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Autumn - Roosting Again
The summer's scattering of rooks is over and their communal urges bring them together.
24 May 2008,·15 mins
16/12/2008
Philippa Forrester and Brett Westwood present the series following the movement of animals
16 Dec 2008,·30 mins
Conductor Charles Hazlewood and Dr Brian May of Queen celebrate the Doppler effect.
15 Aug 2017,·30 mins
Peter Lane Taylor
Peter Lane Taylor is an explorer, photographer, author, and documentary film producer
14 Dec 2000,·13 mins
Malaria in Malawi
As existing malaria medicines lose efficacy, what - if anything - is in development?
26 Jan 2000,·28 mins
Tom Chivers asks what football's search for truth tells us about uncertainty in our lives.
12 Jun 2020,·28 mins
Vanishing Tunes
Why have World Service signature tunes disappeared?
17 Dec 1999,·13 mins
Ehsan Masood explores whether science is becoming politicised on controversial issues.
06 Aug 2013,·38 mins
The most recent knowledge of what the land around Britain was like before the Ice Age.
27 Jan 2009,·30 mins
Episode 3
New Series. 3/3. Chris Bowlby recounts the history of the satellite revolution.
07 Dec 2006,·30 mins
The Earth and the Irascible Ape
Gabrielle Walker discovers how the Earth has warmed before and how that affected the world
01 Jan 2007,·30 mins
The Dome
'The focal point of so many great buildings around the world'
25 Aug 1999,·28 mins
Controlling Pain
How does the brain control pain? Professor of neuroimaging, Irene Tracey investigates.
23 Aug 2017,·28 mins
Story of the film pioneer making natural history films in his back garden.
30 Apr 2009,·30 mins
Humpback Whale Migration
First broadcast in 2001. The whales travel from the Atlantic to Caribbean breeding waters
14 Mar 2001,·13 mins
Power and Prejudice
From middle to old age - from power and prejudice to the age of reminiscence
21 May 1998,·26 mins
Adam Fowler investigates an extraordinary scientific experiment in Siberia.
02 Jul 2007,·30 mins
If trophy hunting is banned in Africa, would lions be more or less at risk?
01 Sep 2015,·38 mins
Privacy on the Internet
You leave behind a trail of information companies can collect and exploit
19 May 1999,·13 mins
In the Solar System's outer darkness, Neptune had its first 'official' birthday in 2011.
11 Jul 2011,·30 mins
Ethiopia and Kenya
Villagers and herdsmen with different water problems highlight global concerns
12 May 2003,·22 mins
Bird Song
A look at bird song, 'the most complicated sound in the animal world'.
19 Nov 1998,·13 mins
Food Technology
First broadcast in 1998. The technology at the cutting edge of the food industry
17 Jul 1998,·13 mins
Professional tree climber James Aldred climbs one of Britain's tallest trees.
17 Jun 2009,·30 mins
The writer Tom Dyckhoff looks at the life and work of Richard Buckminster Fuller.
01 Mar 2013,·28 mins
Stephen Fry takes a look at the history of daylight saving time.
28 Mar 2015,·25 mins
Howard Stableford investigates whether advances in 3D printing can benefit nature.
07 Apr 2015,·28 mins
Sue Broom cracks the code of the cryptic names that are given to genes by scientists.
12 Aug 2009,·30 mins
Episode 2
The transition from fossil fuels to renewables and its geopolitical consequences
12 Jan 2020,·28 mins
Documentary looking at the concept of growing plants in space and even on spacecraft.
04 Sep 2007,·30 mins
