Author Kamila Shamsie chooses a childhood hero, the Pakistani human rights lawyer Asma Jahangir. With Matthew Parris. From 2019. Show more

The birth of surrealism in this racy, rackety Paris quartier: Pablo Picasso moves to Montparnasse. Read by Tracy Ann Oberman. Show more

The singer reveals how 'I'd Rather Go Blind' spoke to her at age 13, and how she will hand on Jacques Brel's 'Hearts'.

Wife, mother, crusader and prisoner. Guilt threatens Eleanor's marriage to husband, the King of France. Stars Rose Basista. Show more

Roy Plomley joins the dear ladies as they are cast away. Starring Dr Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket. From April 1977. Show more

Bingo Little fancies a waitress. Can Bertie Wooster's valet help? PG Wodehouse romp with Richard Briers and Michael Hordern. From June 1973. Show more

The sports agent's rapacious partner finds a perfect new client - but there's a catch. Stars Neil Pearson. From September 2004. Show more

4 Extra Debut. From Chopin to Bob Marley, designer Barbara Hulanicki shares her castaway choices with Kirsty Young. From 2013. Show more

David Attenborough talks about Cicadas, strumming insects that fill the evening air across the world with sound. From 2011. Show more

Radiolab pulls apart one sentence, written hours after 9/11, that led to the USA’s longest war. With Jad Abumrad. Show more

The singer reveals how 'I'd Rather Go Blind' spoke to her at age 13, and how she will hand on Jacques Brel's 'Hearts'.

Daljit Nagra selects Poetry Please - Holly McNish - the performance poet - who joins Roger McGough. From 2018. Show more

Old hacks struggle with new media in the changing world of a broadsheet newspaper. Stars Robert Lindsay. From June 2009. Show more

The passage of the seasons in a year in the life of Cockshutt Wood in Herefordshire and its animal residents. Read by Greg Wise. Show more

Charity organiser Ophelia Dahl inherits Faure's Requiem, and passes on 'Ain't Got No, I Got Life' by Nina Simone.

A cotton weaver's daughter is wooed and her Aunt goes missing. Frank depiction of lower class life in 1840s Manchester. Stars Emma Rydal. Show more

Stuart Maconie on rock musicians who combined symphony and pop music. With Rick Wakeman, Roy Wood and Ivan Hewett. From 2012. Show more

In 18th century Saxony, philosopher Fritz yearns for a Muse who can grasp the symbolism of his writing. Stars Samuel West. Show more

Daljit Nagra selects Poetry Please - Holly McNish - the performance poet - who joins Roger McGough. From 2018. Show more

Old hacks struggle with new media in the changing world of a broadsheet newspaper. Stars Robert Lindsay. From June 2009. Show more

Tom Saunders, a wildlife sound recordist, goes missing, Can his radio producer work out what’s happened? Stars Jimmy Yuill. Show more

Patrick Maloney has a shock for his wife, but it is not as big as the shock she gives him in return. Read by Jenny Lynch. Show more

Radiolab pulls apart one sentence, written hours after 9/11, that led to the USA’s longest war. With Jad Abumrad. Show more

The singer reveals how 'I'd Rather Go Blind' spoke to her at age 13, and how she will hand on Jacques Brel's 'Hearts'.

In 18th century Saxony, philosopher Fritz yearns for a Muse who can grasp the symbolism of his writing. Stars Samuel West. Show more

4 Extra Debut. From Chopin to Bob Marley, designer Barbara Hulanicki shares her castaway choices with Kirsty Young. From 2013. Show more

David Attenborough talks about Cicadas, strumming insects that fill the evening air across the world with sound. From 2011. Show more

Old hacks struggle with new media in the changing world of a broadsheet newspaper. Stars Robert Lindsay. From June 2009. Show more

Thanks to the band inside his head, Tom disrupts a funeral and ends up on stage. Stars Suggs and Bob Monkhouse. From April 2003. Show more

The family find bohemian inspiration in the Lake District. Improvised historical saga with Paul Merton. From August 1995. Show more

With 2000 snails in Alex's shed, there are fears that they will take over the village. Stars Gerard Foster and Geoffrey Palmer. From July 2001. Show more

Tom Saunders, a wildlife sound recordist, goes missing, Can his radio producer work out what’s happened? Stars Jimmy Yuill. Show more

Patrick Maloney has a shock for his wife, but it is not as big as the shock she gives him in return. Read by Jenny Lynch. Show more

The passage of the seasons in a year in the life of Cockshutt Wood in Herefordshire and its animal residents. Read by Greg Wise. Show more

Charity organiser Ophelia Dahl inherits Faure's Requiem, and passes on 'Ain't Got No, I Got Life' by Nina Simone.

A cotton weaver's daughter is wooed and her Aunt goes missing. Frank depiction of lower class life in 1840s Manchester. Stars Emma Rydal. Show more

Stuart Maconie on rock musicians who combined symphony and pop music. With Rick Wakeman, Roy Wood and Ivan Hewett. From 2012. Show more

In 18th century Saxony, philosopher Fritz yearns for a Muse who can grasp the symbolism of his writing. Stars Samuel West. Show more