Acquiring Culture

S2E1: Birmingham Irish I am | A Very British History

Angela Moran, whose grandparents were amongst thousands of Irish to move to the second city in the 1950s, tells the stor...

The Morality Of Multiculturalism | Moral Maze

The morality of multiculturalism. Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk.

The Battle For British Islam | Panorama

Panorama investigates the battle for the hearts and minds of British Muslims. John Ware hears from Muslims trying to promote a form o...

S1E2: The First Black Brummies | A Very British History

Poet Sue Brown looks at what life was like in the postwar years for Birmingham's Caribbean community as they asked qu...

Pakistani Influences on British Asian Men | Lost Boys? What's Going Wrong For Asian Men

The presenter visits Pakistan to explore how ties between Britain and Pakistan are ma...

The Story Of Skinheads With Don Letts

Don Letts explores how the skinhead subculture has become associated with street fighting and racism, but had its origins in a moment ...

Ethnicity, Education and Employment | Lost Boys? What's Going Wrong For Asian Men

An exploration of the expectations on young British Asian men from their parents and the ch...

Education Reform Act 1944 | Middle Classes...Their Rise And Sprawl

1944 Education Act secondary education for all, selective tripartite system. Cultural capital. Cultural bi...

The Impact of Immigration on Identity | Last Whites Of The East End

Mass immigration to Newham in the past 25 years has meant the area is no longer recognisable from the pas...

Immigration and Racism | Race

An exploration of immigration and racism discussing terms of identity, labelling and prejudice.

Stuart Hall | Thinking Allowed

What future does the idea of multiculturalism have in Britain? As the politicians debate, Laurie interviews Britain's leading cultural theoris...

17/11/2005 | Race

Two programmes looking at racism and immigration. Changing Attitudes looks at the racisms that are at the forefront of race today, including Islamophobia, ...

One Country One Culture | Mindfield

June Sarpong hosts discussion programme from the Truman Brewery, London. The topic is multiculturalism, and barrister John Cooper argues ...

Think Of England | First Sight

Billy Bragg presents program which examines the multicultural evolution of London society since the end of the Second World War, and looks at ...

Melting Pot | Cafe 21

Third series of chat programmes for young British Asians. Rajesh Mirchandani discusses multiculturalism.

The Lessons Of Ray Honeyford

Aasmah Mir revisits the heated dispute surrounding Ray Honeyford, a Bradford head teacher whose outspoken criticisms of multiculturalism caused ...

Lost Boys? What's Going Wrong For Asian Men

In this personal film, Mehreen Baig, a British-Pakistani woman, meets a range of young British-Asian men to understand their expe...

Last Whites Of The East End

Documentary exploring the effect of immigration on the dwindling white community of the East End, from the perspective of those who remain and th...

Are We Getting More Racist? | Free Speech

Live from Sunderland, a panel of politicians and local activists discuss racism and Islamophobia in Britain in the light of events ...

Rabina Khan: Redefining Multiculturalism | Four Thought

Author and independent local councillor Rabina Khan calls for a new definition of multiculturalism which acknowledges...

6: Community and Politics | Soul of Britain

This week, Michael Buerk questions whether the traditional notion of community is outdated. Panellists include Pat Kane, Anne Atk...

Episode 4 | Black Is The New Black

In the final episode, our cast of extraordinary black Britons are facing today and the future.

Episode 2 | Black Is The New Black

Our cast of extraordinary black Britons talk about school days, 'playing the game' and negotiating the working world.

Black Is The New Black

Episode one explores both arriving and growing up in Britain through intimate interviews with prominent black Britons.

5: What Is Our Future? | Human Universe

Professor Brian Cox examines what lies ahead for humankind. On Svalbard, he gains access to civilisation's greatest treasure, buried ...

4: A Place in Space and Time | Human Universe

Professor Brian Cox explores mankind's place in the universe. He looks at how we came to understand that we are not at the cent...

3: Are We Alone? | Human Universe

Professor Brian Cox explores mankind's place in the universe. He considers the possibility of alien life - could it exist and will humans e...

2: Why Are We Here? | Human Universe

Professor Brian Cox explores our place in the universe. He tackles the question that unites the seven billion people sharing this planet...

1: Apeman - Spaceman | Human Universe

Professor Brian Cox explores our place in the universe. He charts the story of humans from apes to the birth of civilisation to our asc...

Police | Moral Maze

What should police be for - crime fighters or enforcers of social norms? Engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk. With Claire Fox, Anne McElvoy, Giles F...

Episode 3 | Black Is The New Black

Documentary series celebrating Britain's black community. Our cast of black Britons talk about making it, but making it with a difference.

What Makes a Human? | Horizon

Professor Alice Roberts investigates what exactly makes human beings different from the animal kingdom. What is it that truly makes us human?

The Impact of Immigration on Identity | Last Whites Of The East End

Mass immigration to Newham in the past 25 years has meant the area is no longer recognisable from the pas...

The Boy Who Lived With Monkeys: Part 3 | Living Proof

The boy reunites with monkeys and further discussion of the plausibility of this story takes place.

The Boy Who Lived With Monkeys: Part 2 | Living Proof

A discussion with scientists as to whether the evidence the boy who lived with monkeys gives is plausible.

The Boy Who Lived With Monkeys | Living Proof

Sally Magnusson and Prof Doug Candland, an expert in feral children, travel to a remote village in Uganda to meet John who clai...

Does class still exist, and is social mobility possible? | Prescott: The Class System And Me

Former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott explores whether class still exists a...

Feral Children | Mindshock

The film examines the phenomenon of feral children, brought up by animals, and isolated from all human contact. What are they like in adulthood an...

Home Life 3: Nuclear Household | Thinking Allowed

How are homes changing? In a special series Laurie Taylor and sociologists visit listeners' homes to explore private life. ...

Episode 1 | Prescott: The Class System And Me

John Prescott embarks on a journey through the British class system to see if class still exists, meeting lords, ladies, ''chav...

S1E1: Romany Gypsies | A Very British History

Writer Damian Le Bas explores how Gypsy people in the 1960s were forced to abandon their nomadic way of life for a more settled...

Subcultures | Thinking Allowed

How much do the pop infatuations of teen girls have in common with the cult of death metal? Laurie Taylor finds out from young delegates to a ...

Dedication | Life and Death the Pentecostal Way

Shaniqua dedicates her son Isaiah to the Pentecostal Church.

Baptism | Life and Death the Pentecostal Way

Hannah and Jordan are baptised in the Pentecostal Church.

Pentecostal Sermon | Life and Death the Pentecostal Way

A sermon at the Pentecostal in Brixton.

Preparing for Baptism | Life and Death the Pentecostal Way

Hannah and Jordan discuss their choices to be Baptised into the Pentecostal Church.

Evangelism | Life and Death the Pentecostal Way

Members of the Evangelism team discuss their work.

Hair Power: Me and My Afro

A taboo-busting look at how Afro-textured hair shapes Black experience in modern Britain, as writer Emma Dabiri talks to men and women about their...

Battle For Islam

Writer Ziauddin Sardar takes an epic journey to discover how Muslims in five different countries are trying to win back the soul of Islam from extremists.

6: Community and Politics | Soul of Britain

This week, Michael Buerk questions whether the traditional notion of community is outdated. Panellists include Pat Kane, Anne Atk...

3: Happy Days | A Labour of Love

The first holiday camps, hop picking, bonfire night, and trips to the countryside were ways families enjoyed themselves together in the earl...

Episode 1 | Banned! The Mary Whitehouse Story

In 1963, armed with just a typewriter, a Midlands housewife began a 30-year battle against the permissive society. But how succ...

The TikTok Effect

What connects amateur sleuths turning up at crime scenes, antisocial behaviour in UK schools and French riots? This film finds evidence they are all exampl...

Radicalisation of Young Men Online | Inside The Secret World Of Incels

An exploration asking does violence online lead to violence offline?<br><br><strong>(Contains sensitiv...

Silent Roars | Listen To Britain 2017

Four of the internet's biggest female stars reveal how their followers are shaping them.

Hip Hop's Association with Violence | imagine...

An exploration of the emergence of hip hop in America, its association with violence and how it influenced the music scene w...

Chavs - Ageing Goths | Thinking Allowed

Is the term 'Chav' indicative of a growing tendency to demonise the working class? Laurie discusses class and popular culture. Also, ...

Sexuality And Stereotypes | Mobeen Azhar

How true is my sexuality to the stereotype?

One Country One Culture | Mindfield

June Sarpong hosts discussion programme from the Truman Brewery, London. The topic is multiculturalism, and barrister John Cooper argues ...

Episode 1 | Melvyn Bragg on Class and Culture

Melvyn Bragg explores the relationship between class and culture, starting with 1911 to 1945 and telling the story of how a rig...

A Day In The Life Of A Tweenager | Little Women

Documentary about a new generation of pre-teen girls ,aged between 7-11 years old but who possess the confidence ,sense of st...

The Hip Hop Generation | Imagine...

Hip-hop has become a global youth culture. But why does the voice of young black America resonate equally with British teenagers from cit...

Kitty Clive

A comedy about the celebrated 18th century comedienne, Kitty Clive.

Inside The Secret World Of Incels

A never-before-seen look at the incel community, an online subculture to which multiple mass murders and hate crimes against women have bee...

6: Community and Politics | Soul of Britain

This week, Michael Buerk questions whether the traditional notion of community is outdated. Panellists include Pat Kane, Anne Atk...

5: What Is Our Future? | Human Universe

Professor Brian Cox examines what lies ahead for humankind. On Svalbard, he gains access to civilisation's greatest treasure, buried ...

4: A Place in Space and Time | Human Universe

Professor Brian Cox explores mankind's place in the universe. He looks at how we came to understand that we are not at the cent...

3: Are We Alone? | Human Universe

Professor Brian Cox explores mankind's place in the universe. He considers the possibility of alien life - could it exist and will humans e...

2: Why Are We Here? | Human Universe

Professor Brian Cox explores our place in the universe. He tackles the question that unites the seven billion people sharing this planet...

1: Apeman - Spaceman | Human Universe

Professor Brian Cox explores our place in the universe. He charts the story of humans from apes to the birth of civilisation to our asc...

What Makes a Human? | Horizon

Professor Alice Roberts investigates what exactly makes human beings different from the animal kingdom. What is it that truly makes us human?

Episode 1 | Prejudice And Pride: The People's History Of LGBTQ Britain

Ordinary people share the objects that have helped define their lives since homosexuality was decrimin...

The Consequences of Poor Socialisation | Kids Behind Bars

Children and young people living in a secure residential unit. Explores issues such as poor socialisation, formal a...

The Impact of Immigration on Identity | Last Whites Of The East End

Mass immigration to Newham in the past 25 years has meant the area is no longer recognisable from the pas...

The Boy Who Lived With Monkeys: Part 3 | Living Proof

The boy reunites with monkeys and further discussion of the plausibility of this story takes place.

The Boy Who Lived With Monkeys: Part 2 | Living Proof

A discussion with scientists as to whether the evidence the boy who lived with monkeys gives is plausible.

The Boy Who Lived With Monkeys | Living Proof

Sally Magnusson and Prof Doug Candland, an expert in feral children, travel to a remote village in Uganda to meet John who clai...

Does class still exist, and is social mobility possible? | Prescott: The Class System And Me

Former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott explores whether class still exists a...

Feral Children | Mindshock

The film examines the phenomenon of feral children, brought up by animals, and isolated from all human contact. What are they like in adulthood an...

Home Life 3: Nuclear Household | Thinking Allowed

How are homes changing? In a special series Laurie Taylor and sociologists visit listeners' homes to explore private life. ...

Episode 1 | Prescott: The Class System And Me

John Prescott embarks on a journey through the British class system to see if class still exists, meeting lords, ladies, ''chav...

British Schools, Islamic Rules | Panorama

Investigation showing that some Muslim children are exposed to extremist preachers and fundamentalist Islamic groups. Also, the par...

Part 1 | Living Proof

John, a boy in Uganda describing his year living with monkeys when he was 4-5 years old.

I'm In Here For A Reason | Kids Behind Bars

Series set in Vinney Green secure unit for children follows three of the youngest boys, who started getting into trouble when the...

Mods and Rockers Rebooted

We take a fresh look at the bank holiday clashes of 1964 to separate fact from fiction as we bring the mods and rockers of the time back to those s...

S1E4: The Fix | Drugsland

Bristol West MP Thangam Debbonaire, substance-misuse experts and some recreational drug takers question whether the 1971 Misuse of Drugs Act is sti...

S1E2: Heroin Love Story | Drugsland

This episode follows the lives of a couple united in love and a shared heroin habit.

S1E3: Dying to Get Clean | Drugsland

This episode focuses on the challenges of breaking free from addiction.

Aylesbury Prison: Episode 2 | The Choir

With just three weeks to go, Gareth has only seven performers and a handful of half-baked songs. Gareth is still hoping to get a perf...

Aylesbury Prison: Episode 1 | The Choir

Gareth Malone faces a challenge which will test him like no other - to form a choir in one of the toughest prisons for young offender...

Russia: 2: Gay & Under Attack | Reggie Yates' Extreme

Reggie Yates finds out what life is like for young people in what has been described as the hardest place in Europe to ...

Episode 3 | Street Gangs

Graeme explores the Wyndford Scheme in Maryhill and travels to Glencoe to meet a man who, like himself, managed to turn his life around and leave ga...

Episode 2 | Street Gangs

Graeme focuses on what happens when gang life begins to go wrong. Sharing deeply personal stories, Graeme engages with police and reformed gang memb...

Episode 1 | Street Gangs

Ex-gang member Graeme Armstrong tries to understand why young people are seduced by the perceived glamour and excitement of gang.

4: Doowutchyalike | Almost Grown

With Bowie Freaks, Punks and New Romantic's, styles became more weird and changed frequently. This program looks at how cults form styles an...

Reggie Yates: Teen Gangs

TV presenter and Radio 1 DJ Reggie Yates explores the culture of fear, anger and violence which drives the dangerous world of teenage gangs.

My Scientology Movie (2015)

Documentary investigating the Church of Scientology. To find out more about the mysterious organisation, Louis Theroux meets with former members ...

S1E1: Heroin Town | Louis Theroux: Dark States

Louis Theroux embeds himself in a West Virginian community devastated by heroin abuse. He spends time with addicts and follows...

The City Addicted to Crystal Meth | Louis Theroux

Documentary in which Louis Theroux visits Fresno in California's Central Valley to see how crystal meth addiction affects t...

Part 3 - The Future of Christianity in Britain | The Battle For Christianity

The different ways Christianity is evolving and working to engage young people across Britain.

Gang Culture in Scotland - Part 3 | Street Gangs

Community outreach programmes trying to support young people from gang life and crime. Challenges of life after prison.

Gang Culture in Scotland - Part 2 | Street Gangs

An exploration of further reasons young people join gangs, attachment, sense of belonging, relative deprivation, social medi...

Drill On Trial

Radio 1Xtra DJ Tiffany Calver explores the response to UK drill - a popular but controversial genre of rap - by the authorities, who blame it for a rise in vi...

The Story Of Skinheads With Don Letts

Don Letts explores how the skinhead subculture has become associated with street fighting and racism, but had its origins in a moment ...