How do you build an unbuildable tower?
How engineers fulfilled Gaudi’s once impossible vision for the Sagrada Familia.
11 Jun 2026,·28 mins
Toast - Paperchase
Sean Farrington examines another succesful business that still ended up 'toast'
06 Jun 2026,·24 mins
Doctors' Notes: Friendship
Chris and Xand dig deeper into the effect of friendships on our health and wellbeing.
09 Jun 2026,·22 mins
Hotter Than Hell
How can Britain - and the world - prepare itself for extreme heat?
12 Jun 2026,·52 mins
Episode 5
Lea Korsgaard searches for all of Denmark’s butterfly species in a single year.
12 Jun 2026,·14 mins
Why is AI burying my CV?
AI hiring is killing your CV, slow messages, and why tech CEOs want to be game-show stars
11 Jun 2026,·37 mins
3. Can AI help us win the World Cup?
With the World Cup around the corner, could AI help us win it?
10 Jun 2026,·28 mins
Introducing a new TV series of Just One Thing
Zoe Ball has news of a new 12-part TV series of Just One Thing, available from 23 March.
20 Mar 2026,·1 min
Series 34
The North Pole Unwrapped - Russell Kane, Felicity Aston and Lloyd Peck
Brian Cox and Robin Ince venture north to unearth (or un-snow) the secrets of the Arctic.
17 Dec 2025,·42 mins
Everything Is Fake and Nobody Cares
6. F For Fake
Jamie and Jimmy explore where fakery goes next – but can you tell which is which?
15 Apr 2026,·28 mins
In the Norwegian Arctic life is all about the border.
29 May 2026,·14 mins
Series 24
Frosty Fractals
Hannah Fry and Dara Ó Briain investigate nature's most intricate patterns
02 Jan 2026,·29 mins
Body Clock
Tick, tock! What is your body clock and is it possible to change it?
11 Aug 2021,·18 mins
Dean Lomax on discovering ichthyosaurs and defying nay-sayers
Dean Lomax on his unconventional route into palaeontology and making BIG discoveries.
28 Apr 2026,·28 mins
Blood Transfusions
Adam Walton highlights 80 years of the National Blood Transfusion Service.
09 Jun 2026,·29 mins
Life Without North America
What would happen to the world if the USA disappears?
17 Apr 2026,·14 mins
Rutger Bregman - Moral Revolution
4. Fighting for Humanity in the Age of the Machine.
Dutch historian Rutger Bregman gives his fourth and final Reith Lecture.
16 Dec 2025,·57 mins
Series 3: Exercise
S3. Ep 8 - Activity Revolution
The Van Tulleken twins explore the science of exercise and the dangers of inactivity.
06 Feb 2024,·28 mins
6. The Microdoctrine
Final episode of the LSD saga about an attempt to spark a revolution of the mind.
23 Nov 2022,·25 mins
5: The Future
The final part of a thought-provoking book questioning overdiagnosis in medicine.
21 Mar 2025,·14 mins
13. Legacy
India considers how witches today are a powerful way of resisting and addressing the past.
30 May 2023,·28 mins
Plants and the Mystery of Consciousness
Are plants intelligent? Could they help us unravel the mystery of consciousness?
08 May 2026,·14 mins
Series 2
Perfectionists: Martha Graham
Martha Graham was to modern dance what Picasso was to painting.
16 Jan 2026,·14 mins
Bonus Episodes - Series 2
Bonus Episode 8. From Two to Three - Parents on the Couch: Dr. Orna Guralnik
India chats to Dr. Orna Guralnik about how the arrival of a child impacts a couple.
21 Jan 2026,·15 mins
Episode 5: The Flickering
Five original essays on how the mysterious is woven into the ordinary and the everyday.
18 Jul 2025,·14 mins
Insects and mobile phone
Smart phones could become even smarter – thanks to ants, beetles, moths and spiders!
17 Jan 2022,·20 mins
Ending violence against women
The Rwandan women finding their voice after years of silence
09 Jun 2026,·23 mins
Newgenics
Could powerful genetic technologies usher in a new eugenic era?
27 Dec 2022,·28 mins
How Music Can Hold and Heal Us
We explore how music—especially lullabies—heals like medicine.
13 Mar 2025,·25 mins
Jade and postpartum psychosis
How can we best treat postpartum psychosis?
16 Jul 2024,·28 mins
