Born in China, raised in the UK, Eva Brookes explores how being a transracial adoptee has shaped her understanding of herself now.
Exploring the big questions around classical music — and why it still matters today.
We’re delighted to introduce the launch of a brand new weekly show Dream Time with Zakia Sewell on BBC 6 Music.
The return of the award-winning thriller with Gina McKee and Shvorne Marks, by Ben and Max Ringham with Dan Rebellato.
Pod Save the UK is your weekly fix of political news, big ideas and a shot of inspiration with comedian Nish Kumar and journalist Coco Khan.
Tim Samuels spends twenty-four hours immersed in an extraordinary medical scene - Israeli doctors tending to Syrians who have been smuggled over the border for life-saving treatment into a country Syria is technically still at war with.
Oscar Wilde was incarcerated in Reading Prison between 1895 and 1897. His imprisonment led to one of his last great works: De Profundis. In association with Artangel and BBC Radio 4, Stephen Rea reads from Oscar Wilde's De Profundis in the prison cell where it was written.
Mahan Esfahani explores the history of African American Classical Music for BBC Radio 3.
On Monday 16th of May, 1966 two of the greatest albums of all time were released. Through archive, interviews and music from The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds and Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde, we tell the story of the music from that momentous day.
Hidden away, beneath old newspapers, books of stamps and expectant sellotape lie the best pieces of work. They are the Darlings. The stories, the ornaments, the gems we are told to cut. But what if these anecdotes had a programme to themselves? What if you could bring those Darlings back to life ?
In the first of a two-part series, journalist and broadcaster Matt Everitt talks to record executives, industry insiders, artists and fans about the decisions that have transformed the record industry.
From a Sheffield estate, to the shores of South Carolina, Johny Pitts heads off in search of the roots of his family´s musical migration and an alternative Black British identity
What does it mean to be a grown-up in the 21st Century? If the path to maturity is about stable work, marriage and a home for your family where does that leave those who haven't achieved these goals? A three part series for the BBC World Service.
An audio companion to Yael Bartana’s controversial and acclaimed trilogy of films And Europe Will Be Stunned which follow the evolution of the Jewish Renaissance Movement in Poland, a not-quite-fictional organisation calling for the return of 3.3m Jews to the land of their forefathers.