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As Private Eye nears 50, Michael Crick traces its ups and downs and assesses its impact.
08 Oct 2011,·30 mins
Josie Long celebrates the pleasures of chess as she rekindles her own love for the game.
29 Dec 2019,·28 mins
Episode 2
Peter White returns to his blind boarding school to find out what it's like for pupils now
21 Nov 2012,·28 mins
The Victorians built grand ambitious railways, sewers and tunnels. Should we do the same?
09 Sep 2014,·28 mins
Naomi Alderman talks to novelist Ursula Le Guin and hears from fans including Neil Gaiman.
09 Apr 2015,·30 mins
The frequent flyers who will stop at nothing to achieve airline status and rack up mileage
05 Mar 2018,·28 mins
Clare Jenkins presents a personal insight into the world of premature babies.
30 Nov 2015,·28 mins
Doon Mackichan asks if we need a moratorium on glossy TV dramas with female victims.
06 Oct 2016,·28 mins
Aminatta Forna tells the extraordinary story of hard-living writer Jack London.
20 Nov 2014,·30 mins
Author Carlo Gebler shows how rain has saturated Ireland's poetry and shaped his identity.
23 Apr 2023,·28 mins
Ian McMillan sets out on a quest to find out about the footballer turned TV comedy star.
02 Jul 2015,·30 mins
Investigating Al-Qaeda in USA
How the FBI worked to uncover sleeper cells in communities around America
11 Feb 2004,·25 mins
Laura Snapes explores how musicians have defied gender boundaries to create art and music
21 Mar 2017,·30 mins
Switch
A sport bridging generational divides in West London
14 May 2022,·17 mins
Christine Finn explores how authors' archive is kept, now they write on screens not paper.
26 Apr 2011,·30 mins
Underground Art - Literally
Kirsty and Lucy investigate an arts collective operating in tunnels beneath Paris.
23 Nov 2012,·15 mins
How has our rapidly changing world altered blind and partially sighted people's lives?
28 Jul 2024,·28 mins
Jim Al-Khalili explores what the past would have sounded like to our ancestors.
12 Sep 2011,·28 mins
The Alice in Wonderland world of the Anglo-Indians, focusing on a remarkable 92-year-old.
15 May 2015,·28 mins
Headlines show an NHS in crisis. How can those in charge mend the culture?
25 Sep 2013,·28 mins
Nikki Fox investigates the treatment of disabled people in British prisons.
12 May 2014,·28 mins
Alvin Hall on Motown's eight Black Forum spoken word records with the people behind them.
09 Jan 2014,·30 mins
The heartbreaking stories of Syrians living and dying in besieged cities.
01 Oct 2018,·28 mins
Lucrece Grehoua reveals the cost of hiding who we really are in the workplace.
17 Aug 2020,·28 mins
Sanjeev Kohli visits a Chinese-owned castle in the Scottish glens.
09 Dec 2015,·28 mins
A celebration of the simple joys in life, and Brecht’s poem that described them.
08 Jul 2019,·28 mins
Journalist Kirran Shah explores the spirit of Bradford’s spoken-word counter culture.
18 Nov 2019,·28 mins
Will Trevor Cox, a professor of acoustic engineering, be able to give up music for Lent?
16 Mar 2015,·28 mins
Naomi Gryn revisits the Holocaust novel The Last of the Just, published 60 years ago.
23 Jan 2020,·28 mins
The BBC Philharmonic returns to Japan for an emotional tour for the first time since 2011.
03 May 2013,·28 mins
