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The City - has it changed its spots since the financial crash of 2008?
06 Aug 2017,·30 mins
1. The First Dot
Janet Ellis explores the dot. A simple word for a most significant mark
18 Sep 2017,·14 mins
What would a documentary made by ChatGPT sound like? Lara Lewington explores AI territory.
06 Mar 2023,·28 mins
Jill Lepore explores the life of Eugene V. Debs and the legacy of his socialist politics.
18 Aug 2024,·28 mins
The surprising and touching story of how Richard Strauss' marriage inspired his music.
21 Apr 2011,·30 mins
What does it take to investigate war crimes in Ukraine?
19 Feb 2024,·28 mins
Episode 6: Celebrating Life
Celebrity culture through the lens of Elizabeth Taylor.
18 Oct 2022,·28 mins
Alice Roberts goes in search of the man who taught us how to control our own dreams.
18 Sep 2016,·30 mins
Allan Little looks at the changing dynamic of the European Union, as power heads east.
18 Dec 2012,·38 mins
Poet Casi Wyn travels to Cwrt-Y-Cadno, a Welsh village in the midst of uncertainty.
16 Apr 2023,·28 mins
Meet the creatures with a career path - in niche jobs where only an animal will do.
14 May 2025,·28 mins
Marnie Chesterton travels to the birthplace of quantum theory armed with just one question
01 Jan 2026,·28 mins
Fionola Meredith goes in search of medieval scholar, author and poet Helen Waddell.
19 Jul 2012,·30 mins
Derry Boys
The story of two Derry boys and a 50-year-old friendship which defied the odds.
03 Apr 2023,·28 mins
Aminatta Forna tells the extraordinary story of hard-living writer Jack London.
20 Nov 2014,·30 mins
Duncan Weldon explores the past, present and uncertain future of supply-side economics.
01 Nov 2022,·28 mins
Grimethorpe
Back to work - the miner and the Coal Board manager.
27 Feb 2024,·14 mins
Garden designer James Wong asks if British gardening is stuck in the past.
16 Sep 2016,·30 mins
Author Carlo Gebler shows how rain has saturated Ireland's poetry and shaped his identity.
23 Apr 2023,·28 mins
Gabrielle Drake looks at regional theatre through the story of Manchester's Royal Exchange
01 Nov 2011,·30 mins
Al Letson explores how new high-tech safer guns are being opposed across America.
17 Jul 2017,·28 mins
How has our rapidly changing world altered blind and partially sighted people's lives?
28 Jul 2024,·28 mins
Now an endangered craft, discover the lost legacy of Sunderland’s glass ships in bottles.
23 Jun 2024,·28 mins
Can 11-year-old Arthur bring some positive thinking into his dad’s life?
07 May 2019,·28 mins
Can animals be gay? Hermione Cockburn investigates the biologists who say they can.
26 Jun 2012,·28 mins
Witty, wise and the best women in literature. Why don't more of us read Henry James?
27 Jul 2017,·30 mins
Stories of people fighting to claim their racial identity - and those looking to police it
20 Oct 2024,·28 mins
The UK's debt is in the headlines - Dharshini David tells the story behind national debt.
09 Feb 2025,·28 mins
Keith Wickham hunts for lost BBC radio shows and finds some true classics.
13 Oct 2022,·28 mins
James Naughtie examines the possible outcomes of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
12 Feb 2023,·28 mins
