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The life of Louis Armstrong as told through his archive of tape recordings.
12 Dec 1998,·60 mins
Can there be too many cellists? How Jacqueline du Pré created a surfeit of cellists!
27 Aug 2015,·30 mins
Tayo Popoola explores Nigeria's enduring love of Jim Reeves and country and western music.
07 Nov 2017,·49 mins
Welcome to United Zingdom
Zing Tsjeng wants to know what being British is all about.
09 Mar 2020,·3 mins
Should friendship, rather than romance, be the cornerstone of life?
16 Aug 2023,·28 mins
Loneliness
The sounds of the historic and influential city, through its music, life, noise and people
10 mins
Our Tune: Trump and Musk
Broadcaster Simon Bates gives a special rendition of Our Tune.
08 Jun 2025,·5 mins
Educate yourself
Sayeeda Warsi speaks to Shahmir Sanni about being outed in full public gaze.
28 Oct 2019,·29 mins
David Attenborough hosts a documentary game-show about the bird impersonator.
04 Mar 2009,·30 mins
Michael White uncovers the life of the soprano singer Jennifer Vyvyan.
18 Aug 2011,·30 mins
Ginger Beer
How to prepare a kid from a queer family for a straight world.
06 Jul 2020,·19 mins
Meet 80 year olds Mo and Jo, who recently became honorary Gurkhas.
20 Mar 2016,·30 mins
Diego the school therapy dog
Diego goes into school and helps students with regulating their emotions.
28 Jul 2023,·3 mins
Clarke Peters recalls the 1987 production of James Baldwin's The Amen Corner.
22 Apr 2021,·28 mins
Catherine Bott tells the story of Nancy Storace, an English star who worked with Mozart.
16 Oct 2014,·30 mins
Michael Palin's story of a group of refugees welcomed to Somerset.
13 Mar 2016,·30 mins
Jarvis Cocker celebrates the life and work of literary wunderkind Carson McCullers.
06 Feb 2016,·30 mins
Ukrainian comedian Anton Tymoshenko explains what he's learned about comedy through war.
06 Oct 2022,·28 mins
Iran
Life as an Iranian language teacher and the practicalites of teaching in exile
14 Mar 2000,·13 mins
Alternative Medicine
What is alternative medicine?
13 Mar 1990,·27 mins
How did the Great War shape the life of historian Arnold J Toynbee?
16 Oct 2017,·30 mins
Three Booker Prize winners give their view on Margaret Thatcher's influence on fiction.
18 Jun 2015,·30 mins
Teachers take a journey to Bangladesh to find out about the culture of their pupils
21 Jan 2000,·27 mins
Richard Langham Smith on the songs Debussy wrote for his muse Madame Vasnier.
10 Jan 2012,·30 mins
Decades after his death, why does Sun Ra continue to inspire an obsessive following?
19 Jun 2014,·30 mins
Pam dwi'n trafod rhywedd yn y dafarn yn Llanuwchllyn
Meilir Rhys yn siarad am rywedd a'i rywioldeb a pham ei fod yn gwrthod y labeli taclus.
04 Aug 2021,·38 mins
Series 3
Andrea Levy
Novelist Andrea Levy goes back to her adult education writing class with John Wilson.
26 Jul 2011,·15 mins
Laurie Anderson profiles one of the most original writers and thinkers of the 20th century
04 Mar 2008,·30 mins
A powerful montage of voices from the homeless in San Francisco
11 Aug 2006,·22 mins
Taslima Nasrin - Bangladesh
Taslima Nasrin, an author and feminist in Bangladesh who has condemned Islamic law there
16 Feb 1999,·28 mins
