The Power of Twitter
How did Twitter, invented to allow friends to keep track of each other's social lives and interests, become a key forum for political debate? And what effect has the social media platform had on the n...
25 Dec 201837min
Introducing Life Lessons
Young UK adults talk about the issues that matter most to them - and why they should matter to all of us.A new podcast from Radio 4.
20 Dec 20182min
Contracts of Silence
'Gagging clauses' - NDAs or non-disclosure agreements - have been rarely out of the headlines in recent months. High profile cases in business, politics and celebrity life have prompted calls for an o...
18 Dec 201829min
Pursuit of Beauty: The Spider Orchestra
The Berlin-based Argentinian artist, Tomás Saraceno, trained as an architect. He was struck by the beauty of spider webs, their structural intricacy and began making them into sculptural works. Then h...
7 Dec 201829min
Pursuit of Beauty: Dead Rats and Meat Cleavers
The sounds of casting, chiming, singing and clanging are fused together to make a magical sound track to the story of how meat cleavers have been used as musical instruments for over 300 years.. Growi...
23 Nov 201829min
Pursuit of Beauty: Art Beneath the Waves
Artist Emma Critchley meets filmmakers, photographers, sculptors and painters who are drawn beneath the sea to create underwater art. Julie Gautier performs a graceful, lyrical ballet on the floor of ...
16 Nov 201829min
Ghosts in the Machine
Laurie Taylor investigates the people who hear the voices of the dead in recorded sounds - and uncovers the strange and haunting world of auditory illusion. Believers in EVP, or Electronic Voice Pheno...
30 Okt 201829min
The Supercalculators
Alex Bellos is brilliant at all things mathematical, but even he can't hold a candle to the amazing mathematical feats of the supercalculators. Alex heads to Wolfsburg in Germany to meet the contestan...
19 Okt 201829min
