When Sebastian Coe presented London's bid for the Games on the international stage in Singapore in 2005, he was surrounded by 30 East End youngsters who shared a passion for sport and represented...

Danny Kelly speaks to triple Olympic medallist Kriss Akabusi about life on and off the track, his religion and his love of West Ham United.

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...

Series 2 of the BBC Radio 4 narrative comedy featuring Beauty Oolonga's adventures as a careworker, starring Jocelyn Jee Esien.‘Beauty of Britain’ breaks the embarrassed silence about what...

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

Episode 5 in the BBC Radio 3 series in which writers, academics and journalists discuss the books that inspired them in their careers. In this programme, academic Mona Siddiqui explores her...

A fascinating chance to hear David Hockney talk about his life and career, in a selection of interviews taken from the BBC radio and TV archive. David Hockney has been described as Britain's...

World Cup winner and rugby union legend Ben Cohen talks to Danny Kelly about his life on and off the pitch.

An insight into the secretive work of the Spoliation Advisory Panel - a small team of academics and art historians who advise government - and British galleries and museums - in relation to claims...

‘After the first forty days we were alone, with victorious Germany and Italy engaged in a mortal attack upon us, with Soviet Russia a hostile neutral actively aiding Hitler, and Japan an...

In Episode 2, '6 Degrees', Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined on stage by special guest Stephen Fry and science writer Simon Singh to find out whether we really are only 6 degrees of separation...

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...

Join Brett Westwood and Stephen Moss in this absorbing guide to the sounds of our most popular farmland birds, as heard on BBC Radio 4.In the fifth of our series of bird guides, Brett Westwood...

Episode 9, 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...

Based on an afterschool program at the Institute for Collaborative Education that Alex is currently incubating with a group of students, Songlab teaches the elements of songwriting for teens. Each...