#BlackLivesMatter
The hashstag that galvanised a protest movement on a scale not seen since the 1960s.
18 Dec 2015,·12 mins
Episode 2
Mark Vernon asks whether we have lost our ability to doubt well.
13 Mar 2011,·30 mins
David Anderson examines the government's controversial counter-terrorism strategy Prevent.
25 Jul 2017,·38 mins
Etiquette expert William Hanson updates U and non-U for 2017. But does anyone still care?
23 Aug 2017,·28 mins
Zareer Masani returns to Mumbai to measure India's changing attitudes to homosexuality.
01 Feb 2016,·28 mins
David Cannadine argues that history misses vital accounts of religious tolerance.
28 Jul 2019,·28 mins
Learning
Alex Beard imagines a world without the school as we know it. Episode 3: Learning
01 May 2020,·28 mins
30 years on from its launch, Ian Sansom asks: what's the real point of PowerPoint?
08 Sep 2017,·28 mins
Poet Paul Farley flies over London in the police helicopter and reflects on the city below
09 Mar 2012,·30 mins
Dover
Encounters with the people of Calais and Dover finding out what unites and divides them.
25 Mar 2019,·28 mins
Poet Lemn Sissay tells the story of Cab Calloway and his Hepster's Dictionary of jive talk
28 Oct 2014,·30 mins
A reappraisal of the British Empire, from one its finest historians, Jan Morris.
27 Jun 2018,·28 mins
A look at the events which led to the downfall of Saddam Hussain.
01 Jan 2003,·26 mins
Modern Life
How do the extremes of modern life affect our body?
18 Aug 2005,·22 mins
Part 2
The story of the rise of a superstar DJ blends with tales of young contemporary India.
14 Aug 2018,·30 mins
Gary Younge explores stories of racial passing, through the prism of Nella Larsen's book.
06 May 2021,·28 mins
Communism vies with the Catholic church in Italy's post-war comic creation, Don Camillo.
10 Apr 2014,·30 mins
David Goldblatt tells the turbulent story of FIFA, international football's governing body
29 May 2011,·30 mins
Episode 3
Nick Wallis investigates a high seas hoax that became connected to a murder.
09 Mar 2022,·28 mins
Michael Smith investigates the American artist's visit to Cullercoats in Northumberland.
17 Nov 2014,·30 mins
David Aaronovitch untangles the ideological threads that make up the 'Islamic State'.
16 Dec 2015,·58 mins
A portrait of the artist on the river, George Parsonage.
14 Feb 2019,·28 mins
The Spanish toddler who was chosen by the Dalai Lama as a reincarnated Tibetan lama.
28 Sep 2012,·30 mins
The story of how a sideshow doctor changed medical history and saved premature babies.
24 May 2016,·28 mins
New universal credit claimants tell us about their lives on hold.
29 Jun 2020,·28 mins
Richard, Alasdair, and Jen
A man whose predecessor paid for the Colston statue and a man who dumped it in the harbour
09 Jul 2021,·28 mins
Quentin Cooper tells the story of a British scientist hailed as a god in Japan.
08 Sep 2014,·30 mins
James Naughtie examines the crucial politics of the US Supreme Court
11 Sep 2018,·38 mins
One million books given away for free - how did it affect those involved?
23 Apr 2012,·28 mins
How street children from Kolkata got to play cricket at Lord's
30 Jun 2019,·28 mins
