The Alex Lowe Double-Act is a brand new audience comedy for Radio 2 that finally gives the eponymous star his ...

Christian O'Connell and guests come to the rescue of the politicians, businessmen, sportsmen, experts and c ...

Eddie Izzard takes an affectionate, but inquiring look at the life and career of one the UK's most successf ...

Frederic Raphael's 1977 masterwork, adapted for radio and narrated by the author, was broadcast as the Rad ...

In W.H Auden's centenary year, Alexander McCall Smith explores the wri ...

2010 will be Nana Mouskouri's 50th year as a recording artist, during her remarkable career she has sold mo ...

Hardeep Singh Kohli travels the Hippy Trail, meeting the many musicians, poets, writers and dro ...

Johnny Vegas stars in an adaptation of this inspirational novel, a moving fable in which hope triumphs ove ...

Roger Bolton, presenter of Radio 4's Sunday morning religious affairs programme, looks into the history and ...

The filmmaker Hannah Rothschild tells the extraordinary story of her eccentric great aunt Pannonica Rothsch ...

Roy Palfrey isn't what you might call dynamic. "I'm not slow, I'm methodical," he tells his frus ...

Ketamine has exploded on to the club scene, and is rivalling ecstasy ...

Kris Marshall stars in this play based on the real events surrounding British computer hacker Gary McKinnon ...

An exploration of  the life of the enigmatic 17th century philosopher,
whose ideas still influen ...

We look at the highs and lows of being in an age-gap relationship.  Is there ...

Anthony Minghella's tender and comic account of a provincial Easter six hundred years ago.

The first ever radio version of The National theatre of Brent's most popular and acclaimed of all their st ...

Trevor Nunn directs Tom Stoppard's brilliant, award winning play. Henry is a successful playwright married ...

In this play about a man confronting his past, it is the evening before Harry Sims is to receive his knigh ...

Starring Tim Blake Nelson (from the Coen Brothers' hit movie, "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?") and ...

On the 500th anniversary of the world's most famous painting, The Mona Lisa, the extremely world-famous Na ...

Martha Stewart is an American icon who has made her name - and millions of dollars - advising women in the ...

Dick Vosburgh presents a comic exploration of Peg Lynch, the remarkable woman who invented sitcom. Peg rel ...

This is the remarkable story of Elizabeth Poston, who was best known for her film scores and popular songs ...

Musician, composer and actor Philip Pope presents the remarkable story of Paolo Fazioli, who redesigned the pi ...

Chrissie Hynde presents a landmark look at one of Britain's most inventive bands: The Kinks.

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Paul Sexton presents the story of the Byrds. Best known for their version of the ...

To produce his landmark book on the art of the silent movie, The Parade's Gone By, Kevin Brownlow i ...

The saxophone established a convincing voice for itself in jazz music and went on ...

Robert Elms presents the weird, wonderful, rocking, radical, psychedelic history of the Roundhouse in its ...

Robert Elms presents a four-part series about London's legenda ...

Joshua Rozenberg presents the inside story of the International Criminal Court; w ...

In June of 2003, the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, phoned his old flat mate, Charlie ...