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Fruit
Did you know your apple and pear trees belong to the rose family?
14 Dec 1998,·8 mins
Programme 4 - Electric Cars
'The writing is on the wall for the damaging internal combustion engine'
30 Nov 2003,·22 mins
The War Without End
Christopher Clark explores the dark legacy of the First World War.
15 Jan 2016,·15 mins
Controlling Pain
How does the brain control pain? Professor of neuroimaging, Irene Tracey investigates.
23 Aug 2017,·28 mins
Letter eight
The strangest US presidential campaign, drained of colour and crowds
22 Aug 2020,·8 mins
Human Cultural Evolution Versus Genetic Evolution
The effect of globalisation and a greater choice of partners on human genetic evolution.
23 Aug 2011,·30 mins
Episode 2
The team launch the Herschel telescope, the biggest telescope ever sent to space.
25 Nov 2009,·30 mins
Episode 6: Celebrating Life
Celebrity culture through the lens of Elizabeth Taylor.
18 Oct 2022,·28 mins
What Goes Around...
Visiting Voltaire's chateau and an abandoned Cern experiment puts Will in a pensive mood.
09 Jan 2015,·15 mins
Headlines show an NHS in crisis. How can those in charge mend the culture?
25 Sep 2013,·28 mins
Egypt
Examining why Egypt is faring less well than the more modern Gulf societies
26 Jul 2006,·22 mins
Lord Snowdon
The royal photographer talks about his career
09 Sep 1991,·13 mins
Business
Living hand to mouth is a common occurrence for someone starting a business
16 Mar 2001,·14 mins
Omnibus: Part 2
Marina Warner explores the world of contemporary storytelling.
21 Aug 2015,·58 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
Daniel
Following 41-year-old academic editor Daniel, who has never had a serious relationship.
12 Feb 2016,·15 mins
Unrepresented
Ben Wright asks whether American electoral democracy needs refreshing.
14 Aug 2020,·28 mins
The Lonely Cyborg
How the old and the young are navigating friendships through new technology today.
11 Apr 2014,·15 mins
Series 1
No More Manifestos
Five-part series exploring the art and politics of the artists' manifesto.
11 Aug 2017,·15 mins
The Mathematicians
Peter Curran meets the mathematicians of the Isaac Newton Institute of Mathematics.
06 Sep 2009,·15 mins
Shaking off Insularity
How did she shake off the insularity that was thrust upon her?
16 Jul 1985,·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
The Future of Slavs
Slavic peoples are rediscovering their identies and languages
29 Jul 1993,·28 mins
Morocco to Guinea
Emily Knight follows Scotland's ospreys on their epic Autumn flight to West Africa.
24 Feb 2023,·57 mins
Episode 3
Matthew Oates follows in the footsteps of writer Edward Thomas.
31 Mar 2013,·15 mins
A Geopolitical Pipeline
How and why the US has dramatically increased its influence in the Caspian region
10 Oct 2003,·22 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
None of the Above
Why are some radical right groups in Europe attracting younger voters?
19 Jan 2024,·14 mins
Life After War in Sarajevo - Part Three
A theatre company based in Bosnia put the feelings of a nation into a play
28 Oct 2005,·22 mins
The New Flesh
Oscar-winner Paul Franklin tells how visual effects changed and how they changed cinema.
20 Jul 2021,·28 mins
