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18. Now What?
Nick Wallis continues his investigation of the Post Office scandal.
11 Feb 2025,·42 mins
AL Kennedy goes in search of epiphanies - a revelation, the 'aha' instant, a eureka moment
09 Apr 2018,·28 mins
Episode 2
Roger Bolton reassesses one of the world's great archaeological discoveries.
24 Jul 2007,·60 mins
Peak Danger
8. Only The Mountain Knows
In the long, dark shadow of K2, the surviving climbers try to rebuild their lives.
20 Jan 2025,·30 mins
1914: Day by Day - Omnibus
Episode 6
Margaret Macmillan tells the story of the events leading up to the First World War.
10 Aug 2014,·28 mins
Mozart's Last Symphony
Can we really recreate authentic period music?
08 Jan 1992,·13 mins
A Further Five Numbers
1729 - The first taxicab number
1729 is the smallest number you can write as the sum of two cubes, in two different ways.
20 Sep 2005,·14 mins
Frederick Kelly
The story of Frederick 'Clegg' Kelly, Olympic rowing champion and First World War hero.
10 Aug 2014,·60 mins
5. Food for Thought
A series exploring the weight loss drug revolution. Presented by Prof Giles Yeo.
13 Feb 2026,·14 mins
6. Moral Courage
Diane Foley must decide whether to face a man linked to her son’s murder - or not.
10 Feb 2026,·31 mins
The Road to Nineteen Eighty-Four
What led avowed socialist George Orwell to write a novel that is beloved of the Right?
09 Feb 2013,·58 mins
Series 2
Useless Men Jokes
Ian Hislop returns to unearth the oldest examples of five varieties of British joke.
05 Sep 2025,·14 mins
Newgenics
Could powerful genetic technologies usher in a new eugenic era?
27 Dec 2022,·28 mins
No Place Like Home
Vicky Spratt explores how the UK's housing crisis unfolded and asks if we can fix it.
22 Dec 2025,·42 mins
The Boy in the Woods: The Discussion
Winifred Robinson investigates how vulnerable children are dealt with.
17 Oct 2022,·27 mins
2. From System to Method
Michael Sheen explores the strange art of acting.
21 May 2024,·30 mins
Omnibus (2/2)
Lucy Worsley reveals Victoria's rule via significant encounters.
17 May 2019,·57 mins
New Enemies
Exploring the role of MI6 in the 21st century.
10 Aug 2009,·30 mins
Life Without North America
What would happen to the world if the USA disappears?
17 Apr 2026,·14 mins
The Super-Agers
Are you really as young – or old – as you feel?
18 Jul 2022,·14 mins
The End
Robin Ince on Writing the End of the Universe – if indeed it does end.
24 Jun 2024,·42 mins
5. The £10 Billion Fridge
Dan Neidle unpacks the bizarre, brilliant and unexpected ways tax shapes our world.
04 Apr 2025,·14 mins
Nicolas Bourbaki
Professor Marcus du Sautoy argues that mathematics drives science.
25 Jun 2010,·15 mins
What are Blitz courts?
So-called "blitz" hearings are expanding across England and Wales - but what are they?
17 Jun 2026,·27 mins
10. Did You Hear That?
Kirsty Logan explores the modern quest to capture a ghost in a machine.
30 Oct 2020,·14 mins
Omnibus: Episodes 6-10
The story of a unique wartime archive of life in the Warsaw Ghetto and its recovery.
05 May 2023,·57 mins
4. Filling the Mind
Education, the chattering classes and the novel in Roman society.
09 Feb 2003,·30 mins
Series 10
Taking the Pissoir?
Why would anyone submit a urinal as a work of art to a gallery, and then lie about it?
23 Sep 2017,·30 mins
Northern Power: Speaking From the North
Melvyn Bragg on 'speaking from the north' and what the future might hold for the north.
09 Sep 2016,·28 mins
8. The Terminator
Musk fears a 'Terminator future', where robots destroy humans. So why is he creating AI?
08 Apr 2025,·28 mins
