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Episode 3
Jazz pianist Jamie Cullum meets piano enthusiasts up and down the country.
18 Jan 2014,·30 mins
Friday
Phil Tinline charts the progression of the working week in 5 days. Today, TGIF.
29 May 2026,·13 mins
Biodiversity
The dwindling variety of plants and animals on earth and how they could be saved
21 Feb 2003,·27 mins
Northern Power: Speaking From the North
Melvyn Bragg on 'speaking from the north' and what the future might hold for the north.
09 Sep 2016,·28 mins
Struck by Lightning
Struck by lightning: survivors tell their stories
30 Jan 1994,·28 mins
Series 6
Dust
How can our imagination help us hold the moment we live in?
20 Nov 2023,·28 mins
Depression in Later Life
Exploring the grey area between dementia and depression
26 Apr 2002,·27 mins
Series 1
Singing for Everyone
Roderick Williams explores how Britain lost its singing voice and if it be recovered.
11 Oct 2017,·30 mins
Waiting for Demob Day
Phil Carradice looks at the Welsh experience of National Service between 1947 and 1963.
30 Jul 2020,·28 mins
The Inca Civilisation
A look at the water supply systems of the Inca and ancient Sri Lankan civilisations
17 May 2003,·13 mins
Seamus Heaney - The Translator
Theo Dorgan on Seamus Heaney's translations, their importance and impact on his own work
10 Sep 2023,·28 mins
5. Modern Manners
Ann Widdecombe zooms forward to the making of manners in cyberspace.
08 Jan 2016,·14 mins
The Tower of Babel
Aleks Krotoski explores how today's digital world is a reverse Tower of Babel.
10 Apr 2015,·15 mins
Series 3
Panic Button
Tom considers how we protect our personal space through design.
26 Apr 2016,·28 mins
Series 2
3. Dealing With Critics
Little lessons in creative writing from a ghostly array of great novelists and poets.
05 Jun 2017,·30 mins
Whose Tomorrow? (Syria)
Jeremy Bowen hears from people who have witnessed the repression in Syria.
21 Dec 2011,·30 mins
Vision of the Future
A computer called Baby, Alan Turing, 25 Nobel prize winners and the wonders of graphene.
12 Dec 2014,·15 mins
Natural Symbols
A panel of experts choose an object they feel represents our relationship with nature.
20 Jan 2015,·28 mins
Episode 2
Matthew Sweet explores Chaplin's vast archive of unfinished scripts, letters and cuttings.
28 Feb 2011,·30 mins
Graham Hughes
Dr Graham Hughes talks about the condition that bears his name
09 Sep 1999,·13 mins
Our Interconnected Planet
Tim Hayward examines the earth’s past, present and future through microbial goggles.
01 Oct 2023,·28 mins
The Sea
Is this the end for one of the last Royal Mail ships? The RMS St Helena takes a bow.
27 May 2016,·28 mins
Headlines show an NHS in crisis. How can those in charge mend the culture?
25 Sep 2013,·28 mins
The Multiverse of Truth
Professor Abigail Williams explores the history of facts versus feelings.
28 Feb 2023,·28 mins
Who should get a vaccine first?
Analysing the complex decisions over who should get a Covid-19 vaccine
21 Sep 2020,·28 mins
Series 8
The buy button
How advertisers are trying to use neuroscientific techniques to hack our brains.
05 Apr 2021,·28 mins
Part 11 - Setting Goals and Fulfilling Dreams
How setting a personal goal can help us focus and achieve success
11 Sep 2000,·13 mins
5. The Urban/Rural Divide
Journalist Anna Jones explores her own experience of crossing the urban/rural divide.
10 Nov 2023,·14 mins
Eva Joly
The judge talks about her seven-year-long investigation into a multi-billion euro fraud.
19 Aug 2014,·28 mins
14/11/2018
In a political state where even the winners stay angry, what will our future be?
14 Nov 2018,·14 mins
