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Martin Rosenbaum explores how events in London played a role in the Russian Revolution.
16 Oct 2017,·28 mins
David Willis celebrates the centenary of the Hollywood sign.
25 Jul 2023,·28 mins
Ever Changing Labels
How a diagnosis of depression could be broken down into lots of different conditions
26 Jul 2019,·28 mins
Overthrowing centuries of musical tradition - and prejudice: the Japanese Bach revolution.
13 Aug 2011,·30 mins
Anne McElvoy tells the story of Boris Johnson's premiership until 31 October
05 Nov 2019,·37 mins
Timing Systems in Sport
Sporting events are timed to hundredths of a second
11 Sep 2000,·13 mins
Artist Luke Jerram is obsessed with the Moon, so he has made one to take around the world.
02 Jan 2018,·30 mins
Episode 5
Dorothy becomes the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1964.
10 Oct 2014,·15 mins
Chris Stokel-Walker asks what impact OpenAI’s recent implosion could have on the world.
11 Dec 2023,·28 mins
Edward Adoo investigates why there are so few non-white judges in the UK judiciary.
22 Jul 2019,·28 mins
Two 'New Philanthropies'
Hugh contrasts the role of philanthropy today with that of the middle of the 20th century.
26 Dec 2011,·30 mins
Myanmar
Can the numerous indigenous languages survive in a rapidly changing 21st-century Myanmar?
27 Oct 2014,·28 mins
Is the middle class in decline? The divide between a rich elite and those now clinging on.
03 Feb 2015,·38 mins
David Cannadine tells the story of the origins of the 1922 Committee.
29 Aug 2022,·28 mins
Dominic Sandbrook explores how the first generation of radio listeners learned to listen.
14 Aug 2014,·30 mins
Fiona Lindsay meets performers of all kinds during the half hour before they go on stage.
17 Apr 2017,·30 mins
Episode 3
John Harris considers the potent role of narrative in our public and private lives.
03 Sep 2018,·28 mins
Jonathan Coffey asks what impartiality now means for broadcasters in a polarised society.
26 Apr 2019,·28 mins
The story of Nigerian musician and political revolutionary, Fela Kuti.
31 May 2011,·30 mins
Historian Jon Lawrence of Cambridge University asks what has happened to the working class
09 Jun 2014,·28 mins
A portrait of the life, popular art and remarkable engineering of Carters Steam Fair.
25 May 2011,·28 mins
Geoff Watts explores the phenomenon of the nocebo effect and its implications for medicine
17 Feb 2015,·28 mins
Why fake science spreads faster online than the truth
17 Dec 2019,·37 mins
Mark Hodkinson revisits the sitcom Love Thy Neighbour, forty years after it was last shown
19 Sep 2016,·28 mins
How 3 months in rural Devon influenced one of the greatest chroniclers of urban New York
18 Feb 2016,·28 mins
Jolyon Jenkins explores the mysterious world of the headhunter.
10 Dec 2014,·30 mins
Lilies
A look at the lily and the folklore surrounding it
21 May 1993,·27 mins
Why the world's biggest economy is experiencing a pensions crisis
06 Apr 2003,·22 mins
Agnes Poirier explores the role of the body which protects the French language.
23 Dec 2011,·30 mins
Uncovering the life and work of a pioneering and under-appreciated British painter
13 Sep 2012,·30 mins
