Power of Deceit
Lucy Cooke sets out to discover why honesty is almost certainly not the best policy, be you chicken, chimp or human being. It turns out that underhand behaviour is rife throughout the animal kingdom, ...
9 Aug 201928min
Hannah Walker Is a Highly Sensitive Person
Hannah Jane Walker argues that sensitivity is overlooked, dismissed and under-utilised, and argues that our society would be much better off if we embraced it instead.Two years ago, Hannah gave a Four...
6 Aug 201928min
The Upside of Anxiety
Anxiety has become one of the defining characteristics of our modern age, with millions of us suffering from its various damaging effects. It comes in many shapes and sizes - status anxiety, social an...
30 Juli 201957min
From College to Clink
What happens when top graduates work behind bars as prison officers? Lucy Ash meets young people who have forsaken lucrative careers in the City or elsewhere, for what many see as one of the world’s w...
26 Juli 201937min
America's Child Brides
A tense debate is taking place in states across America. At what age should someone be allowed to marry? Currently in 48 out of 50 states a child can marry, usually with parental consent or a judge's ...
28 Juni 201928min
A History of Hate - Bosnia: The Weaponisation of History
Hate seems to be everywhere - whether it’s white supremacists marching on the streets of America, jihadists slaughtering Christians in Sri Lanka or the massacre of Muslims in New Zealand. In this five...
11 Juni 201915min
What's in a Game?
While the video games industry is big business, it's also breaking new ground in the arts.We're at a cultural tipping point for the industry. For the past decade the process of producing and distribut...
7 Juni 201928min
Rewinder
Radio 1 Breakfast Show host Greg James digs into the BBC's archives, taking some of the week's news stories as a starting point for a trip into the past.Greg, who describes himself as a "proud radio n...
20 Maj 201928min
