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The Sea
Is this the end for one of the last Royal Mail ships? The RMS St Helena takes a bow.
27 May 2016,·28 mins
Loss and Legacy
David Reynolds explores how France marked the enormous sacrifice of the battle of Verdun.
24 Feb 2016,·28 mins
28/07/2017
The story of the 1993 Waco siege and the lasting impact on those who survived.
28 Jul 2017,·15 mins
6. Fallout
Why are learning disability athletes still feeling the impact of cheating 21 years on?
21 Sep 2021,·26 mins
Series 2
Clog
Hardeep meets Phil Howard, one of the few remaining clog-makers in Great Britain.
07 Aug 2013,·15 mins
Acts of Union and Disunion: Omnibus
Episode 3
Linda explores Britain's relationships with North America, Europe and expatriate Britons.
24 Jan 2014,·58 mins
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
Andrew Parker's Natural History Hero is microscope pioneer Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
09 Oct 2015,·15 mins
A Disabled Identity
Peter White reveals the roots of a modern disabled identity in the 19th century.
07 Jun 2013,·14 mins
Evolution of Modern China
Can the old leadership survive in the Chinese century?
30 Aug 2002,·13 mins
Episode 2
Nick Fraser considers the role of intellectuals in relation to world events.
01 Jun 2009,·30 mins
Style crisis?… What style crisis?!
Danielle Fahiya, 30, is now 15. Being home for lockdown is turning her into a teenager!
17 Mar 2021,·22 mins
7. Road to the Past
Kavita meets some of the last survivors of the 1943 Bengal famine.
29 Aug 2024,·40 mins
Deep Sea Mining
Is mining the deep ocean the solution to the world's growing demand for valuable metals?
23 Jul 2014,·28 mins
A State-Within-a-State
How far is Putin's Russia prepared to embrace its Muslim citizens?
20 Dec 2004,·22 mins
Radical Italy - Part Three
Looking at the difficulties immigrant communities face
21 Mar 2006,·22 mins
Series 3
Rarities and Recordings
Brett Westwood looks at a bird on the edge of extinction - the slender-billed curlew.
12 Feb 2013,·28 mins
5 - The Gut Speaks
Goblins, gods, and gurgles - Tim Hayward asks what our guts have been trying to tell us.
28 Dec 2018,·14 mins
5. The First Superstars
Cerys Matthews and Tris Penna consider the legacy of the UK's first gramophone records.
27 Nov 2015,·15 mins
Spring 2004 - A New Leaf
Edward Stouton witnesses the election of new Palestinian President Abu Mazen
15 May 2005,·22 mins
A Swedish Tale
Keith Moore hears how a remote community in northern Sweden copes with 1,000 new residents
29 Feb 2016,·28 mins
Adair Turner
Robert Peston talks to Adair Turner, Chairman of the Financial Services Authority.
07 Sep 2009,·30 mins
Gyles Brandreth extols the virtues of of learning poetry by heart.
30 Sep 2018,·28 mins
Behaviour
How a Jew behaves is much more important than the beliefs
19 Feb 1991,·27 mins
2000-2005
A look back at radio comedy in the early 2000s, with Justin Edwards and Jan Ravens.
06 Dec 2014,·30 mins
The Saudi Arabian Spring
Tarek Osman considers how the impact of the 2011 Arab uprisings was felt in Saudi Arabia.
16 Mar 2015,·28 mins
Malawi and HIV
One in five people in Malawi had HIV, it had massive social repercussions
21 Nov 2005,·22 mins
Writing Novels
Professor Abigail Williams explores changing views of the novel.
09 Nov 2021,·28 mins
Peanuts
The story of peanuts, which have 'the true smell of the earth' and are eaten everywhere
22 Oct 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
Faris
Faris, who lives with PTSD, reflects on how he manages his mind.
30 Jul 2023,·28 mins
