In interviews ranging from 1968 to 2009, Paul McCartney talks about touring the UK with Wings (which was then a new band); a mid-70s offer to re-form the Beatles; the early days of the Beatles,...

A fascinating chance to hear P. D. James talk about her life and career, in a selection of interviews taken from the BBC radio and TV archive. Due to the age and nature of this archive material,...

An audio portrait of Dirk Bogarde, the award-winning actor and accomplished writer and artist who died in 1999. He discusses his life and achievements in this collection of BBC radio and TV...

A fascinating chance to hear David Hockney talk about his life and career, in a selection of interviews taken from the BBC radio and TV archive. David Hockney has been described as Britain's...

A fascinating chance to hear the late Beryl Reid talk about her life and career, in a selection of interviews taken from the BBC radio and TV archive. Beryl Reid, OBE, (1919-1996) was one of...

A fascinating chance to hear Steve Redgrave talk about his life and career, in a selection of interviews taken from the BBC radio and TV archive. Sir Steve Redgrave is a former British rower who...

A fascinating chance to hear John le Carre talk about his life and career, in a selection of interviews taken from the BBC radio and TV archive. John le Carre is a bestselling author whose books...

In this fascinating collection of interviews from the BBC radio and TV archive, John Betjeman (Poet Laureate 1972) talks about his life and career as one of the foremost poets of the 20th century....

In this fascinating collection of interviews from the BBC radio and TV archive, Martina Navratilova talks about her life and career as one of the greatest tennis players of all time. The...

In this fascinating collection of interviews from the BBC radio and TV archive, explorer Ranulph Fiennes talks about his life and career. The interviews included are: 'Profile', broadcast on BBC...

Highlights from the BBC Radio series featuring Brian Johnston, specially selected by his son Barry Johnston.

'Down Your Way' was one of the most popular programmes on radio and spanned...

‘We Churchills die at forty,’ said Winston in 1908, ‘and I want to put something more on the slate before then.’ By the time he died in 1965, the slate was full.From his earliest days...

On his many reconnaissance missions in Europe and the Far East, the young Bogarde experienced the terror of enemy attack and the horror of its aftermath, together with the intense camaraderie and...

In Blind Man's Bete Noire, Peter White explores some of the things which annoy him most about his blindness. The four programmes include The Countryside, Holidays, Being Introduced to Other Blind...

Throughout his six decades in the public eye, Winston Churchill understood and wielded the power of words. His speeches, books and articles have fascinated generation after generation with their...

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...