Documentaries

Fifty-Fifty Vision
How has our rapidly changing world altered blind and partially sighted people's lives?
28 Jul 2024,28 mins
A Walk on the Supply Side
Duncan Weldon explores the past, present and uncertain future of supply-side economics.
01 Nov 2022,28 mins
City Exchange
The City - has it changed its spots since the financial crash of 2008?
06 Aug 2017,30 mins
Love Henry James: The Master
Witty, wise and the best women in literature. Why don't more of us read Henry James?
27 Jul 2017,30 mins
The Ladies' Man of Opera
The surprising and touching story of how Richard Strauss' marriage inspired his music.
21 Apr 2011,30 mins
Investigating Russia's War Crimes
What does it take to investigate war crimes in Ukraine?
19 Feb 2024,28 mins
Faith on the Move
A journey with the chaplains who support travellers on Britain’s rail network.
20 Mar 2020,28 mins
Vessels of Memory: Glass Ships of Sunderland
Now an endangered craft, discover the lost legacy of Sunderland’s glass ships in bottles.
23 Jun 2024,28 mins
American Socialist
Jill Lepore explores the life of Eugene V. Debs and the legacy of his socialist politics.
18 Aug 2024,28 mins
Living and Light
Illuminating new science on artificial light and our health.
21 Dec 2025,28 mins
Europe Moves East
Allan Little looks at the changing dynamic of the European Union, as power heads east.
18 Dec 2012,38 mins
Gegs (9,4)* - A Cryptic History
James Peak embarks on an odyssey to discover the history of the cryptic crossword.
07 Apr 2024,28 mins
What Is Quantum?
Marnie Chesterton travels to the birthplace of quantum theory armed with just one question
01 Jan 2026,28 mins
Four Nations Four Schools
Laura McInerney looks at education in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
29 Nov 2022,37 mins
Serendipity
Derry Boys
The story of two Derry boys and a 50-year-old friendship which defied the odds.
03 Apr 2023,28 mins
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The Body Politic
Assisted dying
Sonia Sodha explores thorny ethical questions around the beginning and the end of life.
27 Jan 2025,42 mins
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Xanadu
Daljit Nagra explores the world of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem, Kubla Khan.
16 Oct 2022,28 mins
James Wong's Alternative Country Garden
Garden designer James Wong asks if British gardening is stuck in the past.
16 Sep 2016,30 mins
Angels In the North
Gabrielle Drake looks at regional theatre through the story of Manchester's Royal Exchange
01 Nov 2011,30 mins
The Invisible Man of Britain's Far Right
An investigation into Jim Dowson, the front man for Knights Templar International.
01 May 2018,38 mins
The Miners' Strike: Return Journey
Grimethorpe
Back to work - the miner and the Coal Board manager.
27 Feb 2024,14 mins
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Guns and Coders
Al Letson explores how new high-tech safer guns are being opposed across America.
17 Jul 2017,28 mins
Can My Eleven Year Old Fix My Life?
Can 11-year-old Arthur bring some positive thinking into his dad’s life?
07 May 2019,28 mins
Captured By Pirates
Schoolgirls captured by pirates in 1935, then interned in the war, tell their stories.
22 Mar 2010,30 mins
The Hunt for the Gay Whale
Can animals be gay? Hermione Cockburn investigates the biologists who say they can.
26 Jun 2012,28 mins
The New Silk Road with Roger Law
Roger Law visits Yi Wu in China, fast becoming the biggest marketplace in the world.
29 Jul 2011,28 mins
Ukraine: War and Words
An exploration of how the war in Ukraine is affecting the production of writing and books.
10 Nov 2022,28 mins
The Trouble with Kane
Episode 2
Therapist Amanda Singh continues her work with a twelve year cannabis user and his family.
21 May 2012,28 mins
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Art and Resistance in Taiwan
A journey into the Taipei underground art scene.
28 Mar 2023,28 mins
The Music Is Black: Roots & Rhythms in NI
A special extended edition presented by Gemma Bradley.
10 Oct 2026,60 mins