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Jo
Jules Montague and William Miller meet Jo, who was diagnosed with semantic dementia at 53.
14 Apr 2023,·14 mins
Listen In
Newly uncovered listener research reveals the impact of early radio on home life.
02 Mar 2025,·30 mins
Shake, Rattle & Roll: Episode 10
Get real gone for a change with Mark Lamarr's rockin' selection of absolute nonsense!
30 Apr 2025,·60 mins
Assisted dying
Sonia Sodha explores thorny ethical questions around the beginning and the end of life.
27 Jan 2025,·42 mins
Omnibus
Omnibus: Historian Ben Macintyre on guile in war, from the Old Testament to modern times.
07 Feb 2020,·57 mins
8. I Sung of Chaos
Is Silicon Valley’s radical experiment to connect the world about to implode?
18 Mar 2024,·32 mins
Omnibus: Episodes 6-10
The story of a unique wartime archive of life in the Warsaw Ghetto and its recovery.
05 May 2023,·57 mins
Series 1
7. No Tears Left
Poonam comes home to break the news to Ash.
04 Dec 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
Series 10
Taking the Pissoir?
Why would anyone submit a urinal as a work of art to a gallery, and then lie about it?
23 Sep 2017,·30 mins
The Super-Agers
Are you really as young – or old – as you feel?
18 Jul 2022,·14 mins
Two men arrive at a South African farmhouse triggering a violent series of events.
12 Mar 2021,·57 mins
10. Zombie Deer
A new animal madness emerges in North America as history repeats.
23 Oct 2023,·15 mins
Omnibus 2
The story of the systematic doping of the 2012 and 2014 Olympics by the Russian state.
17 Jul 2020,·57 mins
Episode 3
Linda Marshall Griffiths' future-set reimagining of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
21 Jul 2024,·57 mins
Us and them
Tim Hayward looks at the potential of fungi to help the human body and mind.
21 Jan 2022,·28 mins
Being right
Why getting it right might mean admitting you're wrong.
03 Feb 2022,·28 mins
Series 6
Dust
How can our imagination help us hold the moment we live in?
20 Nov 2023,·28 mins
8. Shredded
Hoover’s death starts a race to control his secret files. But his power continues.
23 Jun 2022,·14 mins
Part Nine: Epilogue - 'Aberfan is different...'
55 years on, survivors of the disaster are looking to the future - as well as the past.
08 Dec 2021,·29 mins
10. Kashke
If only: poet Massoud Khalili and Lyse Doucet reflect on Afghans' hopes for their country
03 Nov 2021,·27 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
The Golf Club
David Mitchell ends his look at modern manners in a golf club bar. Has it all gone wrong?
07 Jan 2016,·28 mins
Episode 4
Andrew Roberts explains why Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo.
18 Jun 2015,·15 mins
The Great Change
Michael Portillo talks to a number of historians about the turmoil of the pre-war years.
21 Jun 2013,·15 mins
2. The Stream Age
Matt Everitt explores the key decisions that transformed the record industry.
25 Apr 2016,·30 mins
Poet laureate Simon Armitage's last days in the Arctic in search of facts and new poems.
31 Oct 2023,·28 mins
Running the Show
Helen Mort continues her history of running, rounding the corner into the 20th century.
07 Oct 2024,·42 mins
Life after Life
First broadcast in 1999. Do you believe in life after death?
15 Jun 1999,·12 mins
7. Road to the Past
Kavita meets some of the last survivors of the 1943 Bengal famine.
29 Aug 2024,·40 mins
