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A job for the fourth century
Sir Anthony Seldon charts 300 years of the top job in British politics.
16 Apr 2021,·28 mins
Mother Courage and Her Children
Discussing one of Bertolt Brecht's most celebrated plays
14 Oct 2002,·13 mins
Mohammed's Night Journey - Islam
The story of the Prophet Mohammed's night journey from the temple at Mecca
11 Aug 1999,·13 mins
Islands
The role of islands in the understanding of the patterns of evolution
01 Aug 1996,·28 mins
Episode 1
Michael Portillo hunts down nature's tyrants and meets the animals who make it to the top.
10 Dec 2005,·30 mins
Defence
Martha Kearney and Andrew Dilnot explore government spending.
16 Nov 2018,·14 mins
Omnibus
Branwen Jeffreys on how the fallout from a fiscal illusion will impact universities.
20 Apr 2019,·57 mins
Episode 2
Robert McCrum goes in search of Shakespeare in 21st-century America.
26 Apr 2016,·30 mins
Trojan Horse: Brit-ish?
What the Trojan Horse Affair revealed about how to be British
20 Nov 2020,·28 mins
Series 1
The Good Consumer
Charlotte Smith concludes her investigation into the complex world of global food chains.
27 Feb 2018,·28 mins
Day three, the halfway point of the walk, but the worst is yet to come.
21 Nov 2011,·30 mins
Jo
Jules Montague and William Miller meet Jo, who was diagnosed with semantic dementia at 53.
14 Apr 2023,·14 mins
Sixties and Beyond
Louise Cooper examines the financial dilemmas faced by retirees today.
24 Aug 2016,·28 mins
Underground Art - Literally
Kirsty and Lucy investigate an arts collective operating in tunnels beneath Paris.
23 Nov 2012,·15 mins
What Goes Around...
Visiting Voltaire's chateau and an abandoned Cern experiment puts Will in a pensive mood.
09 Jan 2015,·15 mins
Germline Gene Therapy
Would you like to remove disease in your descendants?
05 Dec 2001,·13 mins
‘Is back pain a transmissible disease?' - Dan’s story
Dan lives with agonising back ache, until a pilot study into pain transforms his life.
27 Dec 2022,·28 mins
Episode 3
The struggles and obstacles as the government tries to roll out its bold reforms.
22 Jan 2012,·30 mins
Operation Moses
Why the return of Ethiopian and Russian Jews to Israel caused controversy
17 Apr 1998,·27 mins
The World's Climate
Our planet is warming up, the ice caps are melting and sea levels are rising
05 Jul 1999,·13 mins
Series 3
Reykjavik
Musician John Grant on Reykjavik, a city he fell in love with on tour.
03 Dec 2016,·30 mins
Live Slow, Live Long – in Japan
Secrets of long life in Okinawa, and how young people still value family ties
30 Sep 2003,·22 mins
Professor Steve Jones challenges the controversial science of evolutionary psychology.
09 Nov 2009,·30 mins
Richard, Alasdair, and Jen
A man whose predecessor paid for the Colston statue and a man who dumped it in the harbour
09 Jul 2021,·28 mins
#BlackLivesMatter
The hashstag that galvanised a protest movement on a scale not seen since the 1960s.
18 Dec 2015,·12 mins
Towards Healthier Societies
How do we measure the health of a society? And how can we improve it?
06 Jul 2000,·24 mins
Eva Joly
The judge talks about her seven-year-long investigation into a multi-billion euro fraud.
19 Aug 2014,·28 mins
X-Rays
The oldest surviving X-ray equipment was made in 1896 by Dr John Reynolds
13 Aug 1998,·13 mins
Episode 5
The story of what happens when the death of a child miraculously allows others to live.
10 Jun 2016,·15 mins
The Inca Civilisation
A look at the water supply systems of the Inca and ancient Sri Lankan civilisations
17 May 2003,·13 mins
