Sam's dad runs an ice-cream parlour, which is steadily going bankrupt thanks to competition from Karbunkle's mega-emporiums. Mum's getting fed up with dad's dreams of making money, and moves out. Sam longs for dad's luck to change when - suddenly one night - a large meteorite comes thumping down into their garden. But it isn't any old meterorite -...

THE GROOVY GREEKS: Terrible tales about horrible heroes, savage Spartans, foolish philosophers and suffering slaves. Find out how Ancient Greek doctors had to examine their patients vomit, earwax and rotting flesh - by tasting them! THE STORMIN' NORMANS: Everyone knows about 1066: William the Conqueror scored a bull's eye at the Battle of Hastings....

Leah Turner's father has been killed in an accident at the laundry, and since her mother died years ago it falls to her to become sole provider for her little sister. But women's wages are half those of men and pawning the few belongings she has left will only keep their vicious rent collector at bay for a few weeks, so even if she finds a job, the...

If your boss was the hottest rock star on the planet, would you mix business with pleasure? Celebrity PA to wild boy of rock Johnny Jefferson, Meg Stiles's glam new life in sun-drenched LA is a whirlwind of showbiz parties and backstage passes. Cool, calm Christian, in town to write his famous friend's biography, helps keep Meg's feet firmly on the...

For thirty years, best friends Stephanie and Philippa have been practically inseparable. There's nothing they would not do for one another. Until a few simple words change everything. 'I need you to say that I was with you.' Both women have always believed that friendship is built on mutual selflessness, compromise and trust. Are those beliefs now...

New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan Island, 1746. One evening, a handsome young stranger off the boat from England pitches up to a counting house on Golden Hill Street, with a compelling proposition - he has an order for 1,000 pounds in his pocket that he wishes to cash. But can he be trusted? New York is a place where a young man with a...

Almost bigamy and absolute murder - Agatha's life is never dull . . . The morning of Agatha's longed-for marriage to James Lacey dawns bright and clear. But her luck runs out in the church when Jimmy, the husband she had believed long dead, turns up large as life and twice as ugly. Agatha has a go at strangling him. It's all too much for James, who...

When the TARDIS is buffeted by 'time slippage', the Doctor experiences a terrible vision of the end of everything. Tracking the source of the disruption, he takes Rory and Amy to what appears to be an English public school in the 1950s. But the friends discover that there are some very unusual things about Darkstar Academy. For a start the prefects...

One of the biggest science experiments of all time is about to take place - and George and Annie have got front-row seats! Eric, Annie's scientist dad, is heading to the Large Hadron Collider to explore the earliest moments of the Universe - the Big Bang. Armed with his trusty super-computer, Cosmos, nothing can possibly go wrong . . . until George...

Brady, Annabel, Maria, Adrian. Four bright, sexy, nice-looking twenty-somethings leading the high life at other people's expense. With an interesting sideline too: abducting and terrifying young women and calling it 'art'. Except now they're in Crowby and - unless DCI Jacobson and DS Kerr can crack the case in time - Brady and company may soon be g...

Richard "Bingo" Little falls in love with the daughter of a left-wing (probably communist or socialist) leader called Charlotte Corday Rowbotham. In an attempt to get close to her, Little joins the group, called the Heralds of the Red Dawn, whose aims are to "massacre the bourgeoisie, sack Park Lane and disembowel the hereditary aristocracy". This...

Twelve-year-old villain, Artemis Fowl, is the most ingenious criminal mastermind in history. His bold and daring plan is to hold a leprechaun to ransom; but he's taking on more than a bunch of fairies when he kidnaps Captain Holly Short of the Lep-Recon (lower elements police reconnaissance unit).

The mild-mannered detective Albert Campion sets out to investigate why someone would attempt to kill an American judge. Whether by bad luck or bad marksmanship, four others have already died in place of Judge Lobbett. Now the judge is on his way to England.

In the first episode, The Deserved Dead, DCI John Stone and his team shake up the Bridgeton Estate when they embark upon an investigation into the brutal murder of a known sex offender. In episode 2, Collateral Damage, DCI John Stone is forced to open up an investigation into the death of Gary Taylor, a veteran of the Iraq War suffering from Post T...

Charles Chilton's classic science fiction trilogy stormed the BBC airwaves during the 1950s. Its gripping story lines, extra-terrestrial sound effects and atmospheric music engaged the listener as never before. Between 1953 and 1958, a devoted audience of adults and children attentively followed Captain Jet Morgan and his crew from one cliff-hanger...

Four of the very best recent editions of the comedy panel game, hosted by Nicholas Parsons and featuring Paul Merton, Clement Freud and a host of guest players.

David Mitchell and Robert Webb star in the complete second series of their critically-acclaimed BBC Radio 4 show. Starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb, from Channel 4's 'Peep Show', 'That Mitchell and Webb Sound' is a mix of satirical sketches and surreal characters that provides a fantastically skewed perspective on everyday life. Meet soporifi...

When Laura Thyme goes to the parish of Baffington to visit her cousin's recently ordained son, she meets many of the locals... and witnesses the sudden death of one of them. A year later, Rosemary and Laura return to help with an ambitious Medieval Fayre, organised by the local celebrity and historian, Franklin Danvers. Their task is to refurbish t...

THE SAVAGE STONE AGE: This was a time when fast food meant tearing open an animal and pinching its last meal - straight from its guts! Listen to find out more about nasty Neanderthals! THE FRIGHTFUL FIRST WORLD WAR: Kids as young as fourteen fought at the Front, dogs and pigeons played their part in the combat, and, most shocking of all, a bug kill...

When Kit moves to Stoneygate, a once thriving mining village haunted by a long-ago tragedy which killed 117 children, he is befriended by the wretched, sullen John Askew, a boy whose very soul has been fractured by his violent upbringing. As Kit's grieving grandfather begins to lose his grip on life, Kit is irresistibly drawn into a treacherous gam...