Factual

  • The Essay: The Case for Doubt
  • Five personalities reflect on, and make a case for, Doubt: religious doubt, scientific doubt, political doubt and self-doubt.
  • Radio 3
  • Japan: Hope Amid The Chaos
  • Gerry Northam visits Japan in the wake of earthquake and nuclear disasters, and investigates how religion, especially Buddhism, is at the heart of rebuilding a shattered society.
  • BBC World Service
  • The Day the Wall Went Up
  • On the 50th anniversary of the German Democratic Republic splitting Berlin with a 100-mile long Wall, Gerry Northam – in two BBC World Service documentaries - reports on the day people awoke to cut telephone wires, torn-up streets, and separation from loved ones, and the horrific 28 years that followed.
  • World Service
  • Iraq's Forgotten Conflict
  • Edward Stourton on the extinction by exile and murder of religious minorities in Iraq.
  • Radio4/World Service
  • A History of the Stiff Upper Lip
  • British attitudes to the expression of emotion: it seems a long journey from the stiff upper lip to a culture of therapy, reality shows, and what some call ‘emotional incontinence’ – but how much have we really changed?
  • Radio 4