Fergal Keane looks back on his grandparents’ generation and examines the cost and legacy of war in Ireland. From 2017. Show more

Irish revolutionaries are divided by the 1921 treaty to end the violence. Fergal Keane's family are conflicted. From 2017. Show more

A volunteer responds to a call to kill a District Inspector, a death that haunted generations of Fergal’s family. From 2017. Show more

4 Extra Debut. Mapmaker Garrett Carr follows the fragile borderland between the UK and Ireland. Reader John Paul Connolly. Show more

Garrett Carr journeys along the UK-Irish border and meets those who know the land – the farmers. Read by John Paul Connolly. Show more

Travelling the Irish border, the mapmaker dodges boy racers on County Fermanagh’s twisty lanes. Read by John Paul Connolly. Show more

As mapmaker Garrett follows the UK-Irish border, he enters a landscape of bogs and standing stones. Read by John Paul Connolly. Show more

As his journey ends, Garrett Carr considers the idea of 'border' in the city of Derry/Londonderry. Read by John Paul Connolly. Show more

Fergal's grandmother and uncle join the Irish Volunteers but blood is spilled in when a sergeant is ambushed. From 2017. Show more

4 Extra Debut. Fergal recalls his father's tall stories about ghosts in the family home, but one such story has some truth in it. From 2017. Show more

In 1606, Shakespeare was writing for a royal family hungry for new entertainment while the threats of plague, insurrection and rebellion threatened English society. Show more

Hisham Matar's memoir of hope and loss, offering a powerful insight into life in Libya under Gaddafi. His father was kidnapped by the regime and disappeared without trace in 1996. Show more

Powerful memoir of hope and loss by Libyan Hisham Matar, whose activist father Jaballa was kidnapped in 1990 and made to 'disappear' by Gaddafi's regime. Read by Khalid Abdalla. Show more

Libyan writer Hisham Matar's powerful memoir describing his search for his father, Jaballa, kidnapped by Gaddafi's regime in 1990 and disappeared without trace in 1996. Show more

Libyan novelist Hisham Matar's father, an open critic of Gaddafi, was imprisoned and 'disappeared' by the regime in 1996. This powerful memoir details his search for what happened. Show more

Returning to Libya after an exile of 30 years, Hisham Matar meets his Uncle Hmad, who witnessed the massacre at Abu Salim prison in June 1996, during which 1,270 prisoners died. Show more

King James's quest for the union of England and Scotland is not easily resolved. Show more

The impact of the Gunpowder Plot of late 1605 has implications not only for the monarchy and aristocracy but also for the work of contemporary playwrights, including Shakespeare. Show more

An outbreak of the plague threatens the livelihood of William Shakespeare when the theatres are closed. It also looms close to his home in London. Show more

The ferment in the country and King James's insistence on an oath of allegiance brings religious tensions to the fore in 1606. Show more