A rich selection of documentaries aimed at relentlessly curious minds. No subject is too strange, no idea too weird. Released twice a week, this podcast is introduced by Vanessa Kisuule.
Max Porter explores why model villages hold such fascination and inspiration for him.
An examination of the prophetic qualities of Radiohead's OK Computer, 25 years on.
Time flies inside the world's largest collection of antique cuckoo clocks.
Nell Frizzell contemplates whether climate change should stop her having a second child.
Killed by somebody who should still have been locked up.
How does losing a mother as a little girl affect the women they become?
Matthew Taylor investigates the pervasive issue of workplace bullying in the UK today.
The rate at which scientists and inventors discover new things is slowing. How to fix it?
Is the use of the ‘P’ word ever acceptable?
An exploration of men’s violence against women, with Scottish writer Alistair Heather
Shocking claims of bullying, sexual harassment and violence from inside the police.
Tim Hayward falls down a rabbit hole and into the vast and largely hidden world of fungi.
Is it time Scotland recognised 'witches' as victims of state-sanctioned violence?
Robert Macfarlane climbs a wintry Buachaille Etive Mor, guided by the words of WH Murray.
Rap is changing and high profile UK artists are shunning the genre's dominant tropes.
An intimate tale of bird-human interdependence.
One mother’s story of how she is supporting her son’s footballing dreams.
Who stitched the Bayeux Tapestry? Abigail Youngman looks for clues in the margins.
Poet Helen Mort reflects on being the object of deepfake pornography.
Artist Kevin Harman explores what happens when public art and communities clash.
Sophie Ward makes a scientifically-accredited love potion. Don't try this at home.
A birth amid a revolution, and an unpaid arms deal debt having ramifications decades on.
A 21st-century dip into literary stream of consciousness.
Pro-wrestler Matt Powell explores the history and resurgence of wrestling in the Midlands.
