The latest national and international news, exploring the day's events from a global perspective.

An 80th birthday celebration of two of Britain's greatest living composers, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Sir Harrison Birtwistle, who changed the landscape of British music. Show more

How the liberal politics and free-market economics of the British Empire unravelled, leading to the potato famine in Ireland and mutiny in India. Show more

Drama based on a true story. John Christie claims he is an accomplished abortionist and offers to perform the illegal operation on his tenant's wife. Show more

Series which uncovers the story behind the creation of six classic books. Simon Russell Beale looks at what we can learn from Shakespeare's First Folio. Show more

Kate Adie tells the story of the women and men who produced the millions of shells used in trench warfare and the dangers in the factories where they worked. Show more

Architect Zaha Hadid considers the influence of Russian abstract artist Kazimir Malevich's avant-garde art on her own avant-garde architecture. Show more

Matthew Collings charts the rise of abstract art over the last 100 years, whilst trying to answer a set of basic questions that many people have about this often-baffling art form. Show more

How the liberal politics and free-market economics of the British Empire unravelled, leading to the potato famine in Ireland and mutiny in India. Show more