Anthony Blunt: A Question of Retribution?

David Cannadine on the controversy caused by the unmasking of Anthony Blunt as a spy.

• 57 mins

Girl Power RIP

Journalist and author Ella Whelan asks if contemporary feminism is - well - dead.

• 57 mins

Poetry For Sale?

Poet and copywriter Rishi Dastidar on the relationship between poetry and advertising.

• 57 mins

Apollo 13: The Rescue

Houston, we've had a problem. How the mission of Apollo 13 was saved

• 57 mins

Summer with Greta

Campaigner Greta Thunberg describes the remarkable and tumultuous past year of her life.

• 80 mins

The Crunch Convention

A US election like no other, presented by Alistair Cooke

• 57 mins

LOLs on LPs

David Walliams remembers the comedy albums which inspired him to write and perform.

• 57 mins

The End of Coming Out?

Dustin Lance Black asks whether LGBTQ+ people still need to come out publicly.

• 57 mins

Spitfire: From the Ashes

How an icon was made, piece by piece, against all odds. With historian Victoria Taylor.

• 57 mins

Raise Your Game

Jay-Ann Lopez asks if toxic gaming culture can change.

• 57 mins

A Broadcasting Life

Sue MacGregor looks back on five decades of broadcasting in this final goodbye to Radio 4.

• 57 mins

The Day Brexit Hit Boiling Point

Carolyn Quinn recalls the intense and bitter Parliamentary confrontations over Brexit

• 57 mins

The Quebec Emergency

Margaret Macmillan recalls the 1970 crisis when kidnappings threw Canada into turmoil.

• 57 mins

A Media Divided

The end of the Fairness Doctrine and the rise of political polarisation in US broadcasting

• 57 mins

Play for Today

Alison Steadman celebrates 50 years of BBC television's seminal drama series.

• 57 mins

Trump: Backwards

Scrolling backwards through the archive to tell the Trump story in reverse.

• 57 mins

Our Sacred Story

Alec Ryrie argues that the Second World War is our modern sacred narrative.

• 57 mins

14/11/2020

Steve Fielding explores how political parties have recovered from big election defeats.

• 57 mins

All Things Must Pass at 50

Composer Nitin Sawhney tells the story of George Harrison’s most famous album.

• 57 mins

Da da da DAAAAA!

Rachel Parris leads us on an irreverent tour of Beethoven's 5th Symphony.

• 57 mins

Disorienting

Phil Wang investigates the representation of East and South East Asians in western media.

• 57 mins

It's Behind You! The weird and wonderful story of British pantomime

Cultural historian Christopher Frayling explores the rich and surprising history of panto.

• 57 mins