Core Political Ideas

02: Scotland's Smoking Gun | Referendum Documentaries

Documentary series focused on the upcoming Scottish referendum. This first programme looks at some of the worldwide eve...

06: What Women Want | Referendum Documentaries

In this programme, Jackie Bird investigates the reasons for the apparent gender gap at the centre of the campaign for Scottish...

09: Janet's Scotland | Referendum Documentaries

Writer and broadcaster Janet Street-Porter is in Scotland to find out more about the referendum and some of the issues behind...

13: How the Campaign Was Won | Referendum Documentaries

Following Scotland's historic vote on independence, this programme looks at what went on behind the scenes of both ca...

12: What's in It for Me? | Referendum Documentaries

Laura Kuenssberg meets some of the Scottish working public, and attempts to find out how the outcome Scottish referendum ...

11: Mind Games | Referendum Documentaries

Documentary in which Ken MacDonald explores the psychological techniques used by both campaigns to influence how people vote in the...

10: The Games People Play | Referendum Documentaries

John Beattie investigates the potential influence a successful Commonwealth Games may have on the way Scots vote in the ...

08: Blethering Referendum - Part 2 | Referendum Documentaries

Comedian Sanjeev Kohli takes a humorous look at the referendum on independence and explores the questions that ...

07: Blethering Referendum - Part 1 | Referendum Documentaries

Comedian Sanjeev Kohli takes a humorous look at the referendum on independence and explores the questions that ...

05: Referendum Connections | Referendum Documentaries

Sarah Smith takes a look at the early careers of Alex Salmond, Nicola Sturgeon, Alistair Carmichael, Johann Lamont and ...

04: Scotland's Top Ten Battlegrounds | Referendum Documentaries

A look at the results of a BBC poll ranking the ten most important issues in the independence referendum, wit...

03: Five Million Ways to Be Scottish | Referendum Documentaries

Documentary series focused on the upcoming Scottish referendum. Stuart Cosgrove asks what it means to be Scot...

The Prince and the Bomber

Fifty years on from the investiture of Prince Charles as the Prince of Wales, this film explores the tumultuous period leading up to the ceremony a...

Episode 2 | Wales: England's Colony?

Historian Martin Johnes continues to explore the uneasy relationship between England and Wales across the recent past and the ways it ha...

Episode 1 | Wales: England's Colony?

Historian Martin Johnes explores the story of the uneasy relationship between England and Wales across the centuries and discovers the w...

The Rise of the Far-Right

The far-right is surging across Europe. Jean Mackenzie travels across the continent to meet the people behind the movements and those fighting to s...

Will King Charles Change the Monarchy? | Panorama

As the nation prepares for the coronation of King Charles III, Panorama asks if the new king will adapt the monarchy to sui...

Spread Of The Communist Ideology | Genius of the Modern World

The Bolshevik Revolution kickstarted the shift towards communism, but Russia didn't have the predicted variable...

The Communist Manifesto | Genius of the Modern World

In 1847, poor crop growth leading to famine brought political unrest which inspired the commissioning of Marx and Engels...

Later Life | Genius of the Modern World

In 1849, Marx went to London and lived in the slums of Soho with his wife and four children, where he was spied on by Prussian spies.

S02E01: Traitor | Play for Today

Western journalists visit Moscow to interview Adrian Harris, a former controller in British intelligence who was also a double agent for the...

Das Kapital | Genius of the Modern World

Bettany and an economic journalist use the example of an 1860s 9-year-old boy who worked a 15-hour shift every day as the benchmark ...

Economic Organisations | Genius of the Modern World

From slavery to the industrial revolution, Marx and Engels realise that its economic organisations that drive the change ...

Engels | Genius of the Modern World

Engels was also from a bourgeois Prussian family and shared similar views on capitalism.

Young Hegelians | Genius of the Modern World

Marx joined a group of young debaters and philosophers who endlessly discussed the theories of the recently deceased George Hege...

Capitalism | Genius of the Modern World

The woe of society according to Marx was western life was based on capitalism and that while our ''species essence'' is productive, i...

Early Life | Genius of the Modern World

Bettany Hughes looks at the early bourgeois life of Karl Marx in Prussia.