The BBC Sound Archive contains numerous recordings compiled over many years, and this collection covers a range of sound effects recorded in the city - ideal for use in your home studio.

In the fifth and final programme in the series Men Only: An Informal History of the Male Nude, the critic Sarah Kent contemplates the place of the male nude in contemporary art. She examines the...

Join presenters Brett Westwood and Stephen Moss in this fascinating guide to the songs of our most popular woodland birds, as heard on BBC Radio 4. Woods and forests are full of birds and,...

Gerry Northam goes behind the scenes to investigate 'open source' computer software. Much has been said about the likes of free web browser Firefox and the operating system Linux, but little about...

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...

The BBC Sound Archive contains numerous recordings compiled over many years, and this collection covers a range of sound effects relating to air and sea transport - ideal for use in your home...

Why can't you light a candle in a spaceship? What books are bad for you? Is nature natural? Every year Oxford and Cambridge's learned professors pose such curious conundrums to potential students...

The BBC Sound Archive contains numerous recordings compiled over many years, and this collection covers a range of crowd sound effects from this vast library - ideal for use in your home...

Did you know that there's so much empty space inside matter that the entire human race could be squeezed into the volume of a sugar cube? Or that you grow old more quickly on the top floor of a...

The BBC Sound Archive contains numerous recordings collected over many years, and this collection covers a range of animal sound effects from this vast library - ideal for use in your home...

The BBC Sound Archive contains numerous recordings compiled over many years, and this collection covers a range of way-out intergalactic sound effects - ideal for use in your home studio.

When we think of the nude we usually think of the female nude and in Western art in particular we're often contemplating an image where the artist is primarily concerned with sensuality and...

Is it right to eat a pig that wants to be eaten...? Thought experiments are short scenarios that pose a moral or philosophical problem in a vivid and concrete way. In this book Julian Baggini...

Mark Whitaker reports from Bangladesh and Vietnam on the fact that drowning is a leading cause of child death across South East Asia, and on the efforts being made to prevent it. Children drown...

Arctic explorer, survival expert and naturalist, Freddy Spencer Chapman was trapped behind enemy lines when the Japanese overran Malaya and Singapore in 1942. His response was to begin a commando...