David Blunkett has emerged from a life of extreme poverty and triumphed over seemingly insuperable barriers to become one of the most important and controversial figures in Britain today. His...

The heroine of 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Sound of Music' tells her life story, from the music halls of London to Hollywood stardom.

Professor Simon Lee reads all 26 parts of this celebration of sport. The University of Oxford has influenced the world of sport in many ways. To celebrate and appreciate the role of sport in...

His name is synonymous with astronomy, and he is probably one of the best known men in the country, if not the world. Sir Patrick Moore is a colourful, warm, funny and immensely likeable man. A...

In September 1939, housewife and mother Nella Last began a regular diary that lasted for thirty years. The account that she left of life during the Second World War is moving, fascinating and...

Tom Reynolds is an Emergency Medical Technician, more commonly known as an ambulance driver. This book tells his remarkable story, full of the highs and lows of one of the most rewarding jobs in...

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...

Edgar Allan Poe served as a soldier and began his literary career composing verses modelled on Byron. Soon he was trying out his ‘prose-tales’ – often horror melodramas such as ‘The Fall...

As one third of the BBC’s ‘Top Gear’ team, Richard Hammond always seems to get the tough option, whether he’s racing to the North Pole, battling through the saltpans of Botswana or...

An excellent host finds himself turned out of his home by his own guests; a woman spends her wedding day frantically searching for her husband-to-be; and in Shirley Jackson’s bestknown story, a...

Episode 9, 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 British Lions, England and Harlequins hooker Brian Moore looks back on his career.

In 2007 Luke Harding arrived in Moscow to take up a new job as a correspondent for the British newspaper the Guardian. Within months, mysterious agents from Russia's Federal Security Service - the...

This is perhaps one of the best-loved of all journals. William Wordsworth’s sister, Dorothy, began it in May 1800 and resolved to keep it for a short time. She continued it for nearly three...

The route to Exceptional Sales Management is within your grasp. This programme is the result of over twenty years of working with outstanding sales managers and directors across a wide range of...