Emotional Baggage

Emotional Baggage: Maya Youssef

A musician's painful decision not to return to Damascus when Syria's civil war began

• 26 mins

Emotional Baggage

Emotional Baggage: Halima Begum

Civil rights campaigner Halima Begum on her formative experiences of racism

• 23 mins

Emotional Baggage

Emotional Baggage: June Angelides

Henrietta Bowden Jones talks totalks to June Angelides about how she set up Mums In Tech

• 23 mins

Slick: The Story of Oil, Shell and Nigeria

Slick: 1. The great white hope

When Shell D’Arcy strikes black gold, there are celebrations on the Niger Delta creeks

• 26 mins

Slick: The Story of Oil, Shell and Nigeria

Slick: 2. On trial

Ken Saro Wiwa and Ledum Mittee come face to face with the power of the Nigerian state

• 26 mins

Slick: The Story of Oil, Shell and Nigeria

Slick: 3. Black creeks

How does oil pollution affect Ogoniland today?

• 26 mins

Slick: The Story of Oil, Shell and Nigeria

Slick: 4. The oil thieves

We meet the people involved in Nigeria’s vast illegal oil business

• 26 mins

Money, Money, Money

Money, money, money: Trust

Should we put our faith in money? Trust expert Rachel Botsman investigates

• 26 mins

Money, Money, Money

Money, money, money: Value

Broadcaster and trust expert Rachel Botsman asks what is the value of money?

• 26 mins

Money, Money, Money

Money, money, money: Psychology

Trust expert Rachel Botsman looks into the psychology and the morality of money

• 26 mins

Money, Money, Money

Money, money, money: Power

The global management of money and the pressures towards decentralisation

• 26 mins

Himalaya: The Human Story

High lives

Ed Douglas reveals what life is like for those who live on the 'roof of the world'

• 26 mins

Himalaya: The Human Story

Saving Asia’s water towers

Ed Douglas visits community projects looking to mitigate the impact of climate change

• 26 mins

Himalaya: The Human Story

Life on the line

The future of Ladakh amidst military unrest between India and China

• 26 mins

Walking The Iron Curtain

Walking the Iron Curtain: Wild lands reunited

Mary-Ann Ochota meets the people who reunified Germany through nature

• 26 mins

Walking The Iron Curtain

Walking the Iron Curtain: Booming Balkans

A shared love of nature is helping heal centuries of conflict and division in the Balkans

• 26 mins

Walking The Iron Curtain

Walking the Iron Curtain: Frozen frontiers

In some places the Iron Curtain never really went away. Mary-Ann Ochota reaches Finland

• 26 mins

The Reclaimers

The reclaimers: Bronzes and Birmingham

The uncomfortable stories behind some of the objects exhibited in UK museums

• 26 mins

The Reclaimers

The reclaimers: Return to Zambia

Kema Sikazwe is in Zambia exploring colonial legacies through museum collections

• 26 mins

The Reclaimers

The reclaimers: Into the valley

How Western museums tell the stories of others.

• 26 mins

The Reclaimers

The reclaimers: The games people play

Kema Sikazwe meets people reclaiming spaces to tell new histories

• 26 mins

Green Energy: Some Inconvenient Truths

Green energy: Transport

Allan Little investigates the ‘inconvenient truths’ of transitioning to green energy

• 26 mins

Green Energy: Some Inconvenient Truths

Green energy: Renewables

Why are some renewable energy projects proving controversial?

• 26 mins

Green Energy: Some Inconvenient Truths

Green energy: Iceland

How is Iceland is embracing the challenges of getting to a net zero future?

• 26 mins

Green Energy: Some Inconvenient Truths

Green energy: Finance

How is the world going to get to net zero by 2050 and who is paying the bill?

• 26 mins

The Understory: Life in the Soil

Life in soil: The formation of soil in Rannoch Forest

The ancient forest of Rannoch in Scotland reveals the complexity of soil through the ages

• 26 mins

The Understory: Life in the Soil

Life in soil: The psychology of soil in California

The indigenous Californians reviving ancestral methods of tending to the land

• 26 mins

The Understory: Life in the Soil

LIfe in soil: The death of soil

Isabelle Legeron explores the thrilling complexity of Soil

• 26 mins

The Understory: Life in the Soil

Life in soil: Tasting the earth in France

How a healthy soil teeming with fungi and microbes can enhance the flavour of food

• 26 mins

On The Border

On the Border: Maastricht

What do borders mean in the city where the European Union was born?

• 26 mins