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This month

Recycled Radio

Travel
30mins
BBC iPlayer

The show which uses previously broadcast recordings to explore broad human themes returns. In the first edition,...

The Documentary

Radio Times Choice
Eleanor Roosevelt
23mins
BBC iPlayer

Investigating global developments, issues and affairs.

One to One

Steve Backshall and Ed Stafford
15mins
BBC iPlayer

New series. Steve Backshall meets Ed Stafford, the first person to walk the 6,000-mile length of the Amazon...

Just a Minute

Radio Times Choice
Just a Minute
30mins
BBC iPlayer

The comedy panel show returns with an edition recorded at the Edinburgh Festival in August, with Paul Merton,...

Liam Mullone's Disappointing World

Radio Times Choice
Liam Mullone's Disappointing World
30mins
BBC iPlayer

The comedian celebrates failures in the history of technology, including a disastrous 17th-century warship, an...

Will Cameron Change Britain?

Will Cameron Change Britain?
30mins
BBC iPlayer

Janan Ganesh examines the long-term ambitions of the Conservative government, and questions whether British...

Two Men and a Mule

From Andean Cloud-Forest to Steamy Jungle
28mins
BBC iPlayer

New series. Accompanied by their trusty mule Washington, renowned explorers Hugh Thomson and Benedict Allen...

The Mousetrap and Me

The Mousetrap and Me
30mins
BBC iPlayer

Louise Elliot interviews the Newport man who testified in a 1945 murder trial against his parents as a child,...

Mind the Gap

Mind the Gap
30mins
BBC iPlayer

Patricia Cumper uncovers the cultural significance of gap teeth, which can signify anything from idiocy and...

The Documentary

Wall in the Head
26mins
BBC iPlayer

Investigating global developments, issues and affairs.

When Van Played Cyprus Avenue

When Van Played Cyprus Avenue
30mins
BBC iPlayer

Marie-Louise Muir explores the significance of Van Morrison's recent performances on the east Belfast street...

A Beginner's Guide to Pakistan

Radio Times Choice
A Beginner's Guide to Pakistan
30mins
BBC iPlayer

Comedian and author Sami Shah presents a guide to his home country in Birmingham. The first edition explores...

James Dean: The Last 10 Weeks

James Dean: The Last 10 Weeks
57mins
BBC iPlayer

Robert Wagner presents the story of James Dean's last ten weeks, using essays and pictures taken by photographer...

Natural History Heroes

Sir Hans Sloane
15mins
BBC iPlayer

New series. Scientists from the Natural History Museum and other experts celebrate pioneers in the field. In the...

The Price of Oil

The Price of Oil: Looking for Billy
45mins
BBC iPlayer

Dramas based on a theme of oil, exploring the history of the commodity and the price mankind has paid for it....

Shush!

Mobile Library
30mins
BBC iPlayer

An intruder, an ice-cream van and Daniel Barenboim make life difficult for Snoo and Alice as Simon constructs a...

Afternoon on 3

Thursday Opera Matinee - Stravinsky's Persephone
150mins
BBC iPlayer

Katie Derham presents today's Thursday Opera Matinee - Stravinsky's melodrama Persephone in a performance from...

Dotun and Dean

Dotun and Dean
30mins
BBC iPlayer

Sixty years after the death of James Dean, broadcaster Dotun Adebayo explores why, as a teenager in the 1970s,...

Miss Marple's Final Cases

The Case of the Perfect Maid
30mins
BBC iPlayer

By Agatha Christie. Dramatised by Joy Wilkinson. Miss Marple investigates when a capable lady's maid is suddenly...

The Celebrity Voicemail Show

The Celebrity Voicemail Show
13mins
BBC iPlayer

New series. Comedy sketch show in which Kayvan Novak imagines what it might be like to tap into celebrity...

The Inquiry

The Inquiry
22mins
BBC iPlayer

Japan is a pacifist country - at least that is what its constitution says. The wording, introduced under the...

Orpheus Underground

Orpheus Underground
30mins
BBC iPlayer

Novelist Neil Gaiman explores the intricacies of Orpheus myth - the timeless story of art's place in trying to...

Sweet Caress

Sweet Caress
15mins
BBC iPlayer

By William Boyd. Abridged by Sara Davies. The life and times of Amory Clay, beginning in 1915, as the...

Sovereign

Sovereign
15mins
BBC iPlayer

By CJ Sansom. Dramatised by Colin MacDonald. York, 1541, and Tudor lawyer Shardlake arrives in the city a day...

Sunday Feature

Sunday Feature: You're Tearing Me Apart: Rebel Without a Cause at 60
45mins
BBC iPlayer

It's impossible now to separate the cult of James Dean from the the film that defined a teen-age. But Rebel...

Drama on 3

Drama on 3: Being Human (The Debate at Valladolid)
90mins
BBC iPlayer

Steve Toussaint and Maynard Eziashi star in two new intersecting plays by Mike Walker & Andrew Whaley which ask...