A debate at the 2009 Free Thinking festival asking what sort of future lies ahead f...
Philip Dodd talks to director Richard Linklater about his film Me and Orson Welles.
Matthew Sweet reviews an all-star version of Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin...
Presented by Rana Mitter. With writer and film-maker Tariq Ali.
Alexander Brodie examines Adam Smith's observations on morality and human behaviour...
Billy Bragg on the Victorian music hall, considered Britain's original urban folk m...
A selection of poems by metaphysical poets including Donne, George Herbert and Marv...
Murder, lust, madness and mayhem in a Jacobean classic set in 1920s Spain.
Stile Antico perform Renaissance swansongs at the 2009 York Early Music Festival.
Comedian Sanjeev Bhaskar celebrates Monty Python's The Life of Brian.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Silk Road, the trade routes which spanned Asia.
Paul Merton celebrates 50 years of Ronnie Scott's jazz club.
Peggy Reynolds investigates the layers of mystery surrounding Larkin's much-loved p...
Kirsty Young's castaway is the singer-songwriter Morrissey.