The Beaches
Seriously...7 Kesä 2024

The Beaches

A top secret little-known mission that changed the outcome of World War II. Not Alan Turing's Enigma code-breaking mission but a daring foray, conducted behind enemy lines on the shores of Normandy.

Harrison Lewis and wetland scientist Christian Dunn re-enact one of the most remarkable feats of the Second World War and discover the intricate details of the daring but forgotten science that underpinned D-Day.

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My Secret Wig

My Secret Wig

Lots of people wear wigs, and go to great lengths to keep them secret - but why? Perhaps it's because the hair on top of our heads means so much to us. It's a crucial part of our identity, the person ...

19 Syys 201730min

PowerPointless

PowerPointless

With more than 30 million presentations being given around the world every day, PowerPoint has become the single most ubiquitous tool for presenting ideas. Yet it's the software many of us love to hat...

15 Syys 201731min

Queens of Chapeltown

Queens of Chapeltown

After the violence directed at black people in Nottingham and Notting Hill in the 1950s, and the naked racism expressed in Smethwick during the 1964 general election, a group of pioneering West Indian...

5 Syys 201729min

The Edge of Life

The Edge of Life

Suicide is the number one killer of men under-50 in England and Wales. A 'zero suicide' approach to prevention first devised in Detroit is now changing attitudes to care in the UK. Merseyside is leadi...

29 Elo 201739min

Grayson Perry: En Garde

Grayson Perry: En Garde

Grayson Perry goes backwards in the archive in search of the moment the avant-garde died.It's a century since Marcel Duchamp submitted his artwork called Fountain to an exhibition staged by the Societ...

22 Elo 201759min

Driving Bill Drummond

Driving Bill Drummond

Bill Drummond is many things. As well as an artist, a writer and former pop-star - he's the owner of an old curfew tower in Northern Ireland which he runs as an artists' residency. Last year some poet...

18 Elo 201730min

A Brief History of the Truth

A Brief History of the Truth

It's time to travel down the rabbit hole of truth as American satirist Joe Queenan explores a murky world of fake news, prejudice and alternative facts. "Recent politics have shown that the truth is ...

1 Elo 201759min

The Pigeon Whistles

The Pigeon Whistles

The sound of music flying through the air, carried on the tails of pigeons. "I knew it was a noise maker, but it was the only thing in the museum that I had no idea what it might sound like. Because i...

28 Heinä 201730min

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