Tayo Popoola explores Nigeria's enduring love of Jim Reeves and country and western music.
07 Nov 2017,·49 mins
Nick Barraclough celebrates the unsung singers.
23 May 2009,·30 mins
The making of the Us3 jazz hip-hop album Broadway & 52nd
08 Sep 1995,·44 mins
Kate Mossman tells the story of long-overlooked female music writers of the 1960s.
22 Mar 2016,·30 mins
The untold story of The Last Post, one of the world's most famous pieces of music.
11 Nov 2015,·26 mins
Is being tone-deaf a medical matter or simply a lack of training?
09 Sep 2011,·30 mins
Liverpool Music Month (25/05/2026)
Liverpool Music Month Special with guests Jamie Webster and Miles Kane.
25 May 2026,·240 mins
Marie-Louise Muir explores the significance of Van Morrison's Belfast gigs.
29 Sep 2015,·30 mins
"Engendering fear was a basic tool": a profile of Hungarian conductor Fritz Reiner
19 Mar 1994,·43 mins
Michael White uncovers the life of the soprano singer Jennifer Vyvyan.
18 Aug 2011,·30 mins
With Sam Mendes
Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes explores the relationship between music and cinema.
25 Oct 2015,·33 mins
Catherine Bott tells the story of Nancy Storace, an English star who worked with Mozart.
16 Oct 2014,·30 mins
Conductor Charles Hazlewood and Dr Brian May of Queen celebrate the Doppler effect.
15 Aug 2017,·30 mins
DJ Annie Nightingale looks at how Northern Soul music has become popular in Japan.
21 Sep 2013,·30 mins
Pink Floyd members explore the tragic mental breakdown of former front man Syd Barrett.
09 Jun 2011,·30 mins
Laura Mvula and Jason Yarde, Laura Jurd, Kevin Le Gendre discuss jazz legend Miles Davis.
17 Jan 2017,·30 mins
Richard Langham Smith on the songs Debussy wrote for his muse Madame Vasnier.
10 Jan 2012,·30 mins
Can Rev. Richard Coles write a new power ballad to rival Total Eclipse of the Heart?
18 Jul 2017,·30 mins
Decades after his death, why does Sun Ra continue to inspire an obsessive following?
19 Jun 2014,·30 mins
Nabihah Iqbal explores the variety of notes and scales used to make music across the globe
30 Aug 2022,·28 mins
Marc Riley traces the career of 70s electronic band Kraftwerk.
22 Nov 2007,·30 mins
Mike Peters remembered by his wife Jules
Ahead of The Alarm frontman's funeral, Jules Peters reflects on his life and legacy.
8 mins
Rainer Hersch champions the most popular waltz Strauss ever wrote.
04 Oct 2016,·30 mins
Phill Jupitus investigates the social importance of 2 Tone music in Britain.
05 Apr 2008,·30 mins
Playing Castro's Tune
Episode 2
Is the economic pressure placed on Cuban musicians detrimental to the national culture?
06 Jan 2009,·30 mins
A musical portrait of how the jazz trumpeter Miles Davis became a painter in later life.
26 May 2016,·30 mins
Is it possible to take 93-year-old mountaineer Gwen Moffat climbing again?
30 Sep 2017,·29 mins
What happened to the musicians who poured their hopes and savings into a DIY 7" single?
15 Jan 2015,·28 mins
Courtney Pine explores John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, fifty years after its release.
10 Feb 2015,·30 mins
The story of the great Victorian organ builder 'Father' Henry Willis.
05 Apr 2011,·30 mins
