A rich selection of documentaries aimed at relentlessly curious minds. No subject is too strange, no idea too weird. Released twice a week, this podcast is introduced by Vanessa Kisuule.
Misty Copeland talks to Oti Mabuse about her dancing legend - Raven Wilkinson.
The profound influence the many years he spent in Europe had on the work of James Joyce.
Bex is at university when she starts feeling anxious and overwhelmed.
Fifty years on, Peter Taylor assesses the legacy of 'Bloody Sunday' in Northern Ireland.
A suicide in a park leads to the discovery of a parallel world.
Stories of everyday street harassment from women across Britain.
Orchestral musicians help prisoners compose and record lullabies for their children.
Lend your ears to work by legendary 'radio man' Piers Plowright.
Rachel Hurdley climbs the staircase to discover a story of steps, status and segregation.
What is sound poetry? Glorious gobbledygook? Composer Jennifer Walshe dives in.
The story of an extraordinary mass fraud that gripped Albania in the 1990s.
How a simple DNA test turned worlds upside down, leading to profound questions of identity
80 years after female conscription, the final few tell their extraordinary WW2 stories.
David Baddiel hears from people who have sent their relatives abroad for dementia care.
Aboard the Belfast-Birkenhead ferry Neil McCarthy looks for the border down the Irish Sea
Fergal Keane investigates the fate of James Kane, executed by the IRA a century ago.
The story of a black bin bag... told through essay, sound and music.
In search of a new sea shanty for a cargo boat that has ditched diesel in favour of sails.
Can the shepherd and writer James Rebanks use his farm to save the planet?
Horatio Clare examines how the pioneering writer Jan Morris authored her own life.
What is the etymology of your being?
How soon is too soon to start making jokes?
Residents mark the centenary of Britain’s biggest council housing estate, Becontree.
Who was behind the 2009 hack and leak of emails that fuelled climate change sceptics?
