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Rail
Second class service: how the nations and regions lost out to London in rail investment.
09 Jul 2018,·28 mins
Biodiversity
The dwindling variety of plants and animals on earth and how they could be saved
21 Feb 2003,·27 mins
Series 1
Man-eating Tiger
Ben Garrod on how a man-eating tiger provides new evidence about human evolution.
18 Aug 2017,·15 mins
Future Generations
Can an adult's health - programmed in early life - be passed on to their children?
30 Aug 2011,·30 mins
Questioning Jeremy Hunt
Will new NHS funding improve adolescent mental health? We question Jeremy Hunt.
03 Jul 2018,·28 mins
Episode 2
Alex Last traces the fate of 12 children named in a series of post-war BBC radio appeals.
03 Jul 2015,·28 mins
What If... We All Had A Car?
How can new cars be developed to prevent global gridlock and increased pollution?
23 Mar 2013,·25 mins
Episode 3
Steve Hewlett and guests discuss the significance of the erosion of privacy today.
29 Jul 2013,·30 mins
Omnibus
From Millicent Fawcett to Multiculturalism
Anne McElvoy traces liberalism's development since the Suffragists.
18 Dec 2015,·58 mins
14/10/2016
Laurence Llewelyn Bowen considers the subjects that have formed the basis for tattoos.
14 Oct 2016,·28 mins
Coming Out
Simon Callow charts the emergence of a wave of openly queer artists in the 1950s and 60s.
31 Jul 2017,·28 mins
Waiting for Demob Day
Phil Carradice looks at the Welsh experience of National Service between 1947 and 1963.
30 Jul 2020,·28 mins
21/06/2022
Tony Simpson and five young people compare their experiences of leaving care.
21 Jun 2022,·28 mins
01/12/2015
The care organisations pioneering new ways of looking after people in their own homes.
01 Dec 2015,·28 mins
The second episode in a two-part tale from Anglesey comedian Tudur Owen
01 Feb 2022,·28 mins
A Tale of Rooster Tosha and the War
Ukrainian writer Andrey Kurkov gives a personal account of daily life in war-torn Ukraine.
22 Apr 2022,·14 mins
Olga Muller
Oti Mabuse is joined by her sister Motsi Mabuse to hear about her dancing legend.
25 Jan 2023,·28 mins
Omnibus Edition
Martha Kearney hosts British celebrities past and present at the National Portrait Gallery
16 Jun 2023,·57 mins
Episode 5
One more throw of the dice from the UK, and a new obstacle from America.
18 Feb 2022,·14 mins
Did a doomed West End musical shape Australia's immigration policy?
Jim Waterson asks if a doomed West End musical left migrants living on a Pacific island.
08 Feb 2022,·14 mins
5. Particle Accelerator
Paul Farley’s circular journey brings him to the Large Hadron Collider.
03 Aug 2023,·14 mins
5. Modern Manners
Ann Widdecombe zooms forward to the making of manners in cyberspace.
08 Jan 2016,·14 mins
Perish Resisting
Richard Holloway says that we should live in such a way that death will be an unjust fate.
22 Jan 2016,·15 mins
Series 4
1979-2021
Clarke Peters concludes his stories of black music from the late 1970s to the present day.
25 Aug 2021,·28 mins
Glastonbury Festival Discourages Travellers
A report from Glastonbury Festival as Michael Eavis acts to keep out travellers
01 Jul 1997,·28 mins
Abroad - Part Two
Did Putin successfully manage his relationships in the Commonwealth of Independent States?
01 Jun 2005,·22 mins
Lies, Damned Lies and Autofiction
Damian Barr considers autofiction, the literary lovechild of memoir and fiction.
04 Jun 2023,·28 mins
Miami
A look at the diversity and history of Miami's cuisine
09 Mar 2004,·22 mins
Physical Therapy
Can mental illness can be cured by physical methods of treatment, in particular by drugs?
05 Oct 1979,·45 mins
Can Machines Think?
First broadcast in 1994. A look at artificial intelligence and 'thinking machines'
31 Aug 1994,·28 mins
