Who are you in Winnie-the-Pooh?
A cast of children’s authors answer this fundamental question on the enduring character’s centenary
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My hero Tom Stoppard
A man with more charm than anyone I have ever met
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BBC Radio 4’s Small Boat reveals our lack of empathy
Inspired by real transcripts, the programme focuses on the French navy radio operator who failed to send help to drowning…
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Radio 4’s literal guide to Animal Farm should have dug deeper
The BBC documentary might have focused less on barnyard noises and more on the interesting details of George Orwell’s rural…
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David Dimbleby’s Invisible Hands charts the ascent of free-market ideology in Britain
The six-part BBC Radio 4 series forensically dissects the dissemination of free-market capitalism throughout the British political system.
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Who was the real DH Lawrence?
A BBC series considers the novelist’s three great themes: sex, nature and class.
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The Organ Symphony is an ode to the human body
This bizarre and brilliant BBC Radio 4 series imagines what our heart, brain, lungs, kidneys and liver might sound like.
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Tax doesn’t have to be boring
Dan Neidle’s Radio 4 show Untaxing reveals how our system is failing us – through the parable of Jaffa Cakes.
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Why we should always expect the worst
The BBC podcast At Your Own Peril explores the history of risk and the importance of disaster planning.
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Life after retirement at the BBC
Also this week: savage cuts at Radio 4, and woman as temptress.
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Can the country house survive?
Tristram Hunt’s Radio 4 documentary The Grand House: Boom or Blight? charts the English manor’s contested legacy.
Is this election beyond satire?
With the Tories writing their own punchlines, the jokes in Michael Spicer: No Room are all too plausible.
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On the trail of human traffickers
Radio 4’s To Catch a Scorpion takes us inside the brutal illegal immigration industry.
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The cost of climbing Everest
A new Radio 4 series reveals the stark and deadly reality of conquering the world’s highest mountain.
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The journalist vs the trolls
In Marianna Spring’s series Why Do You Hate Me?, the BBC social media correspondent finds fellowship and reconciliation amid the…
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Radio 4’s Child puts us on the cusp of life
India Rakusen has created a delightful mosaic of trivia about babies and the earliest stages of human life.
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Do you know how to read the news?
This BBC Radio 4 series is a fun, bite-sized analysis of journalistic practice past and present.
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A baffling but brilliant ride through Birmingham’s surrealist scene
Stewart Lee’s Radio 4 documentary on the city’s artistic past is jarring, hard to follow and utterly engaging.
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A history of the world in circles
Radio 4’s In the Loop explores the secrets of things that are round – from particle accelerators to the 5,000-year-old…
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When Justin Welby met John Cleese
In BBC Radio 4’s Archbishop Interviews, the unlikely pair talk about faith, forgiveness, cancel culture – and whether Jesus is…
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