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Series 2
9. Room 5 LIVE
Room 5 LIVE at Hay Festival with screenwriter Abi Morgan.
28 Dec 2022,·33 mins
A Disabled Identity
Peter White reveals the roots of a modern disabled identity in the 19th century.
07 Jun 2013,·14 mins
Brain Science and Behaviour Change
Matthew Taylor looks at the new political choices created by sophisticated brain science.
29 Nov 2011,·30 mins
Omnibus: 1980s onwards
From the ZX Spectrum to the dot com bubble, Hannah Fry looks at our computing history.
17 Mar 2017,·58 mins
Series 1
Naked
Noma Dumezweni narrates the third episode of her series about risk and creativity.
01 Nov 2017,·42 mins
Sugar
Three scientists each present their idea for how to reduce sugar intake.
05 Jan 2016,·28 mins
Afterlives: Ruth and Lisette
Two women, disabled on the brink of adulthood, examine their journeys since.
06 May 2022,·28 mins
Omnibus Edition: Part 2
Carrie Gracie presents a series exploring ten great lives from Chinese history.
19 Oct 2012,·58 mins
01/12/2015
The care organisations pioneering new ways of looking after people in their own homes.
01 Dec 2015,·28 mins
Fundamentalism - Social Injustice
Experts and commentators ask what effect religious fundamentalism might have on our future
25 Mar 2002,·28 mins
2. NHS - the early years
Concluding the story of general practice from the 1950s to the present day.
15 Jul 2016,·28 mins
Episode 2
Historian and broadcaster Dan Cruickshank goes off the beaten track in London.
14 Jul 2010,·13 mins
Tutankhamun and Egyptomania; Nosferatu; Pirandello's Henry IV; Einstein, Time and Aboriginal Modernism
An omnibus edition of four things from 1922 with an impact a century later.
04 Feb 2022,·57 mins
Leaving Africa
How we overcame oceans and icy landscapes as we migrated
28 Oct 1999,·14 mins
Hooke's Law
Explaining Hooke's Law, which was devised by Robert Hooke in 1660
20 Sep 1995,·8 mins
Frontlines of Conspiracyland
What are the obstacles that stand between journalists and the truth?
04 Jul 2023,·39 mins
Monsters
Michael goes to Cambridge, where Keynes conjured the spectre of 'animal spirits'.
30 Mar 2011,·30 mins
The need to know checklist
Isabel Hardman asks if our politicians need to upgrade their skill set.
27 Mar 2026,·13 mins
Omnibus
How Can I Know Anything at All?
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how we can know anything at all.
07 Aug 2015,·58 mins
Episode 3
Edward is in the Nile Delta, one of the most intensively farmed areas on the planet.
17 Feb 2012,·28 mins
Peter Curran travels from Lands’ End to John O’Groats in an electric car.
28 Sep 2021,·28 mins
5. The Legacy of 2 Tone
Music legends explore the impact of 2 Tone.
01 May 2024,·11 mins
Depression in Later Life
Exploring the grey area between dementia and depression
26 Apr 2002,·27 mins
The Peace Movement
The moment when the1960s peace movement attempted to counter the prophesy of Armageddon
14 Jul 1995,·28 mins
Episode 5
One more throw of the dice from the UK, and a new obstacle from America.
18 Feb 2022,·14 mins
5. Flight of Imagination
Ralph Steadman shares his passion for flying and Leonardo.
03 May 2019,·14 mins
The Lonely Heart
Following heart bypass surgery, Giles Fraser explores the workings of the human heart.
08 Dec 2017,·15 mins
Islamic Sectarianism Today
Tarek Osman looks at the causes of the Sunni-Shia divide in the Middle East today.
26 Sep 2016,·28 mins
10. A Better Way?
Whose job is it to regulate the unregulated online sperm donor market?
10 Dec 2021,·14 mins
Episode Three - Frida Kahlo
Rosie Millard uncovers Frida Kahlo’s rise to superstardom.
19 Mar 2024,·28 mins
