Agnes Poirier explores the role of the body which protects the French language.
23 Dec 2011,·30 mins
Is it possible to take 93-year-old mountaineer Gwen Moffat climbing again?
30 Sep 2017,·29 mins
Lilies
A look at the lily and the folklore surrounding it
21 May 1993,·27 mins
Later life
Journalist Jude Rogers on how music keeps us happy, alert and connected as we grow older.
03 Jun 2021,·28 mins
Singing together is bringing hope to a struggling South African community.
30 Mar 2020,·28 mins
Colin Grant reports on the 50th anniversary of the Leeds West Indian Carnival.
28 Aug 2017,·30 mins
Isy Suttie delves into video game music, attempting to create her own electronic opus.
07 Jun 2016,·30 mins
The history and politics of gift-giving
15 Dec 1993,·28 mins
How 3 months in rural Devon influenced one of the greatest chroniclers of urban New York
18 Feb 2016,·28 mins
Emma Clarke plays the voice of the lift in this cultural history of the elevator
23 Feb 2020,·28 mins
Comedian and musician Richard Morton recalls the heyday of the classic TV theme.
09 May 2015,·30 mins
Poet Helen Mort reflects on being the object of deepfake pornography.
20 Feb 2022,·28 mins
Meet the men who were directed by a vision to make sugar from cane juice in Providence
22 Aug 2003,·22 mins
Michael Palin asks James Peak to write him some limericks. What could possibly go wrong?
28 Dec 2018,·28 mins
25/12/2015
In the last in the series, Roger tries some Korean food for Christmas Day.
25 Dec 2015,·14 mins
Series 3
Billy The Kid
Musicians talk about performing Aaron Copland's musical portrait of Billy The Kid.
27 Sep 2011,·30 mins
Lyse Doucet asks diplomats and politicians how we should engage with brutal regimes.
15 Aug 2011,·30 mins
Poet Brenda Birungi shares personal accounts of criminal justice that's failing women.
23 Apr 2020,·28 mins
Phill Jupitus investigates the social importance of 2 Tone music in Britain.
05 Apr 2008,·30 mins
Sarfraz Manzoor meets Dolly Parton to discover her 'Imagination Library'
23 Jul 2011,·30 mins
Neighbourhood Crime
On a spring day in May 1972 Alabama governor George Wallace was shot in Maryland
01 May 2006,·22 mins
Trevor Cox asks whether computers can ever be truly creative.
15 May 2014,·30 mins
Yes. No. Don't Know: Three choices that sparked a 24-hour landmark in Scottish theatre.
04 Nov 2014,·30 mins
A portrait of the life, popular art and remarkable engineering of Carters Steam Fair.
25 May 2011,·28 mins
How Tarzan has enjoyed 100 years swinging through the jungle of popular culture.
27 Feb 2012,·30 mins
Part 2
Amica Dall and Giles Smith look at our relationship with the material world.
08 Nov 2018,·28 mins
Violence and tribalism at music gigs in the late 70s and 80s. Adrian Goldberg presents.
10 Sep 2015,·30 mins
Religious Uniform
Do they bring the wearer closer to God or distance them from their congregation?
26 Jun 1992,·13 mins
How the cowboy has influenced generations of American musicians and movie makers
12 Jun 2000,·23 mins
Aminatta Forna tells the extraordinary story of hard-living writer Jack London.
20 Nov 2014,·30 mins
