Episode 5, 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 Wimbledon, Watford and Nottingham Forest manager Dave Bassett looks back on his career in the beautiful game.

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...

Learn and improve your English with the BBC. Collected here for the first time are 12 episodes from BBC Learning English's popular 6 Minute English series. Aimed at intermediate level learners of...

Former Wales rugby union star Gareth Thomas joins Danny Kelly to talk about his remarkable life on, and off, the pitch.

The BBC’s Nick Robinson continues his fascinating and absorbing Radio 4 series featuring eight famous British Prime Ministers, which explores how Prime Ministers have used their power and...

Former Surrey and England cricketer Mark Ramprakash tells us about his career in the game.

Episode Three: Persuasion. Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the English language in this programme, as heard on BBC Radio 4.Lawyers, advertisers, salespeople and market traders...

If you think British post-war cinema means Elstree, Ealing and Pinewood, then join us on an entertaining tour around "the Hollywood of the North" in Manchester where a stream of Lancashire...

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...

In the USA whole towns have been abandoned -- one after a 12 year old boy was almost swallowed up by a hole caused by a mine fire, and a whole family was lucky to escape carbon monoxide poisoning....

Michael Goldfarb looks back to the Europe of the 1930s and asks how artists, writers and film-makers responded to the poverty, mass unemployment and poltical instability of the Great Depression....

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...

The high-water mark of punk was at the height of a summer of royal love. Millions attended street parties to celebrate the Queen's 25th anniversary on the throne. Meanwhile, a more irreverent...

'So Wrong It’s Right'Stephen Fry demonstrates, with the help of a Judge, a lexicographer, a computational linguist, five buffalo and a strawberry how wrong English can become right English, by...