Is cultural originality dead? Ben Chu investigates.
29 Dec 2024,·28 mins
Barnie Choudhury investigates the politics of division being imported into the UK.
12 Mar 2023,·28 mins
Shocking claims of bullying, sexual harassment and violence from inside the police.
22 Mar 2022,·37 mins
Nationalism
Simon Barnes concludes his series about sport by arguing that it is not about nationalism.
16 Dec 2016,·15 mins
How serious threats against MPs, their families and staff put the UK's democracy at risk.
30 Jun 2024,·28 mins
For Stalin, privacy was key. So how would he feel about his secrets being revealed?
01 Sep 2014,·28 mins
Can rap help to change black men's attitudes towards mental illness? Guvna B investigates.
08 Mar 2022,·30 mins
Rachel Hurdley explores the story of the mantelpiece and how it reveals our secret selves.
24 Mar 2020,·28 mins
The Environment and Economics
Is the UN's goal of improving access to clean water wildly unrealistic?
20 Mar 2003,·14 mins
Journey through the history of queer Welsh icons who have helped shape Welsh culture.
14 Jun 2026,·29 mins
The image of the humanities academic, past and present, in the public imagination.
13 May 2013,·28 mins
The first digital generation is self-taught. Huddersfield Gen Z-ers tell us their stories.
30 Sep 2019,·28 mins
Matthew Sweet on the life and work of the sensationally modern figure - Wilkie Collins.
31 Dec 2023,·28 mins
The Work Words Do
With Barbara Jenkins, Vladimir Lucien, Kevin Jared Hosein, Colin Robinson and Karen Lord.
06 Mar 2017,·28 mins
Historian Steven Fielding explores the political role of ex-prime ministers, then and now.
03 Oct 2022,·28 mins
Is noise an invisible killer? James Gallagher investigates.
23 Apr 2025,·28 mins
Dr Sarah Goldingay explores groundbreaking research into relieving chronic pain.
15 Jul 2015,·28 mins
Steph McGovern explores proposals to devolve more powers to England's cities.
13 Oct 2014,·28 mins
Radio 4’s continuity announcers invite you into their world.
31 Dec 2023,·57 mins
The stories of graduates finding work internships far afield in China.
01 Oct 2011,·30 mins
Modern Teenagers
How teenagers have developed, including interviews with a large number of adolescents
19 Nov 1994,·29 mins
Ian McMillan gets close to the art in hotel rooms.
26 Dec 2023,·28 mins
How Macau overtook Las Vegas to become the gambling capital of the world.
24 Apr 2015,·28 mins
James Naughtie hosts discussion about Scotland's future, from the Edinburgh Festival.
13 Aug 2014,·45 mins
The Business of Showing
Opening weekend is crucial to a film, but there are pitfalls to watch out for.
08 Mar 2015,·30 mins
Jean Sprackland explores the subversive beauty of female Imagist poets H.D. and Amy Lowell
18 Sep 2022,·28 mins
Marc Riley, Damon Albarn and Ceri Levy travel to Mull to swim with seals and sharks.
25 Oct 2014,·30 mins
Squaddies and officers provide their viewpoint on the realities of Army service. (1989)
29 Nov 1989,·59 mins
Josiah Wedgwood, 18th-century polymath potter and the tragic recent history of his company
05 Jun 2023,·28 mins
The sounds of the sea, the words of people who listen to them, and new poetry.
12 Jul 2022,·28 mins
