In this episode taken from the BBC Radio 4 series, Melvyn Bragg visits Merthyr Tydfil to look at the plight of the miners in the Depression.The industrial communities of South Wales, built first...

Nowadays, the English cricket team sets off for Australia from Heathrow airport and their journey is dull, routine and fast. But for 100 years, from 1861 to 1962, teams went slowly by boat. The...

The fourth in a series of extended interviews from Colin Murray's Gold Run - one man's quest to meet every living GB gold medallist from the summer Olympics. In this episode, Colin meets Daley...

A BBC Radio 4 documentary all about Johnny Morris of BBC TV's 'Animal Magic' fame, a household name and character who created charming, comic voices for the creatures in the show.‘Not Just...

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...

Episode 10 of the series following the youngsters from very diverse backgrounds who played a crucial role in securing the Olympics. In this programme, first broadcast on 12th September 2010, Peter...

Professor Simon Lee reads this part of his celebration of sport - M is for Myths & Mysteries. The University of Oxford has influenced the world of sport in many ways. To celebrate and appreciate...

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...

These programmes explore the life of one of the most extraordinary and controversial Victorians - William Quilliam, who established the first community of English Muslims in Liverpool in the 1890s.

One of the weighty and apparently immovable pieces of our mental furniture is the notion that Queen Victoria was a prude. Another is that the Italian Renaissance was a sunny dream where man was...

I Confess: The Power of the Confession looks at the history of confessions, which links the legal world of Cicero to our own. In Episode three, witchcraft scholar Dr Emma Wilby of Exeter...

The path to successful sales negotiation starts here. How do you handle the buyer who says 'you are too expensive', 'we can't afford it', 'we don't have the budget', or 'you'll have to lower your...

In a fascinating collection of archive interviews with the celebrated writer, presenter and polymath, you can hear - in his own words - the beliefs and aspirations that have shaped him. The...

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...

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...