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Sanctuary: An Act of Defiance
Episode Six
Karen plots Viraj’s escape from Sri Lanka as a new posting is troubling for Father John.
30 Sep 2025,·29 mins
6. The Microdoctrine
Final episode of the LSD saga about an attempt to spark a revolution of the mind.
23 Nov 2022,·25 mins
6. The Last Cry of the Whale
Scientists and ground workers attempt to unearth the delicate Fin whale skull.
18 Nov 2025,·25 mins
5. An Honourable History
The Bolton 7 take their fight for justice to one of the highest arenas of law.
25 Feb 2025,·41 mins
6. Take Back the City
While peace transforms the country, the twists continue in the story.
24 Apr 2023,·28 mins
7. Finally
The wait is almost over: GTA6 is coming.
15 Nov 2022,·34 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
A Wonderful Catastrophe
How can we cope with the challenges of digital communication?
12 Jul 2024,·14 mins
Katrice Lee: A Father’s Story
4. Living in Hope
Richard Lee shares the reality of everyday life and key milestones that have been marked.
27 May 2025,·17 mins
Mad for Oasis
10. Some Might Say I Do
Robyn's Oasis inspired wedding photo end up being seen around the world.
22 Aug 2025,·8 mins
8. Spies, Lies and a Political Prize
Dara Ó Briain and Isy Suttie unravel a strange-but-true tale, with guest Chris Chung.
22 Feb 2025,·28 mins
8. Shredded
Hoover’s death starts a race to control his secret files. But his power continues.
23 Jun 2022,·14 mins
Saigon, 1965
In the 1960s the Pentagon set up a research project in an old villa in downtown Saigon.
06 Sep 2024,·41 mins
Episode 5
Status. We don’t like to talk about it. Carl Honoré brings it out into the open.
02 Aug 2024,·14 mins
9. Hannah Ingram-Moore in conversation
Captain Tom’s daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore answers our questions.
07 Mar 2025,·25 mins
Bonus: The Women on the Scene with Audrey Flack
Audrey Flack shares her firsthand accounts of the New York art scene in the 20th Century.
26 Nov 2024,·16 mins
5. Ritual Revival - a bonus episode
A bird ritual is being revived on the Welsh-English border.
25 Feb 2025,·23 mins
6. Arson Attacks and Dawn Raids
The story of the drowning of a village to provide water for an English city.
12 Apr 2023,·49 mins
Cheap British Beer
The story of money and humanity reaches a run on the punt and the rise of M-PESA.
15 Nov 2024,·14 mins
8. Born this Way
Sam Smith explores the experiences of young people who were born with HIV.
19 Aug 2022,·37 mins
10. No Frills Air Travel
Robert Carlyle takes us back to moments we missed in the 90s that shaped the world today.
13 May 2022,·14 mins
1. It's Seun Not Sean!
What can history teach us about the UK’s largest Black African group today?
21 Feb 2024,·35 mins
5. Nadar - The Psychological Side of Photography
Nadar, the photographer adept at capturing his subjects' inner worlds in the 19th century.
01 Aug 2025,·14 mins
Chapter 4: After Empire
Once Upon a Time in Kampala
A Ugandan cab driver forms an unlikely bond with a sex worker during the covid lockdown.
22 Dec 2023,·26 mins
Facing The Music
Joseph Haydn: Letting Go of Loneliness
David Suchet plunges into Haydn’s isolation and how it was shattered in war-torn Vienna.
17 Feb 2025,·29 mins
Classical: Re-writing the Score
Exploring Black British classical music, from Samuel Coleridge-Taylor to Chi Chi Nwanoku.
25 Feb 2025,·35 mins
Surviving the strike
Hard-working families faced new poverty in confusing times for the community.
02 Mar 2024,·18 mins
Requiem for an Illusion
Michael meets his fate at the hands of the Trinidadian court and Britain’s Privy Council.
14 Oct 2022,·49 mins
10. Legacy
'Some of the mindset from the past is gone. It's smaller - my family comes first.'
15 Mar 2024,·15 mins
Omnibus 2
Gus Casely-Hayford, director of V&A East, tells a human-centred history of fashion.
02 Sep 2022,·57 mins
