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BBC National Short Story Award 2025
You Cannot Thread a Moving Needle by Colwill Brown
Colwill Brown's powerful story is a contender for the BBC National Short Story Award.
19 Sep 2025,·28 mins
Ep 6: Afterlife
The last in the series in which Ian Hislop and Helen Lewis celebrate Orwell and Kafka.
09 Jun 2024,·28 mins
Do theme parks offer good career opportunities?
Olly Mann considers some of the jobs that might be on offer once the theme park opens.
13 Jul 2026,·40 mins
Series 1
Episode 8-and-a-half: Extraordinary collateral consequences
An update on Joseph Mahmoud Dibee.
10 Nov 2022,·20 mins
The Boating Party by Mary Cassatt
A long, slow look at great artworks, photographed in extraordinary detail.
28 Apr 2026,·28 mins
The Road to Nineteen Eighty-Four
What led avowed socialist George Orwell to write a novel that is beloved of the Right?
09 Feb 2013,·58 mins
Episode 5: The Flickering
Five original essays on how the mysterious is woven into the ordinary and the everyday.
18 Jul 2025,·14 mins
4. The end of the beginning
What happens when one side of the nature nurture equation is a mystery?
10 Feb 2026,·23 mins
Janice Hallett
The award-winning writer speaks to a Bookclub audience about her debut novel, The Appeal.
02 Aug 2026,·28 mins
Aisle of Shame with Fern Brady
Alison, Kerry and Fern hear amazing audience stories on weird and wonderful subjects
11 Apr 2023,·54 mins
Part 2
Novelist Eimear McBride looks at how artists and performers depict sexual consent.
07 Feb 2019,·28 mins
Miwsig o'r Maes
Nos Sadwrn
Cyfle i fwynhau uchafbwyntiau o berfformiadau byw Eisteddfod Genedlaethol y Garreg Las.
08 Aug 2026,·180 mins
10. No Frills Air Travel
Robert Carlyle takes us back to moments we missed in the 90s that shaped the world today.
13 May 2022,·14 mins
10. The Jungle Book & EPCOT
Mel Giedroyc explores Walt Disney’s final film, The Jungle Book.
29 Jun 2023,·28 mins
Why Object?
The last programme in Ian Hislop's series celebrating great works of sedition and dissent.
30 Aug 2018,·30 mins
Claire M Singer, Harry Christophers
Tom Service talks to organist Claire M Singer and conductor Harry Christophers.
30 Mar 2024,·44 mins
6. Dogs Of War
After a BBC documentary is broadcast, James Watt and BrewDog fight back.
21 Jun 2022,·32 mins
Helen Lewis Has Left the Chat
Left the Chat: No 6. The Telegram War
How one messaging app became Vladimir Putin’s nemesis - and perhaps his secret weapon.
08 May 2024,·28 mins
Kathleen Jamie
Frank views the world from a tree house, with the fabulous Kathleen Jamie
13 May 2026,·41 mins
Tallia Storm: Being Savage And Sweet
Tallia Storm spills the tea on storming out of a Celebs Go Dating date.
27 Oct 2020,·35 mins
5. Harry and Meghan leave the UK
What was behind their decision to step back as senior royals?
06 Jan 2022,·42 mins
The American Dream
Episode seven: the pursuit of the American dream
02 Dec 1993,·27 mins
The Nest, The Truth, The Bass Rock, Cranach at Compton Verney and Home Entertainment Recommendations
Review of the new BBC One surrogacy drama, The Nest.
21 Mar 2020,·46 mins
Robots and reality
The advance of domestic robots
25 Oct 2025,·49 mins
Horoscopes
Has Scarlett finally managed to make Scott a believer? What do their horoscopes mean?
09 Jun 2023,·36 mins
Episode 2
British musician and poet Akala examines the culture of his Rastafarian heritage.
29 Jul 2014,·30 mins
Getting Chippy
Greg James digs into the BBC's archives, using current stories as a portal to the past.
14 Feb 2026,·28 mins
Sleeper Train
A collage of rhythm and movement as overnight trains weave their way across Ukraine.
25 Feb 2024,·30 mins
Poetry to keep you afloat
Poetry to help navigate storms, rivers and seas with body and mind.
28 Jun 2026,·41 mins
5. Families of the Future
Some thoughts on alternatives to traditional, nuclear family structures.
28 Nov 2025,·14 mins
