Writer Lou Stoppard explores the relationship between music and high fashion.
21 Oct 2019,·28 mins
Ayisha Yahya investigates the cause of the falling water levels in Lake Victoria.
02 Apr 2007,·30 mins
Hannah Critchlow on the latest brain research and what it tells us about free will.
14 May 2019,·28 mins
Getting Water to India's Urban Poor
Who is responsible for providing water to the poor of Calcutta [now Kolkata]?
12 May 2003,·22 mins
Clap those hands, stamp those feet! Chris Stewart goes on the trail of flamenco in Granada
31 Oct 2015,·30 mins
Keir Starmer explores relationships between justice, retribution and the passage of time.
17 Nov 2014,·28 mins
Nell Frizzell contemplates whether climate change should stop her having a second child.
29 Apr 2022,·28 mins
Jonathan Freedland addresses the knotty problem of MPs' pay and conditions.
13 Sep 2011,·38 mins
Series 1
Louiza and Angeliki
Archers actor Louiza Patikas chooses fellow thespian Angeliki Papoulia as her pen pal.
29 Dec 2017,·15 mins
The American Dream: where does the idea come from and how has its meaning changed?
28 Mar 2017,·38 mins
How the monarchy recovered after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.
21 Aug 2007,·45 mins
The Contested Territory of Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud's new discipline of psychoanalysis is still a contested one
25 Oct 2000,·23 mins
Are today's 18-25s the "Never Had It" generation? #neverhadit.
08 Jan 2014,·43 mins
Historical photographs are rare in China, but now the pictured past is being reclaimed.
11 Jul 2012,·30 mins
Byron Vincent raises some practical, and moral, questions about social mobility.
11 Jan 2019,·28 mins
Marguerite
Marguerite Gautier the Femme Fatale protagonist of The Lady of the Camellias
15 Jan 1993,·28 mins
Mandela's life, told through archive recordings, dramatic re-enactments and interviews
16 Oct 1981,·49 mins
A meditation on the enduring dream - and the potential nightmare - of tower block life.
01 Aug 2017,·38 mins
How pairing troubled dogs with troubled young men produces results for both
20 Oct 2006,·22 mins
Para-Athletics Special
JJ Chalmers and Darren Campbell examine what inspires and motivates people in sport.
11 Jul 2017,·49 mins
An array of colourful characters summon the ghosts of Hull's past.
28 Sep 2017,·30 mins
Claudia Hammond explores our complex relationship with cash.
21 Dec 2016,·43 mins
"Nobody got to be an editor through covering the United Nations": peace and the media
23 Dec 1995,·13 mins
Peter Day explores the wayward genius of Irish writer Flann O'Brien on his centenary
04 Oct 2011,·30 mins
The story of how Botswana has become Africa's leading exponent of crime investigation.
26 Oct 2011,·30 mins
Episode 2
Professor Steve Jones challenges the controversial science of evolutionary psychology.
09 Nov 2009,·30 mins
An exploration of young people's mental health and their attraction to TV artist Bob Ross.
11 May 2020,·28 mins
The UK has a north and south divide but how about east and west? Chris Mason investigates.
09 Nov 2020,·28 mins
In 1940, an attack on the 'guilty' in government caused uproar. What can it tell us today?
03 Jul 2020,·28 mins
Series 2
Nick Danziger in Uganda
Nick Danziger travels to Uganda to find three orphan sisters he photographed in 2005.
06 Feb 2015,·15 mins
