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Art
Martha Lane Fox explores how artists collaborate creatively online.
20 Apr 2015,·28 mins
Simon Pegg explores Iain Banks's controversial novel, 40 years after publication.
13 Feb 2024,·28 mins
Lee Mack's fascinating look at Sid James's lesser-known work.
29 Apr 2013,·30 mins
Composer Hannah Conway explains how loss of voice needn't silence people and personality.
18 Apr 2023,·28 mins
Cynthia Erivo, Sarah Gavron and Wash Westmoreland
Jason Solomons speaks to the star of Harriet, Cynthia Erivo.
11 Oct 2019,·82 mins
Series 2
Foley Artists
Antonia Quirke celebrates the unsung heroes of cinematic sound - foley artists.
26 Feb 2019,·28 mins
01/12/2015
The care organisations pioneering new ways of looking after people in their own homes.
01 Dec 2015,·28 mins
Musician Bishi examines how tech and AI shape the future of music creation.
26 Dec 2019,·28 mins
Simon Armitage explores the creative possibilities opened up by Oblique Strategies cards
13 Jun 2013,·30 mins
Kate Williams explores the history and development of the modern winning smile
02 Jun 2012,·30 mins
Lynne Truss explores the history of the Speaking Clock. With Professor Stephen Hawking.
16 Jul 2016,·30 mins
Enter this iconic building to hear stories from those whose lives have been changed here.
08 Sep 2022,·28 mins
Edith Hall, Nandini Das and Beatrice Groves on the books which inspired Shakespeare.
26 Apr 2016,·45 mins
Alan Yentob marks the centenary of TS Eliot's poem, with a reading by Jeremy Irons.
02 Jun 2015,·43 mins
How slavery began in Africa
04 Jan 2002,·28 mins
Ukraine: Tetiana Chornovol
Lucy Ash talks Tetiana Chrnovol, a Ukrainian opposition journalist.
21 Feb 2014,·15 mins
Hugh Thomson travels to Peru's ancient wonder to unearth the truth behind its discovery.
05 Oct 2011,·30 mins
Writer and comedian Stewart Lee explores the television series Children of the Stones.
04 Oct 2012,·30 mins
Episode 3
The impact of the Australian landscape on the country's popular culture.
15 Dec 2016,·30 mins
David Willis celebrates the centenary of the Hollywood sign.
25 Jul 2023,·28 mins
Omnibus: Part 2
Lenny Henry on 100 years of black British theatre and screen.
20 Nov 2015,·58 mins
Poets Gillian Clarke, Penelope Shuttle and Grace Nichols share insights into creativity.
09 Oct 2022,·28 mins
Myanmar
Can the numerous indigenous languages survive in a rapidly changing 21st-century Myanmar?
27 Oct 2014,·28 mins
The story of Nigerian musician and political revolutionary, Fela Kuti.
31 May 2011,·30 mins
Religious Uniform
Do they bring the wearer closer to God or distance them from their congregation?
26 Jun 1992,·13 mins
A portrait of the life, popular art and remarkable engineering of Carters Steam Fair.
25 May 2011,·28 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
How 3 months in rural Devon influenced one of the greatest chroniclers of urban New York
18 Feb 2016,·28 mins
Lilies
A look at the lily and the folklore surrounding it
21 May 1993,·27 mins
Agnes Poirier explores the role of the body which protects the French language.
23 Dec 2011,·30 mins
