Janet Todd considers Mary Wollstonecraft alongside other great Enlightenment thinke...
Nicholas Kenyon on how Purcell's music has been preserved, revived and interpreted.
Andrew Pinnock on how Purcell's skills as an entrepreneur helped enhance his reputa...
Roger Savage on Purcell's musical creations for the theatre.
Andrew Parrott on researching and performing Purcell's Hail! bright Cecilia.
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...
Asleep at the Wheel frontman Ray Benson charts the history of Western Swing music.
Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire.
Keith was beginning to hate food and his excessive drinking was about to take its t...
Claudia Hammond asks Martin Seligman if we can all be taught to be happy.
The engineers and astronomers approach the biggest milestone in their 20-year proje...
Jens Jarisch on the identity of several places in the former eastern sector of Berl...