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Paul Mason visits Manila to assess the benefits of life in the world's poorest slums.
16 Aug 2011,·40 mins
Mandela's life, told through archive recordings, dramatic re-enactments and interviews
16 Oct 1981,·49 mins
How pairing troubled dogs with troubled young men produces results for both
20 Oct 2006,·22 mins
The Spanish toddler who was chosen by the Dalai Lama as a reincarnated Tibetan lama.
28 Sep 2012,·30 mins
Quentin Cooper tells the story of a British scientist hailed as a god in Japan.
08 Sep 2014,·30 mins
How street children from Kolkata got to play cricket at Lord's
30 Jun 2019,·28 mins
Nell Frizzell contemplates whether climate change should stop her having a second child.
29 Apr 2022,·28 mins
Fergal Keane takes a journey through the private notebooks and letters of Nelson Mandela.
26 Dec 2010,·30 mins
Peter Day explores the wayward genius of Irish writer Flann O'Brien on his centenary
04 Oct 2011,·30 mins
Louise Elliot meets Terry O'Neill whose case inspired Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap.
07 Jul 2011,·30 mins
Hossein Ahmadi, an Iranian refugee, returns to the Calais Jungle that was once his home.
06 Apr 2020,·28 mins
In the 1970s the composer Philip Glass drove a taxi around Manhattan to make ends meet.
18 Aug 2015,·28 mins
Sylvia Earle
Known as 'Her Deepness', Dr Sylvia Earle is one of the world's great oceanographers
16 Nov 2013,·55 mins
21/12/2010
Fergal Keane talks to Suzanne Hook about her decision to found an orphanage in Vietnam.
21 Dec 2010,·30 mins
Lucy Fleming embarks upon a quest to discover more about her mysterious uncle Ian.
24 May 2008,·30 mins
Sean Street tells the story of Ludwig Koch, the David Attenborough of his day.
15 Apr 2009,·30 mins
Stephen K Amos
Comedian Stephen K Amos revisits his paper round route with actor Bob Kingdom.
23 Sep 2011,·15 mins
James Naughtie presents a tribute to Alistair Cooke, who would have been 100 this week.
18 Nov 2008,·45 mins
The life of Johnny Morris, told by his friend and former co-presenter Terry Nutkins.
18 Feb 2011,·28 mins
Germaine Greer presents a profile of eccentric 1970s rock icon Frank Zappa.
07 Oct 2006,·30 mins
Paul Gambaccini meets sound engineers James Lock and Geoff Emerick.
05 Feb 2008,·30 mins
Dominic Arkwright charts the life of Thomas Middleton, the bad boy of Renaissance drama
11 May 2010,·30 mins
Alistair McGowan tells the story of the love letters that composer Erik Satie never sent.
13 Jul 2013,·30 mins
Steve Carver looks to the learn the secrets of the chimney sweeping trade.
19 Feb 2014,·30 mins
A jet engine built by Ludwig Wittgenstein in Manchester is investigated by Cassie Newland.
02 Jan 2015,·30 mins
Episode 2
Following the barristers, clerks and staff of one of London's leading law chambers.
28 Jul 2009,·30 mins
Oona King discovers her family's role in the fight for equality for African Americans.
02 Jul 2014,·30 mins
Where is Home?
Where is home for families who are dispersed around the globe?
01 Nov 2003,·12 mins
Jolyon Jenkins meets the women of Verona who answer letters sent to Shakespeare's Juliet
12 Jan 2015,·30 mins
Sheppey, landscape of cars, caravans and morose marshland - the place they call The Island
29 Aug 2012,·30 mins
