Start your New Year with a great documentary.
Stephen Evans goes deep into the Milky Way to look at the phenomenon of StarCraft.
Mat Fraser meets the former showgirls coming out of retirement and getting back on stage.
Philip Hoare attends the necropsy of a porpoise and thinks about going inside a whale.
Gerald Scarfe explores the Walt Disney Studio's activity during the Second World War.
Horatio Clare meets the German student duellists for whom a scar is a badge of honour.
Comedian Stewart Lee introduces his great passion - musical, free improvisation.
What impact have western media representations had on our view of Japan and its people?
Novelist Neil Gaiman explores the the intricacies of the Orpheus myth
Ian McMillan hunts for the truth behind some bizarre schools music making from the 1960s
Lucy Powell offers a quiet celebration of the rich and various virtues of silence.
Sound designer Glenn Freemantle, who worked on Gravity, commemorates the first spacewalk.
Henning Wehn looks at the difficulties of speaking and understanding English.