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Problems without passports
The role of the UN in Africa
26 Sep 2003,·26 mins
Healing in Ghana
What options do people in Ghana have when a person suffers mental illness?
20 Jun 2016,·28 mins
Episode Five: Generation Now
How the violence of the Northern Ireland Troubles began
16 Aug 2019,·14 mins
Otto Hahn's Nuclear Power
First broadcast in 2000. Nuclear fission and the foundation for nuclear power
21 Jun 2000,·13 mins
Episode 2
The town's hopes are pinned on a good summer season but its fortunes depend on the weather
19 Oct 2009,·30 mins
Ann Nesby: Going Solo
Deniece Williams interviews Ann Nesby, lead vocalist with Sounds of Blackness
07 Aug 2000,·13 mins
Frozen Music
Andrew McGibbon explores the sounds of ice in the North Pole and the composers who use it.
16 Jul 2019,·28 mins
Aasmah Mir visits what new research suggests is the least affluent place in the UK.
22 Jul 2013,·28 mins
Series 1
Coming Out
Simon Callow charts the emergence of a wave of openly queer artists in the 1950s and 60s.
31 Jul 2017,·28 mins
Can Machines Think?
First broadcast in 1994. A look at artificial intelligence and 'thinking machines'
31 Aug 1994,·28 mins
Episode 5
Prof Murray Pittock explores the origins of Scottish nationalism.
08 Nov 2013,·15 mins
Episode 4: Institutions
Zakia Sewell explores what we mean by 'taste'.
04 Jul 2023,·28 mins
Episode 3: Hospice
Documenting the round-the-clock care of Nora, a non-verbal seven-year-old.
16 Sep 2024,·42 mins
Turkey - Beyond the Silk Road
Jim O'Neill asks if Turkey's future still depends on its advantageous location.
09 Jan 2014,·42 mins
The Nuclear Future
A year on from the disaster at Fukushima, what's the future for nuclear power?
30 Mar 2012,·18 mins
An Education Revolution?
Sarah Montague and guests debate whether the UK should follow America's lead.
10 Mar 2014,·58 mins
Is the Future one World, one Language?
More than half the world's 6,000 languages are dying out. Are we losing our differences?
15 May 2000,·13 mins
The Water Wars?
Last in the series; how a worldwide water shortage could bring about conflict
19 Jun 2001,·13 mins
Tropical
A visit to the Royal Botanical Gardens, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
08 Nov 1996,·13 mins
Series 3
Cloak of Mist
Writer Laura Barton listens closely to music on the Isle of Man.
31 Jul 2018,·30 mins
Episode 3
Jazz pianist Jamie Cullum meets piano enthusiasts up and down the country.
18 Jan 2014,·30 mins
The Blob
From globular cartoon characters to curvy cars, the blob has always been around.
23 Sep 2005,·14 mins
Omnibus 2
Remembering the early years of the AIDS crisis, through the stories of people who lived it
19 Jun 2020,·57 mins
The Courts
James Naughtie examines why Donald Trump's judges may be his greatest achievement.
22 Feb 2021,·28 mins
Man-eating Tiger
Ben Garrod on how a man-eating tiger provides new evidence about human evolution.
18 Aug 2017,·15 mins
The Terroirs of Burgundy
Barry Smith heads to Burgundy to profile a 1994 Meo-Camuzet Vosne Romanee, Aux Brulee.
03 Nov 2017,·12 mins
Faith
Will Self asks some of Britain's key opinion-makers about the nature of our existence.
Rail
Second class service: how the nations and regions lost out to London in rail investment.
09 Jul 2018,·28 mins
Napoleon's Way
Anne is in Brussels and Paris to explore the empire of Napoleon Bonaparte.
29 Apr 2013,·28 mins
Biodiversity
The dwindling variety of plants and animals on earth and how they could be saved
21 Feb 2003,·27 mins
