Cicada
The comic diary - laced with scientific fact - of a cicada
22 Mar 1996,·8 mins
Bert Jansch
Joan meets influential folk guitarist Bert Jansch.
31 Jul 2009,·15 mins
Art
Martha Lane Fox explores how artists collaborate creatively online.
20 Apr 2015,·28 mins
Knife Imitates Art - How Surgeons Use Creativity
Top surgeons reveal parallel lives as sculptors and musicians.
13 Jun 2019,·28 mins
World Food Phone In
Eating is not just about pleasing our pallets it’s also about retaining our health
20 Mar 1994,·57 mins
How Richard Burton Got His Voice
Antonia Quirke shows how cinematic voices have changed using Richard Burton.
22 Nov 2016,·30 mins
Lenin - Legacy
With the rise of glasnost is it finally time to remove Lenin's body from its mausoleum?
28 Jun 1990,·27 mins
Dance Yourself Cheerful
Dancer Deborah Bull looks at the role dance has played during some of our toughest times.
28 Sep 2012,·15 mins
Series 1
Ayanna Witter-Johnson
Musician Ayanna-Witter Johnson talks about her creative life, as she writes a new song.
05 Mar 2018,·30 mins
Fantasy Architecture
An examination of fantasy buildings and the possibility of them ever being built
16 Aug 2004,·21 mins
8. Fly Girls
The girlband rises again.
06 Nov 2023,·15 mins
Dreams
Antonia Quirke dissects some of the life-changing scenes that define cinema.
30 Dec 2022,·14 mins
Episode 2
Responsibility for the Great War has been a fierce battle for meaning ever since 1914.
04 Feb 2014,·43 mins
Morris Dancing
The men and women keeping Morris dancing, a type of English folk dance, alive.
01 Mar 1988,·13 mins
Gary Winick
Chris Tookey talks to director Gary Winick
31 Jul 2004,·28 mins
Timon of Athens
Discussion of Shakespeare's play Timon of Athens
29 Mar 2000,·4 mins
Feet
Your feet are a fine piece of engineering
20 Dec 1995,·28 mins
South African Comedy
An examination of comedy in post-apartheid South Africa
31 Mar 2005,·29 mins
5. Black
Wayne Hemingway tells the story of Vantablack, the blackest black.
14 Apr 2017,·15 mins
The Creation of Bangladesh
In 1971 Bangladesh emerges from East Pakistan after a bloody civil war
01 Jan 1995,·28 mins
Top Tips
Top tips from career consultants who give advice on the process of looking for work
11 Mar 1999,·13 mins
Religious Legal Systems
How religious laws are all bound up with the notion of God and of doing God's will
18 Sep 1991,·28 mins
Somaliland Refugees
Refuges are now returning home to Somaliland
26 Mar 2005,·26 mins
Moshe Safdie
Habitat 67 designer on his mentor Louis Khan and the creating of memorial buildings
30 Aug 2014,·55 mins
Belonging
How wearing the "badge of belonging" changed over the 20th Century
23 Sep 1996,·42 mins
Un Nos Ola Leuad
Nodi 60 mlynedd ers cyhoeddi'r nofel “Un Nos Ola Leuad” gan Caradog Prichard.
05 Apr 2021,·60 mins
David Dunseith
Steven Rainey looks back at the forty year career of iconic broadcaster David Dunseith.
23 Aug 2024,·30 mins
Episode 3
Matthew Oates follows in the footsteps of writer Edward Thomas.
31 Mar 2013,·15 mins
Shorthand
The history of shorthand from ancient Rome to modern day Pitman
31 Aug 1993,·13 mins
Brain Science and Behaviour Change
Matthew Taylor looks at the new political choices created by sophisticated brain science.
29 Nov 2011,·30 mins
