The work of economist Paul Samuelson, including one of his last interviews.
Why Britain's best known investor Anthony Bolton is delaying retirement to go to Ch...
America's compensation czar on how he enforces the pay ceiling in failed companies.
The co-founder of Twitter, Biz Stone talks about Google and how to make a profit.
300 years ago, Abraham Darby used coal to make iron. We go to where it happened.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans.
How the politics of the late 1970s affected the most popular TV series' of the time...
Andrew Marr with Tariq Ali, Tzvetan Todorov, Andrew Graham-Dixon and Janine di Giov...
Including 2009 Turner Prize-winning artist Richard Wright.
Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate from Bracknell in Berkshire.
Explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes discusses the life of Henry V.
Scientists say testing our 'working memory' instead of IQ would be more accurate.
Clive James reflects on the media coverage of man-made global warming.
Tim Harford and the team ask if claims made about energy efficient lightbulbs are t...
Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal finance.
Kirsty Young's castaway is Lord Coe, chairman of the 2012 Olympic organising commit...
Stephen Webster talks to medical consultant Philip Kilner.
Why are more people living on their own and what are the consequences for society?