In Our Time is more cautious without Melvyn Bragg
Misha Glenny keeps himself out of the action
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Will we ever understand Vladimir Putin?
The History Bureau, the new BBC Sounds series, seeks to unravel the past 25 years of modern Russian history
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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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The House at Number 48 is a gripping tale of real-life history
A suitcase found after the death of Anthony Easton’s father leads us down a path worthy of a bestselling Second…
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Reject X, embrace trains
Step aside “touching grass”: mindfulness has met the industrial revolution
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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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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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Natalie Haynes and the classics as comfort blanket
The ninth series of this show is airing on Radio 4 – and it’s the perfect listen for bleak winter…
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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.
The decline of the US public school
The latest instalment of BBC Radio Four’s Crossing Continents series explores the rejection of public education in Arizona.
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How to write for radio
What I learned as a judge of the Charles Parker Prize for best student audio feature.
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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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