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A Broken Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen's Secret Chord

Episode 5

Now hugely successful, Cohen retreats to Mount Baldy to spend time with his guru.

• 15 mins

Letters from South Africa

Strangers

Writer Bongani Kona begins five letters from South Africa in the week of the ANC elections

• 14 mins

Letters from South Africa

Episode 2

Writer Mark Gevisser's letter from South Africa broadcast in the week of the ANC elections

• 14 mins

Letters from South Africa

Shosholoza: The Train that Keeps Moving

Writer Panashe Chigumadzi's letter from South Africa in the week of the ANC elections.

• 14 mins

Letters from South Africa

This Is What a Country Looks Like When it Is Collapsing

Author Lidudumalingani Mqombothi on life in South Africa during the week of ANC elections.

• 14 mins

Letters from South Africa

Johannesburg

Five letters from South African writers about life there in the week of the ANC elections.

• 14 mins

Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

Episode 1

Jung Chang's biography of the woman who single-handedly dragged China into modernity.

• 15 mins

Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

Episode 2

Cixi forms an important political alliance and launches a palace coup.

• 15 mins

Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

Episode 3

Cixi adopts the three-year-old son of her sister and names him Emperor.

• 15 mins

Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

Episode 4

A young ambitious reformist looks to topple Cixi from power, and a battle of wits ensues.

• 15 mins

Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

Episode 5

Cixi faces her greatest challenge as ruler, when anti-Western feeling leads to violence.

• 15 mins