In 1892 Maugham enrolled at St Thomas' medical school, but his heart wasn't in it.
Claudia Hammond talks to the eminent child psychiatrist Professor Sir Michael Rutte...
Russell Davies chairs the fourth heat of the perennial general knowledge contest.
Stephanie Flanders examines the arguments over the meltdown of the global financial...
Michael Robinson examines the latest tricks which some banks are using to increase...
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Siege of Münster in 1534-35.
How Spain's one million-strong British expatriate community are weathering the rece...
Laurie Taylor explores white collar crime. What exactly is it, who commits it and w...
In their valedictories, diplomats recount the hardships of foreign service.
Poet and closet campanologist Ian McMillan spends a day among Whitechapel's foundry...
John Hegley presents a poetic meditation on the M1, the transport backbone of Brita...
Thomas Franke travels with the German army to Kosovo to observe the peacekeeping fo...
Prof Vickery explores home education from the perspective of mother and child.
Andrew Marr with Daniel Kramer, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Clare Lockhart and Quenti...