Physical Therapy
Can mental illness can be cured by physical methods of treatment, in particular by drugs?
05 Oct 1979,·45 mins
Ever Changing Labels
How a diagnosis of depression could be broken down into lots of different conditions
26 Jul 2019,·28 mins
10. Did You Hear That?
Kirsty Logan explores the modern quest to capture a ghost in a machine.
30 Oct 2020,·14 mins
5. Flight of Imagination
Ralph Steadman shares his passion for flying and Leonardo.
03 May 2019,·14 mins
Episode 1
Visits to the areas from the Shipping Forecast: Lundy, Dogger, Forth, Irish Sea, Wight.
01 Jan 2025,·57 mins
Midnight
Josie Long presents short documentaries as the clock slips closer to midnight.
07 Jan 2025,·28 mins
Episode 3
Michael Portillo examines the past and future of democracy over 2,500 years.
25 May 2010,·45 mins
Church Building
The story of what happened after the death of Jesus
08 Apr 1994,·28 mins
From Tora Bora to Abbottabad
Gordon Corera on the search for the world's most wanted terrorist.
22 Jul 2011,·30 mins
Part Nine: Epilogue - 'Aberfan is different...'
55 years on, survivors of the disaster are looking to the future - as well as the past.
08 Dec 2021,·29 mins
France
War and the French Economy from 1920 – 1940.
23 Aug 2019,·14 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
Defence
Martha Kearney and Andrew Dilnot explore government spending.
16 Nov 2018,·14 mins
Steve Richards tells the inside story of Gordon Brown's time as prime minister.
05 Oct 2010,·45 mins
Omnibus: Episodes 6-10
The story of a unique wartime archive of life in the Warsaw Ghetto and its recovery.
05 May 2023,·57 mins
Series 2
Elm, Beech And Holly
Richard Mabey considers the cultural and natural history of the Elm, Beech and Holly.
03 Jul 2013,·30 mins
7. Road to the Past
Kavita meets some of the last survivors of the 1943 Bengal famine.
29 Aug 2024,·40 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
Optimised Living
Oliver Burkeman explores the insidious way in which convenience has warped our existence.
02 Jun 2023,·14 mins
Transplant
In 1967, Christiaan Barnard performed the first heart transplant operation.
16 Mar 2007,·15 mins
12. Why do we play?
Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi asks why do humans play?
07 Mar 2025,·14 mins
Series 1
Cynic
Comedian Andy Zaltzman lives by the rules of the ancient Greek philosophy of the Cynics.
01 Dec 2017,·28 mins
5. The Anthropocene
Could human engineering stabilise the Earth's climate and chemistry in the long term?
30 Oct 2021,·23 mins
The fall of the Shah led to the creation of the world's first Islamic republic.
01 Jul 2009,·30 mins
Eeyore
Frank Cottrell-Boyce talks with children’s writers Nadia Shireen and Charlie Higson.
26 Dec 2025,·14 mins
Reichstag
Neil MacGregor ends his journey through 600 years of German history at the Reichstag.
07 Nov 2014,·15 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
Lies, Damned Lies and Autofiction
Damian Barr considers autofiction, the literary lovechild of memoir and fiction.
04 Jun 2023,·28 mins
Ali Ansari concludes his grand tour of Iranian history travelling from the 1700s to today.
09 Jul 2012,·28 mins
Episode 2
Day three, the halfway point of the walk, but the worst is yet to come.
21 Nov 2011,·30 mins
