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Optimised Living
Oliver Burkeman explores the insidious way in which convenience has warped our existence.
02 Jun 2023,·14 mins
Returning to Pripyat
Alla Alban returns to her former home near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
30 Sep 2015,·28 mins
Episode 3
Professor Devi Sridhar investigates the impact of Covid on the practice of science.
22 Jul 2022,·28 mins
Fungi
Scientist are unable to classify fungi as either plant or animal
31 Dec 1999,·13 mins
Space Travel
What are the effect on the human body when in space?
18 Feb 2000,·12 mins
The Human
Katherine Rundell explores wonderful stories of twenty astonishing but endangered animals.
31 Oct 2025,·4 mins
Japan - The Ruins of the Future
How Japan's economic boom in the 70s/80s has not born fruit for all its inhabitants
31 May 2002,·28 mins
Richer
Robin Ince looks at how self-help moved away from soulful wellbeing towards making money.
19 Aug 2014,·30 mins
John Logie Baird
A wireless with pictures.
18 May 1995,·9 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
A Reminder
A look back over the advice given in this series on how to stop smoking
24 Dec 1998,·13 mins
Red Shelley
Benjamin Zephaniah brings us his personal take on Percy Shelley's work.
10 Jul 2022,·28 mins
5. Rembrandt
When parenting journeys are flipped upside down after a diagnosis
16 May 2025,·14 mins
4. The end of an epidemic?
How activists and medical staff fought the government to U-turn on Aids treatment in SA
30 Oct 2021,·49 mins
Lydie Salvayre
French novelist Lydie Salvayre reflects on the aftermath of the Paris terror attacks.
13 Feb 2015,·15 mins
Buddhism
Jenny Kleeman explores places at the extremes of UK society.
31 Aug 2018,·14 mins
Inside Israel 1948
The family roots of friends Eden Raviv and Ibrahim Abu Ahmad cross the divides of history.
04 Dec 2023,·28 mins
Omnibus 2
The story of the systematic doping of the 2012 and 2014 Olympics by the Russian state.
17 Jul 2020,·57 mins
Episode 2
The world needs new antibiotics, but drug companies do not want to make them. What to do?
24 Mar 2015,·28 mins
Omnibus (2/2)
The hidden story of the 1989 fatwa issued by Ayatollah Khomeini against Salman Rushdie.
19 Feb 2021,·57 mins
Lionel Shriver
Lionel Shriver discusses how she will write about a new America under President Trump.
21 Jan 2017,·15 mins
Gretchen Gerzina explores the lives of black people in Britain during a time of slavery.
14 Oct 2016,·58 mins
Gateway to the Mind
Could our microbiome have an influence on our mood and behaviour?
24 Apr 2018,·28 mins
Dòmhnall Màrtainn
Ann an 2025 bhruidhinn an t-eòlaiche ionmhais Dòmhnall Màrtainn ri Cathy NicDhòmhnaill.
25 Sep 2026,·21 mins
Episode 5
Dorothy becomes the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1964.
10 Oct 2014,·15 mins
Episode 4: Institutions
Zakia Sewell explores what we mean by 'taste'.
04 Jul 2023,·28 mins
Stevenage - Kadoma
Looking at the friendship link between Kadoma, Zimbabwe and Stevenage, England
07 Jul 1992,·28 mins
Our Interconnected Planet
Tim Hayward examines the earth’s past, present and future through microbial goggles.
01 Oct 2023,·28 mins
Forbidden Love: Cilmi Boodheri
The story of Cilmi Boodheri, the Somalian poet who died for love
21 Feb 2006,·22 mins
Insect Technology
Erica McAlister explores how insect technology can solve human design problems.
19 Mar 2013,·28 mins
