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Running the Show
Helen Mort continues her history of running, rounding the corner into the 20th century.
07 Oct 2024,·42 mins
‘Is back pain a transmissible disease?' - Dan’s story
Dan lives with agonising back ache, until a pilot study into pain transforms his life.
27 Dec 2022,·28 mins
Episode 2
BBC correspondent Hugh Sykes returns to Iraq, ten years after the US-led invasion.
10 Mar 2013,·30 mins
Episode 5
James Burke joins the dots on his 'Web of Knowledge'
25 Jan 2019,·14 mins
3: Waitin' On Roosevelt
Marybeth Hamilton explores the fate and fortunes of Black Americans under the New Deal.
23 Oct 2020,·28 mins
Series 1
7. No Tears Left
Poonam comes home to break the news to Ash.
04 Dec 2023,·33 mins
Fixing Globalisation
Jim O'Neill asks if new challenges mean an end to the era of globalisation.
06 Jan 2017,·45 mins
Dr Rosie Benneyworth
Dr Phil Hammond meets the doctor who investigates NHS England on patient safety.
05 Dec 2023,·28 mins
Richer
Robin Ince looks at how self-help moved away from soulful wellbeing towards making money.
19 Aug 2014,·30 mins
Hedy Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr: 8. Hedy’s Legacy
After her tumultuous life, will Hedy finally be recognised as an inventor?
28 Aug 2025,·27 mins
A Further Five Numbers
1729 - The first taxicab number
1729 is the smallest number you can write as the sum of two cubes, in two different ways.
20 Sep 2005,·14 mins
Dorothy becomes the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1964.
10 Oct 2014,·15 mins
2. Growth and Impact
Steph McGovern continues her exploration of one of life's essential ingredients - salt.
16 Feb 2015,·30 mins
5. Mudflats and Salt Marshes
Wading birds and shelducks find their favourite snacks along the Northumberland coastline.
01 Apr 2016,·15 mins
Robert McCrum goes through a two-week rehabilitation course to rejuvenate his left side.
09 Mar 2015,·28 mins
Episode 3
Adam Rutherford looks at the extinction of humans in the distant past. Last in series.
29 May 2012,·28 mins
Writing Novels
Professor Abigail Williams explores changing views of the novel.
09 Nov 2021,·28 mins
Iraq
Bridget Kendall explores how the Paris Peace Conference 1919 shaped a century of conflict.
28 Jun 2019,·14 mins
The Legacy of Magna Carta
Melvyn Bragg examines the 800-year legacy of Magna Carta.
08 Jan 2015,·43 mins
The New Face of Terror
Has our response to terrorism changed since 1800? Fergal Keane ends his series.
05 Dec 2014,·15 mins
Stealing Power
Meter tampering is dangerous and illegal yet reports of it are rising at an alarming rate.
30 Jul 2024,·28 mins
The Tower of Babel
Aleks Krotoski explores how today's digital world is a reverse Tower of Babel.
10 Apr 2015,·15 mins
Junior Doctors: A Matter of Life and Death
Dr Kevin Fong explores how doctors cope when things go wrong.
30 Aug 2016,·28 mins
New Myths
Zakia Sewell explores the songs, stories and symbols of British identity.
08 Dec 2020,·28 mins
2. Welshness
Cerys Matthews continues her trip down the A470, the road connecting north and south Wales
17 Jan 2014,·30 mins
The 300th anniversary of Louis XIV's death, and how fighting him changed Britain forever.
10 Jun 2015,·28 mins
From the Fabians to Tony Benn
Anne McElvoy traces the influence of Beatrice and Sidney Webb on British socialism.
02 Mar 2018,·58 mins
Series 3
Death Unexplained
Why is a sudden, yet not unexpected, death of someone old or ill, referred to a coroner?
23 Jan 2019,·43 mins
10. Wulver
Rhianna Pratchett encounters stories about a wolf-like beast - the Wulver
29 Dec 2023,·14 mins
Abortion
James Naughtie examines the backdrop to this year's United States presidential election.
29 Sep 2024,·28 mins
