Radio 2's Folk Singer of the Year 2014 goes back to her roots, Edale in Derbyshire.
24 Jun 2014,·30 mins
A radio hymn to the things around us inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies.
17 Nov 2022,·28 mins
John Simpson reports from Afghanistan and asks how things have gone wrong.
10 Sep 2009,·30 mins
Ian McMillan discovers how Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant became a Thanksgiving anthem.
17 Nov 2012,·30 mins
How Whitehall's most powerful department found itself at the heart of a political storm.
25 Oct 2022,·28 mins
The legacy of the division of the Indian subcontinent in Britain today
08 Aug 2022,·42 mins
How big a problem is steroid use in the police?
14 Aug 2023,·28 mins
Clarke Peters follows the croon and practitioners of the art including Rudy Vallee.
17 Sep 2016,·30 mins
Comedian and musician Richard Morton recalls the heyday of the classic TV theme.
09 May 2015,·30 mins
The women making a living out of commercial fishing, one of the last all-male bastions.
29 Nov 2022,·28 mins
The story of knife crime, told in verse by the weapon itself.
17 Sep 2018,·28 mins
The Party's Over
Historian Camilla Schofield explores a century-long thread of communism in Britain.
02 Dec 2022,·28 mins
Zubeida Malik meets young British Arabs who took part in the Arab uprisings.
16 Sep 2011,·30 mins
Roddy Russell shares his brother Robert's story of an indeterminate prison sentence.
17 Apr 2023,·28 mins
Is Britain wasting billions through bad defence procurement? Francis Tusa investigates.
27 Dec 2011,·40 mins
A hypnotic half-hour of aural bliss taking you inside the world of 'wellness sound'.
09 Apr 2023,·28 mins
Emmanuel Sonubi examines the lack of organ donors from ethnic minority backgrounds.
17 Jul 2024,·28 mins
Horatio Clare meets the German student duellists for whom a scar is a badge of honour.
26 Oct 2015,·28 mins
Hugh Muir charts the movement of ethnic minorities from cities to the English countryside.
10 Jul 2016,·30 mins
Charlotte Smith explores Labour's 2024 budget and asks why farmers are so cross about it.
24 Nov 2024,·28 mins
You’re invited to an open mic in the Middle Ages.
06 Jun 2023,·28 mins
Series 1
Attack of the Zombie Baby Monitors
Can we control the dark side of the internet?
30 Aug 2017,·28 mins
An old antidepressant has unexpected anticancer properties, but no-one is developing it.
23 Aug 2011,·40 mins
The curious story of the Sydney Opera House’s founding father, Sir Eugene Goossens.
03 Oct 2023,·28 mins
Bill Paterson marks the 70th anniversary of the Classics Illustrated comic book series.
25 Oct 2011,·30 mins
How two high-profile metro mayors are rebalancing power in England's great northern cities
03 Jun 2023,·28 mins
Sacha Dench investigates the plight of one of the world's most persecuted birds.
16 Apr 2025,·28 mins
The hunt for the truth about the most influential and enigmatic of graphic designers.
30 mins
Will the sale of harvested rhino horn help to stop poaching?
22 Mar 2016,·28 mins
Marc Riley, Damon Albarn and Ceri Levy travel to Mull to swim with seals and sharks.
25 Oct 2014,·30 mins
