How do we Talk about Illness?
How we talk about disease and illness. Why do people find it difficult to say "cancer"?
01 Nov 1994,·13 mins
Come Together
Three more students raise the curtain on their final year at performing arts school.
13 Dec 2016,·28 mins
How the pioneering nurse and heroine of the Crimean War overcame a double prejudice
19 Nov 1994,·12 mins
Jonathan Glancey explores how libraries in Europe and the USA are being reinvented.
10 May 2012,·28 mins
Football and Fishermen
Roderick Williams investigates what our opera history tells us about British identity.
25 Nov 2020,·28 mins
James Watkins explores the impact of The Godfather movie on his life and work.
31 Mar 2022,·28 mins
The Comedy Episode
Miranda Sawyer talks to Richard Herring, Adam Buxton, Tim Batt and Guy Montgomery.
28 Nov 2015,·30 mins
Allan Little analyses some of the factors that have given Cuba such a prominent image.
30 Dec 2008,·40 mins
It's Your World
Listeners give their opinions about programmes
18 Sep 1986,·13 mins
Mat Fraser meets the former showgirls coming out of retirement and getting back on stage.
23 Nov 2015,·30 mins
A visit to Holland's global flower market, and a high tech glasshouse outside the Hague
07 Jun 1994,·27 mins
A look at the life and work of Amitabh Bachchan, the biggest star in Bollywood
27 Oct 2012,·30 mins
Episode 4
Peter Hennessy and guests discuss how a government is formed if there is a hung parliament
20 Mar 2015,·15 mins
Robert Macfarlane climbs a wintry Buachaille Etive Mor, guided by the words of WH Murray.
20 Mar 2022,·28 mins
Gerald Scarfe explores the Walt Disney Studio's activity during the Second World War.
02 Sep 2015,·30 mins
Exploring the darker side of the landscape and the revival of Folk Horror in the arts.
31 Oct 2019,·28 mins
Richard Coles on the various ways that the voice of God is depicted, and what this reveals
02 Jul 2012,·28 mins
From literature to politics, we hear how Schubert has been claimed by different movements.
25 Mar 2012,·44 mins
The Anglican Church in Crisis
With a declining congregation and aging clergy, can the Anglican church balance the books
17 Jul 1995,·13 mins
Acoustics expert Trevor Cox goes in search of the best venues for different types of music
22 Sep 2014,·30 mins
Professor David Cannadine argues historians and politicians have overplayed the class card
21 Sep 2020,·28 mins
Joe Jacobs is a failing rapper trying to make a career as a stand-up comedian.
Emmy the Great seeks musical inspiration from the ghosts of the school toilets.
15 Sep 2020,·28 mins
Was graffiti the great art of the 70s? Some of New York's pioneers share their stories.
07 Aug 2014,·30 mins
Women bishops? Will the Church of England approve them and can it cope with the fallout?
01 Jul 2012,·28 mins
The story of the portrait of a private soldier's sweetheart, painted for him in Auschwitz.
18 May 2011,·30 mins
The Strange Tale of Lafcadio Hearn
Journalist Richard Dowden visits Japan to trace the life of his extraordinary ancestor
09 Jun 1999,·28 mins
John Lloyd of the FT on the future of journalism after the phone hacking scandal.
09 Oct 2011,·30 mins
The remarkable English composer who refused to submit to Victorian expectations
13 Aug 1994,·42 mins
Matthew Bannister reports from South Africa on the final days of the apartheid regime
26 Jun 1989,·29 mins
