The mystical tradition within Islam - Sufism - and the history within this belief.
American neuroscientist, David Eagleman, talks about science, religion and afterlif...
James Ellroy discusses his novel American Tabloid with Harriett Gilbert and an invi...
Departures, Interactive Mona Lisa, Joe Sacco, Ukrainian Yes Minister.
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.
Mark Kermode joins Simon Mayo to review the week's films.
Pam Ayres presents more of her own poetry and sketches. From June 2004.
Andrew Marr with Audrey Kurth Cronin, Sir Hugh Orde, Eugene Rogan and Sarah Wood.
Robert Hollingworth explores the life and work of Venetian composer Giovanni Croce.
Simon Blackburn assesses David Hume's revolutionary Dialogues Concerning Natural Re...
Donald Macleod defines some of the characteristics of the Opera-Comique genre.
A debate at the 2009 Free Thinking festival asking what sort of future lies ahead f...