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...
Donald Macleod defines some of the characteristics of the Opera-Comique genre.
Andrew Brown on astronomer Johannes Kepler's science fiction novella Somnium: The D...
Ian McMillan's word cabaret features poet Arto Vaun and improvisation by School of...
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.
Pam Ayres presents more of her own poetry and sketches. From June 2004.
Brian Matthew celebrates British dance bands with a profile of Jack Hylton.
Looking at the importance of radio in western swing's success.