Sue MacGregor talks to members of the 1980 British Olympic team who defied their Government to attend the Moscow games.In 1979, the British team was in training for the following year’s...

In a snow-covered morning in upstate New York, a girl out riding her horse is hit by a 40-ton truck. Though horribly injured, both thirteen-year-old Grace and her horse Pilgrim survive.

Thracia, AD30. Vespasian's patrons in Rome have charged him with the clandestine extraction of an old enemy from a fortress on the banks of the Danube before it falls to the Roman legion besieging...

At nearly eighteen, easy–going Benedict Juliard has no stronger ambition than to ride in steeplechases as an amateur jockey. His father, George, driven towards a life of public service and...

Bertrand Russell was one of the greatest thinkers of the last century. His contributions to the fields of mathematics and philosophy are widely acknowledged as some of the most important of their...

A special compilation of highlights from cuddly Ken’s television and radio shows.Kenny Everett was one of radio’s great innovators, the funniest DJ of our time and a one-off whose madcap...

When, one dark night in November, Prince Ludovico Ruspanti fell a hundred and fifty feet to his death in the chapel at St. Peter's, Rome, there were a number of questions to be answered. Inspector...

Never expect anything...

Rilke is dissolute, promiscuous and is also known as the Corpse. Highly recommended and discreet, he’s an auctioneer who deals with the bereaved. But when he...

Clive Merrison and Michael Williams star as Holmes and Watson in this story, part of the second collection from the unique fully dramatised BBC Radio 4 canon.

Whose is the face at the...

Dru Rayne and her uncle fled to L.A. after Hurricane Katrina; but now, five years later, they face a different danger. When Joe Pike witnesses Dru’s uncle beaten by a protection gang, he offers...

A BBC World Play written by Matthew Solon and directed by John Dryden.On 15 September 2008, Lehman Brothers, one of the oldest and largest investment banks in the world, with its headquarters in...

Dear intelligent listener, you are cordially invited to a marvellous comic extravaganza in which Solomon Snow sets out to find his true parents. Thrill at his quest to track down his silver spoon....

Casey Quinn has got to dance. It’s in her bones. She’s got more grace in her pinkie toe than all those prissy ballet-school girls put together, though you’d never guess it from her skinny...

BBC Radio 4 sitcom written by and starring Sanjeev Kohli and Donald McLeary, set in a Glasgow corner shop.In 'Wall of Crisps', a new corn and maize-based snack sparks trouble in the corner shop.

When Lieutenant Charles Acland is flown home from Iraq with serious head injuries, he faces not only permanent disfigurement but also an apparent change to his previously outgoing personality....