How two physicists linked the problem of interference on their TV screen to the Big...
Why a hair of the dog works; how a 5,000-year-old pot could show early animation.
Featuring an inventor who was strangled by his own invention. Read by Toby Longwort...
An increasingly affluent and confident Britain is rocked by the Suez crisis.
A new era of affluence is fuelled by an advertising boom and the arrival of commerc...
By Anita Sullivan. Rumours remain about missions that went wrong and were never rep...
On Riceyman Steps, a secondhand bookseller contemplates a change to his circumstanc...
Impetuous and headstrong Bella Wilfer finally takes a stand.
George Smiley is called out of retirement to seek out a mole at the heart of the Ci...
By Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. Graham Slater has 200 billion pounds to get rid...
Kirsty Young's castaway is the singer-songwriter Morrissey.
The future looks bleak for Peggy.
An irreverent look at the world through scientists' eyes. With Brian Cox and Robin...
The week's events in Ambridge.
Michael Dobbs' play follows Margaret Thatcher's last traumatic days in power.
Clive Anderson is joined by Dara O'Briain, Adrian Noble and Ruth Wilson.
Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate from Tidworth in Wiltshire.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young M...
Russell Davies chairs the eighth heat of the perennial general knowledge contest.
Mike Thomson on Churchill's desperate efforts to keep Spain out of the Second World...
With Jane Garvey. Including cabaret star Camille O'Sullivan, and men and depression...