Recalculating Art

Why does art go up in value when a man signs it, but when a woman signs it, it goes down?

• 29 mins

Bhopal - 1. A Friend Dies

The story of Rajkumar Keswani, the man who foretold the world's worst industrial accident.

• 15 mins

Bhopal - 2. The Smell of Grass

The story of Rajkumar Keswani, the man who foretold the world's worst industrial accident.

• 14 mins

Bhopal - 3. Friendly Business

The story of Rajkumar Keswani, the man who foretold the world's worst industrial accident.

• 14 mins

Bhopal - 4. Bhopal on the Brink of Disaster

The story of Rajkumar Keswani, the man who foretold the worlds worst industrial accident

• 14 mins

Bhopal - 5. The Fatal Night

The story of Rajkumar Keswani, the man who foretold the world's worst industrial accident.

• 15 mins

The Dark Side of Direct Sales

Are workers being exploited by practices within some direct sales firms?

• 37 mins

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?

• 29 mins

The Scramble for Rare Earths - 1. The Magnificent 17

Misha Glenny discovers why the future of the world depends on rare earth metals.

• 15 mins

The Scramble for Rare Earths - 2. The Hidden Paradox

Misha Glenny on why mining rare earth materials could either help or harm the environment

• 14 mins

The Scramble for Rare Earths - 3. The Super Magnets

Misha Glenny discovers how neodymium magnets will help power the green transition.

• 14 mins

The Scramble for Rare Earths - 4. The EU's Dependency on China

Misha Glenny asks whether the EU can find other ways of satisfying its rare earth demand.

• 14 mins

The Scramble for Rare Earths - 5. The Great New Game

Misha Glenny hears how Ukraine is sitting on huge amounts of rare earth minerals.

• 15 mins

Ugandan Asians: The Reckoning

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown takes a fresh look at the story of the Ugandan Asian expulsion.

• 29 mins

The Other Black Door

How a group of organisations in one Westminster building affected a decade of UK politics.

• 29 mins

Desert Island Discoveries - Lauren Laverne and Vick Hope

Lauren Laverne shares handpicked gems from the back-catalogue with Vick Hope from Radio 1

• 31 mins

Music to Scream to - The Hammer Horror Soundtracks

Hammer Horror's modernist soundtracks.

• 29 mins

The Name Is DeSantis

James Naughtie profiles the Florida governor who just might be aiming for The White House.

• 29 mins

When Reality Breaks: Demystifying Paranoid Schizophrenia

Dr Julia Shaw on the ripple effects of paranoid schizophrenia in a family.

• 29 mins

Falling Stars

Poet Dr Sam Illingworth looks at our shifting relationship with scientific language.

• 29 mins

A Bad Guy with a Gun

America's relationship with guns - told through archive.

• 28 mins

The Susurrations of the Sea

The sounds of the sea, the words of people who listen to them, and new poetry.

• 28 mins

Bad Blood - 1. You’ve Got Good Genes

Eugenics is born in Victorian Britain and swiftly builds an international following.

• 29 mins

Bad Blood - 2. You Will Not Replace Us

In Jazz Age USA, the wealthy political elite embrace eugenic ideas with gusto.

• 29 mins

Bad Blood - 3. Birth Controlled

The battle to control birth in 20th-century USA.

• 29 mins

Bad Blood - 4. Rassenhygiene

The Nazis build a eugenic state.

• 28 mins

Bad Blood - 5. The Curse of Mendel

Mendel's insights are taken up by the eugenicists.

• 28 mins

Bad Blood - 6. Newgenics

Could powerful genetic technologies usher in a new eugenic era?

• 29 mins

The Crowning of Everest - Episode 1

1953 Britain prepares to crown a new Queen and waits to hear if Everest has been conquered

• 14 mins

The Crowning of Everest - Episode 2

The British connection to Mount Everest and why it was so important to conquer it in 1953

• 13 mins