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Human Intelligence
Manhattan Project: Lise Meitner
- Broadcast
- 2025 (14 mins)
Lise Meitner was a world-class physicist, who saw what others could not. She recognised nuclear fission - the splitting of the atom, the powerful energy released - before anyone else. Naomi Alderman finds...
Human Intelligence
Manhattan Project: Albert Einstein
- Broadcast
- 2025 (14 mins)
Albert Einstein was an international pop star of science who urged the US government to build an atom bomb. Naomi Alderman gets into one of the most famous brains of all time. Einstein rewrote our...
Human Intelligence
Travellers - The Buddha
- Broadcast
- 2025 (14 mins)
Naomi Alderman explores the thinking of the Buddha, who, as a young prince, ventured outside the palace walls and began his journey towards enlightenment. Siddhartha Gautama lived in a life of rarefied...
Human Intelligence
Travellers - Jean Rhys
- Broadcast
- 2025 (14 mins)
Jean Rhys’ sequel to Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea, changed the way we think about stories forever. Naomi Alderman meets a fellow novelist who put a marginalised character at the centre of the action. Rhys...
Human Intelligence
Travellers - Ida Pfeiffer
- Broadcast
- 2025 (14 mins)
Naomi Alderman looks at the mindset and legacy of Ida Pfeiffer, a woman who changed the very idea of travel, who is allowed to do it and why. Traditionally, travelling had always had a purpose - conquering,...
Human Intelligence
Travellers - Aristotle
- Broadcast
- 2025 (14 mins)
Aristotle was a philosopher, teacher, collector and all-round polymath. He was also, importantly, a traveller, who allowed new places, especially the rich biodiversity he encountered on the island of Lesbos,...
Human Intelligence
Travellers - Sir Patrick Manson
- Broadcast
- 2025 (14 mins)
Sir Patrick Manson shook the medical world when he first understood the infection route for vector-borne diseases like malaria. Naomi Alderman dissects the thinking of a scientific pioneer. In the late...
Backlash: The Murder of George Floyd
Backlash: The Murder of George Floyd
- Broadcast
- 2025 (89 mins)
The film tells the story through the eyes of some of those who found themselves on the front line as they reflect on the events of spring and summer 2020, and the impact these still have on their lives...
Morning Live FASS Insert
How has the driving test changed over the years?
- Broadcast
- 2025 (10 mins)
This month marks 90 years since the driving test was introduced in 1935 to make UK roads safer, back when there weren’t even speed limits! Presenter Mavis Ackerley looks back at how driving has evolved,...
Empire with David Olusoga
Episode One
- Broadcast
- 2025 (60 mins)
In this landmark series award-winning historian David Olusoga explores the history of the Empire and why it is essential in the 21st Century to fully understand it’s legacy. At its height the British...