Inside the Brain of Gerald Scarfe
The brain - the final frontier. Radio 4 is setting out on an exploration of the creative mind.Gerald Scarfe's drawings have intrigued and alarmed for more than fifty years but where do his ideas come ...
30 Jan 201830min
From the Steppes to the Stage
From the nomads of the vast steppe - to the glamour and adulation of the stage. Kate Molleson unravels the story of Mongolia's remarkable rise to being an opera superpower. And, in this special doubl...
23 Jan 20181h 2min
The Dawn of British Jihad
Before 9/11 British attitudes to partaking in faith-inspired armed combat were... different.British Muslims travelled freely to fight in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Burma and Kashmir for a few weeks or month...
16 Jan 201839min
Good Luck Professor Spiegelhalter
Rhianna Dhillon brings you another seriously interesting story from Radio 4.This week, luck.Whether we believe in luck or not, we do use the word- a lot! More as a figure of speech than an article of...
12 Jan 201858min
Why the Moon, Luke?
Luke Jerram is that rare bird, a genuinely popular yet acclaimed contemporary artist. And he's obsessed with the moon. So he's made one: seven metres wide featuring 120dpi detailed NASA imagery, and h...
9 Jan 201829min
The Far Future
How do we prepare for the distant future? Helen Keen meets the people who try to.If our tech society continues then we can leave data for future generations in huge, mundane quantities, detailing our ...
5 Jan 201831min
Thinking Outside the Boxset: How Technology Changed the Story
For centuries tales were shared around the camp-fire; modern settlements share data via wi-fi. But what hasn't changed across the ages is our passion for histories and information - we shape and make ...
29 Dec 201730min
The Power of Sloth
Zoologist and founder of the Sloth Appreciation Society, Lucy Cooke, unleashes her inner sloth to discover why being lazy could actually be the ultimate evolutionary strategy.The explorers of the New ...
26 Dec 201730min
