90 x 90: The Full Set (1950-1969)

Listener Pat Taylor recalls Scotland's favourite weekly home-grown family saga.

Seán Street on how Orson Welles brought a dead man to British radio.

Ken Bruce reveals the secret of Friday Night is Music Night's longevity.

A massive radio sci-fi success, and how radio faced the evil threat of TV drama...

A young Michael Rosen writes about caterpillars to naturalist Peter Scott's radio show.

Through the seasons - a year in the life of the Archers

As rock 'n' roll seizes Britain, a group of lads get ticked off by a magistrate.

How Samuel Beckett revolutionised writing for radio with All That Fall.

Britain's favourite radio vintage ventriloquist's show.

Joe Orton's controversial and blackly comedic first play is rescued from the scrap pile.

What does the shipping forecast really mean to those out on the open sea?

Broadcasts from court during Adolf Eichmann's trial changed attitudes to the holocaust.

Children talked to journalist Harold Williamson.

Jolly joshing between the Beatles and a BBC reporter.

Listener Tris Penna recalls listening to Brian Matthew in bed with his transistor radio.

A vivid example of how attitudes to sexuality have changed.

Writer Gwyn Thomas' radio eulogy to the children of Aberfan.

The day a Radio 3 producer asked Jimi Hendrix to keep the noise down

Nina Simone talks about the assassination of Martin Luther King

Women in the hotseat. In hats. Gillian Reynolds grabs her handbag for this 1969 episode.