GridThis feature explores the grid as the great hidden device behind art, architecture and urban design, of the musical score - an emblem of modernism and a perceptual model for the digital age.
From the Couch to the CourtroomHelena Kennedy QC explores the relationship between law, psychotherapy and the mind doctors.
The Age of ConsentHelena Kennedy QC explores the key idea of consent in our law, media and digital lives - and above all in politics.
The French Culture WarA year after last November’s terror attacks in Paris, journalist Nick Fraser explores the deeper culture war taking place between a new generation of French Muslims and the defenders of hard-line secular Republicanism in France.
The Black PanthersOn the 50th anniversary of its foundation, Dorian Warren explores the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party and its legacy for recent black insurgency in America.
The Norma Percy TapesNorma Percy draws on taped interview rushes and her own TV archive to reflect on her long career in documentary making, recalling her favourite encounters and the interviews she will never forget - as well as the role of television in making history.
GridThis feature explores the grid as the great hidden device behind art, architecture and urban design, of the musical score - an emblem of modernism and a perceptual model for the digital age.
From the Couch to the CourtroomHelena Kennedy QC explores the relationship between law, psychotherapy and the mind doctors.
The Age of ConsentHelena Kennedy QC explores the key idea of consent in our law, media and digital lives - and above all in politics.
The French Culture WarA year after last November’s terror attacks in Paris, journalist Nick Fraser explores the deeper culture war taking place between a new generation of French Muslims and the defenders of hard-line secular Republicanism in France.
The Black PanthersOn the 50th anniversary of its foundation, Dorian Warren explores the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party and its legacy for recent black insurgency in America.
The Norma Percy TapesNorma Percy draws on taped interview rushes and her own TV archive to reflect on her long career in documentary making, recalling her favourite encounters and the interviews she will never forget - as well as the role of television in making history.
GridThis feature explores the grid as the great hidden device behind art, architecture and urban design, of the musical score - an emblem of modernism and a perceptual model for the digital age.
From the Couch to the CourtroomHelena Kennedy QC explores the relationship between law, psychotherapy and the mind doctors.
The Age of ConsentHelena Kennedy QC explores the key idea of consent in our law, media and digital lives - and above all in politics.
The French Culture WarA year after last November’s terror attacks in Paris, journalist Nick Fraser explores the deeper culture war taking place between a new generation of French Muslims and the defenders of hard-line secular Republicanism in France.
The Black PanthersOn the 50th anniversary of its foundation, Dorian Warren explores the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party and its legacy for recent black insurgency in America.
The Norma Percy TapesNorma Percy draws on taped interview rushes and her own TV archive to reflect on her long career in documentary making, recalling her favourite encounters and the interviews she will never forget - as well as the role of television in making history.
A two-part series exploring the philosophical and historical foundations of Human Rights, presented by Helena Kennedy QC and produced by Simon Hollis
Exploring the poetic sound world of postwar radio documentary pioneer, Denis Mitchell. Mitchell roamed the streets of Manchester and Liverpool, recording voices of everyday people and becoming one of the first radio producers in the country to exploit the potential of new portable tape machines.
Matthew Sweet explores the dawning of the age of Black Aquarius - the weirdly great wave of occultism that swept through British popular culture in the 1960s-70s.
Former news editor Charlie Beckett explores the mainstream news agenda's preoccupation with violent crime, misfortune and disaster, and asks why alternative, so-called positive or solutions-based ideas for news are so readily dismissed by journalists, broadcasters and editors.
How long can justice wait? Former Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer QC explores the relationship between justice and the passing of time.
A close encounter with the street chess players of Greenwich Village in New York, who play for money on the stone tables in Washington Square Park.
Just over two hundred years since the beginning of its construction, this feature explores the Manhattan grid system as real and imagined: architectural matrix, psychic space and site of continuing cultural-political argument.
Brook Lapping has won a Gold award in the 2014 New York Festivals International Radio Programme Awards for ‘The Secret History of Bossa Nova’, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4, September 2013.
Author Yasmin Hai combines personal storytelling with journalistic analysis exploring British Muslim fiction, memoir, readerships and publishing and the forging of a literary 'Islamic gaze'.