On-demand recommendations Catch up Navigation Drama Entertainment Comedy Culture Children's Sport Documentary All This Week Michael Ball: Songwriting Partnerships 60mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 New series. The actor explores the collaborations of six songwriting duos. He begins with Jerry Leiber and Mike... The Wire 60mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 That I Should Rise, by AL Kennedy. Darkly comic drama exploring the faltering process of recovery from alcohol... One to One 15mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 Journalist and broadcaster Yasmin Alibhai-Brown presents the first of three interviews exploring the many ways... Advertisement The Essay 15mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 In the first of a series of essays on the meaning of the male nude in the visual arts, Edith Hall traces her... The London Chronicles 30mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 Writing in Three Dimensions: Angela Carter's Love Affair with Radio 30mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 The writer's friends and colleagues Susannah Clapp, Carmen Callil, Marina Warner and Christopher Frayling,... This month Europe's Choice 30mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 New series. Allan Little analyses the key moments and issues in the history of the European Union that lie at... World Book Club 55mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 In this special edition of World Book Club, biographer Claire Tomalin talks to Harriett Gilbert about Dickens... Lives in a Landscape 30mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 New series. Alan Dein hears how this summer's London riots affected the livelihood of a shopkeeper whose... The Life Scientific 30mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 Jim Al-Khalili, Professor of Physics at Surrey University, examines the lives of the world's leading scientists... All in the Mind 30mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 Claudia Hammond talks to Nobel laureate psychologist Daniel Kahneman about his ground-breaking approach to... Composer Joseph Horovitz: No Ordinary Joe 30mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 Debbie Wiseman tells the story of Joseph Horovitz, the popular composer who created the theme for Rumpole of the... Too Clever by Half 30mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 Stephanie Calman presents stories of women who have experienced intellectually mismatched relationships. In Living Memory 30mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 Jolyon Jenkins talks to survivors of the 1961 evacuation of Tristan da Cunha, the world's remotest inhabited... So You Want to Be an Exorcist 30mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 Jolyon Jenkins examines why there is a growing demand for exorcists, learning that an increase in people... A Guide to Farmland Birds 15mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 New series. Brett Westwood and Stephen Moss are joined by sound recordist Chris Watson on the Marlborough Downs... Great Lives 30mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 Antonio Carluccio celebrates the life and work of Eduardo Paolozzi, citing his role as the reluctant father of... The Peace Corps Writers 30mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 Bridget Kendall visits the USA to meet former Peace Corps volunteers and evaluate their roles as America's... Reader's Digest: Trouble in Pleasantville 30mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 John Waite visits the Reader's Digest offices in the UK, where he learns about plans to make the brand more... The Thing About Hank 30mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 John Sugar examines Hank Marvin's influence on a generation of guitarists, including Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page,... Classic Chandler: The Little Sister 90mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 By Raymond Chandler, dramatised by Stephen Wyatt. Private eye Philip Marlowe is drawn into the world of... Desert Island Discs 45mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 Athletics pundit and quadruple Olympic gold medallist Michael Johnson talks to Kirsty Young and selects eight... Capitalism on Trial 45mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 Part one of two. Michael Portillo follows up on a summer of riots, bailouts and market instability with an... Picking Round Apples 30mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 Steve Carver experiences life as a seasonal apple picker at Tillington Fruit Farm near Ledbury in Herefordshire.... After I Was Gorgeous 30mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 Deborah Bull, former principal dancer with the Royal Ballet, explores society's obsession with beauty and what... New Conversation 30mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 Olivia O'Leary follows historian and philosopher Theodore Zeldin as he tries to change how people converse. The... Making Tracks 30mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 Critic Paul Morley visits the Basing Street Studios in Notting Hill, London, the place where acts including Led... After the Flood 30mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 Norfolk-based writer and poet Kevin Crossley-Holland meets East Anglians directly affected by coastal erosion,... You and Yours 53mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 In front of an audience at the Radio Theatre, Peter White marks the 50th anniversary of In Touch, a programme... The Man with Many Names 30mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 Peter Day marks 100 years since the birth of Flann O'Brien by exploring his life and work. Born Brian O'Nolan,...
Michael Ball: Songwriting Partnerships 60mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 New series. The actor explores the collaborations of six songwriting duos. He begins with Jerry Leiber and Mike...
The Wire 60mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 That I Should Rise, by AL Kennedy. Darkly comic drama exploring the faltering process of recovery from alcohol...
One to One 15mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 Journalist and broadcaster Yasmin Alibhai-Brown presents the first of three interviews exploring the many ways...
The Essay 15mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 In the first of a series of essays on the meaning of the male nude in the visual arts, Edith Hall traces her...
Writing in Three Dimensions: Angela Carter's Love Affair with Radio 30mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 The writer's friends and colleagues Susannah Clapp, Carmen Callil, Marina Warner and Christopher Frayling,...
Europe's Choice 30mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 New series. Allan Little analyses the key moments and issues in the history of the European Union that lie at...
World Book Club 55mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 In this special edition of World Book Club, biographer Claire Tomalin talks to Harriett Gilbert about Dickens...
Lives in a Landscape 30mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 New series. Alan Dein hears how this summer's London riots affected the livelihood of a shopkeeper whose...
The Life Scientific 30mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 Jim Al-Khalili, Professor of Physics at Surrey University, examines the lives of the world's leading scientists...
All in the Mind 30mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 Claudia Hammond talks to Nobel laureate psychologist Daniel Kahneman about his ground-breaking approach to...
Composer Joseph Horovitz: No Ordinary Joe 30mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 Debbie Wiseman tells the story of Joseph Horovitz, the popular composer who created the theme for Rumpole of the...
Too Clever by Half 30mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 Stephanie Calman presents stories of women who have experienced intellectually mismatched relationships.
In Living Memory 30mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 Jolyon Jenkins talks to survivors of the 1961 evacuation of Tristan da Cunha, the world's remotest inhabited...
So You Want to Be an Exorcist 30mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 Jolyon Jenkins examines why there is a growing demand for exorcists, learning that an increase in people...
A Guide to Farmland Birds 15mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 New series. Brett Westwood and Stephen Moss are joined by sound recordist Chris Watson on the Marlborough Downs...
Great Lives 30mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 Antonio Carluccio celebrates the life and work of Eduardo Paolozzi, citing his role as the reluctant father of...
The Peace Corps Writers 30mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 Bridget Kendall visits the USA to meet former Peace Corps volunteers and evaluate their roles as America's...
Reader's Digest: Trouble in Pleasantville 30mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 John Waite visits the Reader's Digest offices in the UK, where he learns about plans to make the brand more...
The Thing About Hank 30mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 John Sugar examines Hank Marvin's influence on a generation of guitarists, including Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page,...
Classic Chandler: The Little Sister 90mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 By Raymond Chandler, dramatised by Stephen Wyatt. Private eye Philip Marlowe is drawn into the world of...
Desert Island Discs 45mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 Athletics pundit and quadruple Olympic gold medallist Michael Johnson talks to Kirsty Young and selects eight...
Capitalism on Trial 45mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 Part one of two. Michael Portillo follows up on a summer of riots, bailouts and market instability with an...
Picking Round Apples 30mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 Steve Carver experiences life as a seasonal apple picker at Tillington Fruit Farm near Ledbury in Herefordshire....
After I Was Gorgeous 30mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 Deborah Bull, former principal dancer with the Royal Ballet, explores society's obsession with beauty and what...
New Conversation 30mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 Olivia O'Leary follows historian and philosopher Theodore Zeldin as he tries to change how people converse. The...
Making Tracks 30mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 Critic Paul Morley visits the Basing Street Studios in Notting Hill, London, the place where acts including Led...
After the Flood 30mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 Norfolk-based writer and poet Kevin Crossley-Holland meets East Anglians directly affected by coastal erosion,...
You and Yours 53mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 In front of an audience at the Radio Theatre, Peter White marks the 50th anniversary of In Touch, a programme...
The Man with Many Names 30mins BBC iPlayer 0.0 Peter Day marks 100 years since the birth of Flann O'Brien by exploring his life and work. Born Brian O'Nolan,...
