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Year's End
It's the end of Max Cotton's year of food self-sufficiency in Somerset.
26 Apr 2024,·14 mins
Omnibus
Streets in the Sky
Lynsey Hanley explores the history of social housing from 1945 to the present day.
20 Oct 2017,·58 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
Episode 2
An intimate conversation between two brothers about living with Motor Neurone Disease.
28 Nov 2023,·28 mins
Becoming Invisible
Writer Philip Ball meets the physicists who are making real life invisibility cloaks.
10 Jun 2016,·12 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
Alien Persons
Christine Nicol explores the meaty problem of eating aliens. What if they are like people?
30 Dec 2015,·28 mins
The Long Road to Peace
The final episode of Fergal Keane's exploration of the Irish influence on Britain.
25 Jan 2021,·28 mins
The pursuit of excellence
Martin Green looks at why brass bands are so good.
17 Mar 2022,·28 mins
Death by DNA
Could a rogue scientist or a terrorist assemble a lethal pathogen from mail order genes?
07 Dec 2020,·28 mins
Modern Teenagers
How teenagers have developed, including interviews with a large number of adolescents
19 Nov 1994,·29 mins
It wasn’t easy to build the Bullring
Can Birmingham rise from the challenges of the pandemic?
19 Apr 2021,·10 mins
Timing Systems in Sport
Sporting events are timed to hundredths of a second
11 Sep 2000,·13 mins
Omnibus: Part 2
Lenny Henry on 100 years of black British theatre and screen.
20 Nov 2015,·58 mins
Our Interconnected Planet
Tim Hayward examines the earth’s past, present and future through microbial goggles.
01 Oct 2023,·28 mins
Abortion
James Naughtie examines the backdrop to this year's United States presidential election.
29 Sep 2024,·28 mins
28/07/2017
The story of the 1993 Waco siege and the lasting impact on those who survived.
28 Jul 2017,·15 mins
5. Power Plays
AI is incredibly thirsty for energy, which is fuelling a renewables revolution in China.
20 Mar 2026,·14 mins
Old Friends, New Friends.
Nick Robinson considers our place in the world in the run up to the G7 summit in Cornwall.
11 Jun 2021,·14 mins
Change Must Come
You want to hear a few seconds after the Big Bang? You have to make some sacrifices.
22 May 2015,·12 mins
Anne Askew
Tudor housewife Anne Askew's conversion to Protestantism tore her family apart.
13 Aug 2008,·30 mins
1990 to the Present Day
Miranda Sawyer explores if, in the age of cheap flights, interrailing is still popular.
20 Aug 2011,·30 mins
Human Cultural Evolution Versus Genetic Evolution
The effect of globalisation and a greater choice of partners on human genetic evolution.
23 Aug 2011,·30 mins
Humpback Whale Migration
First broadcast in 2001. The whales travel from the Atlantic to Caribbean breeding waters
14 Mar 2001,·13 mins
Synaesthesia: when senses merge
Synaesthesia: We meet the man whose sister tastes of blackcurrant yoghurt
13 Jan 2021,·1 min
A Disabled Identity
Peter White reveals the roots of a modern disabled identity in the 19th century.
07 Jun 2013,·14 mins
West
Author Jerry Brotton explores the story of the four cardinal directions.
17 May 2022,·14 mins
Acts of Union and Disunion: Omnibus
Episode 3
Linda explores Britain's relationships with North America, Europe and expatriate Britons.
24 Jan 2014,·58 mins
What's the Future for Privatisation?
How privatising nations must find new ways of delivering essential services
09 Jan 2005,·22 mins
Professor Devi Sridhar investigates the impact of Covid on the practice of science.
22 Jul 2022,·28 mins
