Factual: Health & Wellbeing A to Z
- All in the Mind
Programme exploring the limits and potential of the human mind
- Am I Normal?
Series exploring how doctors decide what is normal and what is not
- Am I Really Free?
When are mentally ill patients really free to make decisions about their treatment?
- Blood For Blood
Why are black and Asian people in Britain reluctant to act as blood and organ donors?
- Boot Camp on a Boat: Still Sailing?
Jolyon Jenkins returns to Hull to report on an innovative yacht scheme for young NEETs.
- Bridging the Morphine Gap
Mukti Jain Campion asks why India's people have virtually no access to medical morphine.
- Can You Touch Your Toes?
Anita Anand investigates a new system designed to work out who is and isn't fit for work.
- Case Notes
Medical programme exploring a different topic each week
- Catching up with Cancer
Penny Marshall investigates cancer care in the UK
- Check Up
Medical discussion phone-in programme with weekly guest experts
- Doctor - Tell Me the Truth
James Reason explores how patient safety can be improved by doctors admitting mistakes
- Erased Memories and Spotless Minds
Dr Mark Lythgoe investigates the science of erasing memories.
- Ethnic Drugs: The Magic Bullet?
Connie St Louis investigates ethnic marketing in the pharmaceutical industry.
- Getting Your Brain to Bloom
Andrew Brown investigates the frontier of our knowledge about new brain cells.
- Health Check
Health Check grapples with health issues on a global scale. Presented by Claudia Hammond.
- Hurricane Rash
Dr Kevin Fong looks at the birth of modern plastic surgery during World War II.
- Images That Changed The World
Dr Mark Lythgoe tells the untold story of medical imaging
- In Pursuit of Happiness
Claudia Hammond looks at the government's plan to measure the nation's happiness.
- Inflamed Response
Research is giving new insights into the relationship between mind and body.
- Inflamed Response
Claudia Hammond investigates inflammation
- Inside Health
Dr Mark Porter demystifies health issues, bringing clarity to conflicting advice
- Inside the Brain of a Five-Year-Old
Claudia Hammond investigates how neursocience is heading for the classroom.
- Inside The Child Prisons
Winifred Robinson follows the fortunes of violent and damaged youngsters
- Inside the Ethics Committee
A panel of experts explore the workings of clinical ethics committees
- Is Surgery Scientific?
Surgery is a craft and historically has not been subject to scientific scrutiny until now.
- Longing for Silence
Kate Cook explore what hope there is for a cure for her chronic tinnitus.
- Mind Changers
Series exploring the development of the science of psychology during the 20th century
- Placebo
Ben Goldacre investigates the latest research on the placebo effect
- Post Mortem
Professor Lucas performs a 'consented' post mortem, defending its contribution to medicine
- Quest for a Cure
Peter Day visits Washington DC to see whether the regulators will licence an HIV-Aids drug
- Saturday Surgery
Join Dr Phil Hammond for the most entertaining local show on the dial.
- Secrets of the Super Old
How the oldest people on the planet are helping scientists to unlock the secrets of ageing
- Shrink Wrapped
Dr Chetna Kang and Toby Friedner focus on disability and mental health.
- State of Mind
Claudia Hammond tells the story of mental health care in the UK from the 1950s to today
- Sugaring the Pill
The NHS is paying people to be healthy. But does it really work? Claudia Hammond reports.
- Super Recognisers
Claudia Hammond investigates the science of face recognition.
- Supersize Surgeries
Penny Marshall asks if new super-sized polyclinics will mean the end of the family GP.
- The Chemistry of Addiction
Dr Graham Easton explores how the brain deals with drugs and who might become an addict
- The Criminal Mind
Joshua Rozenberg examines new medical insights into the criminal mind.
- The Defeat of Sleep
Pallab Ghosh investigates the potential effects of anti-sleep drugs on society.
- The E Generation at 40
Has the drug Ecstasy bred a generation of depressed and forgetful forty-somethings?
- The End of Drug Discovery
Geoff Watts asks why the source of new medical drugs is drying up.
- The Forum
Bridget Kendall chairs The Forum, a place where guests discuss and challenge big ideas.
- The Lobotomists
Why were tens of thousands of people lobotomised in the 1940s and 50s in the UK and US?
- The Making of Modern Medicine
Narrative history series exploring over 2,000 years of western medicine
- The Medicalisation of Normality
Are we are turning normal human behaviour into medical conditions?
- The Pain of Emotion
Vivienne Parry explores the similarities between emotional and physical pain.
- The Path of Least Resistance
As antibiotic resistance increases, Dr Stuart Flanagan investigates what the future holds.
- The Rise of the Lifestyle Nutritionists
Dr Ben Goldacre explores our past and present fascination with nutrition and lifestyle
- The Simulated Patient
Documentary looking at an unusual aspect of medical training.
- The Surgery with Aled
Sex, love, life and other important stuff.
- The Twilight World of Syd Barrett
Pink Floyd members explore the tragic mental breakdown of former front man Syd Barrett.
- The Wonder Cure?
Matthew Hill investigates the drug Champix and its possible links to psychiatric illness.
- Through the Looking Glass
Edi Stark finds out about a little-know eye condition affecting thousands of UK people.
- To Err is Human
Phil Hammond explores the consequences of human error in the medical profession.
- Treating Tumours: Old Drug, New Tricks
An old antidepressant has unexpected anticancer properties, but no-one is developing it.
- Type A Meet Type B!
What makes people early or late risers?
- Warding of the Germs
Winifred Robinson investigates what more could be done to prevent infections in hospitals
- Who Goes First?
Richard Uridge explores the pros and cons of self-experimentation by medical researchers.
- Whose Health Is It Anyway?
Barbara Myers examines the health trainers initiative.
