Yes. No. Don't Know: Three choices that sparked a 24-hour landmark in Scottish theatre.
04 Nov 2014,·30 mins
Part 2
Amica Dall and Giles Smith look at our relationship with the material world.
08 Nov 2018,·28 mins
Religious Uniform
Do they bring the wearer closer to God or distance them from their congregation?
26 Jun 1992,·13 mins
2. York Mystery Plays
Eavesdropping on actors and director as they prepare to stage the York Mystery Plays.
21 Jul 2016,·30 mins
Violence and tribalism at music gigs in the late 70s and 80s. Adrian Goldberg presents.
10 Sep 2015,·30 mins
Christopher Eccleston looks at the life and works of the Socialist playwright Jim Allen.
08 Jan 2015,·30 mins
Richard Coles on the inspiration to artists of darkness and the Northern lights in Norway.
19 Dec 2011,·30 mins
The strange world of the travelling flea circus
17 Mar 1989,·6 mins
An Irish theatre group tours the Soviet Union and compares theatrical traditions
19 Oct 1986,·29 mins
His home's Bronze Age legacy and nearby Jodrell Bank inspire author Alan Garner to write.
21 May 2014,·30 mins
The story of Nigerian musician and political revolutionary, Fela Kuti.
31 May 2011,·30 mins
Henning Wehn explores the story of one of Monty Python's most bizarre adventures.
07 May 2011,·30 mins
Maroon: Tracking a Killer
How a terrible confession on a gaming server led to a nerve-shredding online manhunt.
28 Jan 2021,·23 mins
Is it possible to measure the quality of an artwork?
12 Sep 2017,·30 mins
Daljit Nagra explores the world of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem, Kubla Khan.
16 Oct 2022,·28 mins
Paul Morley on the 7 inch single's grand relative - the 12 inch - and its peak in the 80s.
01 Mar 2012,·30 mins
Nina Myskow talks to Rufus and Martha Wainwright about their confessional songs.
09 Aug 2014,·30 mins
Once they made pop records. Now they're building a pyramid out of dead people.
20 Jan 2020,·28 mins
Fathers and Sons
Will Gompertz investigates the art-works in our homes, and the stories they tell about us.
04 Aug 2014,·30 mins
Glenda Jackson presents a documentary in Paris of France's great writer–Emile Zola.
16 Nov 2015,·30 mins
Conrad Black
The Canadian owner of the world's third-largest English-language newspaper empire
24 Aug 1994,·29 mins
Is the Future one World, one Language?
More than half the world's 6,000 languages are dying out. Are we losing our differences?
15 May 2000,·13 mins
How the Marshall Plan rebuilt Europe out of the ruins of the Second World War
19 Jul 1994,·28 mins
Episode 4
Poet laureate Simon Armitage's last days in the Arctic in search of facts and new poems.
31 Oct 2023,·28 mins
Philip Hensher explores the art of the gloriously eccentric Molesworth books.
28 Mar 2016,·30 mins
Henning Wehn investigates 'Ostrock' - the East German rock and pop music scene.
28 Apr 2011,·30 mins
Laurie Anderson profiles one of the most original writers and thinkers of the 20th century
04 Mar 2008,·30 mins
Series 2
Beyond the Security Fence
Adil Ray looks at life through the camera lens of an urban explorer.
09 Oct 2011,·15 mins
Robin Denselow profiles musician Youssou N'Dour as he reaches his 50th birthday.
19 Sep 2009,·30 mins
Tavistock
Ian is in Tavistock in Devon, a thriving town but without much work for youngsters.
20 Jan 2023,·14 mins