Omnibus 4
The series which traces decisive moments in the history of the NHS.
14 Sep 2018,·58 mins
Episode 3: Hospice
Documenting the round-the-clock care of Nora, a non-verbal seven-year-old.
16 Sep 2024,·42 mins
30/03/2022
Claudia Hammond asks 'Can bosses be kind?'
30 Mar 2022,·28 mins
Episode 3
Steve Richards tells the inside story of Gordon Brown's time as prime minister.
05 Oct 2010,·45 mins
The Inaccessible Pinnacle Before Breakfast
Robert Macfarlane crosses the iconic Cuillin Ridge on the Isle of Skye
26 Sep 2023,·28 mins
The Truth About Cancer
Eating Well in Lyon: Healthy Diets to prevent Bowel Cancer
Anu Anand is in Lyon, looking at what we eat and drink and the risk of bowel cancer
17 Jul 2017,·26 mins
Series 3
Rarities and Recordings
Brett Westwood looks at a bird on the edge of extinction - the slender-billed curlew.
12 Feb 2013,·28 mins
Four More Ideas to Save the World
Four more cunning carbon-busting ideas.
29 Oct 2021,·57 mins
City Streets
This week Sketches speaks to three people whose art relates to their city.
01 Aug 2022,·28 mins
Eva Joly
The judge talks about her seven-year-long investigation into a multi-billion euro fraud.
19 Aug 2014,·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
Evolution of Modern China
Can the old leadership survive in the Chinese century?
30 Aug 2002,·13 mins
A job for the fourth century
Sir Anthony Seldon charts 300 years of the top job in British politics.
16 Apr 2021,·28 mins
Assisted dying
Sonia Sodha explores thorny ethical questions around the beginning and the end of life.
27 Jan 2025,·42 mins
Deeply Human Series 2
Sleep
Is insomnia really a problem of modern life?
07 May 2022,·23 mins
Timing Systems in Sport
Sporting events are timed to hundredths of a second
11 Sep 2000,·13 mins
It wasn’t easy to build the Bullring
Can Birmingham rise from the challenges of the pandemic?
19 Apr 2021,·10 mins
Beyond Happiness
What if happiness isn’t about the self at all?
20 Jul 2018,·14 mins
3. The Future
Emily Knight explores the tangled history, and the uncertain future, of zoos.
07 Nov 2022,·28 mins
The Nuclear Future
A year on from the disaster at Fukushima, what's the future for nuclear power?
30 Mar 2012,·18 mins
Fantasy Architecture
An examination of fantasy buildings and the possibility of them ever being built
16 Aug 2004,·21 mins
Episode 2 - the aftermath of Peterloo
Katharine Viner looks at the aftermath of the Peterloo Massacre in 1819.
09 Aug 2019,·28 mins
Fundamentalism - Social Injustice
Experts and commentators ask what effect religious fundamentalism might have on our future
25 Mar 2002,·28 mins
Episode 2
Robert McCrum goes in search of Shakespeare in 21st-century America.
26 Apr 2016,·30 mins
Series 1
Steve Richards looks back at David Cameron's years in power and explores his legacy.
22 Jan 2018,·28 mins
Northern Power: Speaking From the North
Melvyn Bragg on 'speaking from the north' and what the future might hold for the north.
09 Sep 2016,·28 mins
Cynic
Comedian Andy Zaltzman lives by the rules of the ancient Greek philosophy of the Cynics.
01 Dec 2017,·28 mins
Nanoseconds and Megabucks
David Grossman with more stories which help explain the world of contemporary capitalism.
28 Jun 2019,·57 mins
Transplant
In 1967, Christiaan Barnard performed the first heart transplant operation.
16 Mar 2007,·15 mins
Anne Askew
Tudor housewife Anne Askew's conversion to Protestantism tore her family apart.
13 Aug 2008,·30 mins
