AN Wilson explores the life and work of TS Eliot. From The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock to The Waste Land and from Ash Wednesday to Four Quartets,...

Patricia Routledge, as patron of the Beatrix Potter Society, presents a documentary on the author's life and work.

Historian and author AN Wilson explores the life of Josiah Wedgwood. Wilson reveals the achievements of the self-made, self-educated creative giant...

C.S. Lewis's biographer A.N. Wilson goes in search of the man behind Narnia, a highly secretive man whose personal life was marked by the loss of the...

An examination of the life of great Russian author Leo Tolstoy, who penned the 1877 novel Anna Karenina.

Professor Saul David examines Prince Albert's role in shaping British culture, governmental policy and international relations in Victorian Britain.

This is the story of Queen Victoria as never heard before; a psychological insight of the woman told through her own words, her experiences recounted...

In 1977, after a fourteen year dry spell, the novelist Barbara Pym was nominated for a Booker Award for her novel, Quartet in Autumn. This drama...

No profession, no say, no freedom of expression. Life as a prince consort is not exactly pleasure taxing. No constitution ascribes any function to...

The fiendishly difficult quiz show in which two teams of three contestants have to find the connection between seemingly unrelated clues, where...

An alternative history of the British Isles, told through art. Looking at 1,500 years and eight dramatic turning points, acclaimed artists and...

With Nicholas Rowe, Helen Rappaport, Lucinda Hawksley, Matthew Sweet.

This topical debate series based on Any Questions? typically features politicians from at least the three major political parties as well as other...

Four kings from the House of Stuart sat on the English throne from 1603 to 1688. It was a time of great religious struggle and political...