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Omnibus
Episode 2
Will Self goes on a 1,000-mile tour of the UK, travelling only by bus and coach.
09 Feb 2018,·60 mins
Episode 3
Jazz pianist Jamie Cullum meets piano enthusiasts up and down the country.
18 Jan 2014,·30 mins
Xi'an and the Future for China
Youth culture in Xi'an and how China is likely to develop
16 Sep 1999,·28 mins
10. A Better Way?
Whose job is it to regulate the unregulated online sperm donor market?
10 Dec 2021,·14 mins
Dòmhnall MacCoinnich
Dòmhnall MacCoinnich à Nis ag innse mu òige agus mu bheatha obrach ann am bancaireachd.
03 Jul 2026,·22 mins
Surviving the strike
Hard-working families faced new poverty in confusing times for the community.
02 Mar 2024,·18 mins
Rail
Second class service: how the nations and regions lost out to London in rail investment.
09 Jul 2018,·28 mins
Mozart's Last Symphony
Can we really recreate authentic period music?
08 Jan 1992,·13 mins
Favourite Numbers
What's a mathematician's favourite number?
17 Jul 1998,·14 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
From Millicent Fawcett to Multiculturalism
Anne McElvoy traces liberalism's development since the Suffragists.
18 Dec 2015,·58 mins
Bankruptcy
Hannah looks back over the depression and guilt that accompanied her financial disaster.
18 Dec 2011,·15 mins
Omnibus Edition
Martha Kearney hosts British celebrities past and present at the National Portrait Gallery
16 Jun 2023,·57 mins
Series 1
Fashion historian Amber Butchart discovers what happens to the clothes we give to charity.
11 May 2017,·30 mins
Friday
Phil Tinline charts the progression of the working week in 5 days. Today, TGIF.
29 May 2026,·13 mins
The second episode in a two-part tale from Anglesey comedian Tudur Owen
01 Feb 2022,·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
Wes Butters speaks to Carry On stars Jim Dale and Jacki Piper 4/4
Wes Butters speaks to Carry On stars Jim Dale and Jacki Piper.
28 Aug 2023,·10 mins
The Black Box of History
Stories from France's troubled history with Algeria and why they still matter today.
25 Feb 2022,·14 mins
Iraq
Bridget Kendall explores how the Paris Peace Conference 1919 shaped a century of conflict.
28 Jun 2019,·14 mins
Omnibus (2/2)
The hidden story of the 1989 fatwa issued by Ayatollah Khomeini against Salman Rushdie.
19 Feb 2021,·57 mins
Us and them
Tim Hayward looks at the potential of fungi to help the human body and mind.
21 Jan 2022,·28 mins
Deal With It
Prof Jonathan Ball concludes his survey of the new disruptive biotechnologies.
24 Aug 2018,·15 mins
Episode 5
Alison follows up on the progress of the students in the six months following the course.
03 Oct 2014,·15 mins
Series 2
Ripley and Heanor News, 2 July 1948
James Naughtie explores the history of the Amber Valley through front page small ads.
03 Sep 2019,·14 mins
Three Objects of Children’s Broadcasting
Robert Seatter selects objects from the BBC's archive store and uncovers their stories.
18 Nov 2022,·14 mins
Super-sensing Ben
Prof Ben Garrod explores whether through technology he can become a super-sensing human.
16 May 2023,·28 mins
Four More Ideas to Save the World
Four more cunning carbon-busting ideas.
29 Oct 2021,·57 mins
Dorothy becomes the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1964.
10 Oct 2014,·15 mins
Timing Systems in Sport
Sporting events are timed to hundredths of a second
11 Sep 2000,·13 mins
