Economics

How Safe is Your Car? | Dispatches

With new evidence that some cars might not perform as well in real world crashes as their safety rating suggests, Dispatches asks: could m...

How should energy be priced? | Wake Up to Money

The government is due to decide very soon whether to adopt “zonal pricing” - i.e. whether people should pay different amounts...

London's Stock Exchange: why aren't companies listing in Britain anymore? | The Bottom Line

After a year in which a number of big companies decided to list in New York rathe...

Vaccines: The Disinformation War | Panorama

With millions now vaccinated, Panorama investigates the scare tactics of anti-vaxxers - who are they and what are their motives f...

The Torture Trail | Dispatches

Pfizer's Covid vaccine has saved millions of lives around the world. But with rising prices and record profits, is the drug firm profiteering ...

Seafood | What Britain Buys and Sells in a Day

Ed Balls, Ade Adepitan and Cherry Healey look at seafood. Surprisingly, the fish caught off British shores are largely dispatc...

Fruit and Veg | What Britain Buys and Sells in a Day

Ed Balls, Ade Adepitan and Cherry Healey delve into the hectic world of Britain's imports and exports. Ed is at London G...

Green Politics | A-Z of Belief

Six young people challenge Andrew Simms on the practicality of creating a greener world today, while the Thompson Twins share their journey of...

2: Power | Thatcher: A Very British Revolution

Mrs Thatcher struggles to cling to power as the economy collapses, riots break out and she is subverted by members of her own ...

Immigration: The Inconvenient Truth | Dispatches

Rageh Omaar investigates how immigration has affected Britain. Using Enoch Powell's explosive 'Rivers of Blood' speech as a ...

Immigration Undercover | Dispatches

Immigration remains at the top of the political agenda, with reports that tens of thousands of files sit uncleared in the system and ther...

Part 2 - Are The Super Rich Good for Britain? | The Super-Rich and Us

An exploration into the lives of billionaires and issues such as tax avoidance, capitalism, societal st...

Part 1 - Are The Super Rich Good for Britain? | The Super-Rich and Us

An exploration into whether the spending of the super rich benefits all of us in Britain. While the 1% ...

Episode 2 | The Super-Rich and Us

Jacques Peretti investigates how the super-rich are transforming Britain. In the final part, he looks at how inequality was pinpointed as a...

Episode 1 | The Super-Rich and Us

Jacques Peretti investigates how the super-rich are transforming Britain. He looks at why the wealthy were drawn to Britain and meets the s...

Surviving the Cost of Living Crisis | Panorama

Panorama follows three families, as they try to cope with what is predicted to be the biggest fall in living standards since t...

Long Covid: Will I Ever Get Better? | Panorama

BBC correspondent Lucy Adams is one of more than a million people in the UK with long Covid. She speaks to other patients desp...

Is Britain Broke? | Panorama

Ros Atkins sets out to discover the truth about how our money is spent and why politicians keep running into trouble when they try to cut spending.

Immigration: Who Should We Let In? | Panorama

With concerns about immigration forming a key part of the vote to leave the EU, Nick Robinson explores what immigration the pub...

S2E1: The Compassionate Society | Yes, Minister

Minister for administrative affairs Jim Hacker struggles to cut administrative staff in the Health Service.

Selling Off Britain

Will Hutton argues that Britain has been too eager to sell off its best companies for quick profits, and this has resulted in a dumbed down, low wage soc...

The Rising Cost of Living | Ros Atkins On…

Ros Atkins explains why prices are rising and how people in the UK are being affected.

Farage Fans & UKIP Lovers

Documentary looking at those who support UKIP, from fishermen who say that their livelihoods are being destroyed by EU legislation to those who bla...

Rice Farmers | Counting the Cost

The high price of fertiliser is pushing up the cost of rice production in Thailand, which has a knock-on effect on the buyers of the rice.

Italian steel industry | Counting the Cost

High energy costs are putting steel workers jobs at risk.

BBC Prime Ministerial Debate | Election 2024

Mishal Husain chairs the BBC's head-to-head debate between Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer, live from Nottingham.

Sir Ed Davey, Liberal Democrats | Election 2024

Nick Robinson interviews all the major party leaders in the run-up to the general election. How do their policies stack up? I...

Adrian Ramsay, Green Party | Election 2024

In this edition, the co-leader of the Green Party, Adrian Ramsay.

Nigel Farage, Reform UK | Election 2024

In this edition, the leader of Reform UK, Nigel Farage.

Sir Kier Starmer, Labour Party | Election 2024

Nick Robinson interviews Sir Keir Starmer in the run-up to the general election.

Rhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid Cymru | Election 2024

Nick Robinson interviews Rhun ap Iorwerth, leader of Plaid Cymru, in the run-up to the general election.

The Debate | Election 2024

Leading figures from the seven biggest political parties in Great Britain face questions on the issues that matter most to voters.

John Swinney, SNP | Election 2024

Nick Robinson interviews all the major party leaders in the run-up to the general election. How do their policies stack up? In this edition...

Rishi Sunak, Conservative Party | Election 2024

Nick Robinson interviews all the major party leaders in the run-up to the general election. How do their policies stack up? I...

Labour in Power: Inside the New Government | Panorama

Labour is back in power with a big majority and some big promises. Laura Kuenssberg follows Labour's first days in offi...

S2E1: The Compassionate Society | Yes, Minister

Minister for administrative affairs Jim Hacker struggles to cut administrative staff in the Health Service.

Cabinet Confidential

One-off documentary providing an inside view of how Tony Blair and former prime ministers have run their cabinets. Featuring interviews, archive footage...

Blair's Year

Andrew Rawnsley presents a wry and insightful account of the first year of Blair's government, with inside accounts of such defining episodes as the decision ab...

Cars | What Britain Buys and Sells in a Day

Ed Balls, Ade Adepitan and Cherry Healey explore how much we really know about the logistics that enable Britain to buy and sell ...

Brexit: Behind Closed Doors: Part 2 | Storyville

The untold story of the Brexit negotiations... from the other side, with exclusive access to the EU parliament's representat...

Brexit: Behind Closed Doors: Part 1 | Storyville

The untold story of the Brexit negotiations... from the other side, with exclusive access to the EU parliament's representat...

2: Having It All | The Women Who Changed Modern Scotland

Kirsty Wark explores the 1980s and 90s, when legislative leaps enshrined new rights for women. But with sexism rife,...

1: The Disruptors | The Women Who Changed Modern Scotland

Kirsty Wark reveals how pioneering women of the 1960s and 70s seized the baton from previous generations and surged...

5: Downfall | Thatcher: A Very British Revolution

Mrs Thatcher's leadership style and judgement on Europe and the poll tax create splits in her cabinet and public anger, lea...

4: That Bloody Woman | Thatcher: A Very British Revolution

As Mrs Thatcher's government transforms the British economy, tensions erupt within her inner circle and personal r...

Episode 2 | Britain's Hardest Workers: Inside the Low Wage Economy

Volunteers test their skills against some of the jobs in Britain's low-wage sector. This time, they are wo...

Britain's Hardest Workers: Inside the Low Wage Economy

20 volunteers test their skills against some of the jobs in Britain's low-wage sector. In this episode, they do our di...

For Sama | Dispatches

An epic and intimate journey filmed through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria. Waad al-Kateab tells the story of how she fell in love, marrie...

Cadbury Exposed | Dispatches

Undercover in Ghana, Antony Barnett investigates Britain's best-loved chocolate brand and reveals for the first time child labour in its supply ...

Britain's Lowest Paid Jobs - Part 4 | Britain's Hardest Workers: Inside the Low Wage Economy

20 volunteers take part in an experiment to test their skills against some of th...

Britain's Lowest Paid Jobs - Part 3 | Britain's Hardest Workers: Inside the Low Wage Economy

20 volunteers take part in an experiment to test their skills against some of th...

Britain's Lowest Paid Jobs - Part 2 | Britain's Hardest Workers: Inside the Low Wage Economy

20 volunteers take part in an experiment to test their skills against some of th...

Britain's Lowest Paid Jobs - Part 1 | Britain's Hardest Workers: Inside the Low Wage Economy

20 volunteers take part in an experiment to test their skills against some of th...

Let's strike a US-EU deal | Wake Up to Money

Will Bain looks at the trade deal agreed between the EU and the US. Plus, what does the Lionesses Euros win mean for sponsorship...

Myanmar Report | Unreported World

A Burmese filmmaker's on the front line in Myanmar as protestors defy the military junta's coup. As pressure to release political prisoners...

Inside Assad's Syria | Unreported World

Ramita Navai spends two weeks undercover in some of the most dangerous parts of Syria with members of the opposition movement determi...

Congo: The Real Mobile Phone War | Unreported World

Juliana Ruhfus finds that the lucrative mining of the ore coltan from which tantalum is extracted, and used in the produc...

After Brexit: The Battle for Europe | This World

The European Union faces the biggest challenge in its 60-year history, with the rise of populist eurosceptic movements acros...

3: Breakthroughs and Backlash | The Women Who Changed Modern Scotland

Kirsty Wark navigates the devolution era and reveals what happens when women take the lead, from the sh...

2: Having It All | The Women Who Changed Modern Scotland

Kirsty Wark explores the 1980s and 90s, when legislative leaps enshrined new rights for women. But with sexism rife,...

1: The Disruptors | The Women Who Changed Modern Scotland

Kirsty Wark reveals how pioneering women of the 1960s and 70s seized the baton from previous generations and surged...

3: Enemies | Thatcher: A Very British Revolution

Mrs Thatcher confronts her enemies, leading the country to war, taking the economic fight to her opponents in the trade unio...

Episode 2 | Britain's Hardest Workers: Inside the Low Wage Economy

Volunteers test their skills against some of the jobs in Britain's low-wage sector. This time, they are wo...

Britain's Hardest Workers: Inside the Low Wage Economy

20 volunteers test their skills against some of the jobs in Britain's low-wage sector. In this episode, they do our di...

Britain's Lowest Paid Jobs - Part 4 | Britain's Hardest Workers: Inside the Low Wage Economy

20 volunteers take part in an experiment to test their skills against some of th...

Britain's Lowest Paid Jobs - Part 3 | Britain's Hardest Workers: Inside the Low Wage Economy

20 volunteers take part in an experiment to test their skills against some of th...

Britain's Lowest Paid Jobs - Part 2 | Britain's Hardest Workers: Inside the Low Wage Economy

20 volunteers take part in an experiment to test their skills against some of th...

Britain's Lowest Paid Jobs - Part 1 | Britain's Hardest Workers: Inside the Low Wage Economy

20 volunteers take part in an experiment to test their skills against some of th...

Inez: A Challenging Woman

Award-winning documentary exploring the life of renowned Northern Irish trade union leader and human rights campaigner Inez McCormack.

A Very Singular Man: A Film Portrait of Edward Heath

Edward Heath was one of the most controversial prime ministers of the 20th century. He took Britain into Europe, but was...