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
Omnibus
Episode 5
Final omnibus edition of Prof Kathy Willis's history of our relationship with plants.
07 Nov 2014,·58 mins
Tutankhamun and Egyptomania; Nosferatu; Pirandello's Henry IV; Einstein, Time and Aboriginal Modernism
An omnibus edition of four things from 1922 with an impact a century later.
04 Feb 2022,·57 mins
Episode 4
Prof Robert Winston on what happens when we perform music - does it change our brains?
06 Jun 2013,·30 mins
5. Society
Justin Rowlatt asks if human society could itself be on the cusp of its own tipping point?
10 Jun 2022,·14 mins
Iran
Iran's Islamic Revolution of 1979
06 Oct 1997,·13 mins
Eeyore
Frank Cottrell-Boyce talks with children’s writers Nadia Shireen and Charlie Higson.
26 Dec 2025,·14 mins
A State-Within-a-State
How far is Putin's Russia prepared to embrace its Muslim citizens?
20 Dec 2004,·22 mins
Newgenics
Could powerful genetic technologies usher in a new eugenic era?
27 Dec 2022,·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
Two men arrive at a South African farmhouse triggering a violent series of events.
12 Mar 2021,·57 mins
Kashmir and The Partition
The origins of the Kashmir crisis
08 Aug 1997,·27 mins
3. Modern boarding
Nicky Campbell explores the modern boarding school experience.
17 Feb 2025,·42 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
Chomba, Cameroon
An interview with Fobuzie II Martin Asanji, the fon of Chomba in Cameroon
20 Mar 2010,·26 mins
‘Is back pain a transmissible disease?' - Dan’s story
Dan lives with agonising back ache, until a pilot study into pain transforms his life.
Returning to Pripyat
Alla Alban returns to her former home near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
30 Sep 2015,·28 mins
5. The Legacy of 2 Tone
Music legends explore the impact of 2 Tone.
01 May 2024,·11 mins
Series 1
Coming Out
Simon Callow charts the emergence of a wave of openly queer artists in the 1950s and 60s.
31 Jul 2017,·28 mins
New Beginnings
Aged 19, Jacob Dunne was convicted of manslaughter for killing a man with a single punch.
24 Jul 2020,·14 mins
Plant-based diets and health
Giles learns to cook a plant-based Thai green curry.
12 Jul 2022,·28 mins
Seamus Heaney - The Translator
Theo Dorgan on Seamus Heaney's translations, their importance and impact on his own work
10 Sep 2023,·28 mins
The Inaccessible Pinnacle Before Breakfast
Robert Macfarlane crosses the iconic Cuillin Ridge on the Isle of Skye
26 Sep 2023,·28 mins
War
Declan Harvey explores iconic songs that were once 'banned' by the BBC.
29 Jun 2025,·29 mins
The Nation State
Could the new generation of African politicians live up to expectations they had raised?
28 Jul 2001,·28 mins
Rudely Truncated
Humphrey Carpenter on how the Third Programme captured the intellectual high ground.
06 Oct 1996,·45 mins
How do refugee crises end?
Katy Long concludes her history of 100 years of refugee politics.
19 Oct 2021,·28 mins
Episode 2
Responsibility for the Great War has been a fierce battle for meaning ever since 1914.
04 Feb 2014,·43 mins
5. Mudflats and Salt Marshes
Wading birds and shelducks find their favourite snacks along the Northumberland coastline.
01 Apr 2016,·15 mins
Episode 3
Steve Richards looks back at David Cameron's years in power and explores his legacy.
22 Jan 2018,·28 mins
