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

The Crowning of Everest - Episode 3

Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reach the top of Mount Everest

• 13 mins

The Crowning of Everest - Episode 4

The race down the mountain to deliver the news to London

• 13 mins

The Crowning of Everest - Episode 5

News of the conquest of Everest reaches London on Coronation Day.

• 14 mins

First Contact

Farrah Jarral on preparing for first contact with extra-terrestrials.

• 44 mins

The Boat Smugglers

Sue Mitchell investigates the dangerous organisations behind the the deadly migrant trade.

• 29 mins

Why Coups Fail

Natalie Haynes explores why overthrowing a government by force is not as easy as it looks.

• 28 mins

Taiwan: Hyper-democracy

Can Taiwan's hyper-democracy provide lessons for the world's older democracies?

• 28 mins

How Wars End

James Naughtie examines the possible outcomes of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

• 28 mins

The Privatisation of British Gas

Phil Tinline explores why the Thatcher government sold British Gas - and the legacy today.

• 29 mins