Seriously interesting documentaries from Radio 4.
Ian Peddie studies new Texan laws allowing concealed handguns into classrooms.
Historian Dan Cruickshank asks if new garden cities are the answer to our housing crisis.
The Singer sewing machine has whirred its way through history as Maria Margaronis unravels
The rise and fall of the Black Panther Party and its legacy for American black insurgency.
The Jack Reacher author Lee Child investigates the unusual life of author John D Macdonald
Doon Mackichan asks if we need a moratorium on glossy TV dramas with female victims.
Stephen Barber calls on politicians to resist the urge to act and instead do nothing.
Laurence Llewelyn Bowen explores the exponential rise in tattooing across the UK.
Olivia Laing presents an imaginative portrait of the elusive musician Arthur Russell.
Alexei Sayle on the cultural impact of the Dada movement, 100 years since it was founded.
What is wrong with being black and curvy? Bridgitte Tetteh investigates.
Charlotte Higgins explores the work of the UN's peacekeeping agency.
Toby Jones celebrates the mercurial world of the villain.
Leprechauns, sprites, imps and elves - Ian Sansom is searching for the diminutive other.
Tulip Mazumdar finds young people in Japan rejecting intimacy and a population in decline.
Mark Hodkinson revisits the sitcom Love Thy Neighbour, forty years after it was last shown
Garden designer James Wong asks if British gardening is stuck in the past.
Clarke Peters follows the croon and practitioners of the art including Rudy Vallee.
Sir David Attenborough examines new evidence on a controversial theory of human origins.
Five Muslim mums come together to discuss the hate messages their children are exposed to.
Abdul-Rehman Malik explores the longstanding relationship between Islam and coffee.
Aside from the physical landscape, what does graffiti and street art actually change?
Anjana Ahuja believes we should take control of our online identity before it is too late.
Alice Roberts goes in search of the man who taught us how to control our own dreams.
