Documentaries

Ghost Music
Archaeologist Christine Finn taps her foot to ancient sounds not heard for millennia.
19 Apr 2011,30 mins
The New Guinea Singing Dog
Could a strange dog from remote New Guinea have been man's first best friend?
07 Jan 2008,30 mins
Putin, the Patriarch and Pussy Riot
After Pussy Riot, Lucy Ash explores the power of the Orthodox Church in Putin's Russia.
01 Oct 2012,28 mins
The International Trade in Drugs
How do authorities tackle drug trade? With reports from South Africa and Trinidad
28 Jun 2000,27 mins
Scarred
Ukraine is built on soil, but its soil is under threat
19 Mar 2025,28 mins
From the Cockpit to the Operating Theatre
Why lessons learned from aviation psychology are starting to save lives in hospitals.
19 Jun 2015,28 mins
30 Years of the Bradshaws
John Henshaw explores the unrelenting success of one of the longest running comedy series.
25 Feb 2013,28 mins
The Day When God Is Dead
The little-known story of the day between Good Friday and Easter Sunday.
07 Apr 2023,28 mins
The Speaker, Behind the Scenes
Mark D'Arcy examines the controversial approach of the Commons Speaker John Bercow.
10 Jun 2012,28 mins
Into the Manosphere
Follow activist Phillip Tanzer on a tour of the men’s rights community.
29 Oct 2019,37 mins
Treating Tumours: Old Drug, New Tricks
An old antidepressant has unexpected anticancer properties, but no-one is developing it.
23 Aug 2011,40 mins
Song for Belper
The wonderful history of pop songs and music commissioned by town councils around Britain.
02 Jan 2023,28 mins
Scorchio! The Story of the Weather Girl
Why do we fetishise female weather presenters?
22 Nov 2023,28 mins
Walter Kershaw: The UK's First Street Artist?
Uncovering the life and work of a pioneering and under-appreciated British painter
13 Sep 2012,30 mins
Inside the Academie Francaise
Agnes Poirier explores the role of the body which protects the French language.
23 Dec 2011,30 mins
How to Hire a Master
Jolyon Jenkins explores the mysterious world of the headhunter.
10 Dec 2014,30 mins
JD Salinger: Made in England
How 3 months in rural Devon influenced one of the greatest chroniclers of urban New York
18 Feb 2016,28 mins
Life on the Edge of Oil
A prospective new oil field has big implications for Shetland, finds reporter Jen Stout.
27 Feb 2023,28 mins
Still Loving Thy Neighbour?
Mark Hodkinson revisits the sitcom Love Thy Neighbour, forty years after it was last shown
19 Sep 2016,28 mins
The Misinformation Virus
Why fake science spreads faster online than the truth
17 Dec 2019,37 mins
The Silent Mind
What’s it like to have a silent mind? Psychologist Charles Fernyhough investigates.
01 Aug 2022,28 mins
The Placebo Problem
Geoff Watts explores the phenomenon of the nocebo effect and its implications for medicine
17 Feb 2015,28 mins
The Corbyn Story
Episode 3
Steve Richards examines the events of Jeremy Corbyn's year as Labour leader.
25 Jul 2016,28 mins
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First Contact
Farrah Jarral on preparing for first contact with extra-terrestrials.
17 Dec 2022,43 mins
Idle Talk: Wales's Oral Tradition
You’re invited to an open mic in the Middle Ages.
06 Jun 2023,28 mins
Going on the Gallopers
A portrait of the life, popular art and remarkable engineering of Carters Steam Fair.
25 May 2011,28 mins
Digital Future: the New Underclass
Dr Josie Barnard investigates the deep social divides created by the digital world.
03 Sep 2019,28 mins
The Unmaking of the English Working Class
Historian Jon Lawrence of Cambridge University asks what has happened to the working class
09 Jun 2014,28 mins
Fela Kuti Comes Home
The story of Nigerian musician and political revolutionary, Fela Kuti.
31 May 2011,30 mins
Across the Divide
Inside Israel 1948
The family roots of friends Eden Raviv and Ibrahim Abu Ahmad cross the divides of history.
04 Dec 2023,28 mins
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