- Seventy years ago, Scottish regiments fought a forgotten war in the malaria-infested jungles of the far east. This documentary remembers the men who fought at close range with the Japanese and witnessed some of the greatest events of the 20th century, from the atom bomb to the cruelty of the Burma Railway and the end o…
- Along the 1000 miles of the Rio Grande, Mexican and American cultures have mingled to produce Tex-Mex music, an exuberant style with a Mexican soul and a rock 'n' roll heart (with a twist of German polka!). Like most border regions, the Tex-Mex area is a cultural stewpot marked by violence, illegal immigrants, drug run…
- To celebrate National Poetry Day, and to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the death of Philip Larkin, writer and critic AN Wilson revisits the life and work of one of the greatest English poets of the 20th century - a poet soon to be honoured with a place in Poets Corner at Westminster Abbey.In Return To Larkinland,…