Here we take up the story of Caribbean English where the Brixton Routes left off.

For the poet Edward Kamau Braithwaite the legacy of the English language is something from which he, in...

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...

Visiting the Hebridean island of Mull today, it's not long before someone mentions the steep decline in population that the Scottish highlands and islands suffered 150 to 200 years ago. And it...

Alistair Cooke presents his own personal selection of ‘Letter from America’ broadcasts from the turbulent years 1969-1978.Alistair Cooke is the microphone’s great observer, the doyen of...

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.Episode 6 'The...

Melvyn Bragg looks at dialects from around Britain: the Pitmatic of Northumberland, the dialect of (London/Derry), the increasingly elusive Cornish dialect, Pidgin, and Shropshire dialect, then...

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...

Authentic voices from the past illustrate this unique history of the Twentieth Century, written by Joanna Bourke and presented by Tim Pigott-Smith.'Eyewitness' provides a rare and fascinating...

Five specially selected letters from American election years, based on the BBC Radio 4 series ‘Cooke’s Elections’.

Alistair Cooke was a radio legend, entertaining millions of...

‘We Churchills die at forty,’ said Winston in 1908, ‘and I want to put something more on the slate before then.’ By the time he died in 1965, the slate was full.From his earliest days...

BBC Radio 4 programme all about the fashion for keeping chickens in your back garden, a hobby which shows no sign of waning.Natalie Haynes has heard some dark rumours about the true habits of...

This is volume 2 of the eagerly-awaited follow-up to Christopher Lee’s highly-acclaimed and award-winning BBC Radio 4 series.BBC Radio 4’s monumental history of Britain picks up the story...

The RMS Titanic sailed from Southampton en route for New York on her maiden voyage with 2228 passengers and crew on board. On the 14th April at twenty minutes before midnight, sailing at almost...

In this episode taken from the BBC Radio 4 series, Melvyn Bragg travels to the historic dockyard of Chatham to explore the life of a seaman in Nelson's navy.Our popular image of the 18th century...

From the BBC Radio 4 series presented and written by Nick Robinson that explores how prime ministers have used their power and responded to the great challenges of their time and how they made the...