Episode 5 - Winters of the Future
A guide to thriving in winter, offering advice on how to get through the darker months.
17 Oct 2025,·14 mins
Iran
Iran's Islamic Revolution of 1979
06 Oct 1997,·13 mins
Part 4 - Reconciliation
Life in South Africa ten years after the end of apartheid
03 May 2004,·22 mins
Optimised Living
Oliver Burkeman explores the insidious way in which convenience has warped our existence.
02 Jun 2023,·14 mins
6. Fallout
Why are learning disability athletes still feeling the impact of cheating 21 years on?
21 Sep 2021,·26 mins
5. Halos
Iconographer Aidan Hart puts the finishing touches to his icon.
21 Dec 2018,·14 mins
The Boy Whose Hand Had a Mind of Its Own
Neuropsychologist Dr Paul Broks considers anarchic limbs and split brains.
24 Jun 2016,·11 mins
Episode 2
The town's hopes are pinned on a good summer season but its fortunes depend on the weather
19 Oct 2009,·30 mins
An Education Revolution?
Sarah Montague and guests debate whether the UK should follow America's lead.
10 Mar 2014,·58 mins
A Health-Creating Society
Former NHS chief executive Nigel Crisp sets out his vision for a health-creating society.
03 Apr 2015,·15 mins
Narcs and narcissists
Jolyon Jenkins investigates whether we're really in the grip of a narcissism epidemic.
15 Jan 2019,·28 mins
Inside Israel 1948
The family roots of friends Eden Raviv and Ibrahim Abu Ahmad cross the divides of history.
04 Dec 2023,·28 mins
The World's Climate
Our planet is warming up, the ice caps are melting and sea levels are rising
05 Jul 1999,·13 mins
The Courts
James Naughtie examines why Donald Trump's judges may be his greatest achievement.
22 Feb 2021,·28 mins
Omnibus 2
Remembering the early years of the AIDS crisis, through the stories of people who lived it
19 Jun 2020,·57 mins
Seamus Heaney - The Translator
Theo Dorgan on Seamus Heaney's translations, their importance and impact on his own work
10 Sep 2023,·28 mins
Part Four
A snapshot of life in Bruce Grove, Tottenham
23 Oct 2003,·22 mins
Part 11 - Setting Goals and Fulfilling Dreams
How setting a personal goal can help us focus and achieve success
11 Sep 2000,·13 mins
Bhopal (Omnibus)
The story of Rajkumar Keswani, the man who foretold the world's worst industrial accident
09 Sep 2022,·57 mins
Series 1
The Terroirs of Burgundy
Barry Smith heads to Burgundy to profile a 1994 Meo-Camuzet Vosne Romanee, Aux Brulee.
03 Nov 2017,·12 mins
Series 5
Episode 3
Personal reflections from British South Asians on surviving - and thriving - in Britain.
22 Apr 2022,·28 mins
More Tribes of Science
Volcanologists
Peter Curran meets the scientists who are drawn to study volcanoes.
30 Aug 2011,·15 mins
Digital
Allan Little hosts debates from Edinburgh in an Enlightenment spirit.
01 Sep 2017,·28 mins
Omnibus, Part 2
Peter Conrad dissects the popular culture of his era.
27 Dec 2014,·60 mins
Dam protests in Namibia
Dispute in Namibia over a proposal to dam the Kunene River to generate hydroelectricity
29 Jun 2003,·23 mins
Conflict
Why do governments shut down the internet?
16 Mar 2022,·26 mins
Owen Bennett Jones reveals a secret history of Jihadist propagation in Britain.
12 Apr 2016,·45 mins
Bankruptcy
Hannah looks back over the depression and guilt that accompanied her financial disaster.
18 Dec 2011,·15 mins
Schumann and Beethoven
Mark Lowther explores a piano concerto by Robert Schumann and Beethoven's 7th Symphony
08 Aug 2005,·26 mins
Food Technology
First broadcast in 1998. The technology at the cutting edge of the food industry
17 Jul 1998,·13 mins
