BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the world's headlines
DetailsTom Heap looks at the prison farm and its special place in the history of penal policy.
DetailsAlastair Leithead meets a British doctor and his family in Afghanistan.
DetailsBest-selling author Val McDermid examines the development of the lesbian novel
DetailsAndrea Catherwood chairs a series of presentations offering solutions to global drought.
DetailsAllan Urry follows Merseyside fire service as the organisation is modernised
DetailsMark Lawson investigates the problems which arise when real lives are used as the basis for fiction or film. Guests include Oliver Stone, Emilio Estevez and Marie Stubbs.
DetailsMark Lawson with arts news, reviews and an interview with dramatist Roy Williams, who has written a play in response to Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.
DetailsWith Mark Lawson, including an interview with best-selling thriller writer Richard North Patterson.
DetailsJenny Cuffe on claims that Al Shabaab, the Somali Islamist group, is recruiting in Kenya.
DetailsFrancine Stock and guests re-evoke the extraordinary frost fairs held on the River Thames.
DetailsMiles Jupp investigates evil mastermind Fu Manchu's connection to the Scottish capital.
DetailsPhill Jupitus tells the story of the weekly British comic 2000AD, now 30 years old.
DetailsTeams of young developers compete over ten weeks to produce a working computer game
DetailsSeries following a computer-obsessed 14-year-old who is taken to Mongolia by his father
DetailsProfessor Jon Silverman takes a mother back to the notorious London estate she grew up on.
DetailsWinifred Robinson looks at attempts to combat gun and knife crime.
DetailsGardening Grumbles: Eric Robson chairs a special edition of the programme. With Chris Beardshaw, Matthew Biggs, John Cushnie, Bob Flowerdew, Pippa Greenwood and Anne Swithinbank.
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