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A Brief History of Anger

American satirist Joe Queenan presents spats, tantrums and explosions from the archive.

• 58 mins

Remembering Sue Townsend, Aged 68 ¾

Adrian Mole's creator, Sue Townsend, is remembered by friends, family and in her own words

• 60 mins

Lern Yerself Scouse

Paul Farley cooks a pot of Scouse as he explores the complex flavours of the Scouse accent

• 60 mins

Epic Fail

Grace Dent presents a field guide to failure.

• 57 mins

Who's Your Father, Referee?

Clive Anderson searches for a golden age of respect for the football referee.

• 58 mins

Black Aquarius

The dawning of the age of Black Aquarius, the second great wave of pop occultism in the UK

• 57 mins

The Entomology of Gregor Samsa

David Baddiel asks what kind of insect Gregor Samsa becomes in Kafka's The Metamorphosis.

• 58 mins

The Choke

Brains behaving badly: how talented people are fooled into failing. With Matthew Syed.

• 58 mins

Adventures in Alienation

Writer Amit Chaudhuri explores the idea of exile and modern, secular homelessness.

• 58 mins

The Tokens and the Foundlings

The story of the UK's first children's charity, The Foundling Hospital.

• 60 mins

The War Game Files

Whitehall files expose how the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú and government connived to ban 1965 film The War Game.

• 58 mins

Morning Everyone

Rory Bremner celebrates the life of cricketer and commentator Richie Benaud.

• 60 mins

Bring Your Darlings Back To Life

What if the best anecdotes and stories had a programme to themselves?

• 60 mins

A Brief History of Shame

American satirist Joe Queenan explores Shame.

• 60 mins

Tomorrow's World, Today

Tomorrow's World presenter James Burke looks at the future the TV programme predicted.

• 60 mins

Destroyer of Worlds

How Britain developed the world's first atomic bomb only to lose it to the Americans.

• 57 mins

How to Make an Archive on 4

Alan Dein enters the strange world of instructional records.

• 60 mins

Shhhhhhh

Lucy Powell offers a quiet celebration of the rich and various virtues of silence.

• 58 mins

Cradle to Grave

The history of the NHS told through one hospital - the QEII in Welwyn Garden City.

• 58 mins

Misunderstanding Japan

What impact have western media representations had on our view of Japan and its people?

• 60 mins

Stadium Rock at 50

50 years after the Beatles played Shea Stadium, Kate Mossman plots a history of Arena rock

• 58 mins

Dickie Attenborough: A Life in Film

Susan Marling celebrates Richard Attenborough’s legacy a year on from his death.

• 60 mins

New Orleans: The Crescent and the Shadow

Harry Shearer lives in New Orleans. He looks back at the last ten years in the city.

• 58 mins

The Power of Political Forgetting

What happens when a major past crisis slips from public memory? With David Aaronovitch.

• 58 mins

MP for Penrith and the Border

Programme following a year in the life of Rory Stewart - an MP with an unusual profile.

• 58 mins

From the Self to the Selfie

Lauren Laverne on the origins and effects of the obsession with selfies.

• 58 mins

Kindertransport

How 10,000 unaccompanied children, mostly Jewish, escaped from Nazi Europe to Britain.

• 60 mins

John Lennon: Verbatim

John Lennon's extraordinary life and career told in his own words.

• 57 mins

Bernstein, My Mentor

Acclaimed conductor Marin Alsop remembers her mentor, the great Leonard Bernstein.

• 58 mins

Attention Must Be Paid - Arthur Miller's Centenary

Christopher Bigsby traces the life and work of Arthur Miller, mostly in Miller's own words

• 58 mins