Miles Warde explores the life of American photographer Ansel Adams
18 Aug 2014,·30 mins
An immersive 80th birthday encounter with film-maker and artist Peter Greenaway.
29 Sep 2022,·28 mins
Nabihah Iqbal explores the variety of notes and scales used to make music across the globe
30 Aug 2022,·28 mins
04/11/2016
Nick Berkeley shows how song lyrics can help articulate and negotiate our lives.
04 Nov 2016,·12 mins
Cardiac
Paul Farley follows the path of a heart valve from its Milan manufacturers to a UK patient
14 Aug 2013,·28 mins
Omnibus
Round-up of five works by artists broadcast throughout the week on BBC Radio 4.
30 Mar 2013,·28 mins
Laura Barton travels to New York to meet the women writers of the Beat Generation.
29 Jun 2015,·30 mins
Art critic Rachel Campbell-Johnston, explores the mysterious world of art attribution.
07 Nov 2011,·30 mins
The State Occasion
The history of the British state occasion, such as the opening of parliament
13 Jun 1988,·29 mins
Hamilton
Billy Differ explores some of the Scottish connections with the musical hit Hamilton.
25 Dec 2023,·55 mins
Laurie Anderson profiles one of the most original writers and thinkers of the 20th century
04 Mar 2008,·30 mins
Philip Hensher explores the art of the gloriously eccentric Molesworth books.
28 Mar 2016,·30 mins
How the Marshall Plan rebuilt Europe out of the ruins of the Second World War
19 Jul 1994,·28 mins
Conrad Black
The Canadian owner of the world's third-largest English-language newspaper empire
24 Aug 1994,·29 mins
An Irish theatre group tours the Soviet Union and compares theatrical traditions
19 Oct 1986,·29 mins
Violence and tribalism at music gigs in the late 70s and 80s. Adrian Goldberg presents.
10 Sep 2015,·30 mins
Part 2
Amica Dall and Giles Smith look at our relationship with the material world.
08 Nov 2018,·28 mins
Yes. No. Don't Know: Three choices that sparked a 24-hour landmark in Scottish theatre.
04 Nov 2014,·30 mins
Phill Jupitus investigates the social importance of 2 Tone music in Britain.
05 Apr 2008,·30 mins
25/12/2015
In the last in the series, Roger tries some Korean food for Christmas Day.
25 Dec 2015,·14 mins
Meet the men who were directed by a vision to make sugar from cane juice in Providence
22 Aug 2003,·22 mins
The history and politics of gift-giving
15 Dec 1993,·28 mins
Is it possible to take 93-year-old mountaineer Gwen Moffat climbing again?
30 Sep 2017,·29 mins
How to have meaningful conversations across the class divide, with Kerry Hudson.
02 Mar 2020,·28 mins
Courtney Pine explores John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, fifty years after its release.
10 Feb 2015,·30 mins
Late Learners
David Willetts argues that we should make it easier for people to come back to education.
01 Jan 2016,·14 mins
José Andrés
Katty talks to world renowned chef and restaurateur, José Andrés.
25 Jan 2024,·24 mins
In the port of Astoria, Oregon, Katrina Porteous reports on the Fisher Poets Gathering.
04 May 2014,·30 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
