Music, chat and gentle satire from the State Theatre in Minneapolis

Stories, poems and songs

Inspired by her mother's experiences, Katie Hickman examines the lives of diplomats' wives and daughters through their letters and diaries - omnibus edition (1-5/20)

Niamh Cusack reads a story about a couple who reflect on the relationship they once had

Aubrey Manning and a team of experts examine magnificent graves unearthed close to Stonehenge in May 2002 (3/4)

9.30pm

the Story of Radio Comedy as 5pm

Songs, rhymes and stories for young children

the Story of Radio Comedy
Russell Davies charts the history of radio humour from the improvised comedy of the 1950s to the carefully targeted satire of the 1960s

Tony Staveacre takes a personal Odyssey into the world of Groucho Marx

James Follett 's sci-fi drama, with India Fisher and Colin Baker (3/3)

1988 comedy with Roy Hudd (6/6)

1969 comedy with Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and Joan Sims

First of two Peter Luke historical dramas following the Duke of Wellington during the Peninsular campaign of 1808-1813, starring Michael Pennington, Dominic Rickhards and others

2000 sitcom by Sue Limb, starring Geoffrey Whitehead, Lisabeth Miles and Rebecca Front (6/6)

Topical comedy panel game hosted by Sandi Toksvig, with Sue Perkins, Mark Steel, Hugo Rifkind and Jeremy Hardy.

2003 sketch show in which Arthur Smith joins regulars Roger Blake, Eleanor Bron, Clive Swift, Neil Innes and Paula Wilcox

2000 comedy with Tom Rhodes, recorded in Houston, Texas

Actors and crew of the BBC1 series discuss the episode Forest of the Dead (9/13)

Shirley Jackson's gothic horror, read by Emma Fielding (8/8)