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The Karen Meme
Is the Karen meme being misused?
The Year the Music Stopped
Arlo Parks reflects on a year without live music with artists including Yannis from Foals
Playing With The Dead
Jordan Erica Webber sees how video games can let us play with people after their death.
East Meets West
The UK has a north and south divide but how about east and west? Chris Mason investigates
Can I Still Read Harry Potter?
A fan of the boy wizard explores what it means to stop reading a beloved book.
Losing It
Caleb Femi explores the pressures on teenage boys around virginity and sex.
The Corrections:Trojan Horse
Revisiting the Birmingham Trojan Horse Affair to see what was really behind the headlines
Living with the Dragon
Nick Robinson examines the recent history of the UK's relationship with China.
Inside the Brain of Jeff Bezos
The ideas making Jeff Bezos the richest man on earth and Amazon 2020's business success.
Generation Covid
How has the mental health of young people been affected by the pandemic and lockdown?
Apocalypse How
Jolyon Jenkins asks whether civilisation could be ended by a electromagnetic pulse bomb
Scientists in the Spotlight
Jim Al-Khalili finds out how The Life Scientific has changed during the pandemic.
Can I Talk About Heroes?
Poet Vicky Foster looks at how ideas of heroism have impacted on society and her own life
Sci-Fi Blindness
Peter White explores science fiction's enduring interest in blindness.
I Am Robert Chelsea
The first African-American to have a face transplant tells his own story.
39 Ways to Save the Planet: Wood for Good
Tom Heap introduces an episode of Radio 4's new environmental podcast.
Battle for the Capitol
With Trump out of office, Leah Sottile on what’s next for America’s far-right.
Sideways: Siding with the Enemy
Matthew Syed reexamines the origin of a peculiar psychiatric disorder.
The Battersea Poltergeist – Ep1: 63 Wycliffe Road
Strange events start at an ordinary house in South London. Is it a poltergeist?
Made of Stronger Stuff: The Heart
Kimberley Wilson and Xand van Tulleken talk artificial hearts and broken heart syndrome.
The Price of Song
John Wilson investigates the value of the songs that provide the soundtracks to our lives
Faith, Lies and Conversion Therapy
Will banning conversion therapy end the practice of trying to change people's sexuality?
The Jump: Covid-19
Chris van Tulleken on the human behaviours that make viruses jump from animals to people.
Mitchell on Meetings: The Thing
David Mitchell investigates meetings from the ancient 'thing' to zoom.
Making Demille
Recorded over five years, the story of a young courier navigating London's gig economy.
The Nazi Next Door
Meet ‘Mr Stan’, the Shropshire pensioner hiding the darkest of secrets.
Where is Jack Ma?
Chinese billionaire Jack Ma is missing. So where is Jack Ma? Celia Hatton investigates.
Iran’s Secret Art Collection
Alastair Sooke tells the story of Iran's billion pound collection of modern western art.
A Pyrotechnic History of Humanity: Fire
How the mastery of fire and the energy it released gave our ancestors intelligence
The Northern Bank Job: Episode One
Writer Glenn Patterson has unfinished business with the 2004 Northern Bank robbery.
After a Death
Sarah O'Connell examines the ripple effects of the killing of Russell 'Barty' Brown.