A Brief History of the Truth

The truth is like a vegetable your mother makes you eat, nourishing but it tastes terrible

• 59 mins

Driving Bill Drummond

Bill Drummond is driving to every county in Ireland in five days. But what's driving Bill?

• 30 mins

Grayson Perry: En Garde

Grayson Perry goes in search of the moment the avant-garde died.

• 59 mins

The Edge of Life

We follow the healthcare authority aiming to reduce lives lost to suicide to 0% by 2020.

• 39 mins

Queens of Chapeltown

Colin Grant reports on the 50th anniversary of the Leeds West Indian Carnival.

• 29 mins

PowerPointless

30 years on from its launch, Ian Sansom asks: what's the real point of PowerPoint?

• 31 mins

My Secret Wig

Brian Kernohan explores the hidden world of wigs to solve his own not-so-secret hair loss.

• 30 mins

Art in Miniature

Art so small you have to avoid inhaling it. Dr Lance Dann explores miniature art.

• 31 mins

My Muse: Lynne Truss on Joni Mitchell

Journalist and author Lynne Truss on why Joni Mitchell is her Muse.

• 29 mins

Passing Dreams

A portrait of singer, songwriter and truck driver Will Beeley.

• 30 mins

It's Just a Joke, Comrade: 100 Years of Russian Satire

Comedian and Russophile Viv Groskop explores a century of revolutionary comedy.

• 30 mins

Dads and Daughters

Lauren Laverne and her dad Les explore the relationship between fathers and daughters.

• 31 mins

Who's Looking At You?

Novelist Nick Harkaway says we need to talk about surveillance before it is too late.

• 58 mins

Political Violence in America

Inside the world of the anti-fascists known as 'antifa' and their far-right opponents.

• 30 mins

The Trainspotter's Guide to Dracula

Miles Jupp boards the train to Transylvania on the trail of Count Dracula.

• 29 mins

Savitri Devi: From the Aryans to the Alt-right

Maria Margaronis explores the life and legacy of right-wing thinker Savitri Devi.

• 29 mins

BONUS: Russia – 100 Years on from Revolution

Steve Rosenberg visits four Russian cities closely tied to the revolution of 1917.

• 29 mins

Close to the Edit

Filmmaker Mike Figgis explores the age of the edit.

• 59 mins

Where Are All the Working Class Writers?

Why are so few novelists from working class backgrounds? Author Kit de Waal investigates.

• 29 mins

The Glasgow Boys: Chaos and Calm

Byron Vincent joins a scheme turning young men away from violence.

• 46 mins

Mysteries of Sleep - Sleepwalking

Why do some of us do bizarre things in our sleep?

• 30 mins

The Unconscious Life of Bombs

Daniel Pick traces how aerial bombardment has made the unconscious mind a field of battle.

• 29 mins

Iceland's Dark Lullabies

Storyteller Andri Snær Magnason is dreaming of a dark Christmas, in Iceland.

• 30 mins

The Power of Sloth

Lucy Cooke discovers the joy of sloth and sloths and the benefits of being really slow.

• 30 mins

Thinking Outside the Boxset: How Technology Changed the Story

Mark Lawson explores how technology is changing the way people write stories.

• 30 mins

The Far Future

How do we prepare for the distant future? Helen Keen meets the people who try to.

• 31 mins

Why the Moon, Luke?

Artist Luke Jerram is obsessed with the moon, so he has made one to take around the world.

• 29 mins

Good Luck Professor Spiegelhalter

Rhianna Dhillon brings you another seriously interesting story from Radio 4.

• 58 mins

The Dawn of British Jihad

The British Muslims who joined Jihad in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Kashmir in the 80s and 90s

• 39 mins

From the Steppes to the Stage

Mongolia's remarkable rise to being an opera superpower.

• 62 mins