Seriously interesting documentaries from Radio 4.
How country music became a powerful form of expression for Australia鈥檚 Aboriginal peoples.
Is this the beginning of a new expansion in human rights for great apes?
Matthew Syed explores the vexed role of money at the pinnacle of contemporary sport.
A journalist revisits the audio diary that documents her husband's sudden departure.
The 6 Music DJ selects the best Radio 4 music documentaries for Seriously...
Historian Dina Gusejnova tells the story of tarpaulin from the 17th Century to now.
Ed Howker looks at the world depicted in the science fiction novel Logan's Run.
Poet Mab Jones explores the concept of hiraeth in the poetry of Wales.
Levi Roots explores the story of William Blake's childhood vision of angels on Peckham Rye
Laura Barton walks the length of Sunset Boulevard in 24 hours, from city to coast.
Phill Jupitus explores the importance of being bored.
Exploring the culture war between secularism and a new generation of Muslims in France.
The harrowing personal stories that lie behind today's homeless headlines.
Comedian Mark Watson wonders why so many adults are playing children's games. Seriously.
The legendary country singer-songwriter unveils the secrets of composing a great song.
Can a Shaman cure writer's block? Playwright, David Greig, tries to find out.
People talk frankly about the challenging experience of sitting with a dying parent.
Eight years after she met him in Mississippi, Chloe Hadjimatheou searches for Tobias
David Bramwell sets out to prove that anyone can be a good public speaker.
Step inside the voice booth to find out what is the value of talking at all.
Oona King reveals how West Indian Asquith Xavier fought a colour bar at Euston station.
Nina Plapp takes her cello Cuthbert to Rajasthan in search of the roots of gypsy music.
Andrew Ross Sorkin traces the reputation of UK and USA bankers through history.
Cinema's great love story - UK director Michael Powell and US editor Thelma Schoonmaker.
