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    The Ugly Truth

    Tue 31 Mar 2020

    Is there such a thing as a beauty bias?

  • Preview: Girl Taken - Episode 1

    Wed 25 Mar 2020

    A grieving mother, a real life search for the truth and a race to find a little girl.

  • Class Talk

    Tue 10 Mar 2020

    How to have meaningful conversations across the class divide, with Kerry Hudson.

  • Lift Going Up

    Tue 3 Mar 2020

    Emma Clarke plays the voice of the lift in this cultural history of the elevator.

  • A Sense of Direction

    Tue 25 Feb 2020

    Might humans have an inbuilt compass like homing pigeons? How can we rediscover it if so?

  • The Inside Story of Election 19

    Tue 18 Feb 2020

    What lies behind Boris Johnson's overwhelming election victory?

  • My Name Is... Immie

    Tue 11 Feb 2020

    Imogen Rhodes is 22. She spent most of her early life in temporary accommodation.

  • Code Red

    Fri 7 Feb 2020

    James Gallagher explores an innovation in trauma science saving bleeding trauma patients.

  • Art of Now: Filth

    Fri 31 Jan 2020

    Emma Critchley meets the artists turning smog, landfill and sewage into challenging art.

  • The Remarkable Resistance of Lilo

    Tue 28 Jan 2020

    Lilo and her husband Erich Gloeden hid Jews from the Nazis in wartime Berlin.

  • The People's Pyramid

    Tue 21 Jan 2020

    Once they made pop records. Now they're building a pyramid out of dead people.

  • The Last Exposure

    Fri 17 Jan 2020

    The end of the dark room - and a glimpse into the colourful world of Garry Fabian-Miller.

  • The Diagnosis

    Tue 14 Jan 2020

    A doctor and their patient come together to tell the story of a single diagnosis.

  • A Small Matter of Hope

    Fri 3 Jan 2020

    Life's getting better. So why don't we believe it? Fraser Nelson finds out.

  • A Guide to Disagreeing Better

    Tue 17 Dec 2019

    Why do we hold our opponents in contempt? And what steps should we take to stop?

  • Hurting

    Fri 22 Nov 2019

    Sally Marlow examines what is driving so many people to self-harm.

  • Art of Now: Playing Well - Frightened Rabbit

    Fri 15 Nov 2019

    Chris Hawkins examines the life and legacy of Frightened Rabbit's Scott Hutchison

  • The 21st Century Curriculum

    Tue 12 Nov 2019

    If teenagers had more say in what they learn, would they be more engaged with school?

  • Welcome Money

    Fri 8 Nov 2019

    Journalist Malcolm Jack tells a little-known story from the fall of the Berlin Wall.

  • Into the Manosphere

    Tue 5 Nov 2019

    Follow activist Phillip Tanzer on a tour of the men鈥檚 rights community.

  • The Hand Detectives

    Tue 29 Oct 2019

    How the forensic science of hand identification is being used to investigate crime.

  • Middlesbrough, Money and Me

    Fri 25 Oct 2019

    Steph McGovern asks how we improve our practical maths to help us tackle daily life.

  • Make Me a Programme

    Fri 18 Oct 2019

    Can a robot host a radio show? Conversation designer Georgia Lewis-Anderson finds out.

  • Russell Kane's Right to Buy

    Tue 15 Oct 2019

    Russell Kane wrestles with the impact of his dad鈥檚 purchase of their council house.

  • The Corrections: The Carbonara Case

    Fri 11 Oct 2019

    The Corrections is the series which looks at how journalists tell news stories.

  • Shappi Khorsandi Gets Organised

    Tue 8 Oct 2019

    Shappi Khorsandi is disorganised. Can the professionals help get her life in order?

  • Generation Z and the Art of Self-Maintenance

    Fri 4 Oct 2019

    The first digital generation is self-taught. Huddersfield Gen Z-ers tell us their stories

  • The Ballad of the Fix

    Fri 27 Sep 2019

    The story of Scotland's deadly drug crisis narrated by the voice of the narcotic itself.

  • The Sound Odyssey: Loyle Carner in Guyana

    Fri 20 Sep 2019

    Gemma Cairney and Loyle Carner travel to Georgetown, Guyana, for a musical collaboration.

  • Going to the Gay Bar

    Tue 17 Sep 2019

    Travis Alabanza investigates the impact of the closure of LGBTQ+ venues in the UK.

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Nazanin and the mystery of a decades old tank debt

Nazanin and the mystery of a decades old tank debt

Has an old tank debt with Iran cost Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe her freedom?

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