Will UK party politics be transformed by new media and digital technology?
The telescope is blasted into space; can it bring discovery for the waiting astrono...
Featuring Gwyneth the call-centre girl, Sandrine the radio host and Olga the ex-tyr...
The internal combustion engine, hailed as the answer to pollution in London, is bor...
Lynda has some lessons in parenting.
Jack Dee chairs. Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined by Rob...
Sandi Toksvig chairs. With Jeremy Hardy, Francis Wheen, Carrie Quinlan and Sue Perk...
Ian gets an exercise in diplomacy.
Psychological drama by Trevor Preston. Thomas' dreams are like thriller plots.
Jo Caulfiled fails to shut up about Scotland, Scotsmen and a little tea shop in Dun...
Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament.
By Agatha Christie. Hercule Poirot investigates when a woman is murdered on a train...
With Michael Portillo, Matthew Taylor, Melanie Phillips and Clifford Longley.
The week's events in Ambridge.
Lilian's patience is tested to the limit.
Silas Wegg is determined to find a copy of old Harmon's will.
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In Czechoslovakia, demonstrators keep up the pressure for free elections.
In Prague, tens of thousands continue their protest for the sixth day in Wenceslas Square.
MPs relish their day in the limelight as TV cameras are permitted in the House of Commons.
In Romania, Nicolae Ceausescu receives 67 standing ovations during a six-hour speech.
London ambulance workers continue their strike; New Kids on the Block reach number one.
Bulgaria witnesses its biggest demonstrations in 40 years; Lebanon's president is killed.
Rosie Goldsmith looks at how the infrastructure of Berlin was reunited after the Wall fell
Leading British politicians tell Anne McElvoy how the 1989 revolutions have shaped them.
Robert Frost's Mending Wall gave us the epigram 'good fences make good neighbours'.
Psychological drama by Trevor Preston. Thomas' dreams are like thriller plots.
By Lucy Caldwell. A family tries to come to terms with the loss of a daughter and sister.
By Louis Nowra. A boy and his young mother take to the road across Australia.
By David Hodgson. Greg's peace of mind is destroyed when his house is broken into.
The new home secretary in the Labour-Lib Dem government is determined to stray off message
By Andrew Smith. Ron Paget's automated garage door has gone berserk.
By Agatha Christie. Hercule Poirot investigates when a woman is murdered on a train.
By Christobel Kent. A spinster observes her fellow passengers on a journey to Paris.
Luke tries to move on from Hayley by going on a dinner date with an older woman.
Claudia Hammond hears the latest debate on the psychology behind adoption.
Matt Frei talks to National Public Radio's senior news analyst Cokie Roberts.
Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' responses to this week's Any Questions?
Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire.
Delving into the seamier side of politics to consider the line where fact meets fiction.
When Muriel sees a 'miraculous apparition', Phonsie is quick to seize on its potential.
Pip, Harry, Pippa and Ripely are reduced to abject poverty on the banks of the Thames.
There is one thing the General has forgotten for his shopping trip into town.
An auspicious meeting in a country lane brings together two keen but lonely musicians.
Louis de Bernieres' book of linked stories about a fictional Surrey village.
Thirty years on, Liesel has one more chance to experience the Glass Room.
When the Landauers' train is stopped in Occupied France, Viktor faces a devastating loss.
Keith was beginning to hate food and his excessive drinking was about to take its toll.
A new era of affluence is fuelled by an advertising boom and the arrival of commercial TV.
While Britain is spellbound by the Coronation, another royal soap opera is about to unfold
The core values of family and society begin to fray at the edges.
The Festival of Britain heralds the beginning of the end of austerity.