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Eeyore
Frank Cottrell-Boyce talks with children’s writers Nadia Shireen and Charlie Higson.
26 Dec 2025,·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
Retreat
How the effects of French and British mandates in the Middle East still reverberate today.
17 Oct 2023,·28 mins
Life After War in Sarajevo - Part Three
A theatre company based in Bosnia put the feelings of a nation into a play
28 Oct 2005,·22 mins
Smugglers Profit as War Rages
Sue Mitchell and Rob Lawrie investigate how smugglers hope to profit from war in Ukraine.
01 Apr 2022,·28 mins
Series 2
Ripley and Heanor News, 2 July 1948
James Naughtie explores the history of the Amber Valley through front page small ads.
03 Sep 2019,·14 mins
Series 8
The Junkers of Woodbridge Airfield
Michael Portillo remembers a crucial 1944 incident that impacted on the war.
18 Jun 2012,·28 mins
Series 5
Chaos
Is chaos good or bad? Bettany Hughes explores the place of disruption in our lives.
21 Apr 2017,·15 mins
Episode 2
Charlotte Smith continues her exploration of what farming life is like today.
05 Jan 2015,·28 mins
Being right
Why getting it right might mean admitting you're wrong.
03 Feb 2022,·28 mins
Stealing Power
Meter tampering is dangerous and illegal yet reports of it are rising at an alarming rate.
30 Jul 2024,·28 mins
Sound Sources
Paul McCartney, Jean-Michel Jarre and Lee Renaldo on their debt to classical music.
13 Jul 2025,·42 mins
Clog
Hardeep meets Phil Howard, one of the few remaining clog-makers in Great Britain.
07 Aug 2013,·15 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
Monsignor Quixote
Guy Hedgecoe follows Graham Greene's travels around post-Franco Spain in the late 1970s.
29 Aug 2016,·15 mins
Omnibus
How Can I Know Anything at All?
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how we can know anything at all.
07 Aug 2015,·58 mins
Helen Lewis Has Left the Chat
Left the Chat: No 6. The Telegram War
How one messaging app became Vladimir Putin’s nemesis - and perhaps his secret weapon.
08 May 2024,·28 mins
Episode 3
Rosie Millard hears the hopes of two people moving hundreds of miles across the UK.
12 Nov 2014,·28 mins
Abroad - Part Two
Did Putin successfully manage his relationships in the Commonwealth of Independent States?
01 Jun 2005,·22 mins
10. Justice
Abraham’s family and friends keep searching for justice.
16 Dec 2022,·26 mins
The Peace Movement
The moment when the1960s peace movement attempted to counter the prophesy of Armageddon
14 Jul 1995,·28 mins
Greenhead to Kirk Yetholm
Mark Radcliffe travels from Greenhead near Hadrian's Wall to the village of Kirk Yetholm.
21 May 2015,·30 mins
Episode 1
Visits to the areas from the Shipping Forecast: Lundy, Dogger, Forth, Irish Sea, Wight.
01 Jan 2025,·57 mins
5. Power Plays
AI is incredibly thirsty for energy, which is fuelling a renewables revolution in China.
20 Mar 2026,·14 mins
5. Society
Justin Rowlatt asks if human society could itself be on the cusp of its own tipping point?
10 Jun 2022,·14 mins
A deadly avalanche shines a spotlight on the global obsession with Everest
01 Jun 2024,·57 mins
Friday
Phil Tinline charts the progression of the working week in 5 days. Today, TGIF.
29 May 2026,·13 mins
Turkey and Europe
Allan Little analyses Turkey's history in the Balkans and its relationship with the EU.
06 Aug 2013,·28 mins
Writing Novels
Professor Abigail Williams explores changing views of the novel.
09 Nov 2021,·28 mins
Jo
Jules Montague and William Miller meet Jo, who was diagnosed with semantic dementia at 53.
14 Apr 2023,·14 mins
