The Documentary Episodes Available now
Episode 1—A Short History Of Story
1/2 Noah Richler asks why humans from the earliest times have felt the need to tell stories.
Episode 1—The Dark Side Of Diplomacy
1/2 Is engagement always better than isolation in the case of tyrannical regimes?
29/10/2011
With Gaddafi dead, Owen Bennett-Jones explores what happens after dictators fall.
Zanzibar—Musical Migrants
2/2 Meet Yusuf Mahmoud, who swapped Cheltenham for Zanzibar in his love of African music.
Episode 2—The British Establishment: Who For?
2/2 Why does Britain's narrow and elite establishment keep stumbling from crisis to crisis?
Milan—Musical Migrants
1/2 Meet Venezuelan Padro Carrillo, who moved to the birthplaceof opera to pursue his career.
Episode 1—The British Establishment: Who For?
1/2 Why does Britain's narrow and elite establishment keep stumbling from crisis to crisis?
Lives In Landscape
Alan Dein explores the impact of the recent riots in England on one London man
Episode 3—Controlling People
3/3 Matthew Connelly looks at the consequences of India's methods to control its population.
Down and Out in Paris and London
We retrace George Orwell's account of poverty in Paris and London, 80 years on.