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Glad to Be Grey
Grey-haired Professor Mary Beard investigates why fewer people are now glad to be grey.
Laverne in the Willows
Lauren Laverne celebrates Kenneth Grahame's classic tale The Wind in the Willows.
Six Degrees of Connection
Julia Hobsbawm investigates the idea that we are all connected by only six links.
Musical Variations: The Life of Angela Morley
The colourful career of British composer and transgender pioneer Angela Morley.
Batman and Ethan
Ethan, a 10-year-old blind boy and gifted musician, learns echolocation from Daniel Kish.
Reaction Time
Stories about love straight from the smartphones of Radio 4 listeners.
Jarvis on McCullers
Jarvis Cocker celebrates the life and work of literary wunderkind Carson McCullers.
Gay Bombay
Zareer Masani returns to Mumbai to measure India's changing attitudes to homosexuality.
Herland
Geoff Ryman explores stories about women and men in future worlds. What might change?
Raising the Dead
Composer Adam Gorb goes on a journey to listen to the lost music of concentration camps