African community.
BBC Radio 4
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The Hidden History of the Mantelpiece
Rachel Hurdley explores the story of the mantelpiece and how it reveals our secret selves.
BBC Radio 4
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The Battle for English
Lexicographer Susie Dent investigates the future of English as a global lingua franca.
BBC Radio 4
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Out of Soweto: BCUC
Sound African band BCUC's journey from their rehearsal space in Soweto to Glastonbury
BBC Radio 4
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Eighteen
Exploring the lives, dreams and creative worlds of six 18- to 21-year-old global artists.
BBC Radio 4
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An Fhidil Bheo – Ceol an Northern Fiddler
The fiddle tradition of the north of Ireland explored through performance and discussion.
BBC Two Northern Ireland
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Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
The story of a truly singular talent, unpacking the myth of the man behind the horn.
BBC Two
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Living National Treasures
A combination of slow radio and the personal stories of practitioners of unusual crafts.
BBC Radio 4
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Class Talk
How to have meaningful conversations across the class divide, with Kerry Hudson.
BBC Radio 4
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OK, Boomer!
The generation gap has never felt wider. Rhys Jones asks if we have seen this before.
BBC Radio 4
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Night Vision
A new after hours series re-imagining a long night of the soul that left its mark.
BBC Radio 4
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The Day of Two Suns
James Nokise looks at how Pacific wordsmiths have protested nuclear testing.
BBC Radio 4
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Lift Going Up
Emma Clarke plays the voice of the lift in this cultural history of the elevator
BBC Radio 4
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Remembering Tryweryn
Guto Harri explores the event that shaped Welsh art and literature for a generation.
BBC Radio 4
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The Last of the Just: Finding Beauty in Barbarity
Naomi Gryn revisits the Holocaust novel The Last of the Just, published 60 years ago.
BBC Radio 4
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The People's Pyramid
Once they made pop records. Now they're building a pyramid out of dead people.
BBC Radio 4
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Orwell in Five Words
George Orwell has been dead for 70 years. What can his ideas tell us about life in 2020?
BBC Radio 4
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Curating the Future
V&A Director Tristram Hunt explores the new challenges facing the world's oldest museums.
BBC Radio 4
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Gary Barlow - We Write The Songs
The stories behind the songs from the world’s best loved songwriters
BBC Radio 2
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Swooshes, Seaboards, Synths and Spawn
Musician Bishi examines how tech and AI shape the future of music creation.
BBC Radio 4
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Dolly Parton: Here I Am
A fascinating documentary charting the extraordinary life and music of Dolly Parton.
BBC Two
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Searching for Sam: Adrian Dunbar on Samuel Beckett
Adrian Dunbar explores what made the man who wrote Waiting for Godot.
BBC Two Northern Ireland
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Singing the Messiah
Neil Martin creates a community choir on the Ards Peninsula.
BBC Two Northern Ireland
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Hear For Life
Behind the scenes of the latest Open Call project from Artangel and Radio 4.
BBC Radio 4
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