The Boy in the Woods: The Discussion
Winifred Robinson investigates how vulnerable children are dealt with.
17 Oct 2022,·27 mins
10. An End in Sight
A desperate mother has tried so hard to find her daughter and waited so long to reunite.
27 Mar 2020,·38 mins
The End
Robin Ince on Writing the End of the Universe – if indeed it does end.
24 Jun 2024,·42 mins
Episode 2
Roger Bolton reassesses one of the world's great archaeological discoveries.
24 Jul 2007,·60 mins
Episode 3
Ali Ansari concludes his grand tour of Iranian history travelling from the 1700s to today.
09 Jul 2012,·28 mins
Heroism
5. New Heroes
Rory Stewart explores ideas of the hero through time.
01 Sep 2025,·28 mins
The Road to Nineteen Eighty-Four
What led avowed socialist George Orwell to write a novel that is beloved of the Right?
09 Feb 2013,·58 mins
Series 3: Exercise
S3. Ep 8 - Activity Revolution
The Van Tulleken twins explore the science of exercise and the dangers of inactivity.
06 Feb 2024,·28 mins
5. Friendship
Girls in the UK talk to Catherine Carr about their friendships and friendship groups.
17 Apr 2026,·13 mins
The Contested Territory of Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud's new discipline of psychoanalysis is still a contested one
25 Oct 2000,·23 mins
Series 2
5. This Evil Thing
Alex Renton tracks down some of the former members of a pro-paedophile group.
05 Feb 2025,·29 mins
Peak Danger
8. Only The Mountain Knows
In the long, dark shadow of K2, the surviving climbers try to rebuild their lives.
20 Jan 2025,·30 mins
Carl Rogers and the Person-Centred Approach
While Freud relied on expert and patient, Rogers pioneered a therapeutic model of equals.
03 Aug 2015,·28 mins
Part 13: Tiger Bay’s last fight
Back to Butetown and the Cardiff Five, 30 years on.
02 May 2019,·40 mins
Live at Hay Festival
Presenter Gabriel Gatehouse and producer Lucy Proctor discuss the second series.
23 Jun 2025,·62 mins
5. GPS
How GPS transformed navigation in the 1991Gulf War.
24 Oct 2014,·15 mins
5. The Spectrum
Has the idea of autism expanded so far that it’s breaking?
09 May 2025,·14 mins
Useless Men Jokes
Ian Hislop returns to unearth the oldest examples of five varieties of British joke.
05 Sep 2025,·14 mins
Introducing... Swingers
A detailed and disturbing investigation raising questions about the idea of consent.
09 Jun 2026,·1 min
10. Legacy
Have new generations of Iraqis got the freedom they were promised?
24 Mar 2023,·19 mins
Being Welsh
Jeremy Bowen returns home to Wales in search of what it means to be Welsh.
07 Feb 2022,·28 mins
Being remembered
Matthew Bannister on changing attitudes to dying, death and how we memorialise our dead.
24 Apr 2026,·14 mins
Episode 3: Heat Pumps, Your Questions Answered
Evan Davis invites listeners to get in touch with their questions about heat pumps.
26 Mar 2026,·28 mins
Episode 1
Visits to the areas from the Shipping Forecast: Lundy, Dogger, Forth, Irish Sea, Wight.
01 Jan 2025,·57 mins
AI: A Future for Humans?
The science sleuths unwrap some of the biggest ideas in this year's BBC Reith Lectures.
22 Dec 2021,·28 mins
Life after Life
First broadcast in 1999. Do you believe in life after death?
15 Jun 1999,·12 mins
Episode 3: Hope
Finding hope in the fight against county lines.
09 Dec 2024,·42 mins
Nicolas Bourbaki
Professor Marcus du Sautoy argues that mathematics drives science.
25 Jun 2010,·15 mins
15. Tanks Riding Towards Moscow
The Wagner mutiny shakes Putin’s grip on the narrative.
27 Jun 2023,·28 mins
Series 10
Taking the Pissoir?
Why would anyone submit a urinal as a work of art to a gallery, and then lie about it?
23 Sep 2017,·30 mins
