Neuroethology | Horizon

Paul Merson: Football, Gambling and Me

Former footballer Paul Merson sets out to understand why his life has been so blighted by gambling and asks if enough is being done to...

Prisons | Crime - Are We Tough Enough?

Chris Daw and Ayesha Nayyar look at what role our prisons should play in the fight against crime.

Improving Your Mental Health | The Truth About...

Professor Tanya Byron and Alex Scott uncover the latest science on how to improve your mental health and wellbeing - and re...

God on the Brain | Horizon

Could it be, that the physical make-up of our brains programmes us to believe in God, just as the desire to eat or have sex?

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...

03: Broken Brains | The Brain: A Secret History

Michael Mosley ends his look at the history of experimental psychology by exploring how experiments on abnormal brains can re...

Fish and Snakes | The Panic Room

Factual entertainment series about phobias and a radical way to overcome them. Gareth has a morbid fear of fish, while Ruth has a serious ph...

How Mad Are You? Part 1 | Horizon

Ten volunteers have come together for an extraordinary test. Five are 'normal' and the other five have been officially diagnosed as mentall...

Sleep | The Truth About...

We are one of the most sleep-deprived countries in the world. In The Truth About Sleep, insomniac Michael Mosley finds out what happens if we don'...

Why Did I Go Mad? | Horizon

Following three people living with voices, hallucinations and paranoia to explore what causes them, examining the impact of social, biological an...

A restorative justice example | Panorama

Watch the process of restorative justice and how it impacts the victim and offender of the burglary.

Are You Good or Evil? | Horizon

Horizon meets researchers studying psychopathic killers to try to determine what makes people good or evil. One such scientist believes he ha...

Restorative justice process | Can Criminals Say Sorry?

Watch a restorative justice conference in action and how a well planned and supported meeting can help the situation t...

How Violent Are You? | Horizon

What makes ordinary people commit extreme acts of violence? Michael Portillo investigates the dark side of human nature and discovers what it ...

Taxi drivers and plasticity | The Brain with David Eagleman

An introduction to the Marshmallow study and what this shows about delayed gratification.

The Mystery of Murder: A Horizon Guide

Michael Mosley uses the BBC archives to chart scientists' progress as they probed the mind of the murderer to try to understand why pe...

Timothy Evans and Derek Bentley | The Ruth Ellis Files: A Very British Crime Story

The narrator discusses the introduction of the defence of diminished responsibility in Eng...

Imitation of aggression | The Brain: A Secret History

Bandura's work challenged views of the time and showed that aggression is often imitated.

Mental: A History of the Madhouse

Documentary telling the story of the closure of Britain's mental asylums and what it says about society's changing attitudes to mental illn...

The Day I Died

Tonight's documentary explores the theory that near-death experiences actually come from beyond the brain. New clinical research is daring to suggest the impo...