With recollections from childhood to the present, written and recorded for BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, Shirley Williams describes her life as one of Britain's foremost political women this...

Talk of the town, talk of the pit in Ashington, Northumberland.

It's been called the most beautiful dialect in England. It's the talk of coastal Northumberland that until recently...

In 2010, the BBC and the British Museum embarked on an ambitious project: to tell the story of two million years of human history using one hundred objects selected from the Museum’s vast and...

Alistair Cooke’s most momentous radio Letters from the 1980s.

Alistair Cooke was a radio legend, entertaining millions of listeners for over fifty years in his weekly Letter from...

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 9, ‘All...

Two countries separated by a common language, but there are more than two Englishes.

We've been speaking English for more than 1,000 years and over that time it has changed radically....

Volume Two of David Reynolds’s major BBC Radio 4 series traces America’s story from the Civil War to World War Two.

This epic narrative tells the saga of the United States through...

The power of English - and the ‘English of Power’, as the language extends its influence from Court to Edinburgh.

Melvyn Bragg goes to Edinburgh and the house of John Knox, the...

The first 25 episodes from the landmark BBC Radio series. Martin Sixsmith brings his firsthand experience of reporting from Russia to this fascinating narrative, witnessing the critical moment...

The award-winning story of Britain, from the arrival of Julius Caesar in 55BC to the death of Queen Victoria in 1901. 'Wonderful... This Sceptred Isle has provided one of the greatest treats for...

This major new Radio 4 series charts the development of Western medicine and healing from the ancient Greeks to the pioneering organ transplant operations of the 20th Century and beyond.‘The...

The award-winning story of Britain, from the arrival of Julius Caesar in 55BC to the death of Queen Victoria in 1901Christopher Lee's history of Britain provides the definitive radio account of...

Pete Waterman introduces this collection of stories told by the last generation of men to work on the British steam railway.Before cars and planes, railways and steam engines were the main form...

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...