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Dog food, Diet fizzy drinks, Mouthwash

A triple slice investigating three of your suggested wonder-products

• 25 mins
• 11 Aug 2022

8. The PM Years Part 2: The Three Ps

The life and career of Boris Johnson - from boy to man to prime minister.

• 24 mins
• 27 Aug 2022

29. Fooling the Opposition

Matthew delves into deception in sport and how it gives us the upperhand.

• 28 mins
• 10 Aug 2022

Born Yesterday, Talking in Bed, Toads Revisited, High Windows

Simon Armitage, the poet laureate, unpicks Philip Larkin's poems in his centenary year.

• 57 mins
• 12 Aug 2022

Will the US and China go to war over Taiwan?

How likely is it that the current tensions over Taiwan will end in military conflict?

• 23 mins
• 11 Aug 2022

The Cost of Economic War

Duncan Weldon examines the use of economic sanctions as a tool of statecraft.

• 38 mins
• 12 Aug 2022

Behind the Crime: Khamran

Two forensic psychologists interview Khamran about his life and the crimes he committed.

• 43 mins
• 10 Aug 2022

Gandhi: Architect of Indian independence

How a shy, mediocre schoolboy went on to shake the British Empire and inspire the world

• 46 mins
• 11 Aug 2022

The Super-Agers

Are you really as young – or old – as you feel?

• 14 mins
• 18 Jul 2022

After the ‘Narco-President’: Rebuilding Hope in Honduras

When the president stands accused of drug trafficking, what hope is there?

• 28 mins
• 11 Aug 2022

Better out than in

Ian Hislop explores the culture that emerges from, and describes Suburbia.

• 28 mins
• 09 Aug 2022

Bonus episode: Lucy Worsley talks to Greg Jenner

Lucy and Greg chat about the process of making You're Dead To Me.

• 14 mins
• 29 Jul 2022

Max Hudd

Roy Hudd's son chats to Sally Magnusson about life with the 'News Huddlines' star.

• 30 mins
• 08 Sep 2006

Watergate on Screen

Fifty years on from the Watergate scandal, Ellen and Mark explore its legacy on screen.

• 42 mins
• 12 Aug 2022

5. Society

Justin Rowlatt asks if human society could itself be on the cusp of its own tipping point?

• 14 mins
• 10 Jun 2022

Amygdala

Kimberley Wilson and Dr Xand van Tulleken take a journey around the human body

• 35 mins
• 31 Mar 2022

Episode 4: Rebirth

Drum & Bass enters the millennium with a renewed sense of unity and potential.

• 15 mins
• 08 Aug 2022

The nightclub that changed Ibiza

In June 1973, the nightclub Pacha opened in Ibiza and it changed the island forever.

• 9 mins
• 12 Aug 2022

From Socrates to Social Media

Synthesis

Rory Stewart explores the strange human phenomenon of arguing.

• 28 mins
• 02 Aug 2022

In Praise of Clichés

Steve Punt asks if it’s time to rehabilitate the humble cliché

• 57 mins
• 06 Aug 2022