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Olga Muller
Oti Mabuse is joined by her sister Motsi Mabuse to hear about her dancing legend.
25 Jan 2023,·28 mins
Series 1
The Lonely Heart
Following heart bypass surgery, Giles Fraser explores the workings of the human heart.
08 Dec 2017,·15 mins
Capgras: the 'Illusion of Doubles'
Clincial psychologist Daniel Freeman explores cases of delusion.
23 Aug 2019,·57 mins
The Tower of Babel
Aleks Krotoski explores how today's digital world is a reverse Tower of Babel.
10 Apr 2015,·15 mins
Episode 3: Cars and Girls
The music writer presents a series of meditations on different aspects of music.
27 Dec 2022,·28 mins
The Party's Over
Historian Camilla Schofield explores a century-long thread of communism in Britain.
02 Dec 2022,·28 mins
Lies, Damned Lies and Autofiction
Damian Barr considers autofiction, the literary lovechild of memoir and fiction.
04 Jun 2023,·28 mins
The Long Road to Peace
The final episode of Fergal Keane's exploration of the Irish influence on Britain.
25 Jan 2021,·28 mins
War in the Nuclear Age
As the Second World War ended, the Cold War began
19 Dec 2001,·13 mins
Omnibus 2
Alice Roberts with her time travelling tour of anatomical knowledge of the human body.
29 Jan 2021,·57 mins
The Day I Met Diana
People from around the UK and beyond recall their meetings with Diana, Princess of Wales.
29 Aug 2017,·58 mins
The Precipice
Lucy Easthope explores the history of risk.
07 Feb 2025,·14 mins
Alexandra Harris tells the story of how the weather has shaped the culture of Britain.
28 Oct 2016,·58 mins
Series 5
The Return of the Soldier
Francine Stock concludes her four-year exploration of how artists responded to WWI.
22 Sep 2018,·28 mins
Deeply Human Series 2
Sleep
Is insomnia really a problem of modern life?
07 May 2022,·23 mins
Healing in Ghana
What options do people in Ghana have when a person suffers mental illness?
20 Jun 2016,·28 mins
Rotimi Fani-Kayode
Iwona Blazwick examines the legacy of photographer Rotimi Fani-Kayode.
16 Mar 2018,·15 mins
How to Survive in Space
How to Survive in Space: Into Deep Space
Kevin Fong escapes earth’s gravity to examine the challenges on the body
31 Dec 2015,·26 mins
The Spider Orchestra
The art of Tomás Saraceno who makes sculptures and music with spiders and their webs
26 Nov 2018,·28 mins
Stanley Kubrick
How did chess influence the plots of the films of Stanley Kubrick?
14 Sep 2000,·13 mins
Teenagers
Young patients and their therapists talk frankly about childhood mental health conditions.
04 Sep 2015,·28 mins
2. Night
Concluding a walk along the length of Sunset Boulevard in 24 hours, from city to coast.
24 Nov 2016,·30 mins
Series 2
Clog
Hardeep meets Phil Howard, one of the few remaining clog-makers in Great Britain.
07 Aug 2013,·15 mins
Pussy Riot
Vanora Bennett's final Babushka doll is a member of activist group Pussy Riot.
13 Oct 2017,·15 mins
Human Cultural Evolution Versus Genetic Evolution
The effect of globalisation and a greater choice of partners on human genetic evolution.
23 Aug 2011,·30 mins
Episode 5
Prof Murray Pittock explores the origins of Scottish nationalism.
08 Nov 2013,·15 mins
Orkney
Louise journeys to the tiny Orkney island of Wyre, via the Ness of Brodgar neolithic dig.
05 Feb 2012,·15 mins
Cynic
Comedian Andy Zaltzman lives by the rules of the ancient Greek philosophy of the Cynics.
01 Dec 2017,·28 mins
Anne Askew
Tudor housewife Anne Askew's conversion to Protestantism tore her family apart.
13 Aug 2008,·30 mins
Tomorrow's Stories
What is required to create a society based on a shared sense of belonging?
17 Dec 2018,·28 mins
