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The UK Election
10. What Happens on Election Day?
Election Day - from when the polls open, to forming a government
10 Jun 2024,·14 mins
The Gesar of Ling
The story of King Gesar of Ling, the central epic poem of Tibet and much of Central Asia
26 Feb 2004,·25 mins
Being right
Why getting it right might mean itting you're wrong.
03 Feb 2022,·28 mins
The pursuit of excellence
Martin Green looks at why brass bands are so good.
17 Mar 2022,·28 mins
Underground Fungi and the Market Economy
How do the underground trade deals between fungi and plants mirror our own market economy?
02 Aug 2024,·14 mins
Bonus Episode: A New Lead
Cheryl Grimmer's family are determined to get her case back into court.
20 Nov 2023,·34 mins
The Invention Of Russia
The sacred song of war
The legacy of the great patriotic wars against Adolf Hitler and Napoleon Bonaparte
08 Mar 2023,·26 mins
Newgenics
Could powerful genetic technologies usher in a new eugenic era?
27 Dec 2022,·28 mins
Museum of the Future
V&A Director Tristram Hunt asks how museums are changing
31 Jan 2020,·28 mins
Omnibus: 1980s onwards
From the ZX Spectrum to the dot com bubble, Hannah Fry looks at our computing history.
17 Mar 2017,·58 mins
The Road to Nineteen Eighty-Four
What led avowed socialist George Orwell to write a novel that is beloved of the Right?
09 Feb 2013,·58 mins
8. An Answer
Speculation that newly declassified US intelligence will contain smoking-gun evidence.
18 Jul 2023,·29 mins
Episode 2
Paul Mason explores dark matters of nationalism and desire in the opera Die Meistersinger
07 May 2013,·30 mins
The Super-Agers
Are you really as young – or old – as you feel?
18 Jul 2022,·14 mins
Omnibus
Omnibus: Historian Ben Macintyre on guile in war, from the Old Testament to modern times.
07 Feb 2020,·57 mins
9. The Wilderness Year: This Ain't Over
Bonus episode - Boris Johnson after Downing Street.
15 Jun 2023,·33 mins
The Joni Mitchell Story
6. Both Sides Now
Joni comes full circle with the help of a community of musicians, friends and fans.
07 Dec 2023,·29 mins
AI: A Future for Humans?
The science sleuths unwrap some of the biggest ideas in this year's BBC Reith Lectures.
22 Dec 2021,·28 mins
To the Sea, Going Going, Aubade, The Whitsun Weddings
Simon Armitage, the Poet Laureate, unpicks Philip Larkin's poems in his centenary year.
19 Aug 2022,·57 mins
Series 1
Episode 3
Steve Richards looks back at David Cameron's years in power and explores his legacy.
22 Jan 2018,·28 mins
5. Where Woke Goes to Die
Matthew Syed traces the evolution of a term that's synonymous with our era of angry debate
24 Feb 2023,·14 mins
Steve Richards examines the events of Jeremy Corbyn's year as Labour leader.
25 Jul 2016,·28 mins
Kevin Le Gendre investigates the role of jazz in post World War II Britain.
28 Feb 2017,·30 mins
Episode 4
Andrew Roberts explains why Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo.
18 Jun 2015,·15 mins
8. Changing Planet
The Planet Earth team discuss what the future holds for our changing planet.
10 Dec 2023,·14 mins
Helen Lewis Has Left the Chat
Left the Chat: No 6. The Telegram War
How one messaging app became Vladimir Putin’s nemesis - and perhaps his secret weapon.
08 May 2024,·28 mins
Nicolas Bourbaki
Professor Marcus du Sautoy argues that mathematics drives science.
25 Jun 2010,·15 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
10. An End in Sight
A desperate mother has tried so hard to find her daughter and waited so long to reunite.
27 Mar 2020,·38 mins
Iran
Iran's Islamic Revolution of 1979
06 Oct 1997,·13 mins
