01: Love Without Limits | Louis Theroux: Altered States

01: Creation | How to Build a Human

Scientists are now at the pivotal moment of being able to unlock the instructions hidden in the cells of humans.

02: Choosing Death | Louis Theroux: Altered States

Louis Theroux spends time with those preparing to take a lethal but legally prescribed overdose and meets a controversial ...

02: Ice Babies | A Child Against All Odds

Freezing embryos offers hope to people faced with being unable to have children of their own.

02: Predictor | How to Build a Human

A look at the veracity of scientists' claims that they are on the verge of being able to predict our futures by analysing our genes and ...

03: The Secret of Sex | How to Build a Human

The precise mechanics of human sexual reproduction are revealed,using new technology to produce previously unseen images.

04: Living Forever | How to Build a Human

The solution to ageing may be in sight with the discovery that a vital gas is the chief culprit, while a drug claims to double life...

2: Fighting For Survival | The Baby Makers

The technology, ethics and human stories of the assisted fertilization revolution.

24 week limit | Abortion On Trial

A discussion of the UK's 24 week limit on having an abortion.

3: Unnatural Practices | The Baby Makers

The technology, ethics and human stories of the assisted fertilization revolution.

A Short Stay in Switzerland

One-off drama inspired by the true story of Dr Anne Turner, who in 2006 took her own life in a Zurich clinic having developed an incurable degene...

A Woman's Fight To Choose

The story of thirty years of abortion (1967-97), through the experiences of three generations of one family.

A World Without Down's Syndrome?

Documentary about Down's syndrome and the ethics of pregnancy screening, exploring the thinking around the proposed new screening test and i...

Abortion On Trial

Fifty years after the Abortion Act was passed, Anne Robinson brings together a group of people with conflicting views on abortion to ask if the law is fit ...

Abortion: The Choice

Five women talk candidly about their own experience in this landmark documentary. An uncompromising, timely and honest look at modern abortion.

Arguments against animal testing | Matters of Life and Death

Arguments against animal testing.

Arguments against capital punishment | Matters of Life and Death

A man who was wrongly convicted of murder provides arguments against the use of the death penalty.

Arguments against Euthanasia | Matters of Life and Death

A nurse explains why she is against euthanasia.

Arguments against saviour siblings | Matters of Life and Death

Personal arguments against saviour siblings.

Arguments for animal testing | Matters of Life and Death

A man with Cystic Fibrosis explains why animal testing is crucial to his life.

Arguments for capital punishment | Matters of Life and Death

Arguments in favour of the use of capital punishment for murder.