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Resilience: A Survivor's Guide to Adversity

Why some people and animals adapt to hardship

• 40 mins

Talking Rubbish: Clever Ways with Waste

Advice from a garbologist, a waste expert and a taxidermist about re-using waste

• 40 mins

Unfinished: The Art of the Incomplete

How do we respond to things that are unfinished or incomplete?

• 40 mins

Microbes and Humans: The Science of Living Together

New insights into the human microbiome, the tiny organisms living in and on our bodies

• 40 mins

Defiance: Why Are Some People More Defiant than Others?

When is defiance a resistance to authority, and when is it a sign of disregard to others?

• 40 mins

Radioactivity: Friend or Foe?

Separating the benefits of radioactivity from its dangers

• 40 mins

Do You Know What You鈥檙e Eating?

How to ensure better food transparency: to track what we eat from farm to fork.

• 40 mins

The Unpredictable Planet: Understanding Volcanoes and Earthquakes

New ideas about volcanoes, earthquakes and other geological processes

• 40 mins

Sharing and Why it is Essential for the Human Race

Why do we share and how important is it for our survival?

• 40 mins

Balloons and How they Changed the World

The extraordinary impact of balloons on the human race.

• 40 mins

Image overload: Coping with the modern world's visual clutter

How do our brains cope with the visual clutter of the modern world?

• 40 mins

What is the Best Way to Deal with Anxiety?

How anxiety is created in the brain and how we can best help the anxious

• 40 mins

Fire: How Climate Change is Altering our Attitudes to Wildfires

How do we deal with fire to protect health without compromising the environment?

• 40 mins

Underground: How Deep Can Life Survive?

Exploring the mysteries of the biosphere below the earth鈥檚 surface.

• 40 mins

Turmoil Around the World and in Ourselves

Exploring turmoil in politics and society

• 40 mins

How Shyness and Introversion can be a Strength

Are shyness and introversion cultural or innate; do they help us negotiate today鈥檚 world?

• 40 mins

Using Other People鈥檚 Water

Are we sucking our worldwide supply dry?

• 40 mins

Reducing Urban Poverty

How to ensure people in deprived areas get secondary education and adequate nutrition

• 40 mins

Why Are We Generous?

Are we generous out of kindness or self-interest?

• 40 mins

Concrete: Foundation of the modern world

How concrete underpins the modern world

• 40 mins

Do we Need Artificial Intelligence?

How the relentless advance of computer logic is changing our world and the way we think

• 40 mins

The new curators: Who decides what鈥檚 culturally important?

How the idea of curation has radically changed

• 40 mins

DNA: The code for making life

A close look at the remarkable set of building blocks which all cellular life shares

• 40 mins

Drones and their Impact on the World

The history, present and future of drones.

• 40 mins

Unpicking the UN

The history and current challenges facing the UN

• 40 mins

Korea: Two Countries, One Past

Why and how the Korean Peninsula came to be divided into North and South Korea

• 40 mins

The Iliad: Beauty, brutes and battles

Why is Homer鈥檚 ancient Greek epic poem still so important?

• 40 mins

Winner or Cheat? Doping in Sport

The inside story; swapped samples, state-sponsored doping and the battle for world sport

• 40 mins

Thomas More's Utopia

Celebrating More's radical book and its political influence in the past and present

• 40 mins

Utopia: Mr More鈥檚 Wondrous Islands

A celebration of Thomas More's Utopia and new short stories inspired by it.

• 29 mins