Identity
The Essay. The Strangeness of Memory, Touching the Void. Audio, 15 minutes
Adam Zeman on the void of amnesia and how it impacts identity and consciousness.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
The Why Factor. What Do You Do? Audio, 23 minutes
How much emphasis do we place on our jobs defining our identity?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Short Cuts. Series 13, Machines. Audio, 30 minutes
Josie Long explores how machines effect our humanity.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Thinking Allowed. The meaning of the face. Audio, 27 minutes
Laurie Taylor explores the significance of the face.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Rock Transition. Audio, 30 minutes
A look at how musicians have defied gender boundaries to create era-defining art and music
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Brainwaves. Series 4, Professor Richard Morris. Audio, 28 minutes
Pennie Latin talks to Prof Richard Morris about how the brain and memory create identity.
- AttributionBBC Radio Scotland
- Available for over a year
The Essay. New Generation Thinkers, Food: Are We What We Eat? Audio, 15 minutes
Christopher Kissane explores the role of food in past and present conflicts over identity.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Thinking Allowed. Shyness - Names. Audio, 28 minutes
Shyness: a cultural history. Also, the relationship between names and identity.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
A Point of View. Being English. Audio, 10 minutes
The writer AL Kennedy reflects on Englishness.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
A Point of View. After the Vote, Brexit and our cultural identity. Audio, 15 minutes
The historian Mary Beard reflects on whether Brexit will change our cultural identity.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Four Thought. Questions of Identity. Audio, 15 minutes
Marina Lewycka explores how identity is formed.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Why Factor. Life, Liberty and the American Identity. Audio, 50 minutes
What is the American Identity and why is it a portrait recognized around the world?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
The Why Factor. Why I’m Not Just Blind. Audio, 18 minutes
Lee Kumutat asks why blind people must either be inspirational or deserving pity
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
The Why Factor. Identity. Audio, 18 minutes
The Why Factor examines one simple question: Who are you?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
One to One. Mark Lawson talks to Marvin Gaye Chetwynd. Audio, 15 minutes
Mark Lawson talks to the artist and Turner Prize nominee Marvin Gaye Chetwynd.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Food Programme. The Spice Explosion. Audio, 30 minutes
Cyrus Todiwala celebrates the role of spice in Britain's community, identity and taste.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
A History of Ideas. Omnibus, What Does It Mean to Be Me? Audio, 58 minutes
Melvyn Braggs asks 'What does it mean to be me?', with the help of four guests.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
A History of Ideas. Philosopher Jules Evans on Jung and the Mind. Audio, 11 minutes
Jules Evans explores Jung and the shadow inside all of us.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
A History of Ideas. Writer AL Kennedy on Sartre and the Individual. Audio, 11 minutes
Writer AL Kennedy explores existentialist ideas about the individual.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
A History of Ideas. Paul Broks on John Locke and Personal Identity. Audio, 11 minutes
Paul Broks asks how we can be sure we are the same person that we were yesterday.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
A History of Ideas. What Does It Mean to Be Me? Audio, 11 minutes
Barry Smith, Paul Broks, AL Kennedy and Jules Evans discuss the self.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Analysis. Two-Nation Britain. Audio, 30 minutes
Is Britain's real political divide between the cosmopolitans and the rest?
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Homage to Caledonia, Homage to Caledonia: Hidden Identities. Audio, 15 minutes
AL Kennedy on what Scottishness means to her, discussing Scotland's many hidden identities
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year