The Czech prime minister Ladislav Adamec resigns.
East Germany's leader Egon Krenz resigns.
Mrs Thatcher faces her first leadership challenge.
The Soviet government joins in condemnation of its own invasion of Czechoslovakia i...
George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev declare that the Cold War is over.
Bush and Gorbachev begin their summit in Malta.
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the Vatican.
Critic Waldemar Januszczak on the public's U-turn on the Turner Prize and modern ar...
A ship that repaired itself, and how the earliest telephones worked without bells.
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...
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Silk Road, the trade routes which spanned Asia.
Jolyon Jenkins investigates the Moorgate tube crash of February 1975.
Paul Merton celebrates 50 years of Ronnie Scott's jazz club.
Would a new name for schizophrenia help destigmatise the condition?
Clive James warns of the dangers of a new plan for calculating funding for universi...
With Jenni Murray. Delia Smith answers listeners' questions about Christmas caterin...
Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal finance.
Eddie Mair takes listeners' responses to this week's Any Questions?
Kirsty Young's castaway is the Attorney General, Baroness Scotland.