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Yes. No. Don't Know: Three choices that sparked a 24-hour landmark in Scottish theatre.
04 Nov 2014,·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
An Irish theatre group tours the Soviet Union and compares theatrical traditions
19 Oct 1986,·29 mins
How 3 months in rural Devon influenced one of the greatest chroniclers of urban New York
18 Feb 2016,·28 mins
Conrad Black
The Canadian owner of the world's third-largest English-language newspaper empire
24 Aug 1994,·29 mins
Big Up Bradford: Brighter Still
Arzu Dutta rounds off the year with a final celebration as BD25 comes to a close.
21 Dec 2025,·8 mins
A journey into the Taipei underground art scene.
28 Mar 2023,·28 mins
How the Marshall Plan rebuilt Europe out of the ruins of the Second World War
19 Jul 1994,·28 mins
Philip Hensher explores the art of the gloriously eccentric Molesworth books.
28 Mar 2016,·30 mins
A portrait of the life, popular art and remarkable engineering of Carters Steam Fair.
25 May 2011,·28 mins
Omnibus
Round-up of five works by artists broadcast throughout the week on BBC Radio 4.
30 Mar 2013,·28 mins
Laurie Anderson profiles one of the most original writers and thinkers of the 20th century
04 Mar 2008,·30 mins
Religious Uniform
Do they bring the wearer closer to God or distance them from their congregation?
26 Jun 1992,·13 mins
The State Occasion
The history of the British state occasion, such as the opening of parliament
13 Jun 1988,·29 mins
The Clash of Cultures
The meeting of the old world and the new, viewed as a biological event
21 Aug 1992,·28 mins
The story of Nigerian musician and political revolutionary, Fela Kuti.
31 May 2011,·30 mins
Tom Holland explores the continuing appeal of Homer's Odyssey.
12 Mar 2012,·30 mins
Why does art go up in value when a man signs it, but when a woman signs it, it goes down?
11 Aug 2022,·28 mins
Art critic Rachel Campbell-Johnston, explores the mysterious world of art attribution.
07 Nov 2011,·30 mins
Laura Barton travels to New York to meet the women writers of the Beat Generation.
29 Jun 2015,·30 mins
Myanmar
Can the numerous indigenous languages survive in a rapidly changing 21st-century Myanmar?
27 Oct 2014,·28 mins
Cardiac
Paul Farley follows the path of a heart valve from its Milan manufacturers to a UK patient
14 Aug 2013,·28 mins
04/11/2016
Nick Berkeley shows how song lyrics can help articulate and negotiate our lives.
04 Nov 2016,·12 mins
Poets Gillian Clarke, Penelope Shuttle and Grace Nichols share insights into creativity.
09 Oct 2022,·28 mins
Nabihah Iqbal explores the variety of notes and scales used to make music across the globe
30 Aug 2022,·28 mins
An immersive 80th birthday encounter with film-maker and artist Peter Greenaway.
29 Sep 2022,·28 mins
Omnibus: Part 2
Lenny Henry on 100 years of black British theatre and screen.
20 Nov 2015,·58 mins
Miles Warde explores the life of American photographer Ansel Adams
18 Aug 2014,·30 mins
Can Rev. Richard Coles write a new power ballad to rival Total Eclipse of the Heart?
18 Jul 2017,·30 mins
