Illuminated is BBC Radio 4's home for creative and surprising one-off documentaries that shed light on hidden worlds.Welcome to a place of... more
Welcome to the feast! We’re invited to a traditional Georgian ‘Supra’ to immerse ourselves in the magic of Georgian polyphonic... more
Author Owen Hatherley goes in search of the lost future of Solent City – the extraordinary plan, devised in the... more
Ian Burke was not someone who grew up riding buses. His school was in walking distance, his parents had a... more
Estimates from NSPCC suggest around 1 in 20 children in the UK have been sexually abused. This documentary brings together... more
The story of how a heterosexual, Indian immigrant to England, ignorant of the gay scene, ended up delivering heartfelt eulogies... more
The 2001 Foot and Mouth crisis forced North Devon farmers into a traumatic 6 month lockdown, cut off from their... more
Over 80% of people in Britain choose to be cremated rather than buried after death and the scattering of a... more
Memory is fragile. We are driven to capture it. But is this possible when the memories of the person we... more
Siblings Sam and Bon Stone are angry. Sam directs her anger inwards while Bon’s anger can be explosive. Through sharing... more
For some, burnout feels like an unravelling - a slow, creeping dissolution where the threads of your life and identity... more