Sound designer Glenn Freemantle, who worked on Gravity, commemorates the first spacewalk.
18 Mar 2015,·28 mins
Lee Hall
Lee Hall talks about why Billy Elliot is his favourite character.
28 Mar 2014,·4 mins
The university dropouts using social media to influence youngsters on a huge scale.
16 Dec 2016,·28 mins
Stephen Evans goes deep into the Milky Way to look at the phenomenon of StarCraft.
07 Dec 2015,·28 mins
01/06/2018
Revealing how the parole panels calculate the risk to the public of releasing prisoners.
01 Jun 2018,·28 mins
Derrick Evans, aka Mr Motivator, tells the global story of fitness on the radio.
25 Jun 2020,·28 mins
Researchers and families discuss a study of consciousness in patients with brain injuries.
20 Dec 2016,·28 mins
A child's eye view of growing up in the East End of Glasgow.
02 Jun 2020,·28 mins
Chie Kobayashi reports on Rakugo, Japan's ancient art of laughter.
23 Jul 2015,·30 mins
Emily Booth tells the story of heavy metal, the loudest and darkest form of rock.
03 Jan 2008,·30 mins
As paintings sell for world record prices, John Wilson examines an art market boom.
08 May 2018,·38 mins
Tutus, tanks and Tchaikovsky. Swan Lake's strange pas de deux with the fate of Russia.
18 Aug 2016,·30 mins
Radio 4 documentary.
16 May 2016,·30 mins
The story of the worst volcanic eruption in human history and its continuing significance.
03 Apr 2015,·28 mins
An exploration of the dramatic life and jazz legacy of singer Billie Holiday
07 Apr 2015,·30 mins
Historian Rhys Jones asks if we really are more distracted than ever before.
12 Feb 2019,·28 mins
Tulip Mazumdar finds young people in Japan rejecting intimacy and a population in decline.
19 Sep 2016,·28 mins
Series 1
No More Manifestos
Five-part series exploring the art and politics of the artists' manifesto.
11 Aug 2017,·15 mins
The Mathematicians
Peter Curran meets the mathematicians of the Isaac Newton Institute of Mathematics.
06 Sep 2009,·15 mins
Impressionist Rory Bremner explores the role of the human voice in forensic phonetics.
09 Aug 2017,·28 mins
How does the UK's departure from the EU look from the other side of the English Channel?
04 Mar 2018,·28 mins
Paul Mason visits Manila to assess the benefits of life in the world's poorest slums.
16 Aug 2011,·40 mins
Raising Children
Discovering how children are raised on low incomes in the UK
20 Nov 1999,·28 mins
A portrait of a writing day in Birmingham.
21 Nov 2019,·28 mins
Activism or Aid in Rajasthan?
Activities of Hindu nationalist organisations who see India's future as Hindu.
27 Jan 2004,·22 mins
Anita Anand meets the people putting a price on life. How do they justify their decisions?
04 May 2020,·28 mins
Arundel's Islamic Garden
In the south-east of England, a Muslim garden symbolises escape from the desert
21 Apr 2000,·13 mins
What motivates men to pay women to sleep with them? Four men tell Jo Fidgen why they do it
25 Aug 2014,·28 mins
Rats under the floorboards, paint on the floor. What makes an artist's studio?
13 May 2013,·28 mins
Jerry Brotton navigates the transformation from paper to digital mapping.
30 Jun 2020,·28 mins
