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

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

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

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

Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Wagner (1813-1883), and the composers who influenced him the most,...

By Abigail Docherty. The story of how Edward VI was crowned king aged nine, and, together with his cousin Lady...

The comedy panel show returns as host Nicholas Parsons challenges guests Paul Merton, Pam Ayres, Kevin Eldon and...

Geoff Bunn investigates the roles of Dick Tracy and Wonder Woman in the history of lie detection and the...

Alan Urry investigates whether the NHS is able to cope with superbugs such as MRSA and Clostridium difficile,...

By Dermot Bolger. Dublin couple Frank and Alice take a financial risk by investing their life savings in a...

Andrew Davis conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra in a concert commemorating the 200th anniversary of Wagner's...

New series. In the first instalment of a new run of the programme, Clive Anderson and a panel of senior judges,...

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

New series. Clare Balding returns with a new schedule of walks, and in the first programme she joins the...

With a session by Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter Patty Griffin, who plays tracks from her new album...

By Charlotte Bogard Macleod. A woman's life frequently switches from the mundanity of motherhood to the joys of...

Vanessa Feltz presents a garden-themed show recorded at London's Mermaid Theatre, London, with Gavin Sutherland...