Janet Todd on Mary Wollstonecraft and the character and writings of Jean-Jacques Ro...
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.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Ancient Greek city-state of Sparta.
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...
Kirsty Young's castaway is Sir Stuart Rose, executive chairman of Marks and Spencer...
Delving into the seamier side of politics to consider the line where fact meets fic...
Clive James reflects on the revelation of the identity of Belle de Jour.
Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal finance.
The case of a young farm labourer who shot his wife dead with a sawn-off gun in 193...
The first coffeehouse opens in Oxford and signals the beginning of a new age of rea...
Vincent Duggleby and a panel of guests answer calls on pensions.