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The Californian Century

California: From Hollywood to Silicon Valley

The story of Francis Boggs and William Mulholland, two early pioneers of California

• 26 mins

The Californian Century

California: From Hollywood to Silicon Valley

The story of preacher Aimee Semple McPherson who vanished in 1926 and Hattie McDaniel

• 26 mins

The Californian Century

California: From Hollywood to Silicon Valley

The story of Leon Lewis who hunted down Nazis in LA and founder William Shockley

• 26 mins

The Californian Century

California: From Hollywood to Silicon Valley

The story of Kathleen Cleaver. the Black Panther Party and Dianne Feinstein

• 26 mins

The Californian Century

California: From Hollywood to Silicon Valley

The story of Ice-T, the original gangster rapper of 1990s LA and governor Jerry Brown

• 26 mins

Embankment baby

Tony May was abandoned as a baby in 1942. Can DNA testing reveal who his parents were?

• 49 mins

The confined: A story of hidden children

How Jewish children and French nuns together defied the Nazis

• 26 mins

The most important, least important thing

Why is watching sport so important to us as a species? What happens when it disappears?

• 49 mins

Ingenious

The ginger gene and breast cancer gene

The origins of the ginger gene and the genes that can increase the risk of breast cancer

• 26 mins

Ingenious

The milkshake gene and the cyclops gene

Find out what you鈥檙e made of 鈥� one gene at a time

• 26 mins

The Bomb

An explosion that changed history. Could one man have stopped it?

• 49 mins

On The Front Line with Karachi鈥檚 Ambulance Drivers

Karachi's ambulance drivers

What can ambulance drivers tell us about political change in Pakistan?

• 26 mins

On The Front Line with Karachi鈥檚 Ambulance Drivers

Karachi's ambulance drivers

Driver Safdar's experiences reveal a remarkable story of life and death in Pakistan

• 26 mins

The new tech Cold War

Is the West losing the technological race for supremacy with China?

• 26 mins

The Bomb

An explosion that changed history. Could one man have stopped it?

• 49 mins

Worlds apart

If globalisation is on its last legs - again - what might the impacts be?

• 49 mins

Fighting talk: How language can make us better

What impact does the language we use around cancer have on those living with the disease?

• 26 mins

Stitching souls

Maria Margaronis sews and hears the stories of Gee鈥檚 Bend's historic quilters

• 49 mins

Vaccines, Money And Politics

Vaccines, money and politics

What will it really take to vaccinate the world against Covid-19?

• 26 mins

Vaccines, Money And Politics

Vaccines, money and politics

What will it really take to vaccinate the world against Covid 19?

• 26 mins

Red State refugees

Can refugees save the small, conservative town of Cactus, Texas?

• 26 mins

August in Minsk

A summer of protest in Belarus recorded by Minsk journalist Ilya Kuzniatsou

• 23 mins

World Book Caf茅: Dublin

Authors Naoise Dolan and Caitriona Lally on living and writing in Dublin

• 49 mins

The Soviet Feminist Army

The Soviet women spreading feminist ideas in Afghanistan

• 26 mins

Why India is mad for motorbikes

An investigation into the deep-seated and increasing passion for motorcycling in India

• 26 mins

Black Music in Europe

Black Music in Europe: 1900-1910

Clarke Peters uncovers the stories of black musicians in Europe up to the Jazz Age

• 26 mins

Black Music in Europe

Black Music in Europe: 1910-1920

Clarke Peters uncovers the stories of black musicians in Europe during World War One

• 26 mins

Black Music in Europe

Black Music in Europe: 1920-1930

The sounds of Zonophone records and African-American jazz in 1920s Paris, Josephine Baker

• 26 mins

Black Music in Europe

Before the war

Jazz in Weimar Berlin, calypso in Cardiff Bay and the sounds of the Beguine in Paris

• 26 mins

Black Music in Europe

Black music in Europe: 1939-45

Nazi propaganda jazz, black American trumpet stars in Paris, and Caribbean swing bands

• 26 mins