Ian Peacock reveals the dark and gothic life of Victorian writer Edward Bulwer-Lytt...
By Malcolm Pryce. A strangely familiar collection of characters take a train journe...
Four of the women playing the Queen in a new TV series discuss the role with John W...
Peter Day hears from people who are taking a different approach to running companie...
Helen's insecurities come to the fore.
Jack Dee chairs. Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined by Rob...
Pip Bin, Harry Biscuit and Gently Benevolent are trapped in the vast emptiness of s...
Lynda has some lessons in parenting.
Featuring Gwyneth the call-centre girl, Sandrine the radio host and Olga the ex-tyr...
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young M...
Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament.
Kirsty Young's castaway is Sir Stuart Rose, executive chairman of Marks and Spencer...
Ian gets an exercise in diplomacy.
Lizzie Hexam and Bella Wilfer meet at last, at a funeral in a country churchyard.
The week's events in Ambridge.
Jo Caulfiled fails to shut up about Scotland, Scotsmen and a little tea shop in Dun...
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Russell Davies chairs the seventh heat of the perennial general knowledge contest.
News and conversation about the big stories of the week with Paddy O'Connell.
From the Bible to modern times, sibling rivalry has always been present in society.
Clive Coleman revisits Donohue vs Stevenson, better known as The Case of the Paisley Snail
Cathy O'Dowd on the choice she had to make when she saw a dying climber on Everest.
John Franklin, a wounded British airman, is finally fit and plans his escape from France.
Investigating the sixth trial of a black man over the murder of four people in Mississippi
Kirsty Young's castaway is Sir Stuart Rose, executive chairman of Marks and Spencer.
Mike Thomson investigates Britain's role during the 1970 coup in oil-rich Oman.
The internal combustion engine, hailed as the answer to pollution in London, is born.
John McCarthy looks at the human rights aspect of travel and music tourism in the USA.
Libby Purves on how the film On the Beach brought dystopia to Hollywood.
Sustainable agriculture is better for the environment, but will it feed the world?
British cheesemakers say the industry is being undermined by mislabelled imported cheese.
Anna Hill hears how farmers in Cumbria saw their livestock washed away in the floods.
Anna Hill investigates the first commercially available 100 per cent British loaf.
Gerry Northam examines the problems being posed by the shortage of organs for transplants.
Ken Russell discusses his musical The Boyfriend; Andrea Arnold on Fish Tank and awards.
A special 10th anniversary edition of The BBC Food and Farming Awards.
As pioneering businesses grow, can they maintain their original ideals?
By Nigel Smith. Ben has survived a crippling brain lesion but won't engage with the world.