Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple, talks to Kirsty Young and selects eight...

Part one of two. Crime thriller, by Eric Ambler and dramatised by Stephen Sheridan, set in 1930s Istanbul....

Michael Berkeley's guest is Harriet Harman MP, who has been Deputy Leader of the Labour Party since 2007, having...

Guy Meredith's play about the operatic rivalry between Verdi and Wagner, featuring the two composers in...

New series. Robert Winston explores human relationships with sound. The scientist assesses the mathematics of...

Victoria Coren Mitchell returns to chair a another run of the debate on the veracity of received wisdom. She is...

By Becky Prestwich. Three generations of Jewish women come together after grandmother Esther suffers a stroke....

Daljit Nagra explores the different approaches poets take in translating a poem. She meets writers Jo Shapcott,...

Dermot O'Leary and Jeremy Vine present a live concert commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Dambusters raid,...

Yasmeen Khan investigates the nutritional value of food sold by increasingly popular fried chicken shops, and...

By F Scott Fitzgerald. Dramatised and directed by Bill Bryden. Haunted by the death of his wife, film executive...

Matthew Parris makes use of accounts, biographies and testimonies gathered by the History of Parliament Trust to...

Paul Jackson's classic British TV celebration concludes with a profile of Casualty, the world's longest-running...

By Shelagh Stephenson. The return of the drama in which a sincere psychotherapist begins to lose patience with...

Part one of two. Chic's Nile Rodgers presents a profile of the Italian record producer and songwriter. He looks...

Theoretical physicist Jim Al-Khalili talks to neuroscientist Nancy Rothwell about her research into obesity, her...

New series. Alan Dein returns as he discovers the real-life dramas behind people's social networking profiles,...

New series. Jarvis Cocker returns with a new run of the programme exploring the aural experience of the world...

New series. In the first of a new round of reports on Britain's countryside, Brett Westwood is joined by Paul...

Sue MacGregor reunites the pioneers behind the Centre for Alternative Technology, the community that launched...

Cleveland Watkiss revisits post-war Berlin, where jazz was experiencing a surge in popularity after the fall of...

Sally Marlow, a researcher at London's Institute of Psychiatry, investigates whether overeating can be...

Chris Ledgard follows a group of former soldiers who, as the Combat Veteran Players, are attempting to tackle...

Five writers recall a favourite city off the beaten track. Novelist Nicholas Shakespeare shares his experiences...

The launch of the Cultural Exchange project, in which 75 leading creative minds reveal their passions for...

Astronomer Lucie Green highlights the dangers of a solar superstorm as she investigates the incident that...

Despite working at the Bournville factory for more than 30 years, Gladys Jones and Adrian Cadbury never met....

Anne Karpf revisits the parenting advice of Donald Winnicott, the pioneering psychoanalyst who made some 50...

Matt Everitt meets movie director Quentin Tarantino, who puts forward his thoughts about the role of music in...

Maria Bakkalapulo investigates contradictions in the country's music scene, after Lady Gaga was banned from...