Seriously is home to the world’s best audio documentaries and podcast recommendations, and host Vanessa Kisuule brings you two fascinating new episodes every week.

This podcast, assembled by a former PhD student in History at the University of Washington, covers the entire span of Japanese history. Each week we'll tackle a new topic, ranging from prehistoric Japan to the modern day.

The day’s top stories from BBC News. Delivered twice a day on weekdays, daily at weekends

Interviews, musings and extra material from the makers of Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. If it did not fit in the HH feed it's probably here

The BHP is a chronological retelling of the history of Britain with a particular focus upon the lives of the people. You won’t find a dry recounting of dates and battles here, but instead you’ll learn about who these people were and how their desires, fears, and flaws shaped the histories of England, Scotland, and Wales.

Professor Jim Al-Khalili talks to leading scientists about their life and work, finding out what inspires them and asking what their discoveries might do for us in the future.

Eight tracks, a book and a luxury: what would you take to a desert island? Guests share the soundtrack of their lives.

Nick van der Kolk's Love and Radio features in-depth, otherworldly-produced interviews with an eclectic range of subjects, from the seedy to the sublime. Get inside the mind of a rogue taxidermist. Find out what it's like to experience a stroke firsthand. Or spend time with an artist who gives away her life savings every night. You've never heard anything like it before.

Exploring different aspects of history, science, philosophy and the arts.

How far would you follow someone? To the other side of the world, to the top of a mountain, into oblivion? Earshot's back and in our new seven-part season we're telling confessional stories of following. You'll meet a doomsday cult leader, a deathmatch wrestler, die-hard music fans and a mother trying to keep her daughter sane and safe online. Stories of the familiar to the unbelievable, the fascinating to the heartbreaking. Come follow Earshot and lose yourself completely.