Juliet Gardiner compares experiments in communal living today with those after WWII.
04 Aug 2015,·38 mins
Series 4
Episode 3
A WWII transatlantic telephone line censor reveals what happens when you really listen.
13 Dec 2016,·28 mins
Andy Martin asks what influence loyalists retain on the politics of Northern Ireland.
06 Jul 2015,·28 mins
Matthew Sweet explores the creative rivalry between the two great British horror studios.
30 Jan 2014,·30 mins
Teenagers
Young patients and their therapists talk frankly about childhood mental health conditions.
04 Sep 2015,·28 mins
Pooneh Ghoddoosi explores the long history of Iranian suspicion of the outside world.
27 May 2018,·30 mins
Photographer Eamonn McCabe curates his own photo exhibition on the radio.
07 Sep 2015,·30 mins
From Sheffield to South Carolina, Johny Pitts explores alternative Black British identity.
06 Oct 2015,·30 mins
Why are black and Asian people in Britain reluctant to act as blood and organ donors?
25 Feb 2010,·30 mins
Mary Ann Sieghart asks what the future holds for the political centre.
21 Mar 2017,·28 mins
Ehsan Masood examines how science could help prevent future banking crises.
17 Feb 2011,·30 mins
Fishing – Questions and Quotas
Globalisation and fish, one of the most fiercely fought-over natural resources
19 Mar 1997,·43 mins
Matthew Syed explores the puzzling but powerful phenomenon of home advantage in sport.
16 Jul 2012,·28 mins
A spoken word concept album linking space and music.
01 Sep 2015,·30 mins
Destabilisation
A quest to find out how great the terrorist threat is in the Sahara desert
14 Aug 2005,·22 mins
Dr Fozia Hayat investigates attitudes to localised lockdowns in Bradford.
01 Sep 2020,·28 mins
Mark Lamarr explores the life of blues woman Memphis Minnie.
12 Dec 2011,·30 mins
Episode 5
BBC Radio 4 pays tribute to Prof Stephen Hawking.
06 Jan 2012,·15 mins
Spring 2004 - A New Leaf
Edward Stouton witnesses the election of new Palestinian President Abu Mazen
15 May 2005,·22 mins
Exclusive BBC interview with David Attenborough about his life in wildlife sound.
16 Dec 2013,·30 mins
Professor John Butt explores the life and work of Johann Sebastian Bach.
10 Apr 2017,·30 mins
Join AL Kennedy for something uniquely intimate and comforting that begins in childhood.
22 Jun 2014,·30 mins
Why do we hold our opponents in contempt? And what steps should we take to stop?
31 Dec 2019,·37 mins
Connie St Louis investigates ethnic marketing in the pharmaceutical industry.
10 Oct 2007,·30 mins
A revealing insight into Myanmar life as seen through the eyes of Yangon's young artists.
04 Jul 2017,·30 mins
Is it okay to kill insects in the name of science? Adam Hart explores the issues.
07 Feb 2018,·28 mins
The Last One?
Join Mark and Sean for the season finale
28 Jul 2023,·37 mins
Mary-Ann Ochota asks why we can send probes to deep space, but not to the earth's mantle.
04 Apr 2017,·28 mins
Miranda Sawyer explores the London Film-makers' Co-op and its refreshing approach to film.
02 Jun 2016,·30 mins
On the road in Poland as a new government tries to push through a political revolution.
26 Mar 2024,·28 mins