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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
Episode 5 - Earth
Exploring how interacting with the natural elements can improve mental wellbeing
01 Aug 2023,·14 mins
Episode 3: Hope
Finding hope in the fight against county lines.
09 Dec 2024,·42 mins
Memory
Examination into the condition of Alzheimer's disease
15 May 2000,·24 mins
Episode 2
Day three, the halfway point of the walk, but the worst is yet to come.
21 Nov 2011,·30 mins
Series 1
From the Fabians to Tony Benn
Anne McElvoy traces the influence of Beatrice and Sidney Webb on British socialism.
02 Mar 2018,·58 mins
Ep 6: Afterlife
The last in the series in which Ian Hislop and Helen Lewis celebrate Orwell and Kafka.
09 Jun 2024,·28 mins
Sixties and Beyond
Louise Cooper examines the financial dilemmas faced by retirees today.
24 Aug 2016,·28 mins
Apartheid: From Bitter Almonds to the Rainbow Nation
Allan Little examines how apartheid was forged and then dismantled in South Africa.
07 Jun 2019,·14 mins
Inside Israel 1948
The family roots of friends Eden Raviv and Ibrahim Abu Ahmad cross the divides of history.
04 Dec 2023,·28 mins
Omnibus
Presenters Andrew and Richard look back over their four-year odyssey to find the yeti.
14 Dec 2023,·57 mins
10. Legacy
Have new generations of Iraqis got the freedom they were promised?
24 Mar 2023,·19 mins
The Super-Agers
Are you really as young – or old – as you feel?
18 Jul 2022,·14 mins
Pausing the Menopause
Lara Lewington explores the science of pushing back, pausing, or stopping the menopause.
18 Nov 2024,·28 mins
Sir David Attenborough examines new evidence on a controversial theory of human origins.
15 Sep 2016,·42 mins
Series 8
The buy button
How advertisers are trying to use neuroscientific techniques to hack our brains.
05 Apr 2021,·28 mins
Life after Life
First broadcast in 1999. Do you believe in life after death?
15 Jun 1999,·12 mins
Sloth
Becky Ripley and Sophie Ward delve into the psychology of the seven sins. Last up: sloth.
02 Jan 2024,·28 mins
Omnibus 2
Remembering the early years of the AIDS crisis, through the stories of people who lived it
19 Jun 2020,·57 mins
Episode 3: The Politics
What are the politics behind tax policy?
03 Nov 2025,·42 mins
28/07/2017
The story of the 1993 Waco siege and the lasting impact on those who survived.
28 Jul 2017,·15 mins
Series 2
Episode 5
Roger's last museum holds a jade cabbage he has longed to see since he was a young man.
11 Jul 2014,·14 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 3
Death Unexplained
Why is a sudden, yet not unexpected, death of someone old or ill, referred to a coroner?
23 Jan 2019,·43 mins
Dam protests in Namibia
Dispute in Namibia over a proposal to dam the Kunene River to generate hydroelectricity
29 Jun 2003,·23 mins
Being right
Why getting it right might mean admitting you're wrong.
03 Feb 2022,·28 mins
Dorothy becomes the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1964.
10 Oct 2014,·15 mins
Capgras: the 'Illusion of Doubles'
Clincial psychologist Daniel Freeman explores cases of delusion.
23 Aug 2019,·57 mins
Eva Joly
The judge talks about her seven-year-long investigation into a multi-billion euro fraud.
19 Aug 2014,·28 mins
Rugby's Great Split
Clare Balding tells a story of lies, expulsions and bigotry when rugby split in two.
13 Feb 2014,·15 mins
