Julian Huxley and the Invention of the Public Scientist

Through the life of Julian Huxley Jim Al-Khalili explores the idea of the public scientist

• 60 mins

Bob Dylan and Me

A cast of musicians, writers and poets reflect as Bob Dylan turns 70.

• 60 mins

The Light Music Festival

Paul Morley explores the rise and mysterious fall of light orchestral music.

• 60 mins

Schumacher's Big Society

Did EF Schumacher's landmark book Small is Beautiful inspire David Cameron's big idea?

• 60 mins

The 1981 Ashes

Mike Brearley tells the story of one of the most remarkable summers of cricket ever seen.

• 60 mins

RP RIP?

Melvyn Bragg observes the decline of RP alongside an increasing pride in regional accents.

• 60 mins

Raise Your Glasses

Arthur Smith searches for the best and worst after-dinner speeches in history.

• 60 mins

Robert Robinson

Laurie Taylor takes a look at the life and work of one of Britain's broadcasting legends.

• 50 mins

When the Eyes of the World Were on the Clyde

Journalist John Lloyd looks back at the Clydeside work-in of 1971.

• 60 mins

The Life and Fate of Vasily Grossman

Jim Riordan uncovers the life and fate of Soviet writer Vasily Grossman, hero and heretic.

• 43 mins

The Red Bits Are British

David Cannadine explores the teaching of history in English schools over the past century.

• 60 mins

Mind Your PMQs

Dominic Sandbrook questions the political importance of Prime Minister's Questions.

• 58 mins

Remembrance

Denys Blakeway tells the story of the Act of Remembrance.

• 58 mins

Rebuilding Britain for the Baby Boomers

Maxwell Hutchinson on the architects who rebuilt Britain after the Second World War.

• 58 mins

John Arlott: Cricket's Radical Voice

Mark Whitaker investigates the life of the cricket commentator and political campaigner.

• 60 mins

Bertrand Russell: The First Media Academic?

Robin Ince listens back to some of the BBC archive of philosopher Bertrand Russell.

• 60 mins

Freud vs Jung

Lisa Appignanesi explores the intense relationship between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung.

• 58 mins

Castaway: 70 Years of Desert Island Discs

Kirsty Young tells the story of the long-running radio programme.

• 58 mins

The Lost World of the Suffragettes

Dan Snow delves into a huge library of tapes of suffragettes recalling their experiences.

• 60 mins

Attention All Shipping

Peter Jefferson presents an elegy to the Shipping Forecast he used to read.

• 58 mins

The Politics of Art

Tim Marlow looks at how the BBC TV series Ways of Seeing shook up the art world.

• 58 mins

Playing Doctors and Nurses

Mark Lawson on the rich history of medical programmes, fact and fiction, on radio and TV.

• 57 mins

More Than Just Whale Music

Christine Finn explores the world of recorded natural sound and those who relax to it.

• 58 mins

Greece: An Unquiet History

Writer Maria Margaronis asks if the spectre of Greece's past haunts its current nightmares

• 58 mins

From Our Rome Correspondent

The BBC's veteran Rome correspondent David Willey looks back at his 50-year career.

• 58 mins

Lunch Is for Wimps

When did you last take a lunch hour? Matthew Sweet explores the demise of the midday break

• 58 mins

One Way Ticket - The Beeching Cuts Revisited!

Michael Portillo assesses the lasting impact of the Beeching cuts on Britain's railways.

• 58 mins

The Great Listener

Alan Dein tells the story of pioneering oral historian Tony Parker.

• 58 mins

A History of the Stiff Upper Lip

Louisa Foxe reveals the changing British attitude towards the expression of emotion.

• 58 mins

Houses v Fields

Anne McElvoy explores the eternal struggle: Is a green field better than a human home?

• 58 mins