Captive Media: The Story of Patty Hearst

How the kidnapping of a newspaper heiress captivated and transformed the American media.

• 60 mins

Portraying Real Lives

Maxine Peake explores the challenges of playing factual characters.

• 60 mins

Listen without Mother

Fi Glover peels the labels off motherhood, from sacred mother to slummy mummy.

• 58 mins

Dark Horse: An Alec Guinness Archive

Alistair McGowan investigates the enigma of a private man who became a global star.

• 58 mins

Atlantic Crossing

The connection between those who fly the Atlantic and those who guide us over it.

• 58 mins

Pulped Fiction

What makes a literary reputation last? Who's 'in' and who's on the way 'out'?

• 58 mins

Rebel Rebel

Jonathan Agnew looks back at the rebel cricket tours to South Africa between 1981-1990.

• 58 mins

The Benjamin Broadcasts

Michael Rosen discovers Walter Benjamin's radio works for children. Read by Henry Goodman.

• 58 mins

Sentimental Journey

Gyles Brandreth surveys the history of sentimentality, wondering whether to sneer or cheer

• 60 mins

Imagining the Audience

In the days before audience research, who did the early BBC think it was talking to?

• 58 mins

No Destination

Satish Kumar walked 8,000 miles for world peace. Join him as he relives this journey.

• 60 mins

A History of the N-Word

Ellah Allfrey looks at the evolution of the N-word.

• 58 mins

The Stranger in the Mirror

Does the history of our ideas about autism tell us more about ourselves than about autism?

• 58 mins

How Britain Went to War

Peter Hennessy examines Britain's secret war planning and preparations before August 1914.

• 60 mins

Wars, Lies and Audiotape

Historian DD Guttenplan explores what happened in the Gulf of Tonkin on 4 August 1964.

• 58 mins

You Are Feeling Sleepy

The extraordinary history and science of the use of hypnosis in medicine.

• 58 mins

Vietnam and the Presidents

David Taylor looks at the Vietnam War through the eyes of three presidents.

• 58 mins

The Eccentric Entrepreneur

Dominic Sandbrook explores the life of 1930s radio station magnate Leonard Plugge.

• 60 mins

No More Heroes

Angie Hobbs examines the changing nature of the hero, from the Iliad to the present day.

• 58 mins

Media and the Middle East

Why does the Arab-Israeli conflict attract so much media attention? With John Lloyd.

• 58 mins

Four Women Poets Today

Carol Ann Duffy, Liz Lochhead, Gillian Clarke and Eavan Boland on gender and poetry.

• 60 mins

Joan Littlewood and the People's Theatre

Richard Eyre pays tribute to maverick left-wing theatre director Joan Littlewood.

• 58 mins

From Inside: The Guildford Four

Martin McNamara presents Paul Hill's letters from jail, read by Jonjo O'Neill.

• 58 mins

The Revolution That Nearly Wasn't

Elinor Goodman explores the general election that brought Harold Wilson to power in 1964.

• 58 mins

Speaking as a Member of the Public

Danny Wallace's history of the vox pop. Are the opinions of random people of any value?

• 58 mins

Cerys Goes Under Milk Wood

Cerys Matthews unlocks her uncle's rare recordings of Dylan Thomas's friends and family.

• 57 mins

Tears of a Clown

Robin Ince looks at the enduring cliche of the sad clown.

• 60 mins

The Mersey Militants

How Militant Tendency dominated Liverpool politics in the 1980s, and its ongoing legacy.

• 58 mins

A Girl's Own Story

Ruby Tandoh shows how young women are finding a powerful new voice via the internet.

• 58 mins

Art School, Smart School

Brian Eno, Grayson Perry and others reflect on the state of the art school.

• 60 mins