September 14, 2008 • 1h
Helped by contributors including Shirley Williams, Douglas Hurd and Simon Hoggart, journalist Jonathan Freedland attempts to defin...Read more
October 9, 2008 • 1h
Novelist Andrew Martin presents a documentary examining how the train came to shape the work of writers and film-makers, from Word...Read more
October 16, 2008 • 1h
Documentary that tells the surprising story of how Britain entered a new age of steam railways after the Second World War and why ...Read more
November 2, 2008 • 1h
To mark 100 years of romance publishers Mills and Boon, literary novelist Stella Duffy takes on the challenge of writing for them,...Read more
November 10, 2008 • 1h
Don Manley reveals the tricks that compilers use to bamboozle and entertain cryptic crossword solvers, while fans including Prunel...Read more
December 22, 2008 • 1h
Documentary which celebrates Britain's tradition of comic songs, from Noel Coward's Mad Dogs and Englishmen to Benny Hill's Ernie,...Read more
January 22, 2009 • 1h
A team of fashion writers and commentators including Peter York, Colin McDowell, Ted Polhemus and Hilary Alexander looks at the re...Read more
April 2, 2009 • 1h
Journalist John Harris travels around England to find out why the north-south divide is still an economic reality following the de...Read more