New Boys in Town | My Life

How to Kill a Human Being | Horizon

Michael Portillo pushes his body to the brink of death in an investigation into the science of execution.

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...

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 ...

Malala: Shot for Going to School | Panorama

One year ago, Malala Yousafzai was shot by the Taliban on her school bus. In this Panorama special, she talks exclusively to Mish...

Shot for Going to School

Schoolgirl Malala Yousafi was just 14 when she was shot for campaigning for girls' education in Pakistan. Nel Hedayat travels to the areas where the...

Terry Pratchett: Choosing to Die

Author Sir Terry Pratchett - an Alzheimer's sufferer - travels to the Dignitas Clinic in Switzerland and witnesses first-hand the procedures...

Anti-Abortion Camp | Brainwashing Stacey

Stacey Dooley travels to California to meet Survivors, one of America's most extreme anti-abortion groups, to learn about their acti...

Better Off Dead?

A documentary on assisted suicide, authored by actor and disability rights activist Liz Carr.

Should assisted suicide be legalised? | Matters of Life and Death

This film looks at the viewpoints of Charlotte and Paul whose life experiences have left them on opposing s...

Euthanasia | Worlds of Belief

Schools religious education program for 14-18 year olds. Today's theme is Euthanasia which includes a dramatic reconstruction of real events, i...

IVF | How Science Changed Our World

Professor Robert Winston meets families who benefitted from breakthrough's in research which lead to IVF treatments.

Kids with Guns | Stacey Dooley

Stacey Dooley explores the issue of child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo's civil war, where an estimated 30,000 children have be...

Let Our Dad Die | Dispatches

Seven years ago Tony Nicklinson had a catastrophic stroke, which left him utterly paralysed. He can only communicate via a computer controlled b...

Will Britain Ever Have a Black Prime Minister?

British TV and movie star David Harewood investigates the obstacles facing black Britons in rising to positions of power and i...

1: Execution | Life and Death Row

Series telling the story of capital punishment through the eyes of young people whose lives have been shaped by it. It looks at two of the ...

Anthony

From writer Jimmy McGovern, the story of Anthony Walker, a black teenager murdered in a racist attack in Merseyside in 2005, and how his life could have been.

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.

Cattle feedyard | Meat: A Threat to Our Planet?

Liz Bonnin visits a cattle feedyard, a mass factory farm, that contains about 50,000 cows.

Child Labour: Kids for Sale | Stacey Dooley

Stacey Dooley explores the issue of child labour in Nepal, after being exposed to it when working in the Indian fashion industry ...

Different perspectives on capital punishment | Matters of Life and Death

Representatives from different religions discuss their opinions on capital punishment.