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.
Steven Soderbergh on the reasons he employed an adult film star in his latest drama...
Pam Ayres presents more of her own poetry and sketches. From June 2004.
Comedian Sanjeev Bhaskar celebrates Monty Python's The Life of Brian.
Huey Morgan tells the story of the Rolling Stones' 1969 Let It Bleed tour.
Brian Matthew celebrates British dance bands with a profile of Jack Hylton.
Looking at the importance of radio in western swing's success.
Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate from Stratford-upon-Avon.
The year Bob Marley spent driving a forklift truck in the Chrysler car factory in D...
Jolyon Jenkins investigates the Moorgate tube crash of February 1975.
Would a new name for schizophrenia help destigmatise the condition?
A ship that repaired itself, and how the earliest telephones worked without bells.
Clive James warns of the dangers of a new plan for calculating funding for universi...