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Simon Armitage explores the creative possibilities opened up by Oblique Strategies cards
13 Jun 2013,·30 mins
Caroline Nin listens to those drawn to sing the music of the legendary French performer.
17 Dec 2015,·30 mins
Disabled Christians carving out an empowering new ‘theology of disability’.
21 May 2019,·28 mins
An intimate glimpse of the Hong Kong protests, as experienced by a newlywed couple.
12 Nov 2019,·28 mins
Series 1
The Refrigeration Engineers
Lauren Laverne follows lives of three people who spent an intense period of time together.
21 Aug 2018,·28 mins
The Touch Test: Claudia Hammond launches a major new study investigating the role of touch
21 Jan 2020,·42 mins
Kate Williams explores the history and development of the modern winning smile
02 Jun 2012,·30 mins
Financial guru Alvin Hall returns to his Florida hometown.
23 Aug 2016,·30 mins
Music journalist Jackson Allers explores Arab Spring era hip-hop as a catalyst for change.
19 May 2015,·30 mins
Edward Stourton explores the tensions caused by the presence of two popes in the Vatican.
08 Nov 2022,·28 mins
Episode Five - The Future
Tech experts speak to Zoe Kleinman about the future of online content moderation.
15 Nov 2024,·14 mins
Alan Yentob marks the centenary of TS Eliot's poem, with a reading by Jeremy Irons.
02 Jun 2015,·43 mins
Jamie Dornan discovers what the BBC would say if he croaked it with Kathy Kiera Clarke.
17 Feb 2024,·28 mins
Laura Mvula reflects on the impact of Lauryn Hill’s debut album 25 years after its release
22 Aug 2023,·28 mins
The inside story of Keir Starmer's turbulent first year as Labour prime minister.
30 Jun 2025,·42 mins
Ukraine: Tetiana Chornovol
Lucy Ash talks Tetiana Chrnovol, a Ukrainian opposition journalist.
21 Feb 2014,·15 mins
Hand-digging a grave is a dying art. Cathy FitzGerald takes lessons.
08 Oct 2014,·28 mins
Hugh Thomson travels to Peru's ancient wonder to unearth the truth behind its discovery.
05 Oct 2011,·30 mins
How does the local council affect day-to-day lives of housing estate residents?
25 Sep 2017,·30 mins
The brutal war a century ago which transformed Russia's relations with the west.
20 Oct 2017,·28 mins
The perception and the reality of life in Ely, a big housing estate on the edge of Cardiff
07 Jan 2024,·28 mins
25/05/2018
Richard Dawson on the UK's engineering infrastructure, flooding and climate change.
25 May 2018,·15 mins
Author Bernard Hare recalls a terrifying childhood experience which changed his life.
09 Jun 2015,·15 mins
Episode 2
Can new government initiatives push the unemployed into work? Tom Heap investigates.
23 Jan 2012,·28 mins
Natalie Haynes explores why overthrowing a government by force is not as easy as it looks.
29 Jan 2023,·28 mins
Peter White asks if blind children who go to mainstream schools get too much support.
03 Oct 2016,·28 mins
Alex Bellos looks at the science behind learning maths and if school lessons reflect this.
05 Feb 2014,·28 mins
Lauren Laverne explores how artists treat the relationship between mums and sons.
11 Mar 2018,·28 mins
Radio 4 observes National Theatre director Rufus Norris prepare an original Brexit drama.
09 Mar 2017,·30 mins
Sasha Tsaliuk fights for his Moscow A Capella Jewish choir in a rapidly changing Russia.
06 Jan 2015,·30 mins
