02: Hayek | Masters of Money

Cadbury Exposed | Dispatches

Undercover in Ghana, Antony Barnett investigates Britain's best-loved chocolate brand and reveals for the first time child labour in its supply ...

5: Downfall | Thatcher: A Very British Revolution

Mrs Thatcher's leadership style and judgement on Europe and the poll tax create splits in her cabinet and public anger, lea...

Britain's Hardest Workers: Inside the Low Wage Economy

20 volunteers test their skills against some of the jobs in Britain's low-wage sector. In this episode, they do our di...

Cars | What Britain Buys and Sells in a Day

Ed Balls, Ade Adepitan and Cherry Healey explore how much we really know about the logistics that enable Britain to buy and sell ...

After Brexit: The Battle for Europe | This World

The European Union faces the biggest challenge in its 60-year history, with the rise of populist eurosceptic movements acros...

Brexit and Exit | Meet the Lords

Brexit hits the Lords with a bang when they vote on leaving Europe and become the centre of the nation's attention, and the Queen pays her a...

Britain's Lowest Paid Jobs - Part 2 | Britain's Hardest Workers: Inside the Low Wage Economy

20 volunteers take part in an experiment to test their skills against some of th...

Counting the Cost

Climate change, the COVID pandemic and now the crisis in Ukraine, have disrupted supply chains and exacerbated the soaring cost of living, leaving people o...

Italian steel industry | Counting the Cost

High energy costs are putting steel workers jobs at risk.

Rice Farmers | Counting the Cost

The high price of fertiliser is pushing up the cost of rice production in Thailand, which has a knock-on effect on the buyers of the rice.

01: Keynes | Masters of Money

Stephanie Flanders looks at the life and work of economist John Maynard Keynes, and how his ideas have never been more relevant or controversia...

01: Our Friends in the North | Referendum Documentaries

Allan Little asks whether the Nordic economic model, which marries dynamic, open economies with high public spending ...

03: Marx | Masters of Money

Stephanie Flanders examines the revolutionary and controversial ideas of Karl Marx which, as the global financial crisis continues, are once agai...

4: That Bloody Woman | Thatcher: A Very British Revolution

As Mrs Thatcher's government transforms the British economy, tensions erupt within her inner circle and personal r...

Britain's Lowest Paid Jobs - Part 1 | Britain's Hardest Workers: Inside the Low Wage Economy

20 volunteers take part in an experiment to test their skills against some of th...

Britain's Lowest Paid Jobs - Part 3 | Britain's Hardest Workers: Inside the Low Wage Economy

20 volunteers take part in an experiment to test their skills against some of th...

Britain's Lowest Paid Jobs - Part 4 | Britain's Hardest Workers: Inside the Low Wage Economy

20 volunteers take part in an experiment to test their skills against some of th...

China and the Pandemic | 54 Days

54 Days tells the story of the events that led to the lockdown and the gulf between what Chinese officials and scientists knew and what they...

Congo: The Real Mobile Phone War | Unreported World

Juliana Ruhfus finds that the lucrative mining of the ore coltan from which tantalum is extracted, and used in the produc...

Episode 2 | Britain's Hardest Workers: Inside the Low Wage Economy

Volunteers test their skills against some of the jobs in Britain's low-wage sector. This time, they are wo...