Documentaries

A Day In Court
The theatre of justice: how Crown Courts work
17 May 1993,42 mins
Music of the Forest
Horatio Clare tells the story of the unconventional anthropologist Colin Turnbull.
26 Aug 2014,30 mins
Throwing Out Nehru
Dr Zareer Masani asks if India is rejecting the legacy of its founding father, Nehru.
15 Aug 2017,38 mins
Perfect Pitch (From Choir Stalls to Cricket Balls)
Eleanor Oldroyd explores the unlikely connections between cricket and choral music.
15 Aug 2022,28 mins
O Say Can You See?
Erica Wagner explores America's relationship with its national anthem, an ode to its flag.
01 Jul 2014,30 mins
Virtual Stars
Hardeep Singh Kohli discovers and explores the world of internet personalities.
22 Dec 2014,30 mins
Portugal’s Carnation Revolution
Jon Snow on Portugal's 1974 Revolution
21 Apr 2024,28 mins
Standing Up to the Sharing Economy
Mary Ann Sieghart on how hotel, music and car companies are fighting off the competition.
09 Sep 2016,28 mins
Europeans - The Roots of Identity
Amsterdam
How a place bound to the sea and the globe developed its idea of Europe.
24 May 2016,28 mins
More episodes
Dr Seuss and the Butter Battles
The surprising political legacy of the much-loved children's author, Dr Seuss.
21 Jun 2011,30 mins
How A Volcano Shaped The World
How a natural disaster helped shape the modern world
11 May 2000,24 mins
What Would Bagehot Say?
What does Bagehot's The English Constitution mean today? Adrian Wooldridge investigates.
19 Dec 2017,38 mins
Pausing Puberty
How safe are the drugs used to delay puberty in transgender children?
29 Jan 2019,28 mins
Great Fire 350
Behind the scenes of London's Burning, a spectacle marking 350 years since the Great Fire.
03 Sep 2016,30 mins
Poison in the Womb
Kerry Hudson explores the effects of a drug activists are calling the 'silent thalidomide'
10 Mar 2023,28 mins
Mind the Gender Pay Gap
Emma Griffin takes a historical look at the gender pay gap.
12 Mar 2018,28 mins
Inside the Ebola Lock-Down
Tim Mansel on Sierra Leone's 5.8m asked to stay home for 72 hours in a bid to stem Ebola.
29 Sep 2014,28 mins
Shoplifting
Exploring the changing nature of stealing from shops
01 Mar 1984,28 mins
The Barbershop
Stephen Smith reports from inside the High Street 'freemasonry' of the barber's.
08 Aug 2011,28 mins
The Music That Melted
Under a full moon and the Northern Lights, Richard Coles hears the Ice Music of Norway.
08 Feb 2011,30 mins
Redeeming Ricky
Ex-offender Ricky has a deeply troubled past. And now he's set to help others like him.
02 Oct 2023,28 mins
The Hidden History of the Attic
Rachel Hurdley discovers a part of the home full of memory, mystery and possession.
23 Apr 2023,28 mins
Fence Me In
Adam Fowler tests how the acoustics of different spaces affect the creativity of artists.
04 Aug 2019,28 mins
Mind Reading
Gaia Vince explores how scientists are trying to read others' minds..
17 Aug 2016,28 mins
Repainting Giverny
Irma Kurtz travels to Monet's Giverny garden to hear how losing his sight changed his work
27 Sep 2011,30 mins
Hack My Hearing
Frank Swain, aged 32, is losing his hearing. But could he create a new super sense?
06 Jan 2014,28 mins
Music in the Shadow of Ground Zero
The story of two New York churches that survived 9/11 and are now healing the community.
08 Sep 2015,30 mins
Beating the Detector
Anjana Ahuja examines the use of polygraphs, or lie detectors, on sex offenders.
31 Mar 2015,28 mins
Andy Warhol: Time Regained
Lenny Henry unveils the mysterious contents of Andy Warhol's Time Capsules.
11 Sep 2014,28 mins
The Business of Genetic Ancestry
Adam Rutherford investigates what a DNA test can and cannot tell us about our ancestry.
26 May 2015,28 mins