Presented by Anne McElvoy. With a review of Tchaikovsky's opera The Tsarina's Slipp...
A debate about the importance of the rivers of the North East: the Tyne, Tees and W...
Philip Dodd talks to Zadie Smith about her new collection of essays Changing My Min...
Anne McElvoy discusses Vladimir Nabokov's previously unpublished final novel.
Lucie Skeaping presents a programme of organ music by Purcell and his contemporarie...
Nicholas Kenyon on how Purcell's music has been preserved, revived and interpreted.
Ian McMillan presents. Featuring Muriel Spark's work and singer-songwriter Sean Tay...
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Ancient Greek city-state of Sparta.
Mark Lawson interviews writer Alan Bennett.
Pam Ayres gets away from it all. Helping her are Felicity Montagu and Geoffrey Whit...
Jonathan Ross tells the story of one of the biggest UK bands of the 80s.
Curtis Stigers remembers clarinettist and bandleader Benny Goodman in his centenary...
Asleep at the Wheel frontman Ray Benson charts the history of Western Swing music.