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(459 programmes in total)
- 150 Years of the Halle
- 1968: It's Not Just about the Music
- 1968: Notes from the Underground
- 1968: Sex, Telly and Britain
- 4 at Forty
- A Celestial Star in Piccadilly
- A Child's Christmas in Wales
- A Cymbal Tale
- A Fine Defence of Enid Blyton
- A Funny Sort of Sound
- A Good Read
- A Jewel in the Comedy Crown
- A Letter for Daphne
- A Nasty Case of the Vapours
- A Sense of Liverpool
- A Taste of Honey
- A Very Special Relationship
- A Very Special Relationship
- A Very Theatrical Revolution
- Absent Friends
- Adrian's Wall
- Advertising: The Most Fun You Can Have With Your Clothes On!
- After a Manner: Finding G H Vallins
- Ahlberg at 70
- Alan Garner: The Return to Brisingamen
- Alistair Cooke's Seasonal Letters from America
- Alvin Hall's Art World
- Amis, Amis and Bond
- And Go To Innisfree
- And The Academy Award Goes To ...
- Angels Don't Swear: Marty Feldman Revisited
- Anglomania
- Arabella Churchill: First Lady of Glastonbury
- Art Attack
-
Art for Schools
- Art in the Trenches
- Art Made in China
- Arvon Turns 40
-
Ayres on the Air
- Bad Nature
- Baghdad Headbangers
- Baghdad of the Mind
- Baroque and Roll: Townshend on Purcell
- Baseball and Me
-
Based on a True Story
- Beanz Meanz Rhymz
- Before Your Very Ears!
- Bespoken Word
- Bette in Britain
- Biggles: Adventures Through Time
- Billy Bunter's Birthday Bash
- Billy Liar: Fifty Years On
- Black Screen Britain
- Blasted: The Life and Death of Sarah Kane
- Blood, Sweat, Tears and Poetry
- Bluebirds over the White Cliffs of Dover
- Bombay's Beatle
-
Bookclub
- Border Blaster: In Search of the Wolf
- Borges and Me: Libraries and Labyrinths
- Brand Cuba
- Brel et Moi: Alastair Campbell on Jacques Brel
- Britain in a Box
- Britain In Their Sites
- Britain's Other Music Hall: The Story of the Blackface Minstrels
- Britishness
-
Burns the Brand
- By Jove Carruthers!
- Bye Bye Edinburgh
- California Dreaming
- Calling Hereford
- Calling Time on the Binge Drinkers
- Calvin and Hobbes
- Can Newspapers Survive?
- Caught on Film
- Chairman Humph: A Tribute
- Charles Wheeler: In His Own Words
- China on a Plate
- Christmas Crackers
- Christmas Past and Christmas Present at King's
- Cinderella's Ponies
- Colour Me White
- Consorting With Angels
- Coward, the Poet
- Crisis on the Top Shelf
- Cut Price Classics
- Dance of the Seven Veils
- Deep in the Heart of Texas
- Discovering the Sitwells
- Doonesburyland
- Drawn to Be Wild
- Dread, Beat an Blood
- Dreaming of Toad Hall
- Earth to Earth
- Ena
- Encore!
- Encounters with the Pink Dame
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Eyes Down on Clubland
- Ezra Caged
- Fallout from the Shore
- Famous Footsteps
- Fat Lads Don't Dance
- Fearnought: Poems for Southwell Workhouse
- Femme Fatale: The Story of Nico
- Fifty Years before the Masthead
- Films for a New India
- Final Curtain
- Five Meet to Make Up Myths
- For One Night Only
- Forever 22
- Fred's Archive
- Free Cinema
- Frequently Asked Questions
- From Dots to Downloads
- From Jean Brodie to Carrie Bradshaw: Spinsters in Popular Culture
- From Manchester to the Mississippi
- From the Ban to the Booker
-
Front Row
- Frost Fair
- Fry's English Delight
- Futureshock! The Story of 2000AD
- George Campbell Hay
- Gesualdo: Musician and Murderer
- God and the Movies
- God.com
- Good Timing
- Gormley on Epstein
- Grange Hill: Soap Pioneer
- Guilty Pleasure: A Hundred Years of Mills and Boon
- Gurinder, The Movie
- Ha Ha...
- Hairspray and Harmonies
- Hallelujah
- Hamish Henderson: A Various Man
- Happy Birthday Tommy Walker
- Happy Feet
- Harry Worth: The Man in the Window
- Here We Come
- High Flight
- Hippies
- Hong Kong: A Decade of Change
- Honouring the Office: Playing the White House
- Hot House Kids
- Hovis Has Left the Building
- Humphrey Lyttelton: A Celebration
- I Have Heard The Mermaids Singing
- I Was Peckinpah's Girl Friday
- I Was Peter Sellers' Personal Assistant
- I Was...
-
In Our Time
- In Search of Sid
- In Search of the Wantley Dragon
- In Search of Tristan
- Influenced By Banksy
- Inside Stories
- Iraq Online
- Islam, Mullahs and the Media
- It Was A Dark and Stormy Night
- Jack: 200 Years up a Beanstalk
- Jacques Tati: Everyman Magnified
- James Bond, the Last Englishman
-
Jane Austen's Ipod
- Jewel Encrusted Whales and Other Oddities
-
Joan Armatrading's Favourite Choirs
- Joan Armatrading's Favourite Guitarists
- John Hegley's Poetry in the Gallery
- John Mayall's Blues Adventures
- John Mortimer in Conversation
- Journey to Armenia: Komitas - The Saddest Music in the World
- Journey to Armenia: Mandelstam - The Long Desired for Voyage
- Just One More Thing: Columbo!
- Ketubah
- Khmer Rock and the Killing Fields
- Krazy Kat
- LA Stories
- Lady Curzon and a Pineapple
- Language of Laughter
- Larry Stephens: The Man Who Never Was
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti: A Reluctant Beat
- Learning to Love the Microphone
- Lennon: The Wenner Tapes
- Lenny and Will
- Lenny Henry Plays Othello
- Leslie Charteris: A Saintly Centennial
- Let Me Entertain You
- Li Yuan-Chia
- Lights, Camera, Landmark
- Lights, Camera, Landscape
- Looking for Ripley
-
Loose Ends
- Lost Voices
- Lost, Stolen or Shredded
- Maadai-Kara
- Macavity's Not There: TS Eliot in the 21st Century
- Macbeth Remixed
- Malcolm Lowry
- Malcolm Lowry: The Lighthouse Invites the Storm
- Manchester Mills and Masterpieces
- Material Girls
- Menotti
- Midnight Feasts and Lashings of Ginger Beer
-
Miles Jupp's Muscular Lines
- Mind Your Slanguage
- Misfits in France
- Mitch Benn's Wondrous Stories
- Morris and the Muslims
- Motownship
- Movie Outcasts: The Making of Easy Rider
- Mr Haydn's London Experience
- Mr Punch Says That's the Way to Do It
- Mrs Grenfell and Her Music Man
- Music from Beyond the Veil
- My Life in Soap
- My Male Muse
- My Yiddisher Mother Tongue
- National Treasures
- Ned Sherrin: A Tribute
- New Kids on the Blog
- Nightingale of the Nile
- Nobody Told Me to Oil My Boots
- O Lucky Man!
- Off the Page
- Oh! Dad
- Olympic Arts
- On the Outside it Looked Like an Old Fashioned Police Box
- On the Road
- On the Road Again
- One Hundred Years of Concrete
- One of the Three Great Plots of All Literature
- One Woman's Struggle: The Story of the MOBO Awards
- Online Damage: Porn in the 21st Century
-
Open Book
- Open the Vaults
- Oscar Marzaroli: The Man Who Captured Scotland
- Ossian
- Oulipo
- Over The Rainbow With Yip Harburg
- Page to Performance
- Passing the Hat
- Payola, The Pluggers and the Father of Rock and Roll
- Peace In Our Time - And What Followed It
- Performing to the Red Light
- Peter Bogdanovich's Saturday Morning Pictures
- Philip Pullman and Miss Jones
- Phill Jupitus' Comic Love
- Phill Jupitus' Strips
- Picasso's Fallen Women
- Picturing Britain
- Piece by Piece
- Pieces of a Man
- Pilots That Never Flew
- Please Look after This Bear
- Poems for Infant Minds
- Poet in the Glen
- Poetry and the Russian Soul
- Poetry from the Front Line
- Poetry Please
- Poetry Slam
- Poetry Slam
- Poetry Societies
- Power and the Web
- Pulling out the Stops: The Vienna Court Organist
- Puppets Through America
- R.E.S.P.E.C.T - The Art of Backing Vocals
- Radio 4, This Is Your Life
- Random Edition
- Read All About It
- Rebecca's Daughters
- Reece Shearsmith's Haunted House
- Retracing Elmet
- Return of the Town Hall
- Revelations
- Revert to Type
- Rise of the Footnote
- Robert Winston's Musical Analysis
- Robin Hood and the Cuban Revolutionaries
- Rockumentary Rollercoaster
- Round Britain Quiz Is 60
- Russia's Lone Rangers
- Salaam Shalom
- Salman Rushdie and The Wizard of Oz
- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
-
Saturday Review
- Science vs The Stradivarius
- Scraps of Bacon
- Scum
- Settling the Score
- Shelved
- Shooting Soviets: Cartier-Bresson in Moscow
- Shots from the Hip
- Sitting for Fay
- Sleeve Notes
- Small Presses, Big Ideas
- Soho Stories
- Songs Your Godmother Should Know
- Sorted for Es and Whizz
- Soul Music
- Soul Self Satisfaction: The Story of Northern Soul
- Sound Architecture: The Spaces That Speak
- Sounding Post
- South of My Days
- Spitting Images
-
Spitting in Russian
- Stage to Screen
-
Start the Week
- Stash: The Dandy Aesthete of Swinging London
- Street Circus
- Taking the Mick out of Tony
- Talk to the Hand: The History of Puppets on TV
- Tarantino's Jukebox
- Telly Savalas and the Quota Quickies
- Tennyson's Ulysses Revisited
- Terminates Here
- Terracotta Army
- Texting Andy Warhol
- That's All Folks! The Mel Blanc Story
- That's No Job for an Asian!
- The 4 O'Clock Friends
- The A-Z of Dr Johnson: Words, Words, Words
- The ABC of the BBC
- The Accidental Beauties of Silly Songs
- The Alistair Cooke Memorial Lecture 2008
- The Ancient Novel
- The Appalling Mr Dali
- The Art of Directing
- The Art of Litter
- The Art of Parliament
- The Bard of Salford
- The BBC and the Closet
-
The Beatrix Potter Guide to Business
- The Best DJ You've Never Heard in Your Life
- The Body of Art
- The British Mosque
- The Brits in Bollywood
- The Broken Melody
- The Darwinian Sistine Chapel
- The Deighton File
- The Dirty Dozens
- The Disappearing Art of the Mix Tape
- The Drawings on the Wall
- The Eel Pie Island Hotel
- The EMI Story
-
The Film Programme
-
The Frost Collection
- The Frost Years
- The Funny Thing About Muslims
- The Grand Masquerade
- The Grandfather of Self Help
- The Great Architect of Home
- The Great Libraries
- The House That Chekhov Built
- The House That Jazz Built
- The Hull Truck Story
- The Inner World of Music
- The Josephine Hart Poetry Programme
- The Kalevala: Finland's National Epic
- The Keskidee
- The King of the Swingers
- The Kiss at 100
- The Lament of Swordy Well
- The Man from the McCarthy Agency
- The Man Who Made France Old
- The Man Who Was Bojangles
- The Manuscript Hunter
- The Medal Makers
-
The Media Show
- The Message
- The Monsarrat Archive
- The Morricone Affair
- The Muse of Rose Street
- The National Short Story Award
- The Negro Tragedian
- The New Two Cultures
- The Number 1 Ladies' Opera House
- The Omnipresent Mr Handel
- The Original
- The Original Godfathers
- The People's Place
- The People's Plinths
- The Perfect House
- The Poem of the Cloak
- The Poet of Albion
- The Poet of Sparty Lea: In Search of Barry MacSweeney
- The Poet Unwound
- The Poetry of History
- The Radio 4 Debate from Hay
- The Reading Group Commissions
-
The Reith Lectures
- The Return of King Arthur
- The Right Stuff
-
The Rock Island Line
- The Sex Lives of Us: Gay Times
- The Shock of the Knee
- The Song Doctor
- The Sound of Magnolias
- The Sound of the Baskervilles
- The Spirit of Grunge
- The Story of O: The Vice Francaise
- The Three Stooges: Movie Maniacs
- The Tiger Who Came to Tea
- The Trouble with Scousers
- The Unknown Face
- The Watchdog and the Feral Beast
- The Wikipedia Story
- The Women of Rainer Maria Rilke
- The Wreck of the Alba
- The Write Stuff
- There Was a Young Man from Limerick
- There's More Here Than I Thought
- Things Fall Apart: Chinua Achebe's Lament
- Thinking in Rhymes
- This Are 2 Tone
- Thomas Lynch's Season of Innocence
- Thoroughly Modest Mollie
- Three Sisters
- Tintin's Guide to Journalism
- To Sir with Love Revisited
- Travels with the Hat Box
- Triple Espresso, Marinetti and the Futurists
- Trouble in Tots' TV Land
- Twice Ken is Plenty: The Lost Script of Kenneth Williams
- Ursula Le Guin at 80
- Van Gogh: Seeing Red
- Very Amazing: Behind the Scenes at the V and A
- Video Killed the Musician
- Vienna and the Shadow of The Third Man
- Visions of Paradise
- Vive La France
- Voices at 40
- Wah! Wah! Wah! Waaaaah! The Comedy Scores
- Waldemar at the Venice Biennale
- Walker of the Downs
- Walking a Stick Back Home
- Walking With Whitman
- We Three Kings
- What Texting Owes to the Literary Enlightenment
- What's So Great About ...?
- What's So Great About ...?
- When CB Ruled the Waves
- When Harry Met Sally At 20
- When Hollywood Went To War
- When Real Women Wore Minis and Real Men Drove Them
- Where Do You Want Me (A Comic in Continental Crisis)
- Who the Wild Things Are
- Who Wrote Bach's Toccata?
- Whose Side is Bart Simpson on?
- Wildlife Illustrated
- William Burroughs: Nothing Is True, Everything Is Permitted
- Winnie the Who?
- With Great Pleasure
-
Word of Mouth
-
World Heritage: Curse or Blessing?
- World of Womad
- Writing from Hay
- You're Entering The Twilight Zone
- Young Musicians Grown Old: BBC Young Musician at 30
- Youssou N'Dour at 50: Africa's Greatest Star
- Zine Scene

