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Omnibus 2
Gretchen Gerzina explores the lives of black people in Britain during a time of slavery.
14 Oct 2016,·58 mins
Series 1: Planet Chicken
Hay Festival Special
Chris van Tulleken in conversation with Leyla Kazim, at Hay Festival 2024.
29 Oct 2024,·28 mins
Remembering the early years of the AIDS crisis, through the stories of people who lived it
19 Jun 2020,·57 mins
Coffee Growing and Production
The social and economic importance of coffee production
02 Mar 1999,·13 mins
8. The Terminator
Musk fears a 'Terminator future', where robots destroy humans. So why is he creating AI?
08 Apr 2025,·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
Monsignor Quixote
Guy Hedgecoe follows Graham Greene's travels around post-Franco Spain in the late 1970s.
29 Aug 2016,·15 mins
Omnibus
Episode 2
Will Self goes on a 1,000-mile tour of the UK, travelling only by bus and coach.
09 Feb 2018,·60 mins
Episode 3
Michael Portillo examines the past and future of democracy over 2,500 years.
25 May 2010,·45 mins
British musician and poet Akala examines the culture of his Rastafarian heritage.
29 Jul 2014,·30 mins
4. Filling the Mind
Education, the chattering classes and the novel in Roman society.
09 Feb 2003,·30 mins
10. The Jungle Book & EPCOT
Mel Giedroyc explores Walt Disney’s final film, The Jungle Book.
29 Jun 2023,·28 mins
To the Sea, Going Going, Aubade, The Whitsun Weddings
Simon Armitage, the Poet Laureate, unpicks Philip Larkin's poems in his centenary year.
19 Aug 2022,·57 mins
Series 6
Dust
How can our imagination help us hold the moment we live in?
20 Nov 2023,·28 mins
Birds and their ancestors
The Poet Laureate Simon Armitage meets birds and their relatives to inspire his new poem.
03 Jan 2025,·14 mins
Quantum Leaps and Future Chips
The story of the microchip's Cold War past, corporate present and quantum future.
07 Mar 2024,·28 mins
Fossilized Sunshine
First broadcast in 1999. What are oil and gas and where are they found?
27 Feb 1999,·13 mins
On the Trail of Algerian Exiles and Pacific Settlers
Chahrazade Douah follows in the steps of 19th century Algerian exiles to a Pacific Island.
06 Nov 2023,·28 mins
Dr Rosie Benneyworth
Dr Phil Hammond meets the doctor who investigates NHS England on patient safety.
05 Dec 2023,·28 mins
Buddhist Temple
First broadcast in 1996. A Buddhist Temple in Bangkok where people come to make offerings
30 Jun 1996,·28 mins
Series 3
Reykjavik
Musician John Grant on Reykjavik, a city he fell in love with on tour.
03 Dec 2016,·30 mins
Britain at Sea: Omnibus
New Britain, New Navy
Lord West concludes his history by examining the period since the end of Empire.
20 Jun 2014,·58 mins
Series 1
Cynic
Comedian Andy Zaltzman lives by the rules of the ancient Greek philosophy of the Cynics.
01 Dec 2017,·28 mins
France
War and the French Economy from 1920 – 1940.
23 Aug 2019,·14 mins
Omnibus: Episodes 6-10
The story of a unique wartime archive of life in the Warsaw Ghetto and its recovery.
05 May 2023,·57 mins
West
Author Jerry Brotton explores the story of the four cardinal directions.
17 May 2022,·14 mins
Week 4 Omnibus
Neil MacGregor tours Britain's museums to explore how the past tells us who we want to be.
22 Apr 2022,·57 mins
Eeyore
Frank Cottrell-Boyce talks with children’s writers Nadia Shireen and Charlie Higson.
26 Dec 2025,·14 mins
Death of Chairman Mao
Reaction to the death of Chairman Mao.
08 Aug 1996,·28 mins
Memory
Examination into the condition of Alzheimer's disease
15 May 2000,·24 mins
