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Episode 5: The Flickering
Five original essays on how the mysterious is woven into the ordinary and the everyday.
18 Jul 2025,·14 mins
The Looking Glass
Five original essays on the power and politics of children’s fiction.
18 Oct 2024,·14 mins
Series 1
Episode 8-and-a-half: Extraordinary collateral consequences
An update on Joseph Mahmoud Dibee.
10 Nov 2022,·20 mins
Books to Read and Re-Read
Johny Pitts and Chris Power celebrate books to read and re-read.
13 Oct 2024,·28 mins
Daniel Radcliffe and Sandra Bullock talk about The Lost City. Plus reviews of The Bad Guys, Morbius, True Things & Sonic 2.
Daniel Radcliffe and Sandra Bullock. Plus reviews of the week’s film releases.
01 Apr 2022,·123 mins
4. Sussex
Monk's House and Charleston in the Sussex Downs - Virginia Woolf's familiar and final walk
01 Sep 2015,·15 mins
Bonus Episode - The van Gogh Return
A criminal lurks in the dark. Watching, waiting to return a priceless van Gogh.
09 Nov 2023,·28 mins
Missing all the goss? Abi's got juicy podcast news...
Need to fill the Wagatha-shaped hole in your life? Abi's got some HOT podcast gossip...
23 Sep 2022,·1 min
Why Object?
The last programme in Ian Hislop's series celebrating great works of sedition and dissent.
30 Aug 2018,·30 mins
6. Aftermath
What happens when The X Factor lights go off?
26 Jan 2024,·33 mins
Ep 6: Afterlife
The last in the series in which Ian Hislop and Helen Lewis celebrate Orwell and Kafka.
09 Jun 2024,·28 mins
Terry Riley: In C
Ivan Hewett examines the chord of C major as found in Terry Riley's In C.
13 Jan 2017,·15 mins
Songs for the Malago
A group of people in south Bristol come together to write songs for their local river.
25 Oct 2026,·30 mins
Seamus Heaney - The Translator
Theo Dorgan on Seamus Heaney's translations, their importance and impact on his own work
10 Sep 2023,·28 mins
Hong Kong Artists
How artists in Hong Kong are coping with censorship and political repression.
28 Sep 2021,·28 mins
The Rule of the General
Franco's attempt at social order was based on his conservative values
13 Apr 2000,·27 mins
6. Dogs Of War
After a BBC documentary is broadcast, James Watt and BrewDog fight back.
21 Jun 2022,·32 mins
Yuko Mohri
Neil McCarthy meets Japanese artist Yuko Mohri
27 Oct 2026,·26 mins
Greenhead to Kirk Yetholm
Mark Radcliffe travels from Greenhead near Hadrian's Wall to the village of Kirk Yetholm.
21 May 2015,·30 mins
Series 2
Carrie Hope Fletcher
Sheridan chats to Carrie Hope Fletcher who is currently leading the cast in Cinderella.
08 Aug 2021,·33 mins
Sleeper Train
A collage of rhythm and movement as overnight trains weave their way across Ukraine.
25 Feb 2024,·30 mins
The Nest, The Truth, The Bass Rock, Cranach at Compton Verney and Home Entertainment Recommendations
Review of the new BBC One surrogacy drama, The Nest.
21 Mar 2020,·46 mins
‘Come for the threesomes, stay for the admin’ - Polyamory
This week comedian Jacob Hawley hears about polyamory.
14 Apr 2021,·30 mins
Kathleen Jamie
Frank views the world from a tree house, with the fabulous Kathleen Jamie
13 May 2026,·41 mins
Stealing Power
Meter tampering is dangerous and illegal yet reports of it are rising at an alarming rate.
30 Jul 2024,·28 mins
Vesalius
The physician and author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy
16 Jul 1992,·27 mins
Cheap British Beer
The story of money and humanity reaches a run on the punt and the rise of M-PESA.
15 Nov 2024,·14 mins
5. London Lives
London has witnessed cycles of disaster and plague. History’s lessons still resonate.
07 Nov 2025,·14 mins
Radio 1’s Screen Time finale with Michael Fassbender
Michael Fassbender is our final guest, talking about his new film 'Black Bag'.
14 Mar 2025,·27 mins
3. The Road through Turkey to Istanbul
Bettany Hughes follows the ancient road from Rome to Istanbul.
18 Dec 2015,·30 mins
