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Abortion
James Naughtie examines the backdrop to this year's United States presidential election.
29 Sep 2024,·28 mins
Writing Novels
Professor Abigail Williams explores changing views of the novel.
09 Nov 2021,·28 mins
Our Interconnected Planet
Tim Hayward examines the earth’s past, present and future through microbial goggles.
01 Oct 2023,·28 mins
Loss and Legacy
David Reynolds explores how France marked the enormous sacrifice of the battle of Verdun.
24 Feb 2016,·28 mins
Omnibus
Exploring the fortunes of a secretive and controversial man called Vladislav Surkov.
24 May 2019,·57 mins
Malawi and HIV
One in five people in Malawi had HIV, it had massive social repercussions
21 Nov 2005,·22 mins
Omnibus Part 2
Lynsey Hanley explores the UK's housing crisis through the stories of five homes.
15 Oct 2021,·57 mins
Episode 4: Language and Class
A four-part series on the relationship that Scotland’s writers have with Scotland itself.
15 Jul 2021,·28 mins
Struck by Lightning
Struck by lightning: survivors tell their stories
30 Jan 1994,·28 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
The Greening of the Deserts - Part Three
How far can human efforts contribute to the greening of the Sahara?
15 Jul 2009,·22 mins
Iraq
Bridget Kendall explores how the Paris Peace Conference 1919 shaped a century of conflict.
28 Jun 2019,·14 mins
Afterlives: Ruth and Lisette
Two women, disabled on the brink of adulthood, examine their journeys since.
06 May 2022,·28 mins
Episode 2
The team launch the Herschel telescope, the biggest telescope ever sent to space.
25 Nov 2009,·30 mins
The transition from fossil fuels to renewables and its geopolitical consequences
12 Jan 2020,·28 mins
Series 2
323BC - The Death of Alexander the Great
Michael Scott spins the globe in 323BC, the year in which Alexander the Great died.
25 Nov 2014,·28 mins
The Trabant
5. The End of the Road
Will Self finally reaches the birthplace of the Trabant. His arrival causes a stir.
02 Dec 2016,·15 mins
Jo
Jules Montague and William Miller meet Jo, who was diagnosed with semantic dementia at 53.
14 Apr 2023,·14 mins
2. Night
Concluding a walk along the length of Sunset Boulevard in 24 hours, from city to coast.
24 Nov 2016,·30 mins
From the Crash to Today
Phil Tinline traces the ups and downs of the politics of pay in Britain since 2008.
21 Mar 2022,·28 mins
What Goes Around...
Visiting Voltaire's chateau and an abandoned Cern experiment puts Will in a pensive mood.
09 Jan 2015,·15 mins
Radical Italy - Part Three
Looking at the difficulties immigrant communities face
21 Mar 2006,·22 mins
5. The Urban/Rural Divide
Journalist Anna Jones explores her own experience of crossing the urban/rural divide.
10 Nov 2023,·14 mins
Chesowanja
John Gowlett describes artefacts such as burnt clay excavated from a site in Kenya
19 Mar 1999,·13 mins
Operation Moses
Why the return of Ethiopian and Russian Jews to Israel caused controversy
17 Apr 1998,·27 mins
Islam and Children
The teaching and impact of Islam on children
06 Sep 1994,·28 mins
Buy me love: inside the world of love coaching
Is love coaching really the best route to finding love, or simply a way to sell a dream?
28 Sep 2021,·26 mins
Memories of Terence Rattigan from Donald Sinden
Memories of playwright Terence Rattigan, from actor Sir Donald Sinden.
10 Jun 2011,·15 mins
Navigating the Anthropocene
Emily Knight tells stories of our changing planet, though the animals which call it home.
28 Mar 2024,·28 mins
Richard, Alasdair, and Jen
A man whose predecessor paid for the Colston statue and a man who dumped it in the harbour
09 Jul 2021,·28 mins
