D-Day: The Home Front Heroes
To mark D-Day, BBC Radio 5 Live honours some of Britain’s Homefront heroes – the people who made the invasion possible without being on the front line.Chris Warburton has been finding out about the yo...
6 Jun 201930min
Inside Porton Down
Nihal Arthanayake gets rare behind the scenes access to one of the most secretive establishments in the UK - the Defence, Science and Technology Laboratory - which many of us know as Porton Down. It w...
29 Mai 201955min
Knife Crime: one family’s story
What can be done to stop young people from being stabbed on our streets?We tried to get some answers to that question by focusing on one particular story, that of Quamari Serenkuma Barnes, who was sta...
3 Mai 201930min
Vicky McClure: Our Dementia Choir
Vicky McClure’s grandmother, Iris, lived with dementia. Now Vicky wants to break myths around the condition and she’s been part of an incredible BBC documentary called 'Our Dementia Choir' that looks ...
2 Mai 201944min
Sri Lanka Easter Attacks
The latest after more than 200 people were killed and 450 injured in co-ordinated Easter day attacks on churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka.
21 Apr 201931min
Mental Health: The Importance of Talking
BBC Radio 5 Live made a decision to find a way of hitting home the importance of talking about mental health, because every 90 minutes a life is lost to suicide. It is the biggest killer of men under ...
22 Mar 201920min
Under the Weather Live: The weird weather of 2018
Simon King and Clare Nasir look back on the weird weather of 2018 - revisiting the 'Beast from the East' and our unusually scorching summer.
31 Des 201826min
Apollo 8: Christmas on the Far Side of the Moon
For many, Christmas is for spending time close to loved ones. But in 1968, astronauts Frank Borman, Bill Anders and Jim Lovell would spend their Christmas Day further away from home than any human had...
24 Des 201849min
