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Four Months in Gaza
A raw and intimate perspective on the terror, anger, and hope of living through war.
30 Nov 2025,27 mins,
Playing Spies
Gordon Corera investigates Russia's new front line of amateur espionage.
30 Nov 2025,27 mins
If at First You Don’t Secede
If at first you don’t secede, should you really try, try, try again?
23 Nov 2025,27 mins
I Fought in Ukraine
The British soldiers fighting for Ukraine.
09 Nov 2025,28 mins
Immigration: The Danish Way
The big political gamble if Britain adopts Denmark's radical approach to immigration.
09 Nov 2025,28 mins
From Anglesey with Love
Former MEP Nathan Gill accepted Russia-linked bribes. Then he did this interview.
02 Nov 2025,28 mins
Garden of England
A summer on a fruit farm in Kent reveals the human stories behind a punnet of blueberries.
26 Oct 2025,28 mins
The Split
A Jewish journalist explores his community’s relationship with Israel.
05 Oct 2025,28 mins
Flag Town
Jonny I’Anson visits the Yorkshire suburbs where flags are flying high.
28 Sep 2025,27 mins
Scotland Wants You
Nick Eardley asks if attitudes to migration are shifting in Scotland.
21 Sep 2025,28 mins
Corn Belt People
Anna Jones visits the Iowa state fair to test the mood of the rural Midwest
07 Sep 2025,27 mins
The Body Shop
How an unregulated US market is changing our relationship to death, dying and the dead.
31 Aug 2025,28 mins
Germany: United and Divided
Historian Katja Hoyer investigates East German disillusion 35 years after reunification.
24 Aug 2025,28 mins
White Coats v the White House
Roland Pease looks at how breaking an 80-year-old deal in US science may affect us all.
10 Aug 2025,29 mins
Turn Right for Wales
Will Hayward asks if Wales could become the setting for Reform’s biggest breakthrough yet.
27 Jul 2025,28 mins
The Dark Enlightenment
Is a radical political philosophy guiding the actions of the Trump administration?
20 Jul 2025,28 mins
Out for Delivery
The story of the multi-drop parcel courier industry, as told by the drivers themselves.
13 Jul 2025,28 mins
The Great British Trade-Off
Nine years since Brexit: what's it like to trade with the EU?
06 Jul 2025,28 mins
Crossing the Line
Are the actions of a climate campaigner heroic self-sacrifice or reckless fanaticism?
29 Jun 2025,28 mins
One Week in Gaza
The daily realities and private thoughts of a young woman living through war.
22 Jun 2025,28 mins
Ireland's Pot of Gold
Spend now or save – a dilemma for the Irish government, enriched by huge tax revenues.
15 Jun 2025,28 mins
Excluded
Why are school exclusions rising, and what happens to children who are excluded?
08 Jun 2025,28 mins
Madeira's Drugs Crisis
Madeira has a chronic drug problem the authorities are struggling to cope with.
01 Jun 2025,28 mins
The Three Babies Mystery
The search for the parents of three babies abandoned in shopping bags in East London.
25 May 2025,28 mins
NHS: Painful Decisions
Dominic Hughes explores the decisions facing NHS leaders as they try to balance the books.
18 May 2025,28 mins
The Big Mortgage Time Bomb
Vicky Spratt investigates the thousands of people trapped in high interest mortgages.
11 May 2025,28 mins
The Landscape Revolution
Charlotte Smith on the current reform of agricultural policy and spending across the UK.
04 May 2025,28 mins
Russia's New War Elite
How huge payouts to soldiers and their families are creating a new middle class in Russia.
27 Apr 2025,28 mins
Of Budgets and Bond Markets
Duncan Weldon explores the political and economic reality of relying on the bond markets.
20 Apr 2025,28 mins
Laila Soueif: A Mother's Life
A mother goes on hunger strike to protest the continued imprisonment of her son.
13 Apr 2025,28 mins