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Horizon

2011-2012

Episode 5: Are You Good or Evil?

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Horizon meets researchers studying psychopathic killers to try to determine what makes people good or evil. One such scientist believes he has found the 'moral molecule'. Show more

Horizon

2012-2013

Episode 10: The Truth about Taste

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Two HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two England

Horizon explores the latest scientific insights into the sense of taste, including the discovery of a way to make food taste sweeter without adding extra sugar. Show more

Horizon

2009-2010

Episode 1: Do I Drink Too Much?

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Two ScotlandLatest broadcast: on BBC HD

Addiction expert John Marsden, who likes a drink, makes a professional and personal exploration of our relationship with alcohol, undergoing physical and neurological examinations. Show more

A Very British Renaissance

Episode 3: Whose Renaissance?

Duration: 1 hour

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

Dr James Fox explores how tension between two cultures - one courtly and European, one home-grown and vital - helped bring the country to civil war. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
James Fox
Executive Producer:
Jonty Claypole
Series Producer:
Julian Birkett

Shakespeare Uncovered

Episode 4: Trevor Nunn on The Tempest

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Director Trevor Nunn looks at the magical and mysterious world created in Shakespeare's The Tempest, and the strange personal insights hidden within the last play he ever wrote. Show more

Shakespeare Uncovered

Episode 6: David Tennant on Hamlet

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Two WalesLatest broadcast: on BBC HD

David Tennant, whose own RSC performance as Hamlet was a huge hit, meets other actors who have played the role and tries to unravel the meaning of the play. Show more

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

In a film offering a glimpse of the human characters behind the judgments, four Justices of the Supreme Court talk about the nature of justice and how they make their decisions. Show more

Contributors

Narrator:
Aden Gillett
Executive Producer:
Diana Martin

The Brain: A Secret History

Episode 2: Emotions

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Dr Michael Mosley investigates how scientists have struggled to understand that most irrational and deeply complex part of our minds - emotions. Show more

Panorama

Inside North Korea

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC News EuropeLatest broadcast: on BBC News North America

Part of The Big Stories: 2016. BBC reporter Rupert Wingfield-Hayes discusses his time in North Korea, and his detention and interrogation by senior Korean officials. Show more

Contributors

Panorama

Inside North Korea

Duration: 29 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC News Channel HD

BBC reporter Rupert Wingfield-Hayes discusses his time in North Korea and explores what his detention and interrogation by senior Korean officials say about this secretive state. Show more

Contributors

Shakespeare Uncovered

Episode 2: Ethan Hawke on Macbeth

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Ethan Hawke uncovers the true story behind Macbeth, seeing some of the greatest productions and discovering the insights into the criminal mind that Shakespeare reveals. Show more