Episode 2
Laurie looks at how cultural studies has reached beyond academia and into everyday life.
14 Oct 2013,·28 mins
1914: Day by Day - Omnibus
Episode 6
Margaret Macmillan tells the story of the events leading up to the First World War.
10 Aug 2014,·28 mins
Janelle Monae
Singer and rapper Janelle Monae discusses her life and career with Matt Everitt.
15 Jul 2019,·33 mins
10. No Frills Air Travel
Robert Carlyle takes us back to moments we missed in the 90s that shaped the world today.
13 May 2022,·14 mins
Nick Fraser considers the role of intellectuals in relation to world events.
01 Jun 2009,·30 mins
Optimised Living
Oliver Burkeman explores the insidious way in which convenience has warped our existence.
02 Jun 2023,·14 mins
The Drive to Empire - Part Five
Perestroika has unleashed a wave of nationalism among Soviet republics.
30 May 1990,·27 mins
Episode Three: Locked Down
Thomas Dixon explores the surprising history of being alone.
14 Sep 2020,·28 mins
Series 3
Panic Button
Tom considers how we protect our personal space through design.
26 Apr 2016,·28 mins
Omnibus
How Can I Know Anything at All?
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how we can know anything at all.
07 Aug 2015,·58 mins
Our Interconnected Planet
Tim Hayward examines the earth’s past, present and future through microbial goggles.
01 Oct 2023,·28 mins
Poland
Neil MacGregor takes five journeys overseas to hear what others think of modern Britain.
06 Sep 2019,·42 mins
No Place Like Home
Vicky Spratt explores how the UK's housing crisis unfolded and asks if we can fix it.
22 Dec 2025,·42 mins
3. The Road through Turkey to Istanbul
Bettany Hughes follows the ancient road from Rome to Istanbul.
18 Dec 2015,·30 mins
30/03/2022
Claudia Hammond asks 'Can bosses be kind?'
30 Mar 2022,·28 mins
Episode 3
Edward is in the Nile Delta, one of the most intensively farmed areas on the planet.
17 Feb 2012,·28 mins
Series 1: Planet Chicken
Hay Festival Special
Chris van Tulleken in conversation with Leyla Kazim, at Hay Festival 2024.
29 Oct 2024,·28 mins
Yerevan
Mount Ararat and the stories of Syrian refugees.
02 Jan 2015,·15 mins
I'm in Charge
Bruce Forsyth and Paul Jackson visit the London Palladium which opened on Boxing Day 1910.
18 Dec 2010,·60 mins
Four More Ideas to Save the World
Four more cunning carbon-busting ideas.
29 Oct 2021,·57 mins
Transportation
Amanda Vickery tells the stories of three criminals who were transported.
04 Sep 2014,·43 mins
Sound Sources
Paul McCartney, Jean-Michel Jarre and Lee Renaldo on their debt to classical music.
13 Jul 2025,·42 mins
Eeyore
Frank Cottrell-Boyce talks with children’s writers Nadia Shireen and Charlie Higson.
26 Dec 2025,·14 mins
4. The end of an epidemic?
How activists and medical staff fought the government to U-turn on Aids treatment in SA
30 Oct 2021,·49 mins
5. Healing Horses
Clare Balding discovers how horses are helping with mental, physical and social problems.
16 Mar 2018,·14 mins
Carl Rogers and the Person-Centred Approach
While Freud relied on expert and patient, Rogers pioneered a therapeutic model of equals.
03 Aug 2015,·28 mins
10. A Better Way?
Whose job is it to regulate the unregulated online sperm donor market?
10 Dec 2021,·14 mins
1990 to the Present Day
Miranda Sawyer explores if, in the age of cheap flights, interrailing is still popular.
20 Aug 2011,·30 mins
Kashmir and The Partition
The origins of the Kashmir crisis
08 Aug 1997,·27 mins
Two men arrive at a South African farmhouse triggering a violent series of events.
12 Mar 2021,·57 mins
