Hugh Muir explores the awkwardness of being honoured for services to the British Empire.
29 Jul 2019,·28 mins
The 'Baltimore Affair'
The "Baltimore Affair" is example of what can go wrong in scientific research
20 Apr 2000,·24 mins
Sarfraz Manzoor explores Johnny Cash's interest in Scotland after tracing his Fife roots.
13 Feb 2010,·30 mins
Ian Stone asks what makes a football fan travel the country to watch their team play
23 Nov 2013,·30 mins
Hannah Catherine Jones meets instrument inventors challenging the status quo.
16 May 2019,·28 mins
The late General Powell and the Harlem college he co-founded - the poor man's Harvard.
08 Apr 2018,·28 mins
Viv Groskop explores Gustave Courbet's notorious and explicit painting.
25 Aug 2016,·30 mins
Jonathan Glancey investigates Paris's secret underground maze of tunnels.
30 Jan 2012,·30 mins
Shappi Khorsandi is disorganised. Can the professionals help get her life in order?
07 Oct 2019,·28 mins
Soprano, broadcaster and inveterate whistler Catherine Bott on the art of whistling
23 Feb 2015,·28 mins
Shay Kaur Grewal on the cultural tensions faced by those wanting the perfect Sikh wedding.
15 Mar 2024,·28 mins
The blog of the Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai voiced by British girls her age.
15 Nov 2012,·30 mins
The story of the Royal Geographical Society of London told on its 150th anniversary
01 Jan 1980,·30 mins
Cinema's great love story - UK director Michael Powell and US editor Thelma Schoonmaker.
20 Oct 2016,·30 mins
Prof Ngaire Woods examines how international cooperation is evolving.
26 Aug 2014,·38 mins
Episode 3
James Naughtie asks if Britain made the most of its North Sea oil rush.
21 Sep 2015,·28 mins
Just what is happening to local news and why does it matter? Valley Fontaine investigates.
22 Nov 2017,·28 mins
Britain: Changing Political And Social Landscape
In the final edition of the show, the families involve discuss whether they feel British
01 Sep 1999,·28 mins
Can computer games help to solve the problems of the world? Alex Butterworth investigates.
14 May 2013,·28 mins
Felicity Hannah explores how climate change is leaving communities 'uninsurable'.
19 Dec 2023,·37 mins
Going Slowly
Peter White explores his bete noire of going slowly with keen fisherman Nick Hancock.
01 Aug 2011,·15 mins
Peter White meets some of the youngsters who played a key role in the 2012 Olympics.
04 Oct 2014,·28 mins
Can you make creativity a life skill? Where might such a skill take a child in later life?
09 Apr 2020,·28 mins
How the pilotless drone aircraft is controversially transforming air warfare.
25 Sep 2011,·30 mins
People talk frankly about the challenging experience of sitting with a dying parent.
07 Nov 2016,·28 mins
Conflict Resolution - Part Four
Learning how to resolve conflict in war situations on a university degree course
22 Dec 2002,·27 mins
Sound African band BCUC's journey from their rehearsal space in Soweto to Glastonbury
19 Mar 2020,·28 mins
The generation gap has never felt wider. Rhys Jones asks if we have seen this before.
02 Mar 2020,·28 mins
On the road talking to Italians as a country steeped in the past wrangles over its future.
14 Nov 2023,·28 mins
The rate at which scientists and inventors discover new things is slowing. How to fix it?
28 Mar 2022,·28 mins
