The latest national and international news, exploring the day's events from a global perspective.
Quiz show in which connections must be made between seemingly random subjects. Three PhD students challenge a team that plays strategy board games. Show more
James May takes a rare and privileged flight 70,000 feet above Earth in a U2 spy plane to a place known in the Air Force as the 'space equivalent zone' or the 'edge of space'. Show more
Clare Balding charts how incomers - a diverse group which includes Dr Johnson and an occupying English army - have changed our view of the Scottish Highlands. Show more
Drama documentary about John Darwin, who faked his death to fund a better life. He pretended to disappear at sea in a canoe, prompting his wife Anne to play the grieving widow. Show more
Gareth Malone explores Britain's hidden history of shanties and sea songs. In Yorkshire he meets the Filey Fisherman's Choir, who are determined to keep the tradition alive. Show more
Poet Roger McGough narrates the story of how a simple invention - the shipping container - changed the world forever and forced Britain into the modern era of globalisation. Show more
Drama starring Supphasit Kansen. Following the tsunami, an architect arrives to develop a project in a Thai community and begins a secret love affair with a local woman. Show more
Clare Balding charts how incomers - a diverse group which includes Dr Johnson and an occupying English army - have changed our view of the Scottish Highlands. Show more
Gareth Malone explores Britain's hidden history of shanties and sea songs. In Yorkshire he meets the Filey Fisherman's Choir, who are determined to keep the tradition alive. Show more
Drama documentary about John Darwin, who faked his death to fund a better life. He pretended to disappear at sea in a canoe, prompting his wife Anne to play the grieving widow. Show more
