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Stealing Power
Meter tampering is dangerous and illegal yet reports of it are rising at an alarming rate.
30 Jul 2024,28 mins
The Club Nobody Wants to Join
The American principals dealing with shootings in the hallways of their school.
23 Jul 2024,28 mins
Searching for Butterflies
As spring arrives in Syria, Mudar Salimeh searches for butterflies.
19 Jul 2024,28 mins
Brood X
Stories and memories of four summers when the Brood X cicadas came to town.
09 Jul 2024,28 mins
Stoppage Time for Scunthorpe
The inside story of a football club on the brink of extinction.
05 Jul 2024,28 mins
The City That Stayed at Home
Alex Forsyth investigates the reasons for Hull's historically low election day turnouts.
28 Jun 2024,28 mins
Living Without My Smartphone
Reflections from a group of teenagers who give up their smartphones for the school week.
25 Jun 2024,28 mins
The Beauty of Everyday Things
Poet Ian McMillan explores the beauty of everyday things, places and encounters.
21 Jun 2024,28 mins
Conflict on Campus
How the Israel-Gaza war is affecting one student community in Leeds.
18 Jun 2024,29 mins
The Switch
The stories of three people with multiple personalities.
14 Jun 2024,28 mins
The Beaches
The scientific mission that ensured the success of the D-Day landings.
07 Jun 2024,28 mins
Broken Politicians, Broken Politics
With personal testimonies from across Parliament we ask, is British politics broken?
04 Jun 2024,28 mins
Portugal’s Carnation Revolution
Jon Snow on Portugal's 1974 Revolution.
21 May 2024,28 mins
Night Train
Horatio Clare discovers how night trains take our imaginations to new destinations.
17 May 2024,57 mins
True Crime 1599
Charles Nicholl explores the first wave of true crime dramas on the English stage.
14 May 2024,28 mins
Haiti - Descent Into Anarchy
Mike Thomson looks at Haiti's long descent into anarchy.
07 May 2024,28 mins
A Dentist's Life
How one community dentist is navigating the biggest crisis in dentistry in a generation.
03 May 2024,28 mins
Counterfeit Characters
What do AI and digital technology mean for actors and their relationship with audiences?
26 Apr 2024,29 mins
Home Fires
Writer Richard King explores the past and present of the second homes debate in Wales.
23 Apr 2024,28 mins
Mila’s Legacy
One mother’s efforts to save her child could start a revolution in personalised medicine.
16 Apr 2024,28 mins
Protein: Powerhouse or Piffle?
Protein is having a moment in the spotlight. Should you be worried about getting enough?
12 Apr 2024,28 mins
Rwanda Thirty Years On
Rwanda's journey towards healing and reconciliation after the 1994 genocide.
09 Apr 2024,28 mins
Dehumidified
One baffling online scam – involving a £138 dehumidifier – and a wild journey to return it
05 Apr 2024,28 mins
Do We Still Need the Pips?
After 100 years of GTS on the BBC, Paddy O'Connell asks Do We Still Need the Pips?
02 Apr 2024,29 mins
Wokewash - Episode 1
Satirist Heydon Prowse takes looks at big corporates and LGBTQ+ rights.
29 Mar 2024,29 mins
The War the World Forgot
Sudan's latest civil war is devastating, so why aren't we hearing more about it?
19 Mar 2024,28 mins
Farmers and Furious
With farmers protesting across the UK, is the agricultural industry is at breaking point?
15 Mar 2024,28 mins
Decolonising Russia
Inside the new, vital global debate about how to curb Russia's 'imperial' ambitions.
12 Mar 2024,27 mins
How to Build an Oil Field
Scotland's Rosebank oil field development and our relationship with oil.
08 Mar 2024,28 mins
The Forensic Jeweller
A single piece of jewellery can be the key to someone’s lost identity.
05 Mar 2024,29 mins