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From Here to Eternity?
Can consultants remain relevant and attractive in a new socially conscious world?
25 Apr 2023,·14 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
Hooke's Law
Explaining Hooke's Law, which was devised by Robert Hooke in 1660
20 Sep 1995,·8 mins
Koran
Believed to be the absolute word of God - the Koran
31 Jan 1992,·28 mins
Into the Abyss
Jörn Leonhard explores the German experience of the 1918 armistice.
16 Nov 2018,·14 mins
Omnibus 2
The story of the systematic doping of the 2012 and 2014 Olympics by the Russian state.
17 Jul 2020,·57 mins
2. Welshness
Cerys Matthews continues her trip down the A470, the road connecting north and south Wales
17 Jan 2014,·30 mins
Series 1
War
Declan Harvey explores iconic songs that were once 'banned' by the BBC.
29 Jun 2025,·29 mins
Episode 2
The 300th anniversary of Louis XIV's death, and how fighting him changed Britain forever.
10 Jun 2015,·28 mins
Hands Up, Misogynists!
What does the popularity of Fifty Shades of Grey say about how women see themselves?
07 Aug 2015,·15 mins
5. Society
Justin Rowlatt asks if human society could itself be on the cusp of its own tipping point?
10 Jun 2022,·14 mins
Stevenage - Kadoma
Looking at the friendship link between Kadoma, Zimbabwe and Stevenage, England
07 Jul 1992,·28 mins
New Myths
Zakia Sewell explores the songs, stories and symbols of British identity.
08 Dec 2020,·28 mins
Deep Sea Mining
Is mining the deep ocean the solution to the world's growing demand for valuable metals?
23 Jul 2014,·28 mins
Episode 3
Steve Richards tells the inside story of Gordon Brown's time as prime minister.
05 Oct 2010,·45 mins
Greenhead to Kirk Yetholm
Mark Radcliffe travels from Greenhead near Hadrian's Wall to the village of Kirk Yetholm.
21 May 2015,·30 mins
Abortion
James Naughtie examines the backdrop to this year's United States presidential election.
29 Sep 2024,·28 mins
The Multiverse of Truth
Professor Abigail Williams explores the history of facts versus feelings.
28 Feb 2023,·28 mins
Omnibus Episode 2
Anthropologist David Graeber explores the ways debt has shaped society over 5,000 years.
05 Aug 2016,·58 mins
Prog 4 - The Problems of Success
Edward Stourton continues his series about the coalition set up after 11 September 2001.
17 Sep 2002,·40 mins
John Donne
Pádraig Ó Tuama considers poet John Donne's relationship with belief and religion.
13 Mar 2022,·28 mins
The Nation State
Could the new generation of African politicians live up to expectations they had raised?
28 Jul 2001,·28 mins
The Future
Did Nicola Sturgeon bring Scotland closer to independence - and what might she do next?
05 May 2023,·36 mins
Political Space
Exploring the policing of protest in the UK from Peterloo to the present - and beyond.
05 Aug 2024,·42 mins
Episode 2 - the aftermath of Peterloo
Katharine Viner looks at the aftermath of the Peterloo Massacre in 1819.
09 Aug 2019,·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
Remembering the early years of the AIDS crisis, through the stories of people who lived it
19 Jun 2020,·57 mins
The Nerve of a Cockroach
Erica McAlister explores the extraordinary nervous system of cockroaches.
27 May 2022,·14 mins
Faith
Will Self asks some of Britain's key opinion-makers about the nature of our existence.
20 Jun 2016,·28 mins
The Shift
Martin Wolf of the FT examines how global economics needs to adapt in an uncertain world.
21 Nov 2011,·30 mins
