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Justice
Tom Fletcher examines how democracies can offer better opportunities than autocracies.
31 Mar 2023,·28 mins
Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel asks if a citizen of the world is a citizen of nowhere.
27 Mar 2018,·44 mins
Manifestos
Why a manifesto is so important in the race to run the country.
25 Jun 2024,·5 mins
Bracing for 2024
Owen Bennett-Jones explores the risk of a constitutional crisis after the next US election
04 Nov 2022,·14 mins
Nick Robinson reflects on the reporting of the MPs' expenses scandal and its repercussions
28 Jun 2009,·30 mins
Iran is now calling the shots in Iraq. How did the clerics outmanoeuvre the US?
21 Apr 2020,·37 mins
Five writers reflect on the recent momentous events in the Middle East and North Africa.
19 Mar 2011,·60 mins
Episode 3
Young people from Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales share their vision of devolution.
04 Oct 2013,·28 mins
Marie-Louise Muir revisits youth orchestras set up during the Troubles in Northern Ireland
04 Jun 2015,·30 mins
The newspaper columnist Steve Richards goes on stage with 'pro-politics comedy'
29 Sep 2013,·30 mins
The songs inspired by the Luddites and their uprisings - which began 200 years ago.
19 May 2011,·30 mins
The Battle for Batley
A week before the Batley and Spen By-Election the team talk to those in the constituency.
26 Jun 2021,·31 mins
As Scotland awaits a referendum on Independence, what has Quebec's experience been?
25 Jul 2011,·28 mins
Is now the point when the structure of British party politics will fundamentally change?
10 Aug 2016,·48 mins
Ahmad Chalabi: traitor to Iraq, or liberator? His distant cousin Selma Chalabi explores.
28 Feb 2023,·28 mins
Three Booker Prize winners give their view on Margaret Thatcher's influence on fiction.
18 Jun 2015,·30 mins
David Aaronovitch asks why Mao's Little Red Book captured the imagination of the West.
05 Feb 2016,·30 mins
Former government chief scientist, Lord May, looks at the role of politics in science.
15 Feb 2007,·30 mins
Alternative facts, impartial journalism and democracy. Can news deliver in a digital age?
12 Sep 2019,·42 mins
Austria and Germany
How populists in the Austrian Freedom party and German anti-mosque groups are growing.
15 Feb 2011,·28 mins
Steve Richards examines the challenges for the Labour Party under Keir Starmer.
07 Apr 2020,·37 mins
What really happens in intergovernmental summits? Jonathan Powell investigates.
29 May 2012,·37 mins
Chris Page tells the inside story of Northern Ireland's botched green energy scheme.
09 Mar 2020,·28 mins
Eddie Mair chairs a debate on the progress of the conflict in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
08 Sep 2010,·45 mins
Mark explores the relationship between the police and other agencies.
13 Feb 2012,·30 mins
Andrew Rawnsley chairs a studio debate on the future of the Labour Party.
06 Jun 2015,·45 mins
James Landale examines how Euroscepticism has become increasingly powerful in UK politics.
25 Feb 2013,·30 mins
Zaiba Malik on the Asian youth movements in the 1970s who fought for justice and equality.
26 Mar 2012,·28 mins
Episode 2
Graham Easton asks what US Vice President Biden's cancer moonshot can achieve.
01 Mar 2016,·28 mins
Andrew Neil offers a portrait of Margaret Thatcher via the voices of those she governed.
09 Apr 2013,·43 mins
