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One mother’s efforts to save her child could start a revolution in personalised medicine.
29 Mar 2024,·28 mins
The stories of some of Britain’s most iconic bells – and how they were cast and tuned.
08 Dec 2022,·28 mins
Charlotte Smith investigates the outbreak, vaccines, and if bird flu will steal Christmas.
13 Dec 2022,·28 mins
Lewis Goodall wonders what it means to be a Conservative in Britain today.
The Medics
How did the UK Covid lockdown affect a generation of children and young people?
17 Mar 2025,·28 mins
Are workers being exploited by practices within some direct sales firms?
23 Aug 2022,·37 mins
Black, African and British in Culture
How black African British creatives are shaping on our nation's culture.
29 Jan 2024,·28 mins
Dr Josie Barnard investigates the deep social divides created by the digital world.
03 Sep 2019,·28 mins
Farrah Jarral on preparing for first contact with extra-terrestrials.
17 Dec 2022,·43 mins
What’s it like to have a silent mind? Psychologist Charles Fernyhough investigates.
01 Aug 2022,·28 mins
A prospective new oil field has big implications for Shetland, finds reporter Jen Stout.
27 Feb 2023,·28 mins
Follow activist Phillip Tanzer on a tour of the men’s rights community.
29 Oct 2019,·37 mins
The little-known story of the day between Good Friday and Easter Sunday.
07 Apr 2023,·28 mins
Ukraine is built on soil, but its soil is under threat
19 Mar 2025,·28 mins
Could a strange dog from remote New Guinea have been man's first best friend?
07 Jan 2008,·30 mins
A sonic portrait of the Wildlife Sound Recording Society.
17 Apr 2022,·29 mins
The story of the Welsh poet Hedd Wyn, killed at Passchendaele in 1917.
13 Jul 2017,·28 mins
5. Flow
Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson follows the course of the North Tyne.
19 Aug 2016,·14 mins
Vision of the Future
A computer called Baby, Alan Turing, 25 Nobel prize winners and the wonders of graphene.
12 Dec 2014,·15 mins
Billy Bragg tells the story of Jock Purdon and the history of songwriting about mining.
02 Mar 2015,·28 mins
Meter tampering is dangerous and illegal yet reports of it are rising at an alarming rate.
20 Mar 2024,·28 mins
Episode 2
Matthew Hill asks if the 14-day limit on research on human embryos should be extended.
24 Jan 2017,·28 mins
Why Europe's dominant power is struggling with a deep identity crisis.
18 Apr 2023,·37 mins
A look back at Labour's civil war in the 1980s and whether there is currently a re-run.
02 Nov 2015,·28 mins
2. The Stream Age
Matt Everitt explores the key decisions that transformed the record industry.
25 Apr 2016,·30 mins
Jean Sprackland explores the subversive beauty of female Imagist poets H.D. and Amy Lowell
18 Sep 2022,·28 mins
Return Journey – to Lagos and Prison
Wole Soyinka recounts the consequences of his attempt to defuse the Nigerian civil war
01 Nov 2007,·22 mins
How Macau overtook Las Vegas to become the gambling capital of the world.
24 Apr 2015,·28 mins
Radio 4’s continuity announcers invite you into their world.
31 Dec 2023,·57 mins
The Work Words Do
With Barbara Jenkins, Vladimir Lucien, Kevin Jared Hosein, Colin Robinson and Karen Lord.
06 Mar 2017,·28 mins
