Health and Disability

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...

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.

Migration and schizophrenia | Horizon

Explanation of the theory that migration is the main cause of the observed racial bias in the diagnosis of schizophrenia.

Racial bias of diagnosing schizophrenia | Black Britain

Explanation of potential factors that lead to the racial differences seen in the diagnosis of schizophrenia

All In The Mind? | Mosaic

Program explores how far inequalities in mental health care exist.

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.

Episode 2 | Dementia & Us

This episode looks at the effects on those with dementia as the pandemic hits and Britain goes into lockdown. As social interaction helps keep the ...

Episode 1 | Dementia & Us

The first in a groundbreaking two-part series following four people with dementia and their families over the course of two whole years.

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).

6: Aberdeen - Poverty at Home | Darren McGarvey's Scotland

Darren travels to oil-rich Aberdeen, where he discovers a city in flux. With the nation's highest number of food b...

Florence Nightingale: Nursing Pioneer

Film following the life of an extraordinary woman, a trailblazer who revolutionised modern nursing and reformed healthcare at home and ...

Are You Having A Laugh? TV And Disability

A humorous and irreverent look at the way disability has been portrayed on TV over the last 50 years, narrated by David Walliams an...

Living without a Memory

Debbie, Sally and George are three people who didn't lose their memories gradually, theirs were stolen by illness, almost overnight. This one-off doc...

03: Psychosis | Bedlam

The third programme, Psychosis, films a community mental health team. South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust provides support for more than 35...

01: Anxiety | Bedlam

The first programme, Anxiety, follow patients through the 18-bed Anxiety Disorders Residential Unit at Bethlem Royal Hospital. This national unit treats...

02: Crisis | Bedlam

Cameras are allowed in Lambeth Hospital Triage ward for the first time. This is the Accident and Emergency of mental health—where patients are at their m...

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...

5: Borders - Rural Poverty and Mental Health | Darren McGarvey's Scotland

Darren discovers that levels of ill mental health in the Scottish Borders are above the national av...

2019: Episode 29 | Gardeners' World

This special programme takes a close look at the role that plants and gardening play in mental and physical wellbeing, exploring the idea...

Charlotte Church: Inside My Brain

Charlotte Church embarks on a journey to explore the cutting edge of mental health research and learn more about the relationship between o...

David Harewood: Psychosis and Me

David Harewood had a psychotic breakdown and was sectioned in his 20s. David traces his steps, meeting young people living with psychosis an...