300 years ago, Abraham Darby used coal to make iron. We go to where it happened.
ENEL and BASF, two of the world's biggest companies on what they want from Copenhag...
Can America achieve a renaissance of its nuclear industry?
We report from America on "clean coal technology". Delusion, or answer to global wa...
Pfizer's head of research explains how decisions are made on which drugs to develop...
Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal finance.
Money news, including plans for a new super-tax for bankers.
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...
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Silk Road, the trade routes which spanned Asia.
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 Merton celebrates 50 years of Ronnie Scott's jazz club.
Eddie Mair takes listeners' responses to this week's Any Questions?
A ship that repaired itself, and how the earliest telephones worked without bells.
Clive Anderson is joined by Vince Cable, Lionel Blair, Oliver Peyton and Emma Freud...
Eric Robson chairs. With Chris Beardshaw, Bunny Guinness and Bob Flowerdew.
With Jenni Murray. Delia Smith answers listeners' questions about Christmas caterin...
CERN particle smashing; secrets of toughest bacterium; lab pork; how to live longer...