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Capgras: the 'Illusion of Doubles'
Clincial psychologist Daniel Freeman explores cases of delusion.
23 Aug 2019,·57 mins
What's the Value of Culture Today?
Melvyn Bragg and his guests debate the meaning and value of culture today.
04 Jan 2013,·42 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
5. The Anthropocene
Could human engineering stabilise the Earth's climate and chemistry in the long term?
30 Oct 2021,·23 mins
Part Five - The Industrial Age and Beyond
First broadcast in 2002. How the changes of the 18th century affected Islam
29 Mar 2002,·26 mins
5. From Tree to Sea
Dan Richards looks to the past to gather knowledge and skills for an uncertain future.
07 Aug 2026,·13 mins
The Crowning Glory
News of the conquest of Everest reaches London on Coronation Day.
06 Jan 2023,·14 mins
The Return
Do the borders we cross enhance our lives? Frances Stonor Saunders examines their impact.
28 Apr 2016,·30 mins
Global Visions
From technology to the climate to the global order, has human progress gone into reverse?
12 Jan 2026,·42 mins
5. The £10 Billion Fridge
Dan Neidle unpacks the bizarre, brilliant and unexpected ways tax shapes our world.
04 Apr 2025,·14 mins
10. Justice
Abraham’s family and friends keep searching for justice.
16 Dec 2022,·26 mins
Omnibus Episode 2
Anthropologist David Graeber explores the ways debt has shaped society over 5,000 years.
05 Aug 2016,·58 mins
Omnibus (2/2)
The hidden story of the 1989 fatwa issued by Ayatollah Khomeini against Salman Rushdie.
19 Feb 2021,·57 mins
Episode Three - Frida Kahlo
Rosie Millard uncovers Frida Kahlo’s rise to superstardom.
19 Mar 2024,·28 mins
Moral Heroes
Reasons why there is hope for a better, more ethical and responsible world.
07 Sep 2018,·45 mins
Series 1
12. Van Morrison - Van Live
First rule of Van Club, we will talk about Van Morrison.
05 Jul 2026,·30 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
Episode Three: Locked Down
Thomas Dixon explores the surprising history of being alone.
14 Sep 2020,·28 mins
Dòmhnall MacRath, a bheatha agus na h-òrain aige
Mòrag Dhòmhnallach a' toirt sùil air beatha agus òrain Dhòmhnaill MhicRath bho 2009.
21 Apr 2009,·60 mins
Episode 3
James Naughtie asks if Britain made the most of its North Sea oil rush.
21 Sep 2015,·28 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
3. The Road through Turkey to Istanbul
Bettany Hughes follows the ancient road from Rome to Istanbul.
18 Dec 2015,·30 mins
Optimised Living
Oliver Burkeman explores the insidious way in which convenience has warped our existence.
02 Jun 2023,·14 mins
HIV
Chris van Tulleken on the human behaviours that make viruses jump from animals to people.
24 Mar 2021,·28 mins
Series 8
The buy button
How advertisers are trying to use neuroscientific techniques to hack our brains.
05 Apr 2021,·28 mins
Series 9
Is a university education still worth it?
Is university still delivering social and career progress for young people?
10 Aug 2026,·28 mins
01/04/2022
Gabriella Coleman investigates one of the most misunderstood cultures of the modern world
01 Apr 2022,·57 mins
Omnibus 2
A 400-year journey into the creation of the United States with the writer Joe Queenan
11 Sep 2020,·57 mins
Series 2
Ibrox - The Forgotten Tragedy?
Alan Dein investigates the aftermath of the 1971 Ibrox stadium disaster.
20 Mar 2018,·28 mins
Whose Tomorrow? (Syria)
Jeremy Bowen hears from people who have witnessed the repression in Syria.
21 Dec 2011,·30 mins
