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'Uncle Saddam', my father's boss
Highlights include a trip to a second hand bookshop
16 Nov 2005,·36 mins
Religious Legal Systems
How religious laws are all bound up with the notion of God and of doing God's will
18 Sep 1991,·28 mins
The Best British Song Ever, Russell Crowe’s Auction and Art On Tour
Will Gompertz discusses all things arty with Paul Sinha, Sindhu Vee and Athena Kugblenu.
06 Apr 2018,·38 mins
Fleas
Facts and figures about the bloodsucking insect
06 Sep 1995,·13 mins
Ellis Peters
Interview with Ellis Peters whose extraordinary career included The Cadfael Chronicles
01 Jul 1991,·13 mins
New York City
Mark Turin meets the linguists who track and preserve the languages of the Big Apple.
17 Dec 2012,·28 mins
The Cavendish Laboratory
The double helix of DNA was discovered at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge
31 Mar 1980,·15 mins
Trow Folk
George Peterson tells Shetland tales of the trow folk...
21 Jan 1993,·13 mins
Tiger, Tiger
Humming elephants and the shaggy haired but adorable sloth bear
28 Feb 1997,·12 mins
The Producer
What does a producer do? With Simon Perry producer of Nineteen Eighty-Four
26 Mar 1986,·13 mins
Carry on Writing
Ideas on how you can continue to write by yourself
26 Feb 2001,·13 mins
Juliet Stevenson
Follow portrait artist Fiona Graham-Mackay as she paints actor Juliet Stevenson.
09 Nov 2017,·30 mins
Maggi Hambling
Artist Maggi Hambling talks about the art she has on her walls at home
27 Feb 1998,·13 mins
Series 6
Casualty
Paul Jackson explores the origins and legacies of TV Classics: BBC 1's Casualty
18 May 2013,·30 mins
World War
Christopher Cook explores the influence of the Great War on the music of the time.
18 May 1999,·30 mins
India - Part 5
Will India provide China with an economic challenge?
04 Apr 2005,·22 mins
Part Two
Biographer Nick Clarke joins Alistair Cooke to listen to some of the gems from his career as one of Britain's best-loved broadcasters.
20 Mar 2000,·27 mins
The Comedy Episode
Miranda Sawyer talks to Richard Herring, Adam Buxton, Tim Batt and Guy Montgomery.
28 Nov 2015,·30 mins
It's Your World
Listeners give their opinions about programmes
18 Sep 1986,·13 mins
Politeness on the World Service
Listeners express concern over impoliteness and inappropriate forms of address
23 Mar 2006,·13 mins
Episode 2
Matthew Sweet explores Chaplin's vast archive of unfinished scripts, letters and cuttings.
28 Feb 2011,·30 mins
Michael Rosen visits the biggest public lending library in Britain.
11 Sep 2013,·28 mins
Finding an Agent
What the literary agent, the publisher, and the book seller, do and want
13 May 1994,·12 mins
War in the Nuclear Age
As the Second World War ended, the Cold War began
19 Dec 2001,·13 mins
Ravel's Head Injury
How a head injury in 1932 took five years to claim Maurice Ravel's life and sanity
29 Jun 1995,·13 mins
Episode 4
Stephen Johnson explores how Antony Hopkins's broadcasts about music influenced him.
14 Aug 2014,·20 mins
Capitals of Fashion
The gripping story of a battle of two cities and a battle of two competing cultures.
15 Nov 2013,·15 mins
Cicada
The comic diary - laced with scientific fact - of a cicada
22 Mar 1996,·8 mins
The Contested Territory of Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud's new discipline of psychoanalysis is still a contested one
25 Oct 2000,·23 mins
Rageh Omaar
The history of the World Service and how it is changing and developing
30 Dec 2002,·12 mins
