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Courtney Pine explores John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, fifty years after its release.
10 Feb 2015,·30 mins
Lenin - Legacy
With the rise of glasnost is it finally time to remove Lenin's body from its mausoleum?
28 Jun 1990,·27 mins
Why many thousands of former British army soldiers have settled in Germany.
16 Nov 2011,·30 mins
How to have meaningful conversations across the class divide, with Kerry Hudson.
02 Mar 2020,·28 mins
Mariella Frostrup looks at Scandinavian children's literature.
26 Mar 2012,·30 mins
Richard Coles on the inspiration to artists of darkness and the Northern lights in Norway.
19 Dec 2011,·30 mins
Is it possible to take 93-year-old mountaineer Gwen Moffat climbing again?
30 Sep 2017,·29 mins
The history and politics of gift-giving
15 Dec 1993,·28 mins
Kate Mosse celebrates the magical voice of Indian singer Lata Mangeshkar.
31 Oct 1998,·28 mins
Meet the men who were directed by a vision to make sugar from cane juice in Providence
22 Aug 2003,·22 mins
Brain Science and Behaviour Change
Matthew Taylor looks at the new political choices created by sophisticated brain science.
29 Nov 2011,·30 mins
James Nokise looks at how Pacific wordsmiths have protested nuclear testing.
24 Feb 2020,·28 mins
Is it possible to measure the quality of an artwork?
12 Sep 2017,·30 mins
Uncovering the life and work of a pioneering and under-appreciated British painter
13 Sep 2012,·30 mins
How the cowboy has influenced generations of American musicians and movie makers
12 Jun 2000,·23 mins
Nina Myskow talks to Rufus and Martha Wainwright about their confessional songs.
09 Aug 2014,·30 mins
Clarke Peters follows the croon and practitioners of the art including Rudy Vallee.
17 Sep 2016,·30 mins
How a recent near-death experience has influenced poet John Burnside's life and work.
30 Oct 2022,·28 mins
Glenda Jackson presents a documentary in Paris of France's great writer–Emile Zola.
16 Nov 2015,·30 mins
02/12/2015
Lucy Kellaway asks whether we should be more open about what we are paid.
02 Dec 2015,·28 mins
Is the Future one World, one Language?
More than half the world's 6,000 languages are dying out. Are we losing our differences?
15 May 2000,·13 mins
Chipperfield Circus, one of Britains oldest and most respected
11 Jun 1981,·30 mins
Phill Jupitus investigates the social importance of 2 Tone music in Britain.
05 Apr 2008,·30 mins
Agnes Poirier explores the role of the body which protects the French language.
23 Dec 2011,·30 mins
Henning Wehn investigates 'Ostrock' - the East German rock and pop music scene.
28 Apr 2011,·30 mins
Joanna Smith Rakoff explores JD Salinger's relationship with fans who wrote him letters
29 Jan 2011,·30 mins
Yes. No. Don't Know: Three choices that sparked a 24-hour landmark in Scottish theatre.
04 Nov 2014,·30 mins
Robin Denselow profiles musician Youssou N'Dour as he reaches his 50th birthday.
19 Sep 2009,·30 mins
Lilies
A look at the lily and the folklore surrounding it
21 May 1993,·27 mins
Violence and tribalism at music gigs in the late 70s and 80s. Adrian Goldberg presents.
10 Sep 2015,·30 mins