Michael Palin asks James Peak to write him some limericks. What could possibly go wrong?
28 Dec 2018,·28 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
Wayne Sleep
Dancer Wayne Sleep talks about his life and career
31 May 1995,·27 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
Bonnie St John
Being an amputee since five-years-old doesn't stop American Bonnie St John
30 Dec 2003,·22 mins
How Tarzan has enjoyed 100 years swinging through the jungle of popular culture.
27 Feb 2012,·30 mins
Christopher Maltman debates the place of folk song in the classical recital repertoire.
24 Apr 2012,·30 mins
Michael Symmons Roberts celebrates John Donne’s great poem of spring, Love’s Growth.
02 Apr 2024,·28 mins
Moby-Dick was made in England. Paul Farley tells a story of fast fish and loose fish.
08 Feb 2016,·28 mins
Caroline Bird uncovers poet Michael Field, AKA Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper.
13 Jun 2021,·28 mins
Museum of the Future
V&A Director Tristram Hunt asks how museums are changing
31 Jan 2020,·28 mins
JW Lambert presents a programme exploring the life and work of George Bernard Shaw
15 Dec 1979,·45 mins
Nick Hennessey explores the mythical world of Finland's national poem, The Kalevala.
27 Dec 2009,·30 mins
Much Depends on Dinner
Canadian Margaret Visser whose most famous book on food doesn't contain a single recipe
10 Apr 1991,·13 mins
A tribute to the broadcaster David Frost, who died in August 2013.
25 Dec 2013,·28 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
How the American record industry responded to the assassination of President Kennedy.
05 Dec 2015,·30 mins
Yasmeen Khan reports on the Turkish community in the United Kingdom.
28 Sep 2011,·30 mins
Diamonds
The toughest substance made by nature has been sought after since the dawn of time
01 Oct 1995,·13 mins
Amol Rajan asks if England's old Imperial guidance and governance of cricket is history.
26 May 2017,·30 mins
Stewart Lee uncovers the pioneers of surrealism subverting reality in Birmingham's suburbs
01 Aug 2023,·28 mins
From banned writer to ping pong fanatic, Henry Miller rediscovered afresh in Big Sur, USA
25 Jul 2013,·30 mins
An interrupted documentary about copyright law, told through a single song.
13 Aug 2024,·28 mins
Llais y Maes
Blas ar noson o bop pur, wrth i Diffiniad, Eden a Lleden berfformio yn Gig y Pafiliwn.
08 Aug 2019,·153 mins
On Border Patrol – Philip Ruddock, Australian Immigration Minister
Australia needs to keep control of its borders, says Philip Ruddock, Immigration Minister
26 Jul 2003,·26 mins
The historical, traditional, religious, and political significance of the veil
17 Sep 1990,·44 mins
