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Nigel Slater's Simple Cooking
Cookery series featuring Nigel Slater as he explores classic culinary pairings
BBC One
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Picking Round Apples
Steve Carver lives the life of a seasonal apple picker on a farm in Herefordshire.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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How to Build a Dinosaur
Dr Alice Roberts finds out how the experts put dinosaur skeletons back together.
BBC Four
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The Chalet School
Crime writer Val McDermid on how boarding school novels inspired her to be a writer.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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The Paper Round
Public figures revisit their paper round route and reveal how it influenced their lives
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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After I Was Gorgeous
Some of the world's most beautiful women discuss the ageing process.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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The Call of the Arab Spring
Zubeida Malik meets young British Arabs who took part in the Arab uprisings.
BBC Radio 4
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Ayckbourn in Action
An exploration of playwright Alan Ayckbourn's directing career.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Planet Dinosaur
The stories of the biggest, deadliest and weirdest creatures ever to walk the Earth.
BBC One
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The Price of Power
Jonathan Freedland addresses the knotty problem of MPs' pay and conditions.
BBC Radio 4
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Reader's Digest: Trouble in Pleasantville
John Waite asks why one of the world's most successful publishers has hit hard times.
BBC Radio 4
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Hearing the Past
Jim Al-Khalili explores what the past would have sounded like to our ancestors.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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New Conversation
Olivia O'Leary follows historian Theodore Zeldin in the quest to reform conversation.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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The Philosopher's Arms
Matthew Sweet examines philosophical problems with a live audience in a pub
BBC Radio 4
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British Muslims - In the Shadow of 9/11
Navid Akhtar explores the British Muslim experience in the ten years since the 9/11 attack
BBC Radio 4
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The Class Ceiling
Polly Toynbee explores how possible it is to move up through British society
BBC Radio 4
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What's Eating The Museum?
The battle to save museum collections from insect pests.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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The Kill Factor
Stephen Evans examines how soldiers are taught to kill and asks what it does to them.
BBC Radio 4
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Cat Women of the Moon
Sarah Hall explores the popular sci-fi motif of an all-women society surviving without men
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Generation E
Lucy Ash sees how young Europeans are facing up to a time of economic and political crisis
BBC Radio 4
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Domesday Reloaded - Me and My Square
Five Radio 4 presenters return to a place that had special significance for them in 1986
BBC Radio 4
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The Peace Corps Writers
Bridget Kendall evaluates America's 'missionaries of democracy' in the Peace Corps.
BBC Radio 4
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Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad
Story of the email friendship between a British journalist and an Iraq-based academic
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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The British Caste Conundrum
Paul Sinha finds some British Asians believe caste discrimination is alive and well in UK.
BBC Radio 4
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Ibiza: Britain's Balearic Soul
Dr Kate O'Brien explores Ibiza's subtle influence over British youth culture and nightlife
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Treating Tumours: Old Drug, New Tricks
An old antidepressant has unexpected anticancer properties, but no-one is developing it.
BBC Radio 4
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Hemingway Days
Wayne Hemingway celebrates the lives of 1950s designers, Robin and Lucienne Day.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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How to Write a Personal Statement
A personal statement is crucial for university. What should it say, asks Imogen Stubbs?
BBC Radio 4
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Opening the Boxes: a Soprano's Secrets
Michael White uncovers the life of the soprano singer Jennifer Vyvyan.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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The Path of Least Resistance
As antibiotic resistance increases, Dr Stuart Flanagan investigates what the future holds.
BBC Radio 4
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The First 1000 Days: A Legacy for Life
Dr Mark Porter on whether adult health is determined by the first thousand days of life
BBC Radio 4
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Slums 101
Paul Mason visits Manila to assess the benefits of life in the world's poorest slums.
BBC Radio 4
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In Our Own Image - Evolving Humanity
Adam Rutherford asks how talking, travelling and technology affect human genetic evolution
BBC Radio 4
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A Guide to Farmland Birds
How to recognise birds of the British countryside from their appearance, calls and songs
BBC Radio 4
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Taking Tea with Tyrants
Lyse Doucet asks diplomats and politicians how we should engage with brutal regimes.
BBC Radio 4
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Too Many Books
The personal stories and painful decisions we face when getting rid of our old books.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Mr Suzuki's Bach Passion
Overthrowing centuries of musical tradition - and prejudice: the Japanese Bach revolution.
BBC Radio 4
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Interrail Tales
Miranda Sawyer on the impact of cheap European train travel on generations of Britons
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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The Art of Water Music
Midge Ure investigates water's role as a constantly flowing source of musical inspiration.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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The Sex Test
Chris Ledgard asks if gender testing will mean a level playing field for female athletes.
BBC Radio 4
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Giving the Critic Back His Voice
Ricky Ross discovers how one Scottish company is giving back the freedom of speech.
BBC Radio 4
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The Barbershop
Stephen Smith reports from inside the High Street 'freemasonry' of the barber's.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Generations Apart
Fi Glover presents the series that tracks people from two very different generations
BBC Radio 4
