Philip Dodd talks to Zadie Smith about her new collection of essays Changing My Min...
Jonathan Keates on Purcell and the different monarchs for whom he worked.
Story about a weary doctor called out at midnight in a blizzard to attend to a youn...
Donald Macleod surveys the requirements placed on composers to the royal family.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Ancient Greek city-state of Sparta.
Mark Lawson interviews writer Alan Bennett.
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...