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A job for the fourth century
Sir Anthony Seldon charts 300 years of the top job in British politics.
16 Apr 2021,·28 mins
When Banksy Comes to Town
5. Deal and No Deal
What happens when Banksy chooses your wall for mischief? Tensions run high for Sam and Rod
11 Apr 2025,·20 mins
Episode 5
One more throw of the dice from the UK, and a new obstacle from America.
18 Feb 2022,·14 mins
Episode 2
Day three, the halfway point of the walk, but the worst is yet to come.
21 Nov 2011,·30 mins
Michael Portillo asks whether free-market capitalism is a broken system.
04 Oct 2011,·45 mins
Sound Sources
Paul McCartney, Jean-Michel Jarre and Lee Renaldo on their debt to classical music.
13 Jul 2025,·42 mins
10. Legacy
Have new generations of Iraqis got the freedom they were promised?
24 Mar 2023,·19 mins
The Human
Katherine Rundell explores wonderful stories of twenty astonishing but endangered animals.
31 Oct 2025,·4 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
Omnibus 4
Portraits of remarkable individuals who have made China what it is today.
25 May 2018,·60 mins
Seamus Heaney - The Translator
Theo Dorgan on Seamus Heaney's translations, their importance and impact on his own work
10 Sep 2023,·28 mins
Now What?
Phil Tinline explores the role of conspiracy, and conspiracy theory, in British politics.
28 May 2023,·28 mins
Series 1
The Power of Shame
Exploring the psychology underlying the greatest marketing campaigns in history.
12 May 2017,·14 mins
Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore
Michael Morpurgo travels to the heart of some of the greatest songs ever composed.
09 Nov 2020,·28 mins
Is it worth it?
With all the problems facing universities, is it still worth getting a degree?
23 Sep 2025,·28 mins
Episode 6
Regimental treasures, mess traditions and loyalty in the British Army. (1989)
11 Dec 1989,·59 mins
Pausing the Menopause
Lara Lewington explores the science of pushing back, pausing, or stopping the menopause.
18 Nov 2024,·28 mins
Episode 1
Visits to the areas from the Shipping Forecast: Lundy, Dogger, Forth, Irish Sea, Wight.
01 Jan 2025,·57 mins
Series 2
12. Why do we play?
Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi asks why do humans play?
07 Mar 2025,·14 mins
5. The Dress Rehearsal
Final preparations for the Royal Opera's new production of Puccini's La Bohème.
22 Sep 2017,·14 mins
Responsibility for the Great War has been a fierce battle for meaning ever since 1914.
04 Feb 2014,·43 mins
Loss and Legacy
David Reynolds explores how France marked the enormous sacrifice of the battle of Verdun.
24 Feb 2016,·28 mins
Methods of Barbarism
How the British came to use concentration camps in the Second Boer War
07 Oct 1999,·29 mins
The Inaccessible Pinnacle Before Breakfast
Robert Macfarlane crosses the iconic Cuillin Ridge on the Isle of Skye
26 Sep 2023,·28 mins
5. GPS
How GPS transformed navigation in the 1991Gulf War.
24 Oct 2014,·15 mins
Edward Stourton presents the partisans' stories of the mass POW breakout in 1943.
06 Sep 2013,·28 mins
From Tora Bora to Abbottabad
Gordon Corera on the search for the world's most wanted terrorist.
22 Jul 2011,·30 mins
Episode 3
Steve Richards looks back on Theresa May's Brexit journey through interviews with insiders
25 Mar 2019,·28 mins
The Tower of Babel
Aleks Krotoski explores how today's digital world is a reverse Tower of Babel.
10 Apr 2015,·15 mins
Coming Out
Simon Callow charts the emergence of a wave of openly queer artists in the 1950s and 60s.
31 Jul 2017,·28 mins
