Real footage from Milgram’s study | Horizon

4: The Watchful Web | The History Of Surveillance

Looks at how, when you surf the net or use a credit card, you leave a data trail as revealing as an animal’s spoor, compris...

5: Why Do I Need You? | The Brain with David Eagleman

This episode looks at how the human brain relies on other brains to thrive and survive.

6: Who Will We Be? | The Brain with David Eagleman

Dr Eagleman journeys into the future, and asks what's next for the human brain and for our species.

Audiences and Spectacle | Inside Culture

Do audiences matter, and what is their role? Mary talks to sports stars about how the loss of the crowd affects their performance, a...

Broken Brains | The Brain: A Secret History

Michael Mosley ends his look at the history of experimental psychology by exploring how experiments on abnormal brains can reveal...

Can the power of positive thought turn ballerinas into basketball players? | The People Watchers

An experiment showing how powerful words and 'pep talk' can be to motivate i...

Case Study: Kitty Genovese | Mind Changers

When a young woman was brutally killed in an attack in New York in 1964, not one of 38 witnesses called for help. The case led to ...

Emotions | The Brain: A Secret History

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

Episode 6 | The People Watchers

What is the psychology of queuing? Do people perform better at sport if they are given encouragement? And how long does it take to learn how ...

Evil place vs good people | The Stanford Prison Experiment

Zimbardo explains the conclusions that he came to from the Stanford prison experiment about whether it was the sit...

Footage from the Stanford prison experiment | The Stanford Prison Experiment

Real footage and interview with a participant showing what it was like to be in the Stanford pri...

Horizon: You Do As You Are Told: Jonathan Miller and the Milgram Experiment

Jonathan Miller introduces a 1973 episode of Horizon, which documents the results of Stanley Milg...

How did Milgram's participants feel? | The Brain: A Secret History

Dr Michael Mosley speaks to a participant from the original Milgram study to find out how they felt about ...

Joseph Henrich - Professor of Evolutionary Biology | HARDtalk

Is genetics or cultural conditioning the key to understanding human evolution? Stephen Sackur speaks to Profess...

Living with Autism | Horizon

Professor Uta Frith shows how another kind of reality exists for people with autism and if many of us could be a little bit autistic.

Mind Control | The Brain: A Secret History

Michael Mosley traces the sinister ways science has been used to try to control our minds, finding that its pursuit has led to som...

Playing the Game: Taking Risks | The Learning Zone

Program about taking risks with children, growing up, learning when to develop and when to encourage the child to ''take a...

Risk taking and stigma | The Life Scientific

Listen to the important work being carried out on teenage brain development and risk taking, especially the efforts needed to re...

S11E1: Changing Minds | Child of Our Time

Professor Robert Winston and professor Tanya Byron discover how teenagers' changing brains means that what they choose to do at six...

S1E2 | The Human Zoo

Michael Blastland explores the way human beings think, behave and make decisions. The status quo bias - do you prefer things, whether personal or politi...