Tradition

Author Andrew Martin discusses sex shops, especially those in London's Soho.

Author Andrew Martin discusses milkmen and their floats.

Author Andrew Martin explains his liking for traditional telephones.

Andrew Martin on ventriloquists' dolls, one of the social phenomena managing to survive.

Andrew Martin celebrates the pastime of sailing model boats on ponds.

Sheila Dillon explores the thriving new food culture of Northern Ireland.

Sheila Dillon explores how food binds together the rural Scottish community of Loch Fyne.

The struggle between the world of Hasidic Jews in the UK and those who decide to leave.

An inside story of two pipe bands, Thiepval Memorial and McDonald Memorial.

Garden designer James Wong asks if British gardening is stuck in the past.

Marie-Louise Muir explores the lost tradition of keening for the dead in Ireland.

Peter McGraith hears personal accounts of same-sex marriage in post equality Britain.

Gareth Gwynn uncovers the fantastical world of a Welsh cultural lodestone, Iolo Morganwg

David Mitchell ends his look at modern manners in a golf club bar. Has it all gone wrong?

A special programme on rituals, at Christmas and beyond.

Miranda Sawyer explores the magic of the school nativity play.

Neal Razzell reports on Spain's economic crisis, which has hit bullfighting hard.

Why do societies around the world mark the point when a child should become an adult?

The Akorino are a conservative, Christian sect from Kenya. Wairimu Gitahi finds out more.

A useful springboard or an unnecessary hindrance?

Across Britain, cremation ashes remain uncollected. Amanda Mitchinson investigates why.

Sanjeev Bhaskar finds out how the country's ancient traditions still shape life today.

Cultural traditions that discriminate can act as a barrier to development