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Omnibus 2
Gretchen Gerzina explores the lives of black people in Britain during a time of slavery.
14 Oct 2016,·58 mins
Series 1
Attack of the Zombie Baby Monitors
Can we control the dark side of the internet?
30 Aug 2017,·28 mins
This is... Arctic Monkeys: Believe the Hype
A snapshot of the band in the eye of the storm, poised to change everything.
10 Jan 2023,·2 mins
Lionel Shriver
Lionel Shriver discusses how she will write about a new America under President Trump.
21 Jan 2017,·15 mins
Smugglers Profit as War Rages
Sue Mitchell and Rob Lawrie investigate how smugglers hope to profit from war in Ukraine.
01 Apr 2022,·28 mins
Episode 3
How can we stop over-tourism and protect the planet from its impact on the environment?
03 Jun 2024,·42 mins
Series 4
1979-2021
Clarke Peters concludes his stories of black music from the late 1970s to the present day.
25 Aug 2021,·28 mins
Episode 4
Tarek Osman examines the build up to the Arab Spring, as two worlds collide.
31 Dec 2013,·43 mins
Episode 5: Reverberations
An examination of the fallout from Britain's atomic testing programme, which began in 1952
11 Nov 2022,·28 mins
Episode 2
Fashion historian Amber Butchart discovers what happens to the clothes we give to charity.
11 May 2017,·30 mins
10. Justice
Abraham’s family and friends keep searching for justice.
16 Dec 2022,·26 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
Week 4 Omnibus
Neil MacGregor tours Britain's museums to explore how the past tells us who we want to be.
22 Apr 2022,·57 mins
From Tora Bora to Abbottabad
Gordon Corera on the search for the world's most wanted terrorist.
22 Jul 2011,·30 mins
New Beginnings
Aged 19, Jacob Dunne was convicted of manslaughter for killing a man with a single punch.
24 Jul 2020,·14 mins
5. The £10 Billion Fridge
Dan Neidle unpacks the bizarre, brilliant and unexpected ways tax shapes our world.
04 Apr 2025,·14 mins
Comedian and Russophile Viv Groskop explores a century of revolutionary comedy.
10 Oct 2017,·30 mins
5. Ash dieback fungus
How do we protect our native wildlife from invisible invaders like the ash-dieback fungus.
02 Sep 2016,·15 mins
The Trauma Victims and their Blood
Martha Milete’s life changes one night in 2006 when two masked men break into her house.
15 Sep 2024,·28 mins
Cohesion
Baroness Casey looks at some of the challenges facing whoever wins the general election.
05 Jan 2024,·28 mins
Omnibus Episode 2
Anthropologist David Graeber explores the ways debt has shaped society over 5,000 years.
05 Aug 2016,·58 mins
Beyond the Vermilion Border
By Patricia Reynolds. Dental student Joe embarks on a virtual journey into the mouth.
29 Jun 2012,·14 mins
The Saudi Arabian Spring
Tarek Osman considers how the impact of the 2011 Arab uprisings was felt in Saudi Arabia.
16 Mar 2015,·28 mins
Poet laureate Simon Armitage's last days in the Arctic in search of facts and new poems.
31 Oct 2023,·28 mins
The Water Wars?
Last in the series; how a worldwide water shortage could bring about conflict
19 Jun 2001,·13 mins
Fitness in Old Age
First broadcast in 2000. How to stay fit in old age
16 Oct 2000,·13 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
Professor Steve Jones challenges the controversial science of evolutionary psychology.
09 Nov 2009,·30 mins
What you’re not being told
How privacy law stops journalists telling you everything they know
12 Jan 2024,·14 mins
Hedy Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr: 8. Hedy’s Legacy
After her tumultuous life, will Hedy finally be recognised as an inventor?
28 Aug 2025,·27 mins
