Ben Goldacre explores the idea of evidence-based policy.
01 Jan 2013,·38 mins
Writer Charles Sprawson reflects on his life as he copes with advancing dementia.
21 Jan 2019,·28 mins
Sara Parker visits Antony Gormley's installation on Crosby beach on its tenth anniversary.
01 Jun 2015,·28 mins
Haisai Ojisan – Hey Old Man!
The story behind the 1970s Okinawan pop hit Haisai Ojisan or ‘Hey Old Man’
23 Mar 2019,·9 mins
Favourite Numbers
What's a mathematician's favourite number?
17 Jul 1998,·14 mins
Hardeep Singh Kohli finds out if Maharaja Duleep Singh's remains should go back to India.
04 Jul 2014,·28 mins
Quentin Cooper looks at the weaknesses in GPS and the future of navigation.
21 Aug 2013,·28 mins
Writer Richard King explores the past and present of the second homes debate in Wales.
11 Mar 2024,·28 mins
Nick Eardley explores the future of the SNP following the resignation of Nicola Sturgeon.
19 Apr 2023,·28 mins
Ian McMillan goes in search of one of Britain's strangest linguistic features...
10 Aug 2012,·1 min
Office workers around the world describe their Monday to Friday lives
12 Nov 1986,·28 mins
Richard Hollingham examines British plans for a moon mission.
20 Jul 2009,·30 mins
When Geeks Took Over Poker
Tim Harford tells the story of Chris Ferguson, who applied game theory to poker, and won.
13 Feb 2013,·15 mins
Who was the man behind mantra 'Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better'?
19 Sep 2012,·30 mins
Could high-rise farming be the solution to feeding our cities or is it a utopian fantasy?
29 May 2013,·28 mins
How DNA analysis reveals that chimpanzees are even closer to humans than we thought
24 May 2000,·24 mins
Melanie Chisholm celebrates the lasting musical legacy of British band leader Ivy Benson.
18 Oct 2014,·30 mins
Virginia Lapalco
Virginia Lapalco founder of Pasta. A business supplying fresh pasta to shops
27 Aug 1998,·13 mins
Tim Key gives his surreal and startling take on the Soviet absurdist writer Daniil Kharms.
28 Jun 2016,·30 mins
Reverend Richard Coles explores the science of sacred sounds.
17 Jul 2011,·30 mins
The prejudices, politics and pride of the multi-billion pound world of migrant money
04 May 2018,·28 mins
Episode 3
Rosie Millard hears the hopes of two people moving hundreds of miles across the UK.
12 Nov 2014,·28 mins
The World as an Orchestra
Virtuoso percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie reveals a hidden world of rhythm around us.
28 Aug 2018,·30 mins
Start-up Planet
Kevin Fong explores differing visions of a human presence and purpose on Mars.
08 Mar 2017,·43 mins
Loneliness
The sounds of the historic and influential city, through its music, life, noise and people
10 mins
BBC disability correspondent Nikki Fox on the portrayal of disability in films and on TV.
29 Dec 2016,·28 mins
How the Marshall Plan rebuilt Europe out of the ruins of the Second World War
19 Jul 1994,·28 mins
5. Modern Manners
Ann Widdecombe zooms forward to the making of manners in cyberspace.
08 Jan 2016,·14 mins
Julie Fernandez considers whether to have children at risk of inheriting her disability.
20 May 2014,·28 mins
The story of an adoption which became an international scandal in the 1950s
27 Mar 2015,·30 mins
