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Episode 2
Alex Last traces the fate of 12 children named in a series of post-war BBC radio appeals.
03 Jul 2015,·28 mins
Omnibus, Part 2
Farrah Jarral continues to tell the intriguing and unexpected story of anthropology.
18 Mar 2017,·58 mins
Episode Five: The End of the Affair
Ophelia Byrne finds out what really happened when the Irish border was finalised in 1925
26 Nov 2021,·14 mins
5. Flow
Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson follows the course of the North Tyne.
19 Aug 2016,·14 mins
Series 1
The Lonely Heart
Following heart bypass surgery, Giles Fraser explores the workings of the human heart.
08 Dec 2017,·15 mins
5. GPS
How GPS transformed navigation in the 1991Gulf War.
24 Oct 2014,·15 mins
When Geeks Took Over Poker
Tim Harford tells the story of Chris Ferguson, who applied game theory to poker, and won.
13 Feb 2013,·15 mins
Episode 5 - Lacks Personal Responsibility
The rise and fall of the original Superhead.
27 Sep 2024,·14 mins
How to Laugh It Off
Jack Boswell explores craic, the Irish way of blending humour, stories and shared joy.
17 Jan 2025,·15 mins
Neurology
What happens in the brain during religious experiences?
31 Mar 2010,·30 mins
Episode 5
Dorothy becomes the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1964.
10 Oct 2014,·15 mins
War
Declan Harvey explores iconic songs that were once 'banned' by the BBC.
29 Jun 2025,·29 mins
The Day I Met Diana
People from around the UK and beyond recall their meetings with Diana, Princess of Wales.
29 Aug 2017,·58 mins
Beyond Happiness
What if happiness isn’t about the self at all?
20 Jul 2018,·14 mins
7. No Tears Left
Poonam comes home to break the news to Ash.
04 Dec 2023,·33 mins
Lord Snowdon
The royal photographer talks about his career
09 Sep 1991,·13 mins
Series 2
Doris Lessing and Patrick French
Biographer Patrick French has an imagined conversation with the late writer Doris Lessing.
03 Aug 2018,·14 mins
Series 4
Richard Dawson
An intimate portrait of folk musician Richard Dawson.
29 Jul 2019,·28 mins
Can Machines Think?
First broadcast in 1994. A look at artificial intelligence and 'thinking machines'
31 Aug 1994,·28 mins
5 - The Gut Speaks
Goblins, gods, and gurgles - Tim Hayward asks what our guts have been trying to tell us.
28 Dec 2018,·14 mins
Optimised Living
Oliver Burkeman explores the insidious way in which convenience has warped our existence.
02 Jun 2023,·14 mins
Buddhism
Jenny Kleeman explores places at the extremes of UK society.
31 Aug 2018,·14 mins
Returning to Pripyat
Alla Alban returns to her former home near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
30 Sep 2015,·28 mins
10. No Frills Air Travel
Robert Carlyle takes us back to moments we missed in the 90s that shaped the world today.
13 May 2022,·14 mins
Episode 3
Professor Devi Sridhar investigates the impact of Covid on the practice of science.
22 Jul 2022,·28 mins
Omnibus
Will Self goes on a 1,000-mile tour of the UK, travelling only by bus and coach.
09 Feb 2018,·60 mins
Is it worth it?
With all the problems facing universities, is it still worth getting a degree?
23 Sep 2025,·28 mins
The Human
Katherine Rundell explores wonderful stories of twenty astonishing but endangered animals.
31 Oct 2025,·4 mins
Napoleon's Way
Anne is in Brussels and Paris to explore the empire of Napoleon Bonaparte.
29 Apr 2013,·28 mins
Dòmhnall Màrtainn
Ann an 2025 bhruidhinn an t-eòlaiche ionmhais Dòmhnall Màrtainn ri Cathy NicDhòmhnaill.
25 Sep 2026,·21 mins
