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30/03/2022
Claudia Hammond asks 'Can bosses be kind?'
30 Mar 2022,·28 mins
Crossing Borders
Anita Anand tracks an unfolding story of three brothers being hunted by the Taliban.
31 Dec 2021,·14 mins
4. The Dark Side
Lemn examines where he let himself do the wrong thing, and how he has tried to make amends
24 Oct 2016,·30 mins
City Streets
This week Sketches speaks to three people whose art relates to their city.
01 Aug 2022,·28 mins
Episode 5
James Burke joins the dots on his 'Web of Knowledge'
25 Jan 2019,·14 mins
Virginia Lapalco
Virginia Lapalco founder of Pasta. A business supplying fresh pasta to shops
27 Aug 1998,·13 mins
Clashing of Faith
How can the world's Christians achieve more harmony and less discord?
20 Dec 1999,·28 mins
Japan - The Ruins of the Future
How Japan's economic boom in the 70s/80s has not born fruit for all its inhabitants
31 May 2002,·28 mins
Synaesthesia: when senses merge
Synaesthesia: We meet the man whose sister tastes of blackcurrant yoghurt
13 Jan 2021,·1 min
Bretton Woods, the World Bank and the IMF
Everything that makes the global economy tick has its roots at this 1944 conference
16 Sep 2005,·26 mins
Episode 2
The transition from fossil fuels to renewables and its geopolitical consequences
12 Jan 2020,·28 mins
Justice
Tom Fletcher examines how democracies can offer better opportunities than autocracies.
31 Mar 2023,·28 mins
The team launch the Herschel telescope, the biggest telescope ever sent to space.
25 Nov 2009,·30 mins
Humpback Whale Migration
First broadcast in 2001. The whales travel from the Atlantic to Caribbean breeding waters
14 Mar 2001,·13 mins
Series 2
Transition to Adulthood
Fi Glover discovers how the transition to adulthood has changed since the 1960s.
23 Jan 2013,·43 mins
Part Three
Change brings opportunities and challenges to the continent
06 Mar 2003,·28 mins
Paolo Uccello - The Hunt in the Forest
Dr Janina Ramirez visits the Ashmolean to decode Paolo Uccello's 15th-century masterpiece.
20 Aug 2015,·28 mins
How gambling interests bought a country
How a small island in the Caribbean became a haven for unregulated online gambling
07 Aug 2019,·28 mins
Germline Gene Therapy
Would you like to remove disease in your descendants?
05 Dec 2001,·13 mins
The Shift
Martin Wolf of the FT examines how global economics needs to adapt in an uncertain world.
21 Nov 2011,·30 mins
Episode 3
The struggles and obstacles as the government tries to roll out its bold reforms.
22 Jan 2012,·30 mins
As Obama's campaign to win a 2nd term ramps up Gary Younge assesses his performance so far
23 Oct 2011,·30 mins
Michael Rosen visits the biggest public lending library in Britain.
11 Sep 2013,·28 mins
Change Must Come
You want to hear a few seconds after the Big Bang? You have to make some sacrifices.
22 May 2015,·12 mins
What Next for the Big Banks?
Michael Robinson assesses what the future holds in the wake of the rate-fixing scandal.
25 Aug 2012,·30 mins
Michael Portillo examines the past and future of democracy over 2,500 years.
25 May 2010,·45 mins
South Africa
Agony aunt Irma Kurtz talks to her South African counterpart, Criselda Kananda.
11 Aug 2014,·15 mins
British Conservatism: The Grand Tour - Omnibus
Week 2 Omnibus
Anne McElvoy traces British conservatism from the Edwardian era to the permissive society.
13 Sep 2013,·58 mins
Series 1
Naked
Noma Dumezweni narrates the third episode of her series about risk and creativity.
01 Nov 2017,·42 mins
Democracy Tomorrow
David Runciman explores democracy: is it still fit for purpose in today's UK?
14 Jun 2019,·28 mins
