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.
Record libel damages are awarded to the Conservative peer Lord Aldington.
Margaret Thatcher and Anthony Meyer submit their nominations for the Tory leadershi...
The Czech leadership are forced to resign but demonstrators in Prague keep up the p...
Featuring an inventor who was strangled by his own invention. Read by Toby Longwort...
Matt Frei talks to Garrison Keillor about Thanksgiving and all things American.
Mike Thomson on Churchill's desperate efforts to keep Spain out of the Second World...
Kirsty Young's castaway is the singer-songwriter Morrissey.
An irreverent look at the world through scientists' eyes. With Brian Cox and Robin...
Jolyon Jenkins investigates the Moorgate tube crash of February 1975.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Silk Road, the trade routes which spanned Asia.
Would a new name for schizophrenia help destigmatise the condition?
With Jenni Murray. Delia Smith answers listeners' questions about Christmas caterin...
Ian Peacock explores time perception. Why does time seem to speed up the older you...
Paul Merton celebrates 50 years of Ronnie Scott's jazz club.
Russell Davies chairs the eighth heat of the perennial general knowledge contest.
Michael talks to ex social worker Nevres Kemal, who blew the whistle on Haringey Co...