Political correspondent Chris Mason mulls over the divide between city and country life.
01 Mar 2019,·28 mins
Philip Sweeney finds out about the pioneering composer of African Sanctus David Fanshawe.
04 Oct 2011,·30 mins
Tim Whewell follows the stories of Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine.
03 May 2022,·37 mins
Alvin Hall on the controversial attempts to sell the Detroit Institute of Arts collection.
03 Nov 2014,·28 mins
Chandy Nath visits India to explore the extraordinary Jatropha plant.
09 Jul 2007,·30 mins
Episode 4
In the wake of Covid-19, what does the future hold?
02 Oct 2020,·28 mins
Anna Nguyen journeys to Vietnam rediscover the war-torn country her parents fled in 1975.
30 Jun 2016,·30 mins
Series 1
Transparency
Aditya Chakrabortty investigates the origins and impact of the word 'transparency'.
28 Jul 2017,·11 mins
Children are being lured into gambling with virtual currencies invented for computer games
24 Apr 2017,·30 mins
John McCarthy retraces one of the journeys of the mercurial travel writer HV Morton.
21 Sep 2012,·30 mins
Ben Wright looks at whether a political crisis will force the Whips to change their ways.
28 Feb 2022,·28 mins
Vikram Dodd investigates the role remorse plays in criminal sentencing.
08 Mar 2019,·28 mins
First deaths and last dances - when a dancer's body begins to change.
04 Apr 2016,·30 mins
Dr John Wright records his work in setting up an Ebola centre to serve Moyamba junction.
22 Dec 2014,·28 mins
Materials scientist Mark Miodownik asks whether we could live without cash.
01 Mar 2011,·30 mins
Vivienne Parry finds out if we can keep the lights, and everything else, on in the future.
29 May 2019,·43 mins
South Africa
Agony aunt Irma Kurtz talks to her South African counterpart, Criselda Kananda.
11 Aug 2014,·15 mins
Who were the women who worked at Bletchley? What did they do? What became of them?
22 Jul 2015,·28 mins
Challenging Democracy
Is the danger to democracy overrated?
29 Apr 1992,·27 mins
Naked
Noma Dumezweni narrates the third episode of her series about risk and creativity.
01 Nov 2017,·42 mins
Why are orchids so popular? Jim Endersby offers a new scientific history of their allure.
26 Jan 2016,·28 mins
Episode 2
Nick Fraser considers the role of intellectuals in relation to world events.
01 Jun 2009,·30 mins
The life of Johnny Morris, told by his friend and former co-presenter Terry Nutkins.
18 Feb 2011,·28 mins
Shaimaa Khalil travels across Egypt, hearing the voices of her fellow countrymen.
07 Jul 2013,·24 mins
Bobby Friction goes back to Delhi 30 years after the assassination of Indira Gandhi.
31 Oct 2014,·28 mins
Musician Anoushka Shankar
Anoushka Shankar explores the effect of the pandemic and lockdown on musical creativity.
29 Mar 2021,·28 mins
How science and technology can come to the aid of our cultural heritage
20 Jun 1979,·29 mins
What Next for the Big Banks?
Michael Robinson assesses what the future holds in the wake of the rate-fixing scandal.
25 Aug 2012,·30 mins
What is the appeal of ponies and pony books to girls - and some post-menopausal women?
29 Sep 2016,·28 mins
Art
How artists at the Great Exhibition of the North are embracing its theme of innovation.
02 Aug 2018,·28 mins
