Peanuts
The story of peanuts, which have 'the true smell of the earth' and are eaten everywhere
22 Oct 1999,·13 mins
City Streets
This week Sketches speaks to three people whose art relates to their city.
01 Aug 2022,·28 mins
Richard, Alasdair, and Jen
A man whose predecessor paid for the Colston statue and a man who dumped it in the harbour
09 Jul 2021,·28 mins
Episode 3
Peter Curran travels from Lands’ End to John O’Groats in an electric car.
28 Sep 2021,·28 mins
Omnibus 4
Greg Jenner dives into the BBC archive to explore changes over the past century.
16 Dec 2022,·57 mins
Eva Joly
The judge talks about her seven-year-long investigation into a multi-billion euro fraud.
19 Aug 2014,·28 mins
Evolution of Modern China
Can the old leadership survive in the Chinese century?
30 Aug 2002,·13 mins
Omnibus: 1980s onwards
From the ZX Spectrum to the dot com bubble, Hannah Fry looks at our computing history.
17 Mar 2017,·58 mins
How do refugee crises end?
Katy Long concludes her history of 100 years of refugee politics.
19 Oct 2021,·28 mins
Beyond Happiness
What if happiness isn’t about the self at all?
20 Jul 2018,·14 mins
Four More Ideas to Save the World
Four more cunning carbon-busting ideas.
29 Oct 2021,·57 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
Optimised Living
Oliver Burkeman explores the insidious way in which convenience has warped our existence.
02 Jun 2023,·14 mins
3. The Future
Emily Knight explores the tangled history, and the uncertain future, of zoos.
07 Nov 2022,·28 mins
It wasn’t easy to build the Bullring
Can Birmingham rise from the challenges of the pandemic?
19 Apr 2021,·10 mins
None of the Above
Why are some radical right groups in Europe attracting younger voters?
19 Jan 2024,·14 mins
Series 8
The football split in Northern Ireland – who is kicking with the wrong foot?
Tim McGarry and Dr David Hume kick around the political football of, well, football.
10 Feb 2024,·30 mins
Timing Systems in Sport
Sporting events are timed to hundredths of a second
11 Sep 2000,·13 mins
Iran
Iran's Islamic Revolution of 1979
06 Oct 1997,·13 mins
Fundamentalism - Social Injustice
Experts and commentators ask what effect religious fundamentalism might have on our future
25 Mar 2002,·28 mins
Deeply Human Series 2
Sleep
Is insomnia really a problem of modern life?
07 May 2022,·23 mins
Questioning Jeremy Hunt
Will new NHS funding improve adolescent mental health? We question Jeremy Hunt.
03 Jul 2018,·28 mins
Anne Askew
Tudor housewife Anne Askew's conversion to Protestantism tore her family apart.
13 Aug 2008,·30 mins
The Comedy Episode
Miranda Sawyer talks to Richard Herring, Adam Buxton, Tim Batt and Guy Montgomery.
28 Nov 2015,·30 mins
David Dunseith
Steven Rainey looks back at the forty year career of iconic broadcaster David Dunseith.
23 Aug 2024,·30 mins
Omnibus
Streets in the Sky
Lynsey Hanley explores the history of social housing from 1945 to the present day.
20 Oct 2017,·58 mins
Episode 2
The second episode in a two-part tale from Anglesey comedian Tudur Owen
01 Feb 2022,·28 mins
Day three, the halfway point of the walk, but the worst is yet to come.
21 Nov 2011,·30 mins
West
Author Jerry Brotton explores the story of the four cardinal directions.
17 May 2022,·14 mins
Fungi
Scientist are unable to classify fungi as either plant or animal
31 Dec 1999,·13 mins
