Hywel Griffith reports from the Welsh Covid Inquiry where they've been hearing from senior civil servants and special advisers about the first few weeks of the pandemic

They claim to cure video game addiction - but what's really going on? Mind-bending thriller from the makers of The Cipher, starring Armin Karima (Sex Education).

A season of programmes from Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra exploring the Red Planet of our dreams and, maybe, our futures...

Professor of Mathematics Marcus du Sautoy reveals the personalities behind the calculations and argues that mathematics is the driving force behind modern science.

Psychiatrist Dr Anthony Clare conducts in depth interviews with prominent people from different walks of life.

James Naughtie profiles 60 public figures nominated to mark the diamond jubilee

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Making a selection of objects from the British Museum and collections across the UK, Neil MacGregor uncovers the stories they tell about Shakespeare's world.

The week's news stories lovingly bashed, mashed and moulded into sketches and one-liners by the public.

Kathy Willis considers our changing relationship with plants over the last 250 years - from tools to exploit, to objects of beauty, to being an essential resource we must conserve.

In this chatty new podcast, comedians Michelle De Swarte and Laura Smyth review their weeks and share what they’re obsessed with, and whether it’s worth your time. Will having cold showers every morning make you a better person? (No, they will make you cold.) Are first class train tickets worth the extra £200 quid? (Sometimes.) Is it possible to upload a selfie to Instagram without looking like a d&*k? (Probably not but won’t stop us trying.) We’re going low brow, we’re going high brow. We’r ...

Adam Zmith has found some lost sound recordings from 1930. As he listens to this archive of intriguing noises, he imagines a film that could have changed the world.

Clare Balding presents a 30-part series charting how sport has shaped the British and how Britain has shaped sport

Film critic Mark Kermode reveals the economic realities behind the film industry.

Melvyn Bragg explores the pivotal role of England's north in the shaping of modern Britain.

Will Gompertz enters the Royal Collection to examine some of the objects that have adorned, defined and described the story of a thousand years of the British monarchy.

An intimate portrait of Dorothy Hodgkin, the only British woman to win a Nobel Prize for science, for cracking the chemical structures of penicillin and vitamin B12.

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