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Empire, Emigration and Global Reach
How globalisation shaped the 20th century through the movement of money and people
17 Mar 2003,·26 mins
A day in the life of the busiest international airport in the world
21 Jun 1994,·42 mins
Ian McMillan goes in search of one of Britain's strangest linguistic features...
10 Aug 2012,·1 min
Grace Dent explores the modern idea of grace.
09 Jun 2014,·30 mins
Melanie Chisholm celebrates the lasting musical legacy of British band leader Ivy Benson.
18 Oct 2014,·30 mins
Tim Key gives his surreal and startling take on the Soviet absurdist writer Daniil Kharms.
28 Jun 2016,·30 mins
Start-up Planet
Kevin Fong explores differing visions of a human presence and purpose on Mars.
08 Mar 2017,·43 mins
5. Modern Manners
Ann Widdecombe zooms forward to the making of manners in cyberspace.
08 Jan 2016,·14 mins
30/11/2011
Long-lost fragments of Sibelius's Eighth, and feedback about the question of applause.
30 Nov 2011,·20 mins
Series 2
Belfast Docks
Composer laureate Brian Irvine and Rachael Boyd, on fiddle, play the skyline of Belfast.
22 Aug 2016,·28 mins
Sweden
In Sweden a high percentage of women work
23 May 1992,·13 mins
An exclusive insight into world of the brilliant and original choreographer Mark Morris.
26 Jun 2014,·30 mins
Series 1
5. Making the Crossing
From the Beaujolais Run to the building of the Tunnel, a journalist's tales.
30 Mar 2018,·15 mins
The Lonely Heart
Following heart bypass surgery, Giles Fraser explores the workings of the human heart.
08 Dec 2017,·15 mins
Professor Judith Buchanan shares her love and knowledge of Shakespeare in early films.
17 Apr 2016,·30 mins
An exploration of the spiritual side of the music of Bob Dylan.
24 May 2011,·30 mins
Author J K Rowling and Stephen Fry discuss the Harry Potter book series.
10 Dec 2005,·60 mins
Nick Barraclough celebrates the unsung singers.
23 May 2009,·30 mins
Inside the Rock
The story of Cruachan Power Station and the art it has inspired.
15 Oct 2015,·30 mins
Episode 2
Responsibility for the Great War has been a fierce battle for meaning ever since 1914.
04 Feb 2014,·43 mins
Coventry Moves Together
A soundscape of a city-wide orchestra for Coventry UK City of Culture 2021.
05 Jun 2021,·8 mins
Kim Moore is challenged to write a poem inspired by one of the UK's abandoned buildings.
13 Aug 2023,·28 mins
Novelist Neil Gaiman explores the the intricacies of the Orpheus myth
22 Sep 2015,·30 mins
Miles Jupp investigates the Plot Device that spawned a million pulp fictions.
01 Jan 2016,·30 mins
Sushma Puri reveals why many British Hindus want their ashes scattered in the Ganges.
07 Apr 2020,·28 mins
Audio-exploration of the click languages of the Khoisan peoples of the Kalahari Desert
06 Oct 2006,·22 mins
Art historian Dr. Janina Ramirez is on a mission to decode Durer's Melencolia 1.
26 May 2014,·30 mins
Janine H Jones explores the history of the 'voice recording booth'.
27 Oct 2016,·30 mins
Loneliness
The sounds of the historic and influential city, through its music, life, noise and people
10 mins
Stephen Smith tries to rediscover the lost joys of getting lost.
10 Oct 2015,·30 mins
