Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 281,731 playable programmes from the BBC

Results 1 to 20 of 29 for your search filters
Filter by channel

Louis Theroux Specials

The Most Hated Family in America

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC One CambridgeshireLatest broadcast: on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

Available for years

Louis Theroux struggles to come to terms with the infamous Phelps family from Topeka, Kansas, who picket countrywide as a protest against an America that tolerates homosexuality. Show more

Louis Theroux Specials

Drinking to Oblivion

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Two HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two HD

Documentary. Louis spends time at the specialist liver centre at King's College Hospital, London. He meets patients in the grips of alcohol addiction struggling to find a way out. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Louis Theroux
Executive Producer:
Aysha Rafaele
Director:
Tom Barrow
Producer:
Tom Barrow

Louis Theroux Specials

My Scientology Movie

Duration: 1 hour, 35 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Wales

Documentary investigating the Church of Scientology. To find out more about the mysterious organisation, Louis Theroux meets with former members of the church. Show more

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

Available for years

Louis travels to California to spend two weeks in the notorious San Quentin State Prison. Built in 1852, San Quentin is dangerously overcrowded. Show more

Louis Theroux Specials

Louis, Martin and Michael

Duration: 1 hour, 12 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland (Analogue)Latest broadcast: on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

Available for years

Genial TV host Louis Theroux sets out on a personal quest to meet the ultimate pop idol - Michael Jackson - and examine the often bizarre world that surrounded him and those that worshipped him. Show more

Louis Theroux Specials

Law and Disorder in Philadelphia

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two ScotlandLatest broadcast: on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

Available for years

Louis Theroux joins the Philadelphia Police Department as they patrol the most dangerous parts of one of the most violent cities in America. Show more

Louis Theroux Specials

A Place for Paedophiles

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland (Analogue)Latest broadcast: on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

Available for years

Louis has gained access to Coalinga Mental Hospital in California, which houses more than 500 convicted paedophiles who have been deemed unsafe for release. Show more

Louis Theroux Specials

America's Medicated Kids

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Two Northern IrelandLatest broadcast: on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

Available for years

Louis visits one of America's leading children's psychiatric treatment centres in an effort to understand why some parents put their children on drugs to control their behaviour. Show more

Louis Theroux Specials

America's Most Dangerous Pets

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Two ScotlandLatest broadcast: on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

Available for years

Travelling to America's heartlands, Louis Theroux spends time with people who have private collections of tigers and chimpanzees. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Louis Theroux
Director:
Jamie Pickup
Executive Producer:
Nick Mirsky

Louis Theroux Specials

Transgender Kids

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Two ScotlandLatest broadcast: on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

Available for years

Documentary. Louis travels to San Francisco where medical professionals are helping children with gender dysphoria transition from boy to girl or girl to boy. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Louis Theroux
Executive Producer:
Aysha Rafaele
Director:
Tom Barrow
Producer:
Tom Barrow

Duration: 1 hour, 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two ScotlandLatest broadcast: on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

Available for years

Louis Theroux sets out to understand how a man at the centre of British entertainment and charitable fundraising for decades was able to get away with a long litany of crimes. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Louis Theroux
Executive Producer:
Aysha Rafaele
Producer:
Arthur Cary

This listing contains language that some may find offensive.

Louis Theroux Specials

Under the Knife

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

Available for years

Louis Theroux pulls back the folds of plastic America and gets under the skin of the plastic surgery patients that crowd the clinics of Beverly Hills. Show more

Louis Theroux Specials

Louis and the Brothel

Duration: 1 hour, 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland (Analogue)Latest broadcast: on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

Available for years

Louis Theroux reveals the inside story of life in one of America's largest legal brothels. Over six weeks of a summer, Louis moved in with the owners and working girls at a bordello in Reno, Nevada. Show more

Louis Theroux Specials

Mothers on the Edge

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

Available for years

Louis Theroux visits specialist psychiatric units which treat mothers experiencing serious mental illness whilst allowing them to live alongside their babies. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Louis Theroux
Series Editor:
Arron Fellows
Executive Producer:
Peter Dale
Editor:
Anna Price
Director:
Mark Casebow

Louis Theroux Specials

Talking to Anorexia

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Two Northern IrelandLatest broadcast: on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

Available for years

Louis Theroux spends time in two of London's largest eating disorder facilities to meet women with anorexia - an illness with the highest death rate of any psychiatric disorder. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Louis Theroux
Producer:
Ellena Wood
Director:
Ellena Wood
Series Producer:
Arron Fellows
Executive Producer:
Peter Dale

Louis Theroux Specials

The City Addicted to Crystal Meth

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Two ScotlandLatest broadcast: on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

Available for years

Documentary in which Louis Theroux visits Fresno in California's Central Valley to see how crystal meth addiction affects the local community, speaking to police and addicts. Show more

Contributors

Louis Theroux Specials

America's Most Hated Family in Crisis

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Two ScotlandLatest broadcast: on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

Available for years

Following up on his 2007 documentary, The Most Hated Family in America, Louis Theroux returns to Topeka, Kansas, for a week-long visit with the Westboro Baptist Church. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Louis Theroux
Executive Producer:
Nick Mirsky
Director:
Emma Cooper
Series Producer:
Emma Cooper

Louis Theroux Specials

Surviving America's Most Hated Family

Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

Available for years

Louis Theroux returns to visit the controversial Westboro Baptist Church, investigating what effect the death of its founder has had on its members and those who have since left. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Louis Theroux
Executive Producer:
Arron Fellows
Executive Producer:
Peter Dale

Louis Theroux Specials

Louis and The Nazis

Duration: 1 hour, 19 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Louis Theroux Channel

Available for years

Louis travels to California to mix with the White Aryan Resistance, including 11-year-old twin sisters who have been taught to sing racist pop songs by their mother.