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The Global Jigsaw: The Kurdish issue: Part two
What does the future hold for Kurdish people?
25 Apr 2025,·29 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
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
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
Part 25: Through a Glass Darkly
Jeremy Bowen looks at some of the lessons of the past 25 years.
30 Jun 2017,·15 mins
Newgenics
Could powerful genetic technologies usher in a new eugenic era?
27 Dec 2022,·28 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
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
The Trauma Victims and their Blood
Martha Milete’s life changes one night in 2006 when two masked men break into her house.
15 Sep 2024,·28 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
Episode 2
Sir David Attenborough examines new evidence on a controversial theory of human origins.
15 Sep 2016,·42 mins
Omnibus: From the Invention of Offshore to Today
Oliver Bullough traces Britain's vital role in the growth of 'offshore' money laundering.
03 Jun 2022,·57 mins
The Medics
How did the UK Covid lockdown affect a generation of children and young people?
17 Mar 2025,·28 mins
Omnibus
Presenters Andrew and Richard look back over their four-year odyssey to find the yeti.
14 Dec 2023,·57 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
9. Footnotes
Our story goes full circle as two shoe-making brothers light the path for the future.
14 May 2021,·57 mins
Brain Science and Behaviour Change
Matthew Taylor looks at the new political choices created by sophisticated brain science.
29 Nov 2011,·30 mins
Omnibus: episodes 6-10
Sathnam Sanghera tells the story of our national drink and its imperial past.
15 Dec 2023,·57 mins
Series 1
Series 1 - Bonus Episode: Recycling Corrupted
Secret satellite waste trackers reveal what’s really going on with your recycling.
03 Nov 2024,·28 mins
Ep 6: Afterlife
The last in the series in which Ian Hislop and Helen Lewis celebrate Orwell and Kafka.
09 Jun 2024,·28 mins
10. Did You Hear That?
Kirsty Logan explores the modern quest to capture a ghost in a machine.
30 Oct 2020,·14 mins
Hunting the Truth
Were the banks telling the truth about their role in the financial crash of 2008?
04 Mar 2022,·14 mins
10. The Jungle Book & EPCOT
Mel Giedroyc explores Walt Disney’s final film, The Jungle Book.
29 Jun 2023,·28 mins
8. Changing Planet
The Planet Earth team discuss what the future holds for our changing planet.
10 Dec 2023,·14 mins
4. Filling the Mind
Education, the chattering classes and the novel in Roman society.
09 Feb 2003,·30 mins
Series 5
Episode 3
Personal reflections from British South Asians on surviving - and thriving - in Britain.
22 Apr 2022,·28 mins
Nicolas Bourbaki
Professor Marcus du Sautoy argues that mathematics drives science.
25 Jun 2010,·15 mins
Sloth
Becky Ripley and Sophie Ward delve into the psychology of the seven sins. Last up: sloth.
02 Jan 2024,·28 mins
Jo
Jules Montague and William Miller meet Jo, who was diagnosed with semantic dementia at 53.
14 Apr 2023,·14 mins
Amygdala
Kimberley Wilson and Dr Xand van Tulleken take a journey around the human body.
31 Mar 2022,·35 mins
