Mark Whitaker reports on a European trend towards teaching history to overcome mistrust.
DetailsFormer hostage John McCarthy meets the man who negotiated his release from captivity.
DetailsComedy sketch show, written by and starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb
DetailsAnother chance to hear Sir Clement Freud at the 2000 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
DetailsJimmy Hibbert tells the story of the 20th century's greatest cartoon voice.
DetailsYasmeen Khan explores the current state of British Asian comedy.
DetailsWhat would Wordsworth have made of modern Greens? Prof James Woudhuysen investigates.
DetailsSue Perkins explores the house of Dr Johnson, author of the great English dictionary.
DetailsAlcoholics Anonymous calls it "the Bible" : literary critic John Sutherland delves deeper.
DetailsInterspersed readings from poetry collections by Eleanor Farjeon and Wendy Cope.
DetailsAuthor Alexander McCall Smith explores W H Auden's fascination with music and song.
DetailsSian Pari Huws visits Rhayader in Mid Wales which seems to be run entirely by volunteers.
DetailsDavid Lomax reports on the story of the Kamchatka crabs brought to the Arctic by Stalin.
DetailsSir Menzies Campbell's battle to shake off claims that he was too old to be Lib Dem leader
DetailsRichard Dawkins decodes the discoveries and mysteries of the human genome sequence
DetailsDavid Mamet delivers this year's lecture on the subject of language.
DetailsComedy from Josie Long, Danielle Ward, Isy Suttie, Margaret Cabourn-Smith and Zoe Gardner.
DetailsMaureen Freely retraces the steps of a journey made by Arthur Miller and Harold Pinter.
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