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.
Clive Anderson is joined by Vince Cable, Lionel Blair, Oliver Peyton and Emma Freud...
Pam Ayres presents more of her own poetry and sketches. From June 2004.
Huey Morgan tells the story of the Rolling Stones' 1969 Let It Bleed tour.
Brian Matthew celebrates British dance bands with a profile of Jack Hylton.
Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate from Stratford-upon-Avon.
The year Bob Marley spent driving a forklift truck in the Chrysler car factory in D...
Kirsty Young's castaway is the Attorney General, Baroness Scotland.
Clive James warns of the dangers of a new plan for calculating funding for universi...
Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal finance.
Eddie Mair takes listeners' responses to this week's Any Questions?
A ship that repaired itself, and how the earliest telephones worked without bells.
Eric Robson chairs. With Chris Beardshaw, Bunny Guinness and Bob Flowerdew.