Welcome to The City, the fascinating and historic Square Mile at the heart of central London. In the company of Tim Pigott-Smith, you’ll visit world-renowned sites, walk alongside famous figures...

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

Here you...

If you want to lose weight and find dieting alone doesn't work, then these unique relaxations will help. They are designed to help you use the power of your mind to focus on your desired shape and...

A door creaks, footsteps echo, someone's breathing - and we are terrified. But why? Sean Street investigates the psychology of fear, so potently sensitive to sound. Talking to musicians, writers,...

Brooke loved reading the celebrity gossip rag 'Last Night'. Until her marriage became a weekly headline. Brooke had been drawn to Julian Alter the first time she heard him perform ‘Hallelujah’...

When Sebastian Coe presented London's bid for the Games on the international stage in 2005 he was surrounded by 30 East End youngsters who represented the rich cultural diversity of their...

This is the first volume of memoirs from Barry Letts, producer of 'Doctor Who' from 1970 to 1974, executive producer in 1980, and later producer of the BBC's Classic Serials strand. Barry's career...

Hermione Cockburn tells the story of the man who in the 1920s added lead to petrol and a decade later put CFCs into fridges. Both were great advances in their day but ultimately came with great...

Helen Simpson offers acute portraits of lives in transition: of changes for the better, lives stalled and in freefall; of love, loss, and sudden revelations.

Throughout John Mortimer's career, he established profound friendships with people accused of various crimes. He also indulged his passion for writing, penning Paradise Postponed and a series of...

We all know James Herriot, the author of the legendary 'All Creatures Great and Small', but how did a young student named Alf Wight become the man who won the hearts of readers the world over?...

In Top of the Class, John Wilson meets leading figures in their fields and takes them back to the places and people they left behind. In this episode, he takes author Andrea Levy back to the...

Melvyn Bragg follows his long historical exploration of the Routes of English with 'Voices of the Powerless', the BBC Radio 4 series in which he explores the lives of the ordinary working men and...

Wolfgang Stoecker is on a mission to explore the cultural meanings of dust. Cologne-based artist Stoecker has collected samples of dust from historic buildings across Europe and beyond. With the...

Tim Cahill learns many valuable life lessons along the way in a remarkable collection of hilarious journeys, such as: how to drink with the Aussies (trying to match them beer for beer is not a...