Matthew Parris meets Helen Glover to discuss the life of the mountaineer Alison Hargreaves who lost her life on K2 in Pakistan in 1995. Show more
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Jo Coburn is joined by journalists Matthew Parris, Julia Hartley Brewer and Torsten Bell from the Resolution Foundation. Plus Labour's Lucy Powell and the Conservatives' Paul Scully. Show more
Quote... Unquote
06/11/2017
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra
Nigel Rees hosts the quotations quiz with Sally Phillips, Matthew Parris, Kate Williams and Frog Stone. From November 2017. Show more
Quote... Unquote
16/10/2017
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra
Nigel Rees hosts the quotations quiz with Sally Phillips, Matthew Parris, Kate Williams and Frog Stone. From October 2017. Show more
Jo Coburn is joined by journalist Matthew Parris for the latest news from Westminster, including an interview with Home Affairs committee chair Yvette Cooper about hate crime. Show more
Simon Evans nominates JS Mill, author of On Liberty. Matthew Parris presents. Show more
Melting clocks and lobster phones. John Cooper Clarke on moustachioed surrealist Salvador Dali. With Matthew Parris. From 2013. Show more
Daily Politics
02/02/2017
1 hour
First broadcast: on BBC Two Northern IrelandLatest broadcast: on BBC Parliament
Andrew Neil and Jo Coburn are joined by the Times columnist Matthew Parris for the latest news from Westminster including the Brexit white paper and Heathrow expansion plans. Show more
Daily Politics
05/12/2016
1 hour
First broadcast: on BBC Two ScotlandLatest broadcast: on BBC Parliament
Jo Coburn is joined by Nadine Dorries and Barry Gardiner to analyse the implications of Italy's referendum and to look ahead to the Supreme Court hearing on triggering Article 50. Show more
Patricia Greene defends Bess of Hardwick. Some called her a 'cold hearted shrew' because she became rich by marrying four times. Will presenter Matthew Parris be convinced? Show more
Matthew Parris hears why Professor Laura Serrant has chosen the life of Audre Lorde, the black activist and poet. Show more
Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, chosen by his friend and travelling companion, Mark Carwardine. Show more
Cherie Blair's own law career was inspired by the barrister Rose Heilbron. She became a role model, and an example of what a Liverpool girl could achieve in law. Show more
Businessman Tej Lalvani nominates physicist Richard Feynman as his great life. His task is to convince Matthew Parris that this bongo-playing scientist was a genius. Show more
David Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Cambridge. On the panel are Jo Swinson, Diane Abbott, Adam Afriyie, Sarah Churchwell and Matthew Parris. Show more
Journalist Laura Bates chooses the 19th-century American children’s author, Louise May Alcott. With Matthew Parris. From 2014. Show more
Simon Callow nominates one of the giants of the golden age of Hollywood, Orson Welles. Henry Jaglom talks about knowing him for the last years of his life. Show more
30 minutes
Victoria Coren hosts a special celebrity edition of the quiz where patience and lateral thinking are as vital as knowledge. Show more
Loose Ends
Frank Skinner, Sheila Hancock, Amanda Abbington, Matthew Parris, Nine Below Zero, Kathryn Williams and Anthony Kerr, Sara Cox
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined by Frank Skinner, Sheila Hancock, Amanda Abbington and Matthew Parris for special festive edition of Loose Ends. Show more
Edmund de Waal chooses Primo Levi, the Italian writer who survived and documented Auschwitz. With Matthew Parris. From 2013. Show more