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At first glance, Josh Hanagame seems an improbable librarian. He stands 6'7'', competes in strongman contests, and was diagnosed in high school with Tourette Syndrome. But books are his first...

After a devastating failed attempt to climb Mt. Everest in 2007 and a brief period of mourning, Dr. Tim Warren became focused on learning the lessons that had been revealed to him while hiking...

Much has happened to Gabrielle Reece since her 1997 bestseller Big Girl in the Middle. She's still gorgeous, still 6'3'', and a dominant force on and off the beach, but in the last fifteen years,...

In the second episode of this two-part documentary series, Nina's daughter Simone explores her mother's musical style and what she was like as a live performer. Her musical style can only be...

Winner of The Sony Radio Academy Award for Best Music Documentary. Nina's daughter Simone explores the life and career of her mother - the protest singer, jazz chanteuse, blues artist and live...

In 1954, in a remote South American village, a four-year-old girl was abducted and then abandoned deep in the Colombian rainforest. So begins the incredible true story of Marina Chapman, who went...

Poland, 1939. Three-year-old Renata is woken in the middle of the night and bundled into the basement. No one has explained to Renata what war is. She only knows her Tatus, a doctor, is in Europe...

Nabokov famously decreed his works "art for art's sake," drawing ire from other Russian exiles like Solzhenitsyn, who wondered why emigre authors like Nabokov did not write about the "blood...

Alfred Wainwright's unique hand-drawn and hand-written Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells have been an inspiration to walkers for over 40 years. Yet despite many bestselling books and three...

After the Iraq War, when the reputation of Britain's spooks hit an all-time low, John le Carré's intellectual hero George Smiley came to be seen as the perfect spy, a man who would never allow...

Susanna desperately wants to join the circle of girls who meet every week at the parsonage. What she doesn't realize is that the leader of the group, the malicious Ann Putnam, is about to set off...

Driven by curiosity, wanderlust, and health crises, David Downie and his wife set out from Paris to walk across France to the Pyrenees. Starting on the Rue Saint-Jacques then trekking 750 miles...

This BBC Radio history series, presented by Mark Whitaker, explores the politics of alcohol through the ages. Beginning with James I's campaign against the demon drink, Whitaker goes on to explore...

St. Wenceslas, King of Bohemia in the early 10th century, is the greatest of all Czech national heroes. And when a Victorian cleric wrote a carol about him in 1853 it was a pointed political gesture.

John Miley has compiled the most comprehensive audio account of baseball history in existence—a vast and wildly entertaining assemblage of game tapes from throughout the...

An examination of the Bush Administration's claim that the post-WW2 occupations of Japan and Germany are a good historical analogy for the occupation of Iraq today.

For most of the time between 1906 and 1914 a young Englishwoman by the name of Millie Graham Polak, together with her husband, shared the same house in South Africa as Mahatma Gandhi and his...

The story of the Government's response to an earlier epidemic of binge-drinking - the nationalization of Carlisle's pubs and breweries as a wartime experiment in 1916, an experiment that lasted...

A series of four programs which tells the human stories of some of the computer pioneers in three countries, Britain, America and the Ukraine. Each is a little cameo of social history of the...

September 3rd 2008 marked the 350th anniversary of Oliver Cromwell_x001A_s death - but his severed head was only finally put to rest in 1960. This is the extraordinary story of what happened to it.

The original India Pale Ale was pure gold in a glass; a beer specially invented, in the 19th century, to travel halfway around the world and arrive in perfect condition for a cold drink on an...

After ten years in England, expatriate American Bill Bryson was gripped by an urge to return to the land of his youth. Borrowing his mother's old Chevrolet, Bryson travelled 13,978 miles through...

In Made in America, Bill Bryson de-mythologizes his native land--explaining how a dusty desert hamlet with neither woods nor holly became Hollywood, how the Wild West wasn't won, why Americans say...

A collection of original travel stories told by some of the world's best novelists, including Isabel Allende, Peter Matthiessen, Alexander McCall Smith, Joyce Carol Oates, Téa Obreht and DBC Pierre.

Michael Palin journeys to a vast country of unimaginable contrasts - Brazil. An economic powerhouse, it is host to a staggering variety of peoples. He starts his journey in the north, in the...

The third and most ambitious of Michael Palin’s adventures is a voyage of epic proportions—the circumnavigation of the Pacific Rim. He travels for almost a year through the eighteen countries...

Geoffrey Fletcher's London was not the big landmarks, but rather 'the tawdry, extravagant and eccentric'. He wrote about parts of the city no-one ever had before. This could be an art nouveau pub,...

Join celebrated PBS TV host and bestselling New York Times author, Steven Raichlen, for a personal guided tour of Martha's Vineyard, including his favorite places to shop for the freshest seafood...

'Germany as we understand it, unified and strong, only came into existence a mere 140 years ago. Before then? Well, there was Bavaria and Prussia, Saxony, Baden Wurttemberg, Pomerania, Westfalia,...

Joanna Lumley was not slow in agreeing to spend nine days on a desert island off the coast of Madagascar with the bare minimum of kit. This is the fascinating diary of her experiences. She rises...

This 30-part series explores how our interactions with sound have shaped us over 100,000 years. Recorded on location around the world and featuring treasures from the British Library's Sound...

A living legend, "Wildman" Steve Brill, leads us on a lively and entertaining tour through the Northeastern United States as he shares tips on foraging in densely populated areas like New York's...

It is commonly known that honeybees have been dying in large numbers, but much less well known that bumblebees are just as important when it comes to pollinating crops and flowers, and that they...

This program marks the two hundredth anniversary of the publication of homeopathy's founding text 'Samuel Hahnemann's Organon of Rational Medicine'. It recognizes that homeopathy remains deeply...

The story of one man's discovery of the global contamination of the environment by man-made lead compounds, presented by environmental scientist Dr Hermione Cockburn. It was largely thanks to...

Mark Whitaker reports from Britain and the USA on the science of geoengineering and the political questions it raises. Putting giant parasols in space, injecting substances into the stratosphere,...

Hermione Cockburn tells the story of the man who in the 1920s added lead to petrol and a decade later put CFCs into fridges. Both were great advances in their day but ultimately came with great...

Can animals really be gay? Some biologists argue that they can, and that their experiences challenge Darwin's theories of evolution. Hermione Cockburn investigates.

Gerry Northam goes behind the scenes to investigate 'open source' computer software. Much has been said about the likes of free web browser Firefox and the operating system Linux, but little about...

It's often claimed that you're never more than 10 feet from a rat, and you could probably say the same about lasers. In the home and at the shops, throughout medicine, the military, and almost...