Factual A to Z

Former City analyst Geraint Anderson examines the story behind bankers' bonuses.

Claudia Hammond investigates how neursocience is heading for the classroom.

Is the IMF up to the job of fixing the global economy? Stephanie Flanders reports.

Gerry Northam goes behind the scenes to investigate 'open source' computer software.

An exploration of the strange (and strangely familiar) sound world of 'Library Music'.

Ruth McDonald investigates the crisis in the Irish Catholic church.

Surgery is a craft and historically has not been subject to scientific scrutiny until now.

Punchdrunk, YouMeBumBumTrain, and other immersive theatre companies under the microscope.

Are close ties to industry distorting priorities of scientific research in universities?

James Aldred encounters one of the world's most powerful birds of prey, the harpy eagle.

Professional tree climber James Aldred climbs one of Britain's tallest trees.

What does the response to last year's tsunami and meltdown tell us about modern Japan?

Chandy Nath visits India to explore the extraordinary Jatropha plant.

Prizewinning traveller Jaswinder Jhalli explores the lives of the gauchos of Argentina.

Paul Mason chairs a debate between followers of two contrasting liberal economists.

Mike Wooldridge presents some personal memories of Nelson Mandela.

Rhona Cameron celebrates the bi-centenary of the earliest known women's golf competition.

Lady Gaga banned, but Cannibal Corpse approved. Islam and pop contradictions in Jakarta.

Alex Bellos visits Japan to discover why Asian cultures seem so much better at maths.

How can science can stop an upsurge in the slaughter of African elephants for their ivory?

Pete Paphides tells the story of the M1's 1960s music meeting place - Blue Boar services.

Claire Bolderson asks if Latinos are the key to a reborn USA.

Geoff Dyer explores DH Lawrence's life-changing experiences in New Mexico in the 1920s.

20 years on John McCarthy returns to Lebanon, in search of signs of the Arab spring.

Why did the steely Russian revolutionary reputedly visit the first English garden city?

Paddy O'Connell asks his guests if they would retaliate in the event of a nuclear attack.

Five writers reflect on the recent momentous events in the Middle East and North Africa.

A story of Austrian siblings told in their wartime letters to and from the Russian front.

How France played a pivotal role in the explosion of 70s punk.

Trevor Cox explores how our voice and our hearing develop and change through our lives.

Anna Pavord explores the life and legacy of the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus.

Pianist Lucy Parham explores the composer's web of romantic relationships.

Charles Moore reflects on the process of writing Lady Thatcher's authorised biography.

Kate Cook explore what hope there is for a cure for her chronic tinnitus.

As Private Eye nears 50, Michael Crick traces its ups and downs and assesses its impact.

Simon Townley tells the story of the great Victorian Organ Builder 'Father' Henry Willis.

Journalist Marverine Cole looks at the increase in female gambling in the UK.

Sean Street tells the story of the German wildlife sound recordist Ludwig Koch.

Ken Arnold explores how three European countries variously tell the history of madness.

Gyles Brandreth discovers what it takes to become a national treasure.

The blog of the Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai voiced by British girls her age.

Malmesbury in Wiltshire aims to establish itself as the country's 'Philosophy Town'.

Fergal Keane takes a journey through the private notebooks and letters of Nelson Mandela.

Peter Riddell explores the background to the many extraordinary moments of her premiership

Philip Sweeney on music, crime and culture in Marseille, 2013 European City of Culture.

Roland Buerk reports on the crisis in Japan's declining traditional kimono industry.

Mel Giedroyc takes a British family back 2,000 years to live in a Danish Iron Age village.

How a leading German modern artist's greatest work was rediscovered in a barn in Cumbria.