Presenter Liz Bonnin gives a quick overview of what to expect from the second series of the OU/BBC co-production Bang Goes The Theory, due to air on the BBC in March.

David Dimbleby charts a landmark history of Britain’s greatest art and artefacts over 2,000 years in Seven Ages of Britain, a new seven-part series shot in HD.

OU PhD student Alison Buckler has finished second in the finals of the Guardian’s International Development Journalism competition.

A new TV series called Berlin will reflects on 200 years of architecture, music, cinema, painting and literature, starting on Saturday 14 November at 7.30pm on BBC Two.

A History of Scotland, presented by Neil Oliver, returns to our television screens, taking the story up from the 1600s to the present day.

Thinking Allowed – White Collar Crime will be broadcast on Wednesday 4 November at 4pm on BBC Radio 4.
 

Christianity is the world's largest religion and it will be put under the spotlight in a series of six programmes by The Open University in co-production with the BBC and Jerusalem Productions.

The Open University's Professor Colin Pillinger, a planetary scientist, will be Kirsty Young's castaway on Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4 this Sunday 25 October at 11.15am.
 

The OU’s partnership with the BBC has been a long and fruitful one – and its 40th anniversary was celebrated on Wednesday (7 October) at a special reception held at the BBC Media Centre

THE STREET: Episode 7, Monday 12 October, BBC TWO, 7:30pm