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- A-Z of the British Countryside
Award-winning comics Howard Read and Josie Long head on a 'road movie for radio'.
- An Hour with Jon Pertwee
The star of Doctor Who, The Navy Lark and Worzel Gummidge entertains an audience.
- Cosmic Quest
Heather Couper presents a narrative history of astronomy
- Desert Island Discs Revisited
Kirsty Young introduces gems from the Desert Island Discs archive
- It's a Funny Business
Popular comedians share memories of their careers in showbusiness
- Life at 24 Frames a Second
David Thomson takes a personal journey through how cinema has changed us
- Loose Ends
Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy
- Miles Jupp - By Jove Carruthers!
We all know the phrase, but who was he? Miles Jupp goes in search of the real Carruthers.
- Misfits in France
Julian Barnes and Hermione Lee on the Victorian writers and artists who went to France
- Mr Punch Says That's the Way to Do It
Actor Martin Reeve explores the history and tenacious survival of the Punch and Judy show.
- Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History
Adam Nicolson's story of the popular British garden, started by his grandparents in 1932
- Strange Weather Days
Documentary of freakish turns of weather in the UK, from the stunning to the destructive
- The Science of DIY
Len Fisher and fellow experts deconstruct the workings of home and gardening implements
- The Write Stuff
The radio panel game of literary correctness
With two suspects missing, Lord Peter Wimsey battles to pinpoint the poisoner.