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How two high-profile metro mayors are rebalancing power in England's great northern cities
03 Jun 2023,·28 mins
Sacha Dench investigates the plight of one of the world's most persecuted birds.
16 Apr 2025,·28 mins
The hunt for the truth about the most influential and enigmatic of graphic designers.
30 mins
Will the sale of harvested rhino horn help to stop poaching?
22 Mar 2016,·28 mins
Chris Ledgard explores the tradition of overseas cricketers playing for amateur UK clubs.
22 Dec 2010,·30 mins
Cultural entomologist Bridget Nicholls investigates a bizarre natural phenomenon.
15 Jul 2026,·28 mins
Marc Riley, Damon Albarn and Ceri Levy travel to Mull to swim with seals and sharks.
25 Oct 2014,·30 mins
Ian McMillan gets close to the art in hotel rooms.
26 Dec 2023,·28 mins
Historian Steven Fielding explores the political role of ex-prime ministers, then and now.
03 Oct 2022,·28 mins
Rachel Hurdley explores the story of the mantelpiece and how it reveals our secret selves.
24 Mar 2020,·28 mins
British Conservatism: The Grand Tour - Omnibus
Week 2 Omnibus
Anne McElvoy traces British conservatism from the Edwardian era to the permissive society.
13 Sep 2013,·58 mins
Descending the Five Deeps
Explorer Victor Vescovo describes his journey to the deepest points in our oceans.
05 Jan 2024,·14 mins
Eddie Nestor looks at the health crises caused by air pollution.
09 Aug 2022,·28 mins
James Peak and Joan Bakewell find incredible archive from 1963. Wait! Is that The Beatles?
20 Aug 2024,·28 mins
The American principals dealing with shootings in the hallways of their school.
14 Jul 2024,·28 mins
Faris
Faris, who lives with PTSD, reflects on how he manages his mind.
30 Jul 2023,·28 mins
Poet Dr Sam Illingworth looks at our shifting relationship with scientific language.
29 Nov 2022,·28 mins
The railways are soon to be reorganised, but what are they for?
29 May 2023,·28 mins
Cry Freedom
Reactions to 'Cry Freedom', Richard Attenborough defends his film about Steve Biko
01 Jan 1998,·30 mins
Why many across Europe are now unwilling to pay the costs associated with the Green Deal.
05 Dec 2023,·28 mins
Episode 2
Can the heroic age of Antarctic exploration show the way back to the Moon and onto Mars?
20 Mar 2012,·28 mins
Don McCullin, photographer and 'sky stalker', on the landscape around his house.
05 Sep 2017,·28 mins
Journalist Jude Rogers explores the fascinating women in TS Eliot’s poem The Waste Land.
03 Nov 2022,·28 mins
Is karaoke now an art form? Katie Puckrik hits the clubs in Portland, Oregon to find out.
15 Jul 2014,·30 mins
A single piece of jewellery can be the key to someone’s lost identity.
05 Feb 2024,·28 mins
Richard Wilson stars at Frinton Summer Theatre to mark its 75th anniversary of weekly rep.
08 Dec 2014,·30 mins
Jolyon Jenkins explores how work and life are increasingly being turned into games.
11 Apr 2023,·28 mins
Patterns of Disease
The shocking truth about patterns in global disease
23 Oct 1998,·13 mins
Lauren Laverne celebrates Kenneth Grahame's classic tale, 'The Wind in the Willows'.
03 Mar 2016,·30 mins
What do AI and digital technology mean for actors and their relationship with audiences?
30 Mar 2024,·28 mins
