Family and Households

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...

S2E4: Whatever Happened to the Boat People? | A Very British History

Therapist Rachel Nguyen tells the story of the Vietnamese Boat People who came to Britain in the 70s and...

S2E3: The British Chinese | A Very British History

British-born Chinese vlogger Shu Lin explores the history of the Chinese community in the UK from the 1950s through to the...

S2E2: British Bangladeshis | A Very British History

Dr Aminul Hoque tells the story of the thousands of Bangladeshi families who settled in the UK in the 1970s and 1980s.

S1E02: Home Sweet Home | Darren McGarvey's Class Wars

Darren examines how social class and where we live impacts our lives in ways that few realise, from our addictions to o...

6: Call Me Mother | A Labour Of Love

Program looks at the heart-rending experience of substitute parents - nannies, foster mothers, step-parents and housemothers as well as ...

Privacy And Parenting By Mobile Phone. | Thinking Allowed

Why is privacy so important to us? Laurie Taylor discusses a sociological study of the role that privacy plays in e...

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. ...

Home Life 2: Single Person Household | Thinking Allowed

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

Home Life 1: Multi-Generational Household | Thinking Allowed

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

Au Pairing And Domestic Labour | Thinking Allowed

Laurie Taylor explores the sociology of housework and the lived experience of au pairing. With Ann Oakley and Rosie Cox.

Three Girls and Three Babies | The Trouble With Girls

Documentary following friends Becki, Stacey and Vanessa, three 16-year-old girls from Rochdale. Three pregnancies chang...

Am I British? | Panorama

Reporter Greg McKenzie meets young people born or brought up in the UK who say Home Office immigration policy treats them as second-class citizens.

Money Box Live: Cohabitation | Money Box

What are your financial rights if you're cohabiting?

Happy Families | East

Sohail Rahman reports on polygamy in Britain, a mainly Islamic practice which, according to American academic Philip Kilbride, could offer solutions to...

Episode 2 | Death Of Respect

Journalist John Ware examines the broken bits of Britain and questions whether they can be put back together again. He hears about the damage ca...

1: Baby on Board | Counterblast

Many people strive to be perfect parents. Dr. Mike Fitzpatrick (GP) argues that putting children first and adults last could be damaging to b...

Parenting Secrets | Britain's Secrets with Anne Robinson

Anne Robinson delves into different areas of contemporary British life. She tackles parenting, looking at some of th...

Virtual Adultery And Cyberspace Love | Wonderland

Carolyn has four children and a loving husband, but she's abandoning it all to start a new life with her online lover.

Real Families With Steve Evans

How much has 21st-century family life in Wales has changed? Does the nation still hold fast to traditional family values or is the family unit...

5: The Family | Soul of Britain

With the traditional family under immense pressure, Michael Buerk asks whether sex outside marriage and "till death do us part" are still rel...

The Rise of Inter-Racial Marriages in the 1980s | Love And Marriage: A 20th Century Romance

Explores different couples' experiences of marriage and how marriage has changed ...

S1E01: Identity Crisis | Darren McGarvey's Class Wars

As Darren examines how social class shapes our identities and destinies, he meets people moving between the classes onl...

3: Health | Darren McGarvey: The State We're In

Darren uncovers the heroic efforts of an NHS workforce battling rising patient numbers and an ageing population.

3: To Have And To Hold | Love And Marriage: A 20th Century Romance

How marriage has survived, and for many got stronger, in the era from the 1980s onwards, looking at five c...

1: For Better, For Worse | Love And Marriage: A 20th Century Romance

Series looking at marriage from the 1900s to the present day. This first episode considers the strengths...

2: To Love And Obey | Love And Marriage: A 20th Century Romance

How, in the 60s and 70s, the traditional ideals of marriage were questioned and challenged as never before by...

1: Marriage | The British Family

Kirsty Young begins a history of how British families have changed since the Second World War by looking at marriage, and how it has become ...

Is Marriage Patriarchal? | Timeshift

A short clip discussing the evolution and traditions of marriage and whether women still lose their identity through the process of marr...

British class survey; Tribute to Geoff Pearson | Thinking Allowed

Laurie Taylor explores a unique piece of research conducted by BBC Lab UK and social scientists. Plus a tri...

Money Box Live: Cohabitation | Money Box

What are your financial rights if you're cohabiting?

The Art of Habit | Archive On 4

Author and journalist Lynsey Hanley tells the story of the rise of sociology, which explored the hidden patterns of our everyday lives and of...

Divorce | All Things Considered

As divorce centres open across the UK designed to simplify the ending of marriages, Roy Jenkins looks at how divorce is understood by those f...

Christian Marriage And Christian Cohabitation | All Things Considered

Church marriages are in decline. So why does anybody still get married in church? Roy Jenkins looks at ...

Wedding Rites: In Sickness And In Health | Timeshift

Documentary looking at how and why weddings are on the increase and divorce rates in decline in the UK, and if it's the ...

Poor Kids

Documentary telling the stories of some of the 3.5 million children living in poverty in the UK. They give their thoughts on their situation and their future prosp...

Divorce And Separation | Bringing Up Britain

Mariella Frostrup and guests explore parenting through a divorce. From breaking the news to introducing new partners, how can yo...

What's Wrong with Polygamy? | Asian Network Reports

Polygamy is a growing practice amongst British Muslims. It's cited as among the top 10 reasons why an increasing number o...

Japan: the Missing Million | Correspondent

In Japan's cities, hundreds of thousands of young men are turning into recluses, refusing even to leave their rooms. Western psych...

03: Take My Baby | Louis Theroux: Altered States

Louis Theroux explores open adoption in California, where women hand over their babies at birth to adoptive families paying ...

01: Love Without Limits | Louis Theroux: Altered States

Louis Theroux travels to Portland, Oregon, to visit a movement seeking to rewrite the rulebook on how we conduct inti...

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...

Episode 3 | How the Other Half Live

The show features a wealthy family providing 'sponsorship' for a family living in poverty in the UK.

Episode 2 | How the Other Half Live

The show features a wealthy family providing 'sponsorship' for a family living in poverty in the UK.

How the Other Half Live

The show features a wealthy family providing 'sponsorship' for a family living in poverty in the UK.

One Year On | How the Other Half Live

The show features a wealthy family providing 'sponsorship' for a family living in poverty in the UK.

3: The New Father | A Century Of Fatherhood

The modern father has a more intimate relationship with his children, but the sexual revolution, feminism and modern divorce laws...

2: Fathers at War | A Century Of Fatherhood

The story of the revolution in modern fatherhood in Britain during the last 100 years. How did fathers cope after returning home ...

1: The Good Father | A Century Of Fatherhood

Series charting the revolution in modern fatherhood in Britain over the last 100 years. The opening part explodes the myth of th...

Rebuilding Relationships | Prison Dads

Part 2 - Preparing for life on the outside and rebuilding relationships with their children.

Youth Offending and Parenting | Prison Dads

Part 1 - An insight into young fathers in Glen Parva Young Offenders Institution and how they try to maintain relationships with ...

The Impact of Divorce on Fathers | A Century Of Fatherhood

Fatherhood from the 1990s, access rights to children after divorce, step-parenting, Fathers for Justice.

Changing Family Structures | A Century Of Fatherhood

Changes in family structures as a result of the women's liberation movement and changes in laws to homosexuality and div...

The Changing Role of Fatherhood | A Century Of Fatherhood

The emergence of a new type of fatherhood over the past 50 years as changes in society meant fathers were able to b...

Blasian Love in South Africa | Our World

Few events are more nerve wracking than meeting the parents of someone you love. For black and Asian couples in South Africa, it's e...

Saving The Awa Tribe With Justin Rowlatt | Our World

The Awa are believed to be one of the most endangered tribes on the planet as their traditional lifestyle is under threa...

Keeping Up With The Joneses | Parsons On Class

Tony Parsons talks to the middleclass Jones family who live near Liverpool and run their own business.

Life at 100 | Panorama

Presented by Joan Bakewell, this Panorama special follows seven people who have reached 100 years or more, looking at how they live their lives.

4: Revolution | The Ascent of Woman

Dr Amanda Foreman explores the role of women in society. In the final episode, Amanda looks at women in revolutions that have transformed...

3: Power | The Ascent of Woman

Dr Amanda Foreman explores the role of women in early civilisations. Amanda looks at the stories of women behind some of the most powerful emp...

2: Separation | The Ascent of Woman

Dr Amanda Foreman explores how early civilisations dealt with the status of women. Amanda explores the role of women in Asia under Confuc...

1: Civilisation | The Ascent of Woman

Travelling from the Eurasian steppes to the sites of early civilisations, Dr Amanda Foreman explores how early civilisations dealt with...

5: Bombs at Bedtime | A Labour of Love

This program deals with the exhausting burden caused by the disruption of everyday routines that mothers faced during the Second World...

The Morality Of Masculinity | Moral Maze

Combative, provocative and engaging live debate chaired by Michael Buerk. With Anne McElvoy, Melanie Phillips, Ash Sarkar and Matthe...

2: Fathers at War | A Century Of Fatherhood

The story of the revolution in modern fatherhood in Britain during the last 100 years. How did fathers cope after returning home ...

3: The New Father | A Century Of Fatherhood

The modern father has a more intimate relationship with his children, but the sexual revolution, feminism and modern divorce laws...

1: The Good Father | A Century Of Fatherhood

Series charting the revolution in modern fatherhood in Britain over the last 100 years. The opening part explodes the myth of th...

4: Children | The British Family

Kirsty Young looks at how children have come to dominate family life in the last decade and reveals just how far we have come from the 'seen...

3: Money | The British Family

Kirsty Young explores the impact of money on British families. She charts the 1980s and 1990s when our pursuit of cash and career had a deep ef...

2: Sex | The British Family

Kirsty Young explores the impact of the sexual revolution on British families. She charts the explosion of sexual imagery in the 1970s and recall...

Trad Wife | Stacey Dooley Sleeps Over

Stacey investigates the growing community of 'tradwives' - women who have rejected career ambitions in favour of becoming the archetypa...

The Impact of Divorce on Fathers | A Century Of Fatherhood

Fatherhood from the 1990s, access rights to children after divorce, step-parenting, Fathers for Justice.

Changing Family Structures | A Century Of Fatherhood

Changes in family structures as a result of the women's liberation movement and changes in laws to homosexuality and div...

The Changing Role of Fatherhood | A Century Of Fatherhood

The emergence of a new type of fatherhood over the past 50 years as changes in society meant fathers were able to b...

The Domestic Division of Labour | Women

An exploration of the domestic division of labour and discussion with couples as to how it has evolved or hasn't evolved over time.

British Family Life in the 1980s: Part 2 | The British Family

Describes the increase in single parent families.

British Family Life in the 1980s - Part 1 | The British Family

Describes the impact of money and wealth on women's place in the family. Working women and a rise in single pa...

Croydon and Kent | Who Does What?

Couples have their household activity analysed to find out who does what. Matt goes out to work while Phil works from home - so should Phil...

5: Bombs at Bedtime | A Labour of Love

This program deals with the exhausting burden caused by the disruption of everyday routines that mothers faced during the Second World...

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...

1: Making Babies | A Labour of Love

Stories of home birth and the strict rigors of infant care methods in the first half of the 20th century (1900-1950).

Battered Baby: 2: Breaking the Chain | Horizon

Six weeks after Baby Jane is taken into hospital her parents are fighting for possession. The family show why the right decisi...

Battered Baby | Horizon

An eight-week-old baby is rush ed to hospital bruised and with a broken arm. Her mother has admitted to "shaking her". Dr Danya Glaser explores the f...

Russia: 3: Teen Model Factory | Reggie Yates' Extreme

Reggie Yates visits Siberia to meet the young girls who are going to extreme lengths to attract the international scout...

Special: The Babes in the Wood Murders | The Prosecutors

Exclusive documentary following the culmination of a 32-year fight for justice in a notorious unsolved double child ...

S2E2: 2: Modern Day Slavery | The Prosecutors

Film which follows the police and the Crown Prosecution Service as they bring a groundbreaking case against a shadowy network t...

Episode 8 | Back in Time for School

Our class return for one final adventure. Reflecting on the past 100 years, they venture beyond, into a future filled with virtual classr...

Episode 6 | Back in Time for School

The class embrace the new world of the 1980s. With robots, early computers and synths, the kids get to grips with Britain's new high-tech...

Episode 7 | Back in Time for School

The pupils and teachers arrive in their final time-travelling decade, the 1990s, ready to embrace girl power, Brit pop, Oasis and Blur, M...

Episode 4 | Back in Time for School

Pupils and teachers embark on a time-travelling adventure. In the swinging 60s, the class experience bricklaying, typing, cooking and eve...

Episode 5 | Back in Time for School

The class enters the experimental 1970s. They rewrite the rule book and learn weird and wonderful lessons as the free spirit of the era c...

Episode 3 | Back in Time for School

Pupils and teachers embark on a time-travelling adventure. The class enters the 40s and 50s - deportment, debate and even dancing are on ...

Episode 1 | Back in Time for School

Fifteen pupils and three teachers embark on a time-travelling adventure to discover how much life at school has changed. The class start ...

Episode 2 | Back in Time for School

Pupils and teachers embark on a time-travelling adventure. The class enters the interwar years. They learn bizarre new languages, test th...

Episode 2 | Banned! The Mary Whitehouse Story

During the 1970s and 1980s, Mary's campaigns against pornography and 'video nasties' raise her profile still further. But new m...

2: The Best Years Of My Life | Almost Grown

The teens are often years of extreme emotion. Daily life at school and home can be boring, but the teens can also be great. Do we...

1: That's What I Want... | Almost Grown

Series looking at teenagers from after the war onwards. This episode compares the economic status of the teenager from the post war b...

2: Tears And Fears | A Labour Of Love

This program looks at discipline, class rules and the different rules for boys and girls.

4: Pig's Head and Bed Bug | A Labour of Love

This program focuses on the daily struggle for survival in Britain by millions of families who lived in poverty, including a loo...

S1E3: The Jews of Leeds | A Very British History

Film-maker Simon Glass explores his family history and tells the story of the Yorkshire Jews in the early 20th century.

Battered Baby: 2: Breaking the Chain | Horizon

Six weeks after Baby Jane is taken into hospital her parents are fighting for possession. The family show why the right decisi...

Battered Baby | Horizon

An eight-week-old baby is rush ed to hospital bruised and with a broken arm. Her mother has admitted to "shaking her". Dr Danya Glaser explores the f...

6: Call Me Mother | A Labour Of Love

Program looks at the heart-rending experience of substitute parents - nannies, foster mothers, step-parents and housemothers as well as ...

2: Fathers at War | A Century Of Fatherhood

The story of the revolution in modern fatherhood in Britain during the last 100 years. How did fathers cope after returning home ...

3: The New Father | A Century Of Fatherhood

The modern father has a more intimate relationship with his children, but the sexual revolution, feminism and modern divorce laws...

1: The Good Father | A Century Of Fatherhood

Series charting the revolution in modern fatherhood in Britain over the last 100 years. The opening part explodes the myth of th...

The Future | Back in Time for the Weekend

A family gives up its 21st-century technology and travels back in time. In the final episode, they discover what the future might h...

The 80s | Back in Time for the Weekend

A family gives up its 21st-century technology and travels back in time. The family embrace the 80s, where TV and shopping dominated ou...

The 90s | Back in Time for the Weekend

A family gives up its 21st-century technology and travels back in time. The family enter the 90s, where new technology arrives at a di...

The 70s | Back in Time for the Weekend

A family gives up its 21st-century technology and travels back in time. Rob and Steph share more time together, playing darts with Eri...

The 60s | Back in Time for the Weekend

A family gives up their 21st-century technology and travels back in time. As they enter the 60s, there's more fun to be had - a trip t...

The 50s | Back in Time for the Weekend

A family gives up their 21st-century technology and travels back in time. As they enter the 50s, it's goodbye to the flat-screen TV an...

1: Marriage | The British Family

Kirsty Young begins a history of how British families have changed since the Second World War by looking at marriage, and how it has become ...

Ian Wright: Home Truths

Footballer Ian Wright shares his own story and investigates what effect growing up in a psychologically abusive and violent home has on children in t...

The Impact of Divorce on Fathers | A Century Of Fatherhood

Fatherhood from the 1990s, access rights to children after divorce, step-parenting, Fathers for Justice.

Changing Family Structures | A Century Of Fatherhood

Changes in family structures as a result of the women's liberation movement and changes in laws to homosexuality and div...

The Changing Role of Fatherhood | A Century Of Fatherhood

The emergence of a new type of fatherhood over the past 50 years as changes in society meant fathers were able to b...

The Role of the Media | Children Of Drugs

The story of Leah Betts, an 18 year old who died from taking an ecstasy tablet on her 18th birthday in 1995. Explores the role of t...