Returning for a seventh season, crime writer Frances Fyfield once again explores the tales and tribulations revealed in the hand-written music manuscripts of some of the greatest works of...

Alexei Sayle was born in Liverpool on the day egg rationing came to an end. His mother was keen on boiled eggs and the Moscow State Circus. His father was a union leader who made friends wherever...

Peter White talks to the London youngsters who contributed to the bid to stage the 2012 Olympics. In Episode 8, first broadcast on 14th September 2009, he catches up with promising athlete Jessica...

Olympic medallist Roger Black speaks to Danny Kelly about his life on and off the track, including his battle with Michael Johnson.

Richard Mabey is Britain’s foremost nature writer. He has written a regular column for BBC Wildlife Magazine for over 25 years and, in doing so, has created a passionate, lyrical and deeply...

Anna Del Conte brought Italian cooking to Britain at a time when the nearest most of us came to pasta was a tinned spaghetti hoop. This is a delicious, poignant memoir of an unusual life and the...

In this episode from the series exploring the life and times of the great and good of the sporting world, former Tottenham, Chelsea, Rangers, West Brom and England defender, Graham Roberts, tells...

Most personal and organisational problems are the result of a little-known phenomenon called ‘self-deception’. We deceive ourselves into thinking we’re doing the right thing for the right...

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

This third compelling volume sees Nella, now in her sixties, writing of what ordinary people felt during those years of growing prosperity in a modernising Britain.

Her diary offers a...

Beginning with the founding myths of Romulus and Remus and a succession of probably fictitious kings, Anthony Everitt charts the development of Rome from its origins as a small market town in the...

This is a richly detailed portrait of a woman who has lived an incredible life, one that far transcends her best known role as courtesan to the chief Rolling Stone. From aristocratic lineage to...

This is a vivid and moving chronicle of childhood, written by one of our most outstanding actors, evoking the England of the 50s and the confusions of growing up illegitimate.

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...

A special tribute edition of ‘Home Truths’, released to mark the anniversary of John Peel's death, in which Tom Robinson visits Peel Acres to meet John's wife Sheila and their four children.