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Episode 3
John Harris considers the potent role of narrative in our public and private lives.
03 Sep 2018,·28 mins
Series 1
Mark Lawson considers how the increasing power of the audience is affecting storytellers.
28 Dec 2017,·30 mins
Otto Hahn's Nuclear Power
First broadcast in 2000. Nuclear fission and the foundation for nuclear power
21 Jun 2000,·13 mins
Part 4 - Reconciliation
Life in South Africa ten years after the end of apartheid
03 May 2004,·22 mins
Cleethorpes to Coventry
Is England's North/South divide shifting?
21 Mar 2012,·30 mins
Juno Dawson on 'Snowflake'
Michael Rosen examines words and phrases in public debate to see how they influence us.
26 Oct 2018,·14 mins
Adair Turner
Robert Peston talks to Adair Turner, Chairman of the Financial Services Authority.
07 Sep 2009,·30 mins
The Spider Orchestra
The art of Tomás Saraceno who makes sculptures and music with spiders and their webs
26 Nov 2018,·28 mins
Could AI Eat YouTube?
YouTube changed the world with human stories. But is AI now threatening that impact?
25 Apr 2025,·14 mins
Timing Systems in Sport
Sporting events are timed to hundredths of a second
11 Sep 2000,·13 mins
Pussy Riot
Vanora Bennett's final Babushka doll is a member of activist group Pussy Riot.
13 Oct 2017,·15 mins
Mumbai
Hardeep tests his talents at the Mumbai Comedy Store.
07 Oct 2011,·30 mins
Optimised Living
Oliver Burkeman explores the insidious way in which convenience has warped our existence.
02 Jun 2023,·14 mins
Episode 2
As Obama's campaign to win a 2nd term ramps up Gary Younge assesses his performance so far
23 Oct 2011,·30 mins
Assessing the Damage
What damage did the American coalition left behind?
17 May 2006,·22 mins
Aasmah Mir visits what new research suggests is the least affluent place in the UK.
22 Jul 2013,·28 mins
Episode 3: Hospice
Documenting the round-the-clock care of Nora, a non-verbal seven-year-old.
16 Sep 2024,·42 mins
Zimbabwe
The effects of climate change and the increase of malaria parasite in Zimbabwe
25 Mar 1999,·28 mins
The Boy Whose Hand Had a Mind of Its Own
Neuropsychologist Dr Paul Broks considers anarchic limbs and split brains.
24 Jun 2016,·11 mins
Frozen Music
Andrew McGibbon explores the sounds of ice in the North Pole and the composers who use it.
16 Jul 2019,·28 mins
Louiza and Angeliki
Archers actor Louiza Patikas chooses fellow thespian Angeliki Papoulia as her pen pal.
29 Dec 2017,·15 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
A Health-Creating Society
Former NHS chief executive Nigel Crisp sets out his vision for a health-creating society.
03 Apr 2015,·15 mins
5. Where Woke Goes to Die
Matthew Syed traces the evolution of a term that's synonymous with our era of angry debate
24 Feb 2023,·14 mins
Our House: 2009
How might a young couple, unable to buy their first home today, have fared in 2009?
30 Aug 2019,·14 mins
23/12/2022
Oliver Burkeman argues we need to pay less, not more, attention to the news.
23 Dec 2022,·14 mins
Omnibus
Will Self goes on a 1,000-mile tour of the UK, travelling only by bus and coach.
09 Feb 2018,·60 mins
Nigeria – under new management?
Can the effects of Nigeria's oil wealth be turned around by a new generation?
31 Oct 2004,·22 mins
Neighbourhood Crime
On a spring day in May 1972 Alabama governor George Wallace was shot in Maryland
01 May 2006,·22 mins
Man-eating Tiger
Ben Garrod on how a man-eating tiger provides new evidence about human evolution.
18 Aug 2017,·15 mins
