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...

Cuba with Simon Reeve | This World

Simon Reeve heads to Cuba to find a communist country in the middle of a capitalist revolution and asks if the new economic openness could...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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.

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...

01: Our Friends in the North | Referendum Documentaries

Allan Little asks whether the Nordic economic model, which marries dynamic, open economies with high public spending ...

03: Marx | Masters of Money

Stephanie Flanders examines the revolutionary and controversial ideas of Karl Marx which, as the global financial crisis continues, are once agai...

02: Hayek | Masters of Money

Stephanie Flanders looks at the radical free-market economist Friedrich Hayek's solution to the problems of capitalism - set it virtually totall...

01: Keynes | Masters of Money

Stephanie Flanders looks at the life and work of economist John Maynard Keynes, and how his ideas have never been more relevant or controversia...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

The Corrupt Billionaire | Panorama

Leaked documents reveal how an impoverished country was corruptly exploited by its former ruling family. With Richard Bilton.

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

03: Marx | Masters of Money

Stephanie Flanders examines the revolutionary and controversial ideas of Karl Marx which, as the global financial crisis continues, are once agai...

01: Keynes | Masters of Money

Stephanie Flanders looks at the life and work of economist John Maynard Keynes, and how his ideas have never been more relevant or controversia...

02: Hayek | Masters of Money

Stephanie Flanders looks at the radical free-market economist Friedrich Hayek's solution to the problems of capitalism - set it virtually totall...

Episode 2 | The Major Years

Tonight looks at Black Wednesday and the damage it did to Major's leadership. Both Major and Norman Lamont speak very frankly about their roles i...

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...

The Highest Court in the Land: Justice Makers

In a film offering a glimpse of the human characters behind the judgments, four Justices of the Supreme Court talk about the na...

Killed by My Debt

Docudrama about 19-year-old Jerome Rogers, who found himself under a crushing debt and who eventually took his own life as a consequence.