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Set in Concrete
Our civilisation is based on concrete. Can we build in a cleaner way?
11 Apr 2025,·53 mins
Episode 9: Doubt and Wonder
Danny takes one last deep dive into the case and puts your questions to Shirley
19 Apr 2021,·57 mins
BBC Trending: From a suspected smuggler’s TikTok to tragedy
How one Pakistani suspected smuggler’s TikTok account revealed clues of his activities
30 Apr 2025,·21 mins
73. Reliving History
Matthew Syed explores the power and potential of re-enacting the past.
26 Feb 2025,·29 mins
Could AI Eat YouTube?
YouTube changed the world with human stories. But is AI now threatening that impact?
25 Apr 2025,·14 mins
5. The £10 Billion Fridge
Dan Neidle unpacks the bizarre, brilliant, and unexpected ways tax shapes our world.
04 Apr 2025,·14 mins
The Willpower Detectives
8. Nearest and Dearest
Sue Mitchell reports on a battle within one family over a wealthy grandfather’s finances.
31 Mar 2025,·37 mins
Retreat
How the effects of French and British mandates in the Middle East still reverberate today.
17 Oct 2023,·28 mins
Making Ends Meet
Sean Farrington talks to people who need a second job so they can afford to live.
15 Apr 2025,·28 mins
Tango Goes East
Juliette Bretan hears how tango danced east to Poland and beyond in the interwar years.
27 Apr 2025,·44 mins
20. The Confidence Trick
A finance manager sports a perfect graph. Is it a fluke or something sinister?
09 Sep 2024,·17 mins
Fixing Globalisation
Jim O'Neill asks if new challenges mean an end to the era of globalisation.
06 Jan 2017,·45 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
S2: Inauguration - Live Q&A
What did listeners want to know about the incoming Trump administration?
20 Jan 2025,·39 mins
3. Modern boarding
Nicky Campbell explores the modern boarding school experience.
17 Feb 2025,·42 mins
Apollo 13
S2 Ep.07 Resurrection
"I still have nightmares about this." Can the crew survive the dangers of re-entry?
10 Jun 2020,·60 mins
Becoming Invisible
Writer Philip Ball meets the physicists who are making real life invisibility cloaks.
10 Jun 2016,·12 mins
Series 2
12. Why do we play?
Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi asks why do humans play?
07 Mar 2025,·14 mins
Omnibus
A deadly avalanche shines a spotlight on the global obsession with Everest
01 Jun 2024,·57 mins
New Prophets
How the most important business idea left academic obscurity to dominate the boardroom.
30 Jan 2025,·14 mins
Foxes, Tigers, Slugs & Snails, Horses
Poet Laureate Simon Armitage meets foxes, tigers, molluscs and horses.
26 Apr 2025,·57 mins
13. Legacy
India considers how witches today are a powerful way of resisting and addressing the past.
30 May 2023,·28 mins
Series 1
Sleep Deprivation and Insomnia
If we don't snooze, we lose. How badly does lack of sleep affect our mind and our body?
19 Dec 2017,·28 mins
Omnibus Week 2
The second week of Ian Hislop's quest to records of early English jokes.
02 Feb 2024,·57 mins
The Boy in the Woods: The Discussion
Winifred Robinson investigates how vulnerable children are dealt with.
17 Oct 2022,·27 mins
S2. Bonus episode: An Audience with Jon Ronson
Things Fell Apart: Ask Me Anything!
17 Jul 2024,·27 mins
12. The Wolf of Via Vesuvio
Mary joins novelist Robert Harris to uncover the story of a Pompeii hustler
11 Jun 2024,·28 mins
Travellers: Aristotle
The very first scientist, who thought every part of the world could be a place of learning
28 Mar 2025,·14 mins
Ignorance
6. Wisdom
Rory Stewart makes a radical case for embracing ignorance.
11 Jul 2024,·28 mins
Introducing..."The Missing Madonna"
In 2003, a priceless da Vinci masterpiece is stolen in a daring heist.
25 Aug 2023,·1 min
