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Butterfly Mind

Can a shaman cure writer's block? Playwright David Greig tries to find out.

The Vigil

People talk frankly about the challenging experience of sitting with a dying parent.

Searching for Tobias

Eight years after she met him in Mississippi, Chloe Hadjimatheou searches for Tobias.

Archive on 4 Goes Live!

David Bramwell sets out to prove that anyone can be a good public speaker.

Keepsake for My Lover

Step inside the voice booth to find out what is the value of talking at all.

Asquith's Fight for Equality

Oona King reveals how West Indian Asquith Xavier fought a colour bar at Euston station.

A Cello in the Desert

Nina Plapp takes her cello Cuthbert to Rajasthan in search of the roots of gypsy music.

A Natural History of the Banker

Andrew Ross Sorkin traces the reputation of UK and USA bankers through history.

Thelma & Michael: Love in the Cutting Room

Cinema's great love story - UK director Michael Powell and US editor Thelma Schoonmaker.

Gunning For Education

Ian Peddie studies new Texan laws allowing concealed handguns into classrooms.

Green Cities from Bricks and Mortar

Historian Dan Cruickshank asks if new garden cities are the answer to our housing crisis.

Song of the Singer Sewing Machine

The Singer sewing machine has whirred its way through history as Maria Margaronis unravels

The Black Panthers

The rise and fall of the Black Panther Party and its legacy for American black insurgency.

The Intimate Art of Tattoo

Laurence Llewelyn Bowen explores the exponential rise in tattooing across the UK.

21 Shades of Noir: Lee Child on John D MacDonald

The Jack Reacher author Lee Child investigates the unusual life of author John D Macdonald

Body Count Rising

Doon Mackichan asks if we need a moratorium on glossy TV dramas with female victims.

The Case for Doing Nothing

Stephen Barber calls on politicians to resist the urge to act and instead do nothing.

A Casual Clearance

Clare Jenkins explores the emotional challenges faced clearing out her parents' home.

The Intimate Art of Tattoo

Laurence Llewelyn Bowen explores the exponential rise in tattooing across the UK.

Arthur Russell: Vanished into Music

Olivia Laing presents an imaginative portrait of the musician Arthur Russell.

Radio Dada

Alexei Sayle on the cultural impact of the Dada movement, 100 years since it was founded.

Curvalicious

What is wrong with being black and curvy? Bridgitte Tetteh investigates.

UNESCO: 70 Years of Peacekeeping

Charlotte Higgins explores the work of the UN's peacekeeping agency.

The Villain in 6 Chapters

Toby Jones celebrates the mercurial world of the villain.

Ian Sansom and the Little People

Leprechauns, sprites, imps and elves - Ian Sansom is searching for the diminutive other.

Shrinking Population: How Japan Fell Out of Love with Love

Tulip Mazumdar finds young people in Japan rejecting intimacy and a population in decline.

Still Loving Thy Neighbour?

Mark Hodkinson revisits the sitcom Love Thy Neighbour, 40 years after it was last shown

James Wong's Alternative Country Garden

Garden designer James Wong asks if British gardening is stuck in the past.

Up Close and Personal

Clarke Peters follows the croon and practitioners of the art including Rudy Vallee.

The Waterside Ape

Sir David Attenborough examines new evidence on a controversial theory of human origins.

The Web Sheikh and the Muslim Mums

Five Muslim mums come together to discuss the hate messages their children are exposed to.

The Muhammadan Bean: The Secret History of Islam and Coffee

Abdul-Rehman Malik explores the longstanding relationship between Islam and coffee.

Graffiti: Paint and Protest

Aside from the physical landscape, what does graffiti and street art actually change?

The Online Identity Crisis

Anjana Ahuja believes we should take control of our online identity before it is too late.

The King of Dreams

Alice Roberts goes in search of the man who taught us how to control our own dreams.

Don't Be Rude on the Road

Alan Dein takes a breakneck tour through the history of the public information film.

Antony Gormley: Missing Continents at the British Museum

The artist asks why collections from Oceania, the Americas and Africa are hidden from view

Yusra: Swim for Your Life

The courageous journey of refugee Yusra Mardini, from war-torn Syria to the Rio Olympics.

Funny Money

Former Lehman Brothers banker Henry Dodds explores our relationship with money.

A Journey Through English

The changing accents on the UK's longest rail journey, the 0820 from Aberdeen to Penzance.

Sushi Marriages

How do Sunni-Shia couples handle the deepening gulf between their two sects of Islam?

A River of Steel

An immersive river journey through the city of Sheffield and its industrial past.

Things Called Jazz That Are Not Jazz

An apple, a car, even a super yacht... Why are so many things called Jazz?

Jane Garvey's Bottom Gear

Jane Garvey reflects on women and cars with presenter Suzi Perry and driver Susie Wolff.

Star Trek - The Undiscovered Future

Kevin Fong boldly goes in search of Star Trek's 50-year-old vision of the future.

Online Criminals Stole My Confidence

Simon Read explores the psychological impact on people who fall victim to fraudsters.

L'origine de L'Origine du monde

Viv Groskop explores Gustave Courbet's notorious and explicit painting.

Alvin Hall Goes Back to School

Financial guru Alvin Hall returns to his Florida hometown.

The Truth about Children Who Lie

Psychotherapist Philippa Perry investigates when and why children lie.

In Defence of the Mid-Life Crisis

Stephen Smith takes a wry look at the mid-life crisis.

Hersey's Hiroshima

Seventy years ago, an article about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima rocked the world.

In the Criminologist's Chair

David Wilson talks to former bank robber Noel 'Razor' Smith about his life in crime.

Personalised Medicine: Dose by Design

Vivienne Parry asks if the NHS can deliver the benefits of genomic medicine for all.

Grunwick Changed Me

Maya Amin-Smith explores the legacy of the Grunwick dispute, four decades after it began.

Songs for the Dead

Marie-Louise Muir explores the tradition of keening for the dead in Ireland.

A Sea Shanty for Charles Causley

Film-maker and writer Jane Darke puts out to sea with the Cornish poet Charles Causley.

Could the Birmingham Six Happen Again?

What did the Birmingham Six case alter - could such miscarriages of justice happen today?

The Whale Menopause

Animal wisdom, mothers and sons. What do killer whales tell us about the human menopause?

Frightened of Each Other's Shadows

Nihal Arthanayake presents a portrait of contemporary Britain in an epoch of terror.

Swapping Psalms for Pop Songs

Mark Vernon explores the phenomenon of the Sunday Assembly.

Stalking under Scrutiny

A look at the support provided for victims of stalking and ways to stop stalkers.

The Curse of Open Plan

Sound expert Julian Treasure explores how open plan design affects us.

As the Curtain Falls

Marie-Louise Muir explores 25 years of Signature Theatre company with founder Jim Houghton

After the Riots

Film-maker Isis Thompson considers the impact of the 2011 riots five years on.

An Obsessive Type: The Tale of the Doves Typeface

Can a long-lost design classic be rediscovered at the bottom of the Thames?

Tolkien: The Lost Recordings

Joss Ackland narrates a search through BBC archives for unheard gems from JRR Tolkien.

Clap Clap: A Brief History of Applause

Simon Callow explores one of the earliest forms of human interaction.

Power of the Whips: The Silent Enforcers

Giles Dilnot uncovers what the most mysterious figures in parliament really do.

The Norma Percy Tapes

An archive of the most powerful people, shaping the monumental events of modern history.

Adrian Mitchell: To Whom It May Concern

Michael Rosen visits the house of the late poet, Adrian Mitchell.

Viz: An Unfeasibly Large Success

Profane rubbish or bold rebellion? How did Viz become an acclaimed, best-selling magazine?

Black Flight and the New Suburbia

Hugh Muir charts the movement of ethnic minorities from cities to the English countryside.

India's Classical Music Marathon

Aditya Chakrabortty reports on the fate of India's all-night classical music concert.

Roald Dahl: A Gremlin in the Works

Cartoonist Gerald Scarfe tells the story of one of the greatest movies never made.

You May Now Turn Over Your Papers

Mary Beard tells the intriguing story of the history of exams.

I Work for the Government, and Let's Leave It at That

Julia Langdon uncovers how women spooks have been recruited over the years.

Roald Dahl: In His Own Words

Roald Dahl tells his own story in his own words with the help of his granddaughter Sophie.

Who Are You Again?

Mary Ann Sieghart is not rude, she just cannot identify people by their faces.

They Call Us Viet Kieu

Anna Nguyen journeys to Vietnam rediscover the war-torn country her parents fled in 1975.

One Day in Entebbe

The extraordinary hostage rescue story that changed the Middle East.

Greece: Warehouse of Souls

Maria Margaronis explores worlds of hope and chaos for refugees and islanders in Greece.

David Hockney - Back in LA

David Hockney embarks on an ambitious new portrait series from his Californian studio.

A Bleeding Shame

Jane Garvey examines the topic of menstruation and asks if attitudes are finally changing.

Gillian Reynolds - Audiophile

Critic and broadcaster Gillian Reynolds celebrates 50 years' professional radio listening.

The Plastic Revolution: 50 Years of the Credit Card

The story of how easy credit changed British society forever.

The Secret History of Yoga

Mukti Jain Campion explores the surprising origins of modern yoga practice.

Manto: Uncovering Pakistan

Sarfraz Manzoor tells the story of Pakistani writer Sa'adat Manto and assesses his legacy.

In Wales the Ball is Round

Elis James's polemical appraisal of football's role in constructing modern Welsh identity

The Bomb That Made Manchester?

Michael Symmons Roberts examines the myth that the 1996 bomb heralded Manchester's rebirth

The Tale of Jimmy Scott

The story of Jimmy Scott, one of the 20th Century's most overlooked vocalists.

St Helena - Joining the Rest of Us

Two-part documentary looking at the second most remote community in the world.

Blue Canvas: The Artist Miles Davis

A musical portrait of how the jazz trumpeter Miles Davis became a painter in later life.

Punk, the Pistols and the Provinces

Mark Hodkinson looks at the impact of punk rock in Yorkshire.

Born in Bradford

Winifred Robinson reports on the lives of thousands of families being tracked in Bradford.

Next Stop: Mariachi Plaza

A night out in the Latino suburbs with the mariachis of Boyle Heights, East LA.

The Camera Never Lies

Bafta award-winning film-maker Molly Dineen examines the concept of truth in documentary.

The Power of Cute

Lucy Cooke explores our seeming obsession with all things cute.

Field Notes: The Irishman Who Invented the Nocturne

Alistair McGowan uncovers the sensational, creative life of the Irish composer John Field.

Jarvis on McCullers

Jarvis Cocker celebrates the life and work of literary wunderkind Carson McCullers.

Return to Subtopia

A timely retracing of the passionate Subtopia campaign against postwar town planning.

16 5 66

The story of how two of the greatest albums of all time were released on the same day.

EF Schumacher: Is Small the Next Big?

Is small the next big? Leo Johnson explores the radical vision of EF Schumacher.

The Sprung Floor

Dane Hurst takes a dance floor to South Africa for use by underprivileged children.

Return to Subtopia

A timely retracing of the passionate Subtopia campaign against postwar town planning.

For Better or Worse

Peter McGraith hears personal accounts of same-sex marriage in post equality Britain.

Tennant Looks Back at Osborne

David Tennant explores the autobiographical back story to Osborne's revolutionary play.

My Mother's Sari

Dr Shahidha Bari looks at the history of the sari.

The Business of Music with Matt Everitt

Insiders discuss the decisions that have transformed the record industry.

The Force of Google

Google dominates internet searching. Rory Cellan-Jones asks if it is too powerful.

Shakespeare and the American Dream

Robert McCrum journeys across Obama's America in search of Shakespeare and what he means to Americans today.

The Impostors' Survival Guide

Oliver Burkeman explores the frequent human experience of feeling like a fraud.

Rising Voices

Fergal Keane explores the cultural landscape of the 1916 Easter Rising.

Swansong

A meditation on loss, with real and imagined stories bound by sound and silence.

The Drop Out Boogie

Why do so many university students fail to finish their degrees?

In Search of Southern Hospitality

Comedian Rich Hall investigates the true meaning of American southern hospitality.

Working Class Heroes and Poverty Porn

How the portrayal of the working class and poor in film and TV has changed over 70 years.

A Waste of Space

Harriet Sergeant investigates whether empty commercial buildings could house the homeless.

The Neglected Sense

Radio 4 announcer Kathy Clugston is anosmic. She cannot smell - and wants to know why.

The Unabomber

How a reclusive maths prodigy terrorised America - and how the media amplified his cause.

Three-sided Football

Ian McMillan presents the story of a baffling game with three sides and only three rules.

Psychedelic Science

Can psychedelic drugs overcome their notoriety to become accepted for routine medical use?

The Panama Papers

A major investigation reveals how the world's most notorious regimes get around sanctions.

The Philby Tape

Notorious Soviet spy Kim Philby as he's never been heard before.

A Dirty Secret

Mary-Ann Ochota visits Bangladesh and India to ask why 2.3bn people lack adequate toilets.

Seriously Come Dancing

Documentaries about dance, dancers and dancing.

'Down With Skool': The Art of Molesworth

Philip Hensher explores the art of the gloriously eccentric Molesworth books.

The Lost Art of the TV Theme

Comedian and musician Richard Morton recalls the heyday of the classic TV theme.

How to Turn Your Life Around

Succeeding against the odds. What does it take to turn your life around?

Goodbye Mosquito

Could we, and should we, eradicate mosquitoes? Professor Adam Hart investigates.

Suck It and See

Songwriter Amy Wadge investigates the history and potential of the harmonica.

The Returnees

How should Britain manage its returning foreign fighters?

The Horses

Kenneth Steven explores Edwin Muir's poetic search for the lost Eden of his childhood.

The Art of the Lyricist

Clarke Peters explores the art of the lyricist to mark My Fair Lady's 60th anniversary.

The Women Who Wrote Rock

Kate Mossman tells the story of the long-overlooked female music writers of the 1960s.

The Actors' Gang & The Actors' Gang on the Outside

A two-part Seriously following Tim Robbins's acting classes in LA's Norco prison.

Turntable Tales

Two-part celebration of the development and impact of the record-playing turntable.

The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band: Anarchy Must Be Organised

Neil Innes looks at the collision of art, humour, music and anarchy in Bonzo Dog.

How to Go Straight

Ex-convicts tell intimate stories of how they renounced lives of crime.

Glad to Be Grey

Grey-haired professor Mary Beard investigates why fewer people are now glad to be grey.

Lord Byron and the Hebrew Melodies

Michael Rosen tells the little-known story of how the poem She Walks in Beauty was set to Jewish music.

The Horns of a Dilemma

Will the sale of harvested rhino horn help to stop poaching?

Life Inside 'Islamic State'

Mike Thomson reports on an extraordinary series of diaries on life inside 'Islamic State'.

Ghosts of the Tsunami

Five years after Japan's tsunami, some survivors report seeing the ghosts of the dead.

The Day the Refugees Came

Michael Palin tells the story of a group of refugees welcomed in by a small Somerset town.

The Greatest Ever Faker

Gareth Gwynn uncovers the fantastical world of a Welsh cultural lodestone Iolo Morganwg.

Back to the Ice

Meteorologist Peter Gibbs returns to Antarctica, where he spent two years in the 1980s.

A Brief History of Disobedience

American satirist Joe Queenan explores the importance of not doing what one is told.

The Arts Exodus

Deborah Coughlin examines the value of art to communities and cities.

Laverne in the Willows

Lauren Laverne celebrates Kenneth Grahame's classic tale The Wind in the Willows.

Simon Schama: The Obliterators

Simon Schama offers some context for the destruction of antiquities in Syria and Iraq.

Black, White and Beethoven

Joseph Harker asks why Britain's classical music scene remains so resolutely white.

SKILL, STAMINA and LUCK

Naomi Alderman presents a history of interactive fiction.

Musical Variations: The Life of Angela Morley

The colourful career of British composer and transgender pioneer Angela Morley.

Choose Life

20 years after Trainspotting's release, the real-life addicts who inspired the actors.

JD Salinger, Made in England

How 3 months in rural Devon influenced one of the greatest chroniclers of urban New York.

The Art of Adultery

Natalie Haynes finds out why adultery remains such a regular subject in popular culture.

Mao's Golden Mangoes

Benjamin Ramm explores one of the strangest chapters in China's history - mango mania.

Batman and Ethan

A blind musical prodigy learns echolocation from Daniel Kish.

Seriously Cinematic

A collection of documentaries on films, film-making and film-makers.

Tim Key and Gogol's Overcoat

Comedian Tim Key spins his own surreal tale of one of Russia's greatest short stories.

Editing Life

Matthew Cobb explores the excitement and concerns about the new genome editing technology.

Herman Melville's Sea Change

Moby-Dick was made in England. Paul Farley tells a story of fast fish and loose fish.

Embarrassment

Journalist Lynne Truss prepares to cringe as she investigates embarrassment.

Mao's Little Red Book Goes West

David Aaronovitch asks why Mao's Little Red Book captured the imagination of the west.

Invisible Belfast

A mysterious note sends a visitor to Belfast on a labyrinthine journey through the city.

Gay Bombay

Zareer Masani returns to Mumbai to measure India's changing attitudes to homosexuality.

Unnatural Selection

Adam Hart reveals how humanity is altering the evolutionary paths of other creatures.

David Bowie: Verbatim

David Bowie's extraordinary life and career told in his own words.

Herland

Geoff Ryman explores stories about women and men in future worlds. Plus original story No Point Talking.

The Good Goering

Gavin Esler tells the story of Hermann Goering's brother, who claimed he saved people from Nazi persecution.

Trump and the Politics of Paranoia

The story of how ethnic fear has been used from the republic through to Donald Trump.

Crafty Orchids

Why are orchids so popular? Jim Endersby offers a new scientific history of their allure.

Utopias

Michael Symmons Roberts the book behind one of our most influential ideas: Utopia.

Raising the Dead

Composer Adam Gorb goes on a journey to listen to the lost music of concentration camps.

The Achalasia Diaries

Seriously podcast presenter Femi Martin's autobiographical documentary.

Catacombs of the Mind

The late Bruce Lacey reflects on his life in this 2014 documentary.

Deciding Fast and Slow

How do government ministers take decisions in the 21st Century?

I Dressed Ziggy Stardust

Samira Ahmed meets British Asian women who, like her, were inspired by David Bowie.

Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite... Laicite

What has happened to traditional French values since the Charlie Hebdo killings?

Work is a Four Letter Word

Professor Andrew Hussey asks why we should let the toad of work squat on our lives.

A New Life in Europe

A family of Syrian migrants risks everything in a remarkable journey to Germany.

How My Sister Said Goodbye

Before she died, Jonathan Freedland's sister's left a unique audio legacy - her own Desert Island Discs.

The Boat Children

Hashi Mohamed follows the trail of of unaccompanied child migrants arriving in Europe.

Jay Rayner Pigs Out

Self-confessed greedy pig Jay Rayner gets serious about porkers

Stars of Wonder

Miranda Sawyer explores the magic of the school nativity play.

A Meaty Problem

Restaurateur Henry Dimbleby unravels the deep-seated attachment of the British to eating meat.

Chrismukkah and Other Cultural Mash-ups

Sharmini Selvarajah meets interfaith families facing the 'December dilemma'.

The Selling of Sinatra

A centenary celebration of the life and work of Frank Sinatra.

Singing Piaf With No Regrets

Caroline Nin listens to those drawn to sing the music of the legendary French performer.

Online Shopping, Indian Style

Mukti Jain Campion discovers how Indians are embracing the online shopping revolution.

Hippy Internet - The Whole Earth Catalog

Sukhdev Sandhu tells the story of a book of hippy philosophy that defined the 1960s.

The Sexy Salaryman

Why has the white collar worker has become a central figure in TV series and comic books in Japan?

Shoah in Jerusalem

The extraordinary story of the day an epic Holocaust documentary was premiered in Israel.

When Britain Had the Right Stuff

Archive on 4 uncovers the forgotten history of Britons in space.

The Emperor of the Glen

How has Chinese ownership changed a Scottish castle after it spent generations in the same family?

The Art of StarCraft

Stephen Evans goes deep into the Milky Way to look at the phenomenon of StarCraft.

JFK: The Vinyl Reaction

How the American record industry responded to the assassination of President Kennedy.

The Nervous Breakdown of the Internet

Internet security is vital, but increasingly fragile. Edward Lucas explores online trust.

Too Old to Be a Genius

Jim Al-Khalili investigates whether there is a link between age and scientific creativity.

The Incubator

Clare Jenkins presents a personal insight into the world of premature babies.

Lynn Hill: Twenty-First Century War Poet

US Air Force veteran and poet Lynn Hill opens up the alien soul of 21st Century warfare.

The Beauty of Equations

Jim Al-Khalili and fellow physicists explain why they think equations are beautiful.

Seriously Modern

A collection of documentaries on modern and contemporary classical music.

The Joy of 9 to 5

Lucy Kellaway explores UK office culture in a three-part series.

Burlesque Legends

Mat Fraser meets the former showgirls getting back on stage in their 70s and 80s.

Alice Is Still in Wonderland

Siouxsie Sioux celebrates Alice's Adventures in Wonderland on its 150th anniversary.

Particle Poets and Molecular Metaphors

Anna McNamee explores atomic science as poetic inspiration.

Numbers by Nature

What can animals tell us about the origins of our numerical abilities?

Blood, Sex and Money: The Life and Work of Emile Zola

Glenda Jackson travels to Paris for documentary about influential French writer Emile Zola.

Forgotten History

Neil Kinnock assesses the poetry of a fellow Welshman, Idris Davies.

The Last Post

How did an 18th Century British Army bugle call become a sacred anthem of remembrance?

On the Road

Maddy Prior and daughter Rose Kemp swap musical genres - folk rock and doom drone.

The Muslim Sex Doctor

The work of Imam Alyas Karmani, counselling those Muslims who have troubled sex lives.

Pete & Clive

The story of Pete Atkin and Clive James, one of the most enduring songwriting relationships in history.

Alice in Teesside

Lewis Carroll's roots in the north east of England are uncovered by Simon Farnaby.

The Piers Plowright Collection

Seven magnificent documentaries chosen and introduced by the legendary radio maker.

Myanmar's Bright Young Stars

Nomia Iqbal learns how youth radio has played a part in Myanmar's shift from military rule

Taking Art to the People

Michael Symmons Roberts on the life and legacy of visionary philanthropist Thomas Horsfall.

Spanish Steps

Clap those hands, stamp those feet! Chris Stewart goes on the trail of flamenco in Granada.

Fiery Inspiration: Amiri Baraka and the Black Arts Movement

A two-part look at the complex man at the heart of the Black Arts movement in 1960s America.

Ghost Stories from Theatreland

Actor Jack Shepherd goes backstage to unearth the strange tales of haunted theatres.

Duelling Scars

Horatio Clare meets the German student duellists for whom a scar is a badge of honour.

A Man's a Man for a' That: Frederick Douglass in Scotland

The story of abolitionist and freed slave Frederick Douglass's time in Scotland.

Rave: The Beat Goes On

Jolyon Jenkins reports on Spiral Tribe, the 90s free party sound system, still raving.

The Jazz Ambassadors of the Cold War

Julian Joseph recounts how jazz diplomacy was used during the Cold War.

Attention Must Be Paid - Arthur Miller's Centenary

Christopher Bigsby traces the life and work of Arthur Miller, mostly in Miller's own words.

Homer, Hagrid and the Incredible Hulk

Ben Hammersley investigates fictional universes, from Harry Potter to Game of Thrones.

Let's Go Round Again - The Story of The Magic Roundabout

Sophie Thompson and Phyllida Law celebrate 50 years of The Magic Roundabout.

In Search of Great Uncle Frank

Comedian Hugh Dennis travels to Gallipoli to discover how his great uncle died in World War I.

Highway 61: Fifty Years On

Andy Kershaw re-examines the Bob Dylan album that changed popular music and his life.

The Loss of Lostness

Stephen Smith embarks on a journey to rediscover the lost joys of getting lost.

Something Old, Something New

The son of a US soul singer father and Sheffield mother seeks his American roots.

The Manchester Ballads

Folk singer Eliza Carthy finds a new song to sing from Manchester's 19th Century broadside ballads.

Hell Is Other People: A Self-Help Guide to Social Anxiety

Performer Byron Vincent tries to overcome his paralysing fear of social situations.

Mind the Gap

A reluctant bearer snaps at the cultural significance of gap teeth.

Burying Chernobyl

The daughter of a former Chernobyl engineer returns to her father's workplace.

When Van Played Cyprus Avenue

Residents discuss Van Morrison's return to the east Belfast neighbourhood of his youth for gigs commemorating his 70th birthday.

Can Porn Be Ethical?

Nichi Hodgson asks whether there's scope for an ethical code for producing porn.

Tom Ravenscroft's Campervan of Vinyl Dreamers

The 6 Music DJ discusses private pressings with DIY musicians from the 1970s and 1980s.

Dotun and Dean

Dotun Adebayo explores his teenage obsession with James Dean.

Orpheus Underground

Writer Neil Gaiman examines the Orpheus myth in literature.

From the Self to the Selfie

Lauren Laverne looks into a cultural phenomenon - the selfie.

The Pop Star and the Prophet

An aspiring pop star meets Jacques Attali, a polymath who in 1976 predicted today's music industry crisis.

Sugar, Saris and Green Bananas

Lainy Malkani uncovers her family's roots on the sugar plantations of British Guiana.

Secrets and Spies: The Untold Story of Edith Cavell

Former MI5 boss Stella Rimington investigates the startling case of a woman hanged during WW1.

Birth of an Orchestra

Alan Bennett and musicians young and old consider the orchestral heritage of Yorkshire.

Ginny in the Hut

A reflection in sound on the life of Virginia Fiennes, first wife of explorer Sir Ranulph.

Too Much Fighting on the Dance Floor

A look at the violence and tribalism present at music gigs in the late 1970s and 1980s.

Kier Hardie: Labour's First Leader

Gordon Brown tells the story of James Keir Hardie, Labour's first leader.

Music in the Shadow of Ground Zero

The story of two New York churches that survived 9/11 and are now healing the community.

The Spoken Image

Photographer Eamonn McCabe curates his own photo exhibition on the radio.

From Enlightenment to Entanglement

Have computers helped us amass too much information for us to understand?

Donald Duck Gets Drafted

Gerald Scarfe explores the activity of the Walt Disney Studio during World War Two.

New Orleans: The Crescent and the Shadow

Harry Shearer takes stock in his hometown of New Orleans, a decade after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.

Travelling the Spaceways: The Cult of Sun Ra

Two decades after his death, why does Sun Ra continue to inspire an obsessive following?

Overage Drinkers

Leala Padmanabhan investigates problem drinking among older people in the UK, starting with the story of her own father.

The Bin Laden Tapes

1000s of cassettes were found in Osama Bin Laden's abandoned Kabul compound in 2002. What was on them?

Stadium Rock at 50

Five decades after The Beatles played Shea Stadium, Kate Mossman traces a history of stadium rock.

Slimboy Fat: The Problem with BMI

What does your body mass index really tell you about how healthy you are?

Necessary to My Happiness

The story of Lord Byron's abandoned daughter, whose tragic life haunted her father's imagination.

The Northern Male - and His Mate

Stuart Maconie asks, what's so special about friendships between men from the north of England?

Misunderstanding Japan

The real Japan and the Japan depicted in Western media are two different places. How have they influenced each other?

Seth Lakeman and the Newport Folk Festival

Seth Lakeman investigates the history and influence of the Newport Folk Festival.

Ken, Madge and the Strange Rock

The story of a mysterious find on Morecambe beach by one man and his dog.

Women of Terror

Fearless, fanatical and female. Bridget Kendall investigates women who turn to terror.

Rock, Paper, Scissors

Think it's just simple playground game? Think again.

In Your Head

From false memories to brain trauma - a collection of programmes about what goes on inside the head.

The Night Shift

Does working the night shift reduce your lifespan? Sarah Montague investigates.

Strange Sounds

A collection of programmes about weird instruments and unearthly rhythms.

Shhhhhhh

A quiet celebration of the rich and various virtues of silence.

The Bletchley Girls

Five women who worked as WW2 codebreakers in their youth tell their incredible stories.

Seriously Shorts

Fascinating facts in 15 minutes.

In the Moment

Comedian Stewart Lee introduces his private passion - free improvised music.

CSI Whale

Award-winning author Philip Hoare attends a porpoise necropsy and thinks about going inside a whale.

Seriously Surprising

Unexpected stories from across the globe.

Children of the Olympic Bid

Series following 30 East End kids who helped London secure the Olympics.

Pussy Galore

Susan Calman finds out why our feline overlords rule cyberspace.

Seriously Funny

A collection of programmes detailing the facts behind the funny.

Fast and Furioso

Speed drummers and guitar shredders: the world of the virtuoso.

Sugar Daddy, Sugar Baby

Young females are dating wealthy older men via websites. Who is being exploited?

Seriously Spoken

Weird words and marginalia from fisher poets and hepcats.

My Big Fat Documentary

Are you ready for Scottee's personal brand of fat activism?

Seriously Soulful

Moving stories from magical musicians.

Another Time, Another Place

Ten years of Antony Gormley's epic installation on Crosby beach.

The Archive

Seriously interesting documentaries from Radio 4.