Why do older people take up instruments and put themselves through music exams?
10 Jan 2017,·30 mins
David Aaronovitch investigates 'declinism' - the idea that human society is in decline.
15 May 2012,·40 mins
Tom Ravenscroft discusses private pressings with DIY musicians from the 1970s and 80s.
22 Sep 2015,·30 mins
Why go to Mars? Claudia Hammond examines the space-farer's drive to occupy the red planet.
07 Mar 2017,·28 mins
Episode 3
Mukul Devichand asks if Britain is a place where foreigners with a dream can make it.
11 Feb 2013,·28 mins
Writer Maria Margaronis returns home to listen to those living through the Greek disaster.
06 Dec 2011,·40 mins
Five years after Japan's tsunami, some survivors report seeing the ghosts of the dead.
11 Mar 2016,·28 mins
Even through lockdown boatloads of refugees made the dangerous crossing by boat to the UK.
13 Jul 2020,·28 mins
How science and technology can come to the aid of our cultural heritage
20 Jun 1979,·29 mins
With Trump out of office, Leah Sottile on what’s next for America’s far-right.
25 Jan 2021,·28 mins
Roxanne Tataei on the Isle of Lewis
Singer Roxanne Tataei explores Gaelic psalm singing in Stornaway on the Isle of Lewis.
02 Oct 2019,·28 mins
Dr Kevin Fong evaluates the realities of travelling by bike on UK roads.
15 Jan 2014,·28 mins
Patients and doctors in a Lake District village fight to save their GP surgery.
20 Feb 2015,·28 mins
Is racism on the rise in British policing? Hugh Muir investigates.
09 Feb 2021,·28 mins
At a time of change and turmoil in the Middle East, what is happening inside Israel?
06 Nov 2011,·30 mins
Killed by somebody who should still have been locked up.
12 Apr 2022,·37 mins
Former soldiers turn to Shakespeare to fight stress and take Henry V to the London stage.
22 Apr 2013,·28 mins
Humpback Whale Migration
First broadcast in 2001. The whales travel from the Atlantic to Caribbean breeding waters
14 Mar 2001,·13 mins
Will Robson assesses the controversial use of drones by Britain's armed forces.
06 Oct 2014,·30 mins
Evolution of Modern China
Can the old leadership survive in the Chinese century?
30 Aug 2002,·13 mins
Guilty pleasures, cheeky treats – Sofie Hagen asks why we put moral judgements on food.
15 Jul 2019,·28 mins
Clare Jenkins tells the story of children cared for in 'scattered homes' of Sheffield.
10 Apr 2015,·28 mins
Claudia Hammond slays common myths about the brain and its workings.
08 Nov 2011,·30 mins
Philip Hoare attends the necropsy of a porpoise and thinks about going inside a whale.
10 Jul 2015,·28 mins
What now for the welfare state, 70 years after the Beveridge report?
27 Nov 2012,·175 mins
Andrew Hussey on the cultural renaissance affecting Morocco's largest city.
08 Sep 2014,·30 mins
Lesley Curwen investigates the hope, hype and potential harm of stem cell treatments
07 Jan 2020,·37 mins
Stephen K Amos
Comedian Stephen K Amos revisits his paper round route with actor Bob Kingdom.
23 Sep 2011,·15 mins
Political correspondent Chris Mason mulls over the divide between city and country life.
01 Mar 2019,·28 mins
Philip Sweeney finds out about the pioneering composer of African Sanctus David Fanshawe.
04 Oct 2011,·30 mins
