Documentary which explores the British love of fast, daring and sometimes reckless motorbike riding during a period when home-grown machines were the envy of the world. Show more
Martha Kearney and guests discuss Harry Hill's X Factor musical I Can't Sing, a film adaptation of Dostoyevsky's The Double and the BBC's World War One drama The Crimson Field. Show more
Documentary presented by writer Tim Kendall about the First World War soldier-poet and composer Ivor Gurney, whose powerful poetry captured the experience of the ordinary soldier. Show more
Booker Prize-winning novelist Julian Barnes, whose Levels of Life is a memoir of bereavement following the loss of his wife to cancer, talks about love, death, memory and grief. Show more
Documentary following Albert Watson over the course of a day photographing the barren, beautiful landscape of the Isle of Skye. Show more
The story of the most disturbing witch trial in British history and how a young girl's testimony sent her mother, brother, sister and many of her neighbours to the gallows. Show more
Documentary which explores the British love of fast, daring and sometimes reckless motorbike riding during a period when home-grown machines were the envy of the world. Show more
Robert Plant discusses his musical journey from Stourbridge through the British blues boom and superstardom with Led Zeppelin in the 70s to 2010's Band of Joy album. Show more
Interviews and archive footage weave together performances from a concert at the Royal Festival Hall celebrating the songs and artistry of the folk-blues troubadour Bert Jansch. Show more
