Documentaries

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18 Sep 2023,28 mins
The Forensic Jeweller
A single piece of jewellery can be the key to someone’s lost identity.
05 Feb 2024,28 mins
I See You: Poetry, Porn and Me
Poet Helen Mort reflects on being the object of deepfake pornography.
20 Feb 2022,28 mins
The Mysterious Mr Mercury
Midge Ure goes in search of the real Freddie Mercury.
12 Nov 2011,30 mins
Parkland: One Year On
Dave Cullen tells the story of the Florida school shooting of February 2018.
08 Feb 2019,28 mins
Hidden Treasures: Feature
What's the story behind the Hidden Treasures drama season?
24 Mar 2024,13 mins
The Making of a Chancellor
Laura Kuenssberg explores Rachel Reeves' ideas and her attempt to bring them into practice
24 Mar 2025,28 mins
23 Amazing Reasons This Radio Programme Will Change Your Life
Inside the digital news outlets that are reinventing journalism for the social media age.
09 Dec 2014,38 mins
Concerts Inside
Ex-inmate Carl Cattermole discovers stories about concerts that have taken place in jails
09 May 2019,28 mins
Jobfished
Catrin Nye investigates the glamorous company that faked its own existence.
21 Feb 2022,28 mins
Tales from the Arab Spring
Whose Tomorrow? (Syria)
Jeremy Bowen hears from people who have witnessed the repression in Syria.
21 Dec 2011,30 mins
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Moats, Mortgages and Mayhem
Nick Robinson reflects on the reporting of the MPs' expenses scandal and its repercussions
28 Jun 2009,30 mins
In Search of Southern Hospitality
Comedian Rich Hall investigates the true meaning of American southern hospitality.
03 Apr 2016,30 mins
Karaoke As Art?
Is karaoke now an art form? Katie Puckrik hits the clubs in Portland, Oregon to find out.
15 Jul 2014,30 mins
Night Hospital
Jackie Ashley investigates the standard of hospital care at nights and at weekends.
12 Aug 2013,28 mins
A Picture Held Us Captive
Zia Haider Rahman explores the impact metaphor has on the world around us.
29 Nov 2017,30 mins
Paradise Lost: The Rise and Fall of the Eldonian Dream
Liverpool's Eldonian Village.
06 Dec 2022,37 mins
Guy Garvey: Recording Dad
Guy Garvey spent a decade recording his dad’s stories and now he wants you to do the same.
04 Nov 2018,28 mins
Clipped Wings
After a sexual assault, birder Lucy Lapwing works to renew her love of solitude in nature.
06 Jun 2022,28 mins
The Real Apprentice
Jon Manel investigates the world of the apprentice.
02 May 2011,30 mins
The Rise and Fall of the Meritocracy
Toby Young asks if his father's dark prophesy about meritocracy is becoming a reality.
10 Apr 2017,28 mins
The Conflict: One Year On
One year from the 7 Oct 2023 attack on Israel, BBC correspondents reflect.
06 Oct 2024,28 mins
Do We Still Need the Pips?
After 100 years of GTS on the BBC, Paddy O'Connell asks Do We Still Need the Pips?
05 Feb 2024,28 mins
Hold On Tight: The Women of The Waste Land
Journalist Jude Rogers explores the fascinating women in TS Eliot’s poem The Waste Land.
03 Nov 2022,28 mins
Ukraine - On the Frontline
Drone technology is transforming the battlefield in Ukraine.
11 Aug 2024,28 mins
The Edge of Life
We follow the healthcare authority aiming to reduce lives lost to suicide to 0% by 2020.
22 Aug 2017,38 mins
Indebted: The Story Behind National Debt
The UK's debt is in the headlines - Dharshini David tells the story behind national debt.
09 Feb 2025,28 mins
Change of Art
Artist Andrew Shoben explores a controversial idea to 'rotate or retire' public artworks
18 Oct 2011,30 mins
Whose Truth Is It Anyway?
Lies, Damned Lies and Autofiction
Damian Barr considers autofiction, the literary lovechild of memoir and fiction.
04 Jun 2023,28 mins
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Faith on the Factory Floor, Flock in a Hard Hat
Alan Dein explores the role of the British Industrial Mission in a changing world of work.
22 May 2023,28 mins