The Latest Podcasts from BBC Radio 4 Extra

Podcast Radio Hour

Podcast Radio Hour

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

Restart

Restart

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).

The Film We Can't See

The Film We Can't See

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.

Newsjack

Newsjack

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

The Matter of the North

The Matter of the North

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

In the Psychiatrist's Chair

In the Psychiatrist's Chair

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

The Business of Film with Mark Kermode

The Business of Film with Mark Kermode

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

Plants: From Roots to Riches

Plants: From Roots to Riches

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.

An Eye for Pattern: The Letters of Dorothy Hodgkin

An Eye for Pattern: The Letters of Dorothy Hodgkin

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.

The New Elizabethans

The New Elizabethans

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

Shakespeare's Restless World

Shakespeare's Restless World

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 Art of Monarchy

The Art of Monarchy

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.

Sport and the British

Sport and the British

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

A Brief History of Mathematics

A Brief History of Mathematics

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