Spoken Like a Woman

Anne Karpf explores the way women have shaped the sound of British radio.

• 60 mins

Embracing Idleness

Oliver Burkeman uses the archive to explore the controversial subject of idleness.

• 58 mins

The Devil's Horn

British jazz musician Soweto Kinch examines the intriguing history of the saxophone.

• 60 mins

Iraq Tales: What the Army Learned

Chris Parry uses the US Army's oral history archive to tell the history of the Iraq war.

• 58 mins

Wheeler: The Final Word

David Taylor and Charles Wheeler's probe into Johnson and Nixon's clash over Vietnam.

• 58 mins

DNA 60 Years On

Robert Winston traces the impact of DNA - from its discovery 60 years ago to today.

• 58 mins

Dr K

Should we remember Henry Kissinger as America's wise strategist or its ruthless operator?

• 58 mins

Collar the Lot

Tom Conti explores the story of Italian internment in Britain during World War II.

• 60 mins

From Donald Winnicott to the Naughty Step

Anne Karpf on psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, among the first to broadcast to new mothers.

• 58 mins

Heroes and Hacks

Journalist Eamonn O'Neill examines his profession through the legacy of Watergate.

• 58 mins

Lives and Politics

Two remarkable archives, 80 years apart, throw light on what makes a politician tick.

• 58 mins

Profumo Confidential

Tom Mangold revisits the scandal he covered for the Daily Express fifty years ago.

• 57 mins

Very British Dystopias

Steven Fielding looks at the impact of British dystopian political fiction.

• 58 mins

Writers and Radio

Susannah Clapp talks to authors who grew up at the end of the radio age.

• 58 mins

Dial-a-Poem

Poet Brian Patten explores the 1960s counter-culture through its radically risqué poetry.

• 58 mins

Churchill's Secret Cabinet

A humble wooden cabinet reveals secrets about how Churchill developed his oratorical style

• 58 mins

Crime of the Century

Jake Arnott examines the Great Train Robbery of 1963.

• 58 mins

Ivor Cutler at 90

A celebration of the 90th anniversary of poet, humourist and absurdist Ivor Cutler.

• 60 mins

Scrambled

Allegra McEvedy reflects on our complex, even scrambled, relationship with the humble egg.

• 58 mins

This Train Rides Again

A recreation of the1963 train journey made to Washington by civil rights campaigners.

• 57 mins

Beyond the Kitchen Sink

Paul Allen uses the archive to explore the social changes that led to the British New Wave

• 60 mins

Bombing Berlin

Stephen Evans on Wynford Vaughan-Thomas's 1943 dispatch during a bombing raid on Berlin.

• 58 mins

A Brief History of Irony

Satirist Joe Queenan charts the rise and fall of the 'nudge nudge wink wink' epidemic.

• 58 mins

Yeats and Heaney: A Terrible Beauty

Fintan O'Toole looks back at the reputations of WB Yeats and Seamus Heaney.

• 57 mins

The World Turned Upside Down

Peter Day argues that the internet is completely revolutionising manufacturing and trade.

• 58 mins

Not Enough Hours in the Day

Claudia Hammond looks back at 80 years ago of time use surveys, started by the BBC.

• 58 mins

Orson Welles and The War Of The Worlds - Myth or Legend?

The true story behind the most notorious hoax in radio - Orson Welles' War Of The Worlds.

• 60 mins

Gloria and Me

Glenn Patterson traces the cultural journey of Van Morrison's much-covered song Gloria.

• 58 mins

The Kennedy Book Depository

Mark Lawson explores the literary and cultural responses to JFK's assassination.

• 58 mins

Monkey Planet

Will Self asks where apes end and human apes begin.

• 58 mins