3. Influence
Kevin Le Gendre investigates the role of jazz in post-war Britain.
28 Feb 2017,·30 mins
Omnibus: episodes 6-10
Sathnam Sanghera tells the story of our national drink and its imperial past.
15 Dec 2023,·57 mins
Series 1
Series 1 - Bonus Episode: Recycling Corrupted
Secret satellite waste trackers reveal what’s really going on with your recycling.
03 Nov 2024,·28 mins
The Contested Territory of Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud's new discipline of psychoanalysis is still a contested one
25 Oct 2000,·23 mins
Episode 5
Napoleon ended his life on a distant island. Andrew Roberts asks what history made of him.
19 Jun 2015,·15 mins
The Future Is Fibre
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall looks to the future of food to ask how we can eat more fibre.
30 Jan 2026,·14 mins
Ingenious Omnibus II
Delve into the weird and wonderful world of your genes - with Dr Kat Arney.
31 Dec 2021,·1 min
Series 2
Amelia and Grace 2
Psychotherapist Susie Orbach meets mother and daughter Amelia and Grace.
18 Nov 2016,·15 mins
8. The Terminator
Musk fears a 'Terminator future', where robots destroy humans. So why is he creating AI?
08 Apr 2025,·28 mins
Being remembered
Matthew Bannister on changing attitudes to dying, death and how we memorialise our dead.
24 Apr 2026,·14 mins
Episode 2
Michael Portillo asks whether free-market capitalism is a broken system.
04 Oct 2011,·45 mins
Omnibus
Presenters Andrew and Richard look back over their four-year odyssey to find the yeti.
14 Dec 2023,·57 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
Omnibus (2/2)
Lucy Worsley reveals Victoria's rule via significant encounters.
17 May 2019,·57 mins
Being Welsh
Episode 3
Jeremy Bowen returns home to Wales in search of what it means to be Welsh.
07 Feb 2022,·28 mins
The Super-Agers
Are you really as young – or old – as you feel?
18 Jul 2022,·14 mins
Amygdala
Kimberley Wilson and Dr Xand van Tulleken take a journey around the human body.
31 Mar 2022,·35 mins
Perfectionists: Martha Graham
Martha Graham was to modern dance what Picasso was to painting.
16 Jan 2026,·14 mins
Troubles Shared - EpisodeTwo
Fergal Keane and Peter Taylor look back on reporting the Northern Ireland Troubles
07 Nov 2020,·26 mins
Episode 3: The Politics
What are the politics behind tax policy?
03 Nov 2025,·42 mins
When Banksy Comes to Town
5. Deal and No Deal
What happens when Banksy chooses your wall for mischief? Tensions run high for Sam and Rod
11 Apr 2025,·20 mins
Legacy
Partition's legacy on those who lived through it and subsequent generations in Britain.
14 Aug 2017,·42 mins
The Missionary Soldier
A self-described missionary soldier on faith, fear, and the cost of going towards gunfire
05 Jun 2026,·26 mins
5. Power Plays
AI is incredibly thirsty for energy, which is fuelling a renewables revolution in China.
20 Mar 2026,·14 mins
Red Shelley
Benjamin Zephaniah brings us his personal take on Percy Shelley's work.
10 Jul 2022,·28 mins
Omnibus: Historian Ben Macintyre on guile in war, from the Old Testament to modern times.
07 Feb 2020,·57 mins
10. Did You Hear That?
Kirsty Logan explores the modern quest to capture a ghost in a machine.
30 Oct 2020,·14 mins
4. Filling the Mind
Education, the chattering classes and the novel in Roman society.
09 Feb 2003,·30 mins
Introducing... The Collection: Peel Acres
Jarvis Cocker joins Tom Ravenscroft at Peel Acres the home of John Peel's music collection
16 Jan 2023,·9 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
