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Samira Ahmed explores the life and work of writer Arnold Bennett.
23 Jun 2014,·30 mins
Donkey Therapy
Katie Thistleton meets survivors Jenny Howarth and Rob Grew.
18 May 2021,·23 mins
Peter Riddell explores the background to the many extraordinary moments of her premiership
08 Apr 2013,·58 mins
Sarah Ping examines what it means to be young and Chinese in Britain today.
08 Aug 2022,·28 mins
An insight into the life of Linard Davies, a baggage attendant at San Francisco airport.
25 Jun 2014,·30 mins
Series 1
Jimmy Cricket
Owen O'Neill meets fellow comedian Jimmy Cricket in west Belfast, where he grew up.
22 Jul 2017,·30 mins
Tim Whewell explores truth and myth in one of the great tales of adventure and endurance.
05 Dec 2010,·30 mins
Identical twin sisters talk about their different choices to follow Islam and Christianity
21 Apr 2009,·45 mins
John Humphrys visits the Greek home of travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor.
22 Jun 2015,·30 mins
Return Journey – to Lagos and Prison
Wole Soyinka recounts the consequences of his attempt to defuse the Nigerian civil war
01 Nov 2007,·22 mins
In Desperate Calls, Matthew tracks how his gambling addiction really took hold.
19 Mar 2023,·28 mins
The secret lives of Catholic priests' children.
31 Mar 2020,·37 mins
Episode 3
Matthew Oates follows in the footsteps of writer Edward Thomas.
31 Mar 2013,·15 mins
The incredible story of Ivan Skyba.
30 Aug 2022,·37 mins
Gyles Brandreth discovers what it takes to become a national treasure.
28 Dec 2011,·30 mins
Steve Walker investigates the murder of his brother Delroy after his return to Jamaica
28 Apr 2020,·37 mins
Exploring the legacy of musician and broadcaster Jack Jackson.
27 Oct 2011,·30 mins
How Jayne Mansfield shook up the northern club scene before she died.
30 Apr 2011,·30 mins
Einstein said the most joy in his life came from his violin. Brian Foster investigates.
09 Dec 2007,·15 mins
Poet Jackie Kay tells the story of Zora Neale Hurston's literary rebirth.
17 Apr 2017,·30 mins
Graffiti and the City
Street-Artist “Paz” and Cllr Jeffrey Bomford meet and discuss their differences.
05 Jun 2019,·21 mins
Nick Clarke's widow Barbara Want investigates how we as a society deal with bereavement.
12 May 2008,·30 mins
John Cooper Clarke looks back at the life of broadcaster and folk singer, Ewan MacColl.
22 Jan 2015,·30 mins
"Better education means better beekeeping" says Reginald Gamble in Backs to the Land, 1945
30 Oct 1969,·28 mins
Lee Mack's fascinating look at Sid James's lesser-known work.
29 Apr 2013,·30 mins
12. Kirstie Bavington: fighting for equality
Wolverhampton boxer Kirstie Bavington speaks to Heather Fisher about her career so far.
06 Aug 2024,·25 mins
Percelle Ascott
Percelle Ascott joins Yianni to break down the hustle of the acting business and more.
05 Jan 2023,·36 mins
Author Bernard Hare recalls a terrifying childhood experience which changed his life.
09 Jun 2015,·15 mins
Ayatollah Khomeini
Portrait of Iran's religious leader Ayatollah Khomeini, made a year after the revolution
01 Oct 1983,·16 mins
How 3 months in rural Devon influenced one of the greatest chroniclers of urban New York
18 Feb 2016,·28 mins
