Factual A to Z
- Tim Key and Gogol's Overcoat
Comedian Tim Key spins his own surreal tale of one of Russia's greatest short stories.
- Tim Key's Suspended Sentence
Poet and comedian Tim Key sleuths out what makes a great literary opening line.
- Titanic Letters
Ciaran Hinds introduces a series of letters written 100 years ago by people on-board
- Titanic Town
Gerry Anderson considers Titanic's complex relationship with the city of her birth.
- To Err is Human
Phil Hammond explores the consequences of human error in the medical profession.
- Today at the Assembly
Review of the day's political events at Stormont, home of the Northern Ireland Assembly
- Today in Parliament
News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
- Too Clever by Half
Stephanie Calman talks to women with an intellectual mismatch in their relationships.
- Top Deck Tales
Robert Elms celebrates London, the city he loves, with a journey on the number 36 bus.
- Top of the Class
John Wilson meets leading figures and takes them back to the places they left behind
- Tracing Your Roots
Series exploring the practice of researching family history
- Train Hopping in the USA
Jumping on freight trains in America - danger, thrills and desperation in the USA today.
- Traveller's Tree
Travel programme consisting of tips and advice for travellers submitted by the public
- Treating Tumours: Old Drug, New Tricks
An old antidepressant has unexpected anticancer properties, but no-one is developing it.
- Tulips on the Moon
Documentary looking at the concept of growing plants in space and even on spacecraft.
- Turkish Delight?
Yasmeen Khan reports on the Turkish community in the United Kingdom.
- Tweet of the Day
British birds through their songs and calls. 265 programmes of 90 seconds, over a year
- Twenty Minutes
Eclectic arts magazine programme, exploring a range of fascinating subjects
- Twin Nation
Edi Stark explores different aspects of being a twin
- Twin Sisters, Two Faiths
Identical twin sisters talk about their different choices to follow Islam and Christianity
- Type A Meet Type B!
What makes people early or late risers?
- Ulster's Forgotten Darling
Fionola Meredith goes in search of medieval scholar, author and poet Helen Waddell.
- Ulysses Today
Mark Lawson and his guests discuss the powerful influence of James Joyce's Ulysses.
- Unbuilt Britain
Jonathan Glancey looks at the great building projects of Britain that never made it
- Uncertain Climate
Roger Harrabin investigates whether the arguments over climate change can ever be won
- Under Jacques Demy's Umbrella
An evocation of the musical film of Jacques Demy, director of Les Parapluies de Cherbourg.
- Unreliable Evidence
Series exploring and analysing the legal issues of the day
- Up All Night
News and features from around the world
- Up To Scratch
Kit Hesketh Harvey visits the Nailympics to understand the growing mania for manicures.
- Vanessa Feltz
Have your say on the day's news and hear London's decision makers held to account.
- Vernon Harwood
The Sunday colour supplement! Celebrating "the spirit of Gloucestershire".
- Victoria Derbyshire
Phone-in and debate on the day's big stories
- Virtually Famous
Ellie Gibson presents a documentary about computer games and indie games designers.
- Voices from the Old Bailey
Amanda Vickery presents dramatised extracts from 18th-century Old Bailey court cases
- Voices of the Powerless
Melvyn Bragg explores the lives of ordinary British people across the last 1,000 years.
- Voodoo Wasps and Zombie Worms
Could infection by parasites be at the root of human behaviour and even mental illness?
- Wah Yan Jee Sing
The Wah Yan Jee Sing team bring you the latest on health and social issues in Cantonese
- Waiting for Independence Day
As Scotland awaits a referendum on Independence, what has Quebec's experience been?
- Wake Up to Money
News and insight from the business world
- Wales and Everest
Documentary exploring the link between Wales and the highest mountain in the world.
- Wales at Work
Programme covering the world of work, debunking jargon and talking about business
- Walking on Planet C
After a cancer diagnosis, musician Nile Rodgers walks the streets of New York.
- Warding of the Germs
Winifred Robinson investigates what more could be done to prevent infections in hospitals
- Was Dracula Irish?
Irish novelist Patrick McCabe explores the Irish influences on Bram Stoker's Dracula.
- Was Gertrude Stein Any Good?
I am a genius. Gertrude Stein. A genius. A genius. I. Gertrude Stein. Am I a genius?
- Wasting Away in the Outback
The Australian government's deal with an indigenous community to take their nuclear waste.
- Week in Westminster
Radio 4's weekly assessment of developments at Westminster
- Weekend Extra
The weekend begins. Kerry McLean presents fun guests and fantastic tunes to start the day.
- Welsh's Scottish Journey
Louise Welsh updates the 1930s trail blazed round Scotland by Orkney poet Edwin Muir
- Westminster Hour
Radio 4's Sunday night political discussion programme
- What Are the Police For?
Mark Easton asks what the UK public wants from its police force
- What Does Ed Miliband Really Think?
Steve Richards talks to Ed Miliband, his friends and critics about his political ideas.
- What Happened at Copenhagen?
A year after the Copenhagen climate summit, Roger Harrabin explores what really happened.
- What If...
A series of programmes about what the world of the future might be like.
- What Thatcher Did Next
Elinor Goodman explores Margaret Thatcher's life after she ceased to be prime minister.
- What the Papers Say
The country's leading political journalists analyse the newspapers
- What the Scandinavians Know about Children's Literature
Mariella Frostrup looks at Scandinavian children's literature.
- What's Eating the Museum?
The battle to save museum collections from insect pests.
- What's in a Name?
Sangita Myska with a witty and insightful exploration of names in contemporary Britain.
- What's the Benefit?
Tom Heap aims to get behind the tabloid headlines on the UK's unemployed
- What's the Point of ...
Quentin Letts takes a witty but thought-provoking look at some great British institutions
- When Hollywood Met Halifax
Liza Tarbuck discovers how Jayne Mansfield shook up the northern club scene in 1967.
- When Washington Came to Brum
How some of the earliest American literary classics were actually written in Birmingham.
- Where Did All the Comrades Go?
How the Communist Party's money and ideas influenced British politics after its collapse.
- Who Found Machu Picchu?
Hugh Thomson travels to Peru's ancient wonder to unearth the truth behind its discovery.
- Who Goes First?
Richard Uridge explores the pros and cons of self-experimentation by medical researchers.
- Who Killed the Cockney Sparrer?
Nature detective Tom Heap investigates who, or what, is killing the common sparrow.
- Who Needs Scientists?
Mark Miodownik challenges the conventional wisdom that more scientists are essential.
- Who's My Half-Brother? Where's My Half-Sister?
How children conceived through a sperm donor can make contact with their half-siblings.
- Who's the Pest?
Entomologist Erica McAlister takes listeners on an adventure in insect world
- Whose Health Is It Anyway?
Barbara Myers examines the health trainers initiative.
- Wireless Nights
Jarvis Cocker explores the human condition after dark, with stories of night people
- With us or against us
The story of the coalition set up following the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001.
- Witness
Series looking at key events in history, as told by the people who were there
- Witness
The stories of our times told by the people who were there.
- Woman's Hour
The programme that offers a female perspective on the world
- Word of Mouth
Series exploring the world of words and the ways in which we use them
- Words to Wine
Walter Love talks to Alan Brady, Ulster journalist turned acclaimed New Zealand winemaker.
- World Book Club
World Book Club invites the globe's great authors to discuss their best known novel.
- World Business Report
World Business Report provides analysis of the big global business and economic issues.
- World Heritage: Curse or Blessing?
Emily Maitlis asks if the UN's heritage police is a force for good or ill.
- World On The Move: Great Animal Migrations
Series following the movement and migration of animals across the planet
- Wrestling with Words
Exploring the process of speaking and the causes of stammering.
- Writing in Three Dimensions: Angela Carter's Love Affair with Radio
Angela Carter's friends, colleagues and admirers remember her innovative plays for radio.
- Y Talwrn
Dau dîm o feirdd yn cystadlu i geisio cyrraedd y rownd derfynol yn Eisteddfod Genedlaethol
- You and Yours
News and discussion of consumer affairs
- Younge on Obama - Performance Notes on a Presidency
Gary Younge examines Barack Obama's presidency
- Your Desert Island Discs
Kirsty Young presents tracks that listeners have chosen to take to a desert island
- Your Money
Paul Lewis and Lesley Curwen examine the money issues that matter to you.
- Your Place and Mine
A look at the weird and wonderful across Northern Ireland.
- Your World
Documentaries featuring personal human stories and arresting global issues.
