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Perish Resisting
Richard Holloway says that we should live in such a way that death will be an unjust fate.
22 Jan 2016,·15 mins
Series 2
12. Why do we play?
Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi asks why do humans play?
07 Mar 2025,·14 mins
Episode 3
Kamal describes the incredible lengths he went to to escape Aleppo.
26 Nov 2022,·26 mins
A Further Five Numbers
1729 - The first taxicab number
1729 is the smallest number you can write as the sum of two cubes, in two different ways.
20 Sep 2005,·14 mins
5. DNA Transfer
The police find a stranger’s DNA on a victim’s fingernails. Can a DNA match be wrong?
05 Apr 2024,·14 mins
10. Justice
Abraham’s family and friends keep searching for justice.
16 Dec 2022,·26 mins
The Legacy of Magna Carta
Melvyn Bragg examines the 800-year legacy of Magna Carta.
08 Jan 2015,·43 mins
Our Interconnected Planet
Tim Hayward examines the earth’s past, present and future through microbial goggles.
01 Oct 2023,·28 mins
Bartok's Concerto For Orchestra
A celebration through handwritten manuscript of Bela Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra.
20 Aug 2020,·28 mins
Four More Ideas to Save the World
Four more cunning carbon-busting ideas.
29 Oct 2021,·57 mins
Death of Chairman Mao
Reaction to the death of Chairman Mao.
08 Aug 1996,·28 mins
Graham Hughes
Dr Graham Hughes talks about the condition that bears his name
09 Sep 1999,·13 mins
Episode 5
Might the Baroque still be with us? Tim Marlow meets the Baroque-inspired artists of today
15 Mar 2013,·15 mins
5. GPS
How GPS transformed navigation in the 1991Gulf War.
24 Oct 2014,·15 mins
Year's End
It's the end of Max Cotton's year of food self-sufficiency in Somerset.
26 Apr 2024,·14 mins
Episode 2
Robert McCrum goes through a two-week rehabilitation course to rejuvenate his left side.
09 Mar 2015,·28 mins
Museum of the Future
V&A Director Tristram Hunt asks how museums are changing
31 Jan 2020,·28 mins
Richer
Robin Ince looks at how self-help moved away from soulful wellbeing towards making money.
19 Aug 2014,·30 mins
‘Is back pain a transmissible disease?' - Dan’s story
Dan lives with agonising back ache, until a pilot study into pain transforms his life.
27 Dec 2022,·28 mins
The Festival of the Snows
Explorers Hugh Thomson and Benedict Allen make the arduous journey to Qoyllurit'i.
16 Oct 2015,·28 mins
Paolo Uccello - The Hunt in the Forest
Dr Janina Ramirez visits the Ashmolean to decode Paolo Uccello's 15th-century masterpiece.
20 Aug 2015,·28 mins
Dam protests in Namibia
Dispute in Namibia over a proposal to dam the Kunene River to generate hydroelectricity
29 Jun 2003,·23 mins
Depression in Later Life
Exploring the grey area between dementia and depression
26 Apr 2002,·27 mins
Charlotte Smith continues her exploration of what farming life is like today.
05 Jan 2015,·28 mins
Olga Muller
Oti Mabuse is joined by her sister Motsi Mabuse to hear about her dancing legend.
25 Jan 2023,·28 mins
Stealing Power
Meter tampering is dangerous and illegal yet reports of it are rising at an alarming rate.
30 Jul 2024,·28 mins
Did a doomed West End musical shape Australia's immigration policy?
Jim Waterson asks if a doomed West End musical left migrants living on a Pacific island.
08 Feb 2022,·14 mins
Muhammad
The life and teachings of the Prophet Muhammad, the last of God's prophets
04 Nov 1996,·13 mins
Series 3
Transportation
Amanda Vickery tells the stories of three criminals who were transported.
04 Sep 2014,·43 mins
10. The Final Act
What happened after the fire?
19 Aug 2024,·15 mins
