Born in 1979, Roxy Freeman grew up travelling around Ireland and England in a traditional horse-drawn wagon with her mother and father and five siblings. Life was harsh but it was a childhood of...

Episode 1, Series 1 of the programme that cuts through confusion, statistics and spin to present a clearer view of the business world, through discussion with people running leading and emerging...

Former Leicester, England and British Lions back-rower Dean Richards joins Danny Kelly for a look back on his explosive career.

Imagine a world where all the news you see is defined by your salary, where you live, and who your friends are. Imagine a world where you never discover new ideas. And where you can't have...

In More Than Money, Albion redefines the typical way the risk/reward equation is written, using his own life story and those of the many entrepreneurs, executives, and MBAs he’s met as both...

Have you ever started a diet feeling full of enthusiasm and then given up after a few days? If you've joined a diet club and wondered why it didn't work for you, you're not alone. Why is it that...

We are all storytellers - through stories, we make sense of our lives. But it is not enough to tell tales. There must be someone to listen. In his work as a psychoanalyst, Stephen Grosz has spent...

Eating for England' is an observation of the British & their food, their cooking, their eating & how they behave in restaurants. It features chapters on dinner parties, Indian restaurants, dieting...

Professor Simon Lee reads this part of his celebration of sport - V is for Varsity, Volunteering and Vegetarianism. The University of Oxford has influenced the world of sport in many ways. To...

What I Love About Cricket is the story of a summer when a 'master' cricket obsessive teaches his novice 'pupil' the wisdom of the game. Sandy Balfour is cast as the supposed master and his...

When Ellen MacArthur set sail in her record-breaking solo circumnavigation of the globe in 2004, it was the culmination of a lifetime’s love for the sea and the fulfilment of an ambitious dream....

Based on the broadcasts made by Gerald Durrell for the BBC, this is a vividly entertaining account of the animals he discovered and observed from Argentina to Africa and from Greece to Guiana. We...

Dr. Geoff Bunn presents a journey through 5000 years of our understanding of the most complex thing in the known universe: the brain, in this major ten-part BBC Radio 4 series.Human beings have...

Olympic silver medalist John Regis joins Danny Kelly to look back on his athletics career.

From the mid-1970s the humble 7 inch vinyl single was joined by a much grander relative - the 12 inch single. It reached its peak in 1983 with Blue Monday by New Order, probably the biggest...