Acquiring Culture

17/11/2005 | Race

Two programmes looking at racism and immigration. Changing Attitudes looks at the racisms that are at the forefront of race today, including Islamophobia, ...

Education Reform Act 1944 | Middle Classes...Their Rise And Sprawl

1944 Education Act secondary education for all, selective tripartite system. Cultural capital. Cultural bi...

The Story Of Skinheads With Don Letts

Don Letts explores how the skinhead subculture has become associated with street fighting and racism, but had its origins in a moment o...

S02E03: Are We Getting More Racist? | Free Speech

Live from Sunderland, a panel of politicians and local activists discuss racism and Islamophobia in Britain in the light of...

Ethnicity, Education and Employment | Lost Boys? What's Going Wrong For Asian Men

An exploration of the expectations on young British Asian men from their parents and the ch...

The Battle For British Islam | Panorama

Panorama investigates the battle for the hearts and minds of British Muslims. John Ware hears from Muslims trying to promote a form o...

The Morality Of Multiculturalism | Moral Maze

The morality of multiculturalism. Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk.

Rabina Khan: Redefining Multiculturalism | Four Thought

Author and independent local councillor Rabina Khan calls for a new definition of multiculturalism which acknowledges...

Think Of England | First Sight

Billy Bragg presents program which examines the multicultural evolution of London society since the end of the Second World War, and looks at ...

S01E02: The First Black Brummies | A Very British History

Poet Sue Brown looks at what life was like in the postwar years for Birmingham's Caribbean community as they asked ...

The Lessons Of Ray Honeyford

Aasmah Mir revisits the heated dispute surrounding Ray Honeyford, a Bradford head teacher whose outspoken criticisms of multiculturalism caused ...

Lost Boys? What's Going Wrong For Asian Men

In this personal film, Mehreen Baig, a British-Pakistani woman, meets a range of young British-Asian men to understand their expe...

Last Whites Of The East End

Documentary exploring the effect of immigration on the dwindling white community of the East End, from the perspective of those who remain and th...

Fast Track Brits

Documentary exploring what it means to be British. Britishness is put under the microscope in this unique social experiment testing the best method to integ...

Butch

What does it mean to call yourself a 'butch' lesbian - and is the term falling away? Poet Joelle Taylor celebrates ‘being butch' and explores its rich meaning for her ...

S02E01: Birmingham Irish I am | A Very British History

Angela Moran, whose grandparents were amongst thousands of Irish to move to the second city in the 1950s, tells the st...

Pakistani Influences on British Asian Men | Lost Boys? What's Going Wrong For Asian Men

The presenter visits Pakistan to explore how ties between Britain and Pakistan are ma...

Immigration and Racism | Race

An exploration of immigration and racism discussing terms of identity, labelling and prejudice.

The Impact of Immigration on Identity | Last Whites Of The East End

Mass immigration to Newham in the past 25 years has meant the area is no longer recognisable from the pas...

Stuart Hall | Thinking Allowed

What future does the idea of multiculturalism have in Britain? As the politicians debate, Laurie interviews Britain's leading cultural theoris...

What Makes a Human? | Horizon

Professor Alice Roberts investigates what exactly makes human beings different from the animal kingdom. What is it that truly makes us human?

Feral Children | Mindshock

The film examines the phenomenon of feral children, brought up by animals, and isolated from all human contact. What are they like in adulthood an...

Episode 3 | The Years That Changed Modern Scotland

Kirsty Wark explores the 1990s and 2000s, from the highs of the rave scene, Trainspotting and a new Scottish parliament, t...

Does class still exist, and is social mobility possible? | Prescott: The Class System And Me

Former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott explores whether class still exists a...

Episode 2 | The Years That Changed Modern Scotland

Kirsty Wark explores the 1980s and early 1990s, a time of painful transition in Scotland as old industries declined and ne...

Home Life 3: Nuclear Household | Thinking Allowed

How are homes changing? In a special series Laurie Taylor and sociologists visit listeners' homes to explore private life. ...

People of talent, people of vision, people of passion | Black Is the New Black

Inspirational Black Britons describe what it is like to be Black and British today.

Scotland's Finest: The Story of the Highland Games

Bill Patterson narrates the rich and vivid story of the Highland Games, which have become a symbol of community and identi...

Episode 4 | The Years That Changed Modern Scotland

Kirsty Wark explores the 2008 financial crash and the aftermath that saw Scotland try to recover and rebuild, all while qu...

Episode 1 | The Years That Changed Modern Scotland

In this people’s history, Kirsty Wark explores the 1970s and early 1980s, an era of shops, pop, new towns and oil, and whe...

Last Whites Of The East End

Documentary exploring the effect of immigration on the dwindling white community of the East End, from the perspective of those who remain and th...

06: Community and Politics | Soul of Britain

This week, Michael Buerk questions whether the traditional notion of community is outdated. Panellists include Pat Kane, Anne At...

Episode 4 | Black Is The New Black

In the final episode, our cast of extraordinary black Britons are facing today and the future.

Episode 2 | Black Is The New Black

Our cast of extraordinary black Britons talk about school days, 'playing the game' and negotiating the working world.

Episode 1 | Black Is The New Black

Episode one explores both arriving and growing up in Britain through intimate interviews with prominent black Britons.

05: What Is Our Future? | Human Universe

Professor Brian Cox examines what lies ahead for humankind. On Svalbard, he gains access to civilisation's greatest treasure, buried...

04: A Place in Space and Time | Human Universe

Professor Brian Cox explores mankind's place in the universe. He looks at how we came to understand that we are not at the cen...

03: Are We Alone? | Human Universe

Professor Brian Cox explores mankind's place in the universe. He considers the possibility of alien life - could it exist and will humans ...

02: Why Are We Here? | Human Universe

Professor Brian Cox explores our place in the universe. He tackles the question that unites the seven billion people sharing this plane...

01: Apeman - Spaceman | Human Universe

Professor Brian Cox explores our place in the universe. He charts the story of humans from apes to the birth of civilisation to our as...

Hair Power: Me and My Afro

A taboo-busting look at how Afro-textured hair shapes Black experience in modern Britain, as writer Emma Dabiri talks to men and women about their...

Baptism | Life and Death the Pentecostal Way

Hannah and Jordan are baptised in the Pentecostal Church.

Evangelism | Life and Death the Pentecostal Way

Members of the Evangelism team discuss their work.

Pentecostal Sermon | Life and Death the Pentecostal Way

A sermon at the Pentecostal in Brixton.

Battle For Islam

Writer Ziauddin Sardar takes an epic journey to discover how Muslims in five different countries are trying to win back the soul of Islam from extremists.

S01E01: Romany Gypsies | A Very British History

Writer Damian Le Bas explores how Gypsy people in the 1960s were forced to abandon their nomadic way of life for a more settl...

Subcultures | Thinking Allowed

How much do the pop infatuations of teen girls have in common with the cult of death metal? Laurie Taylor finds out from young delegates to a ...

Dedication | Life and Death the Pentecostal Way

Shaniqua dedicates her son Isaiah to the Pentecostal Church.

Preparing for Baptism | Life and Death the Pentecostal Way

Hannah and Jordan discuss their choices to be Baptised into the Pentecostal Church.

S02E02: Up a Class | Hayley Goes...

Hayley Pearce is working-class through and through, but she wants to know how easy it would be to go up a class. Will being posh prove to...

Portrait of an Artist: Maggie Evans | Monitor

A film directed by David Storey of painter Margaret Evans who lives in Hampstead with her husband Dan Oestreicher and their fou...

Tourism and art | Meet You at the Hippos

The public art in the new-towns instilled identity, which was challenged when the art was moved or painted much to the ambivalence o...

Art and marketing | Meet You at the Hippos

Malcolm Robertson considers how much of his public art created for Glenrothes evolved from art into advertisments for the town.

What's the point in public art? | Meet You at the Hippos

Camille Archer ponders what public art is and why it is important to communities.

Concrete Elephants | Meet You at the Hippos

Steve Bonnar discovers his concrete elephants have lost their trunks since he installed them, leaving him philosophical about art...

Art as a flood defence | Meet You at the Hippos

Denis Barnes discusses the simple ways he created public art initially with zero budget and how some even aided the natural w...

Environmental art | Meet You at the Hippos

Andrew Dimitrius considers what environmental art is and how that differs from historic public art in the way of plinths and monum...

Town planner or Artist | Meet You at the Hippos

Brian Miller was just a town planner but was adamant to make new towns vibrant with murals and sculptures that all could enjoy.

Concrete Hippos | Meet You at the Hippos

Steve Bonnar reflects 38-years later about his first new town public art project amounting in some concrete hippos.

First Town Artist | Meet You at the Hippos

In the 1970's the town planners of Scotland's new-towns hired "town artists" to make public work that would complement the community.

Birth of new towns | Meet You at the Hippos

The post-war government were keen to build communities as well as just housing but equally wanted to reduce the population of Gla...

Art in Scottish ''new-towns'' | Meet You at the Hippos

Actor Mark Bonnar details Scotland's building boom of "new-towns" in the post-war era.

Inside The Secret World Of Incels

A never-before-seen look at the incel community, an online subculture to which multiple mass murders and hate crimes against women have bee...

Radicalisation of Young Men Online | Inside The Secret World Of Incels

An exploration asking does violence online lead to violence offline?<br><br><strong>(Contains sensitiv...

The TikTok Effect

What connects amateur sleuths turning up at crime scenes, antisocial behaviour in UK schools and French riots? This film finds evidence they are all exampl...

Episode 1 | Banned! The Mary Whitehouse Story

In 1963, armed with just a typewriter, a Midlands housewife began a 30-year battle against the permissive society. But how succ...

Hip Hop's Association with Violence | imagine...

An exploration of the emergence of hip hop in America, its association with violence and how it influenced the music scene w...

Mockery with Monocles: The Western Brothers Revealed

Geoffrey Palmer celebrates the songs of Kenneth and George Western and reveals their place in British comedy.

Kitty Clive

A comedy about the celebrated 18th century comedienne, Kitty Clive.

06: Community and Politics | Soul of Britain

This week, Michael Buerk questions whether the traditional notion of community is outdated. Panellists include Pat Kane, Anne At...

03: Happy Days | A Labour of Love

The first holiday camps, hop picking, bonfire night, and trips to the countryside were ways families enjoyed themselves together in the ear...

Episode 1 | Melvyn Bragg on Class and Culture

Melvyn Bragg explores the relationship between class and culture, starting with 1911 to 1945 and telling the story of how a rig...

The Hip Hop Generation | Imagine...

Hip-hop has become a global youth culture. But why does the voice of young black America resonate equally with British teenagers from cit...

Chavs - Ageing Goths | Thinking Allowed

Is the term 'Chav' indicative of a growing tendency to demonise the working class? Laurie discusses class and popular culture. Also, ...

Sexuality And Stereotypes | Mobeen Azhar

How true is my sexuality to the stereotype?

One Country One Culture | Mindfield

June Sarpong hosts discussion programme from the Truman Brewery, London. The topic is multiculturalism, and barrister John Cooper argues ...

A Day In The Life Of A Tweenager | Little Women

Documentary about a new generation of pre-teen girls ,aged between 7-11 years old but who possess the confidence ,sense of st...

Silent Roars | Listen To Britain 2017

Four of the internet's biggest female stars reveal how their followers are shaping them.

The Consequences of Poor Socialisation | Kids Behind Bars

Children and young people living in a secure residential unit. Explores issues such as poor socialisation, formal a...

What Makes a Human? | Horizon

Professor Alice Roberts investigates what exactly makes human beings different from the animal kingdom. What is it that truly makes us human?

Feral Children | Mindshock

The film examines the phenomenon of feral children, brought up by animals, and isolated from all human contact. What are they like in adulthood an...

I'm In Here For A Reason | Kids Behind Bars

Series set in Vinney Green secure unit for children follows three of the youngest boys, who started getting into trouble when the...

Does class still exist, and is social mobility possible? | Prescott: The Class System And Me

Former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott explores whether class still exists a...

Episode 1 | Prejudice And Pride: The People's History Of LGBTQ Britain

Ordinary people share the objects that have helped define their lives since homosexuality was decrimin...

Home Life 3: Nuclear Household | Thinking Allowed

How are homes changing? In a special series Laurie Taylor and sociologists visit listeners' homes to explore private life. ...

Episode 2 | Prejudice And Pride: The People's History Of LGBTQ Britain

Ordinary people share the objects that have helped define their lives since homosexuality was decrimin...

Joseph Henrich - Professor of Evolutionary Biology | HARDtalk

Is genetics or cultural conditioning the key to understanding human evolution? Stephen Sackur speaks to Profess...

Last Whites Of The East End

Documentary exploring the effect of immigration on the dwindling white community of the East End, from the perspective of those who remain and th...

06: Community and Politics | Soul of Britain

This week, Michael Buerk questions whether the traditional notion of community is outdated. Panellists include Pat Kane, Anne At...

05: What Is Our Future? | Human Universe

Professor Brian Cox examines what lies ahead for humankind. On Svalbard, he gains access to civilisation's greatest treasure, buried...

04: A Place in Space and Time | Human Universe

Professor Brian Cox explores mankind's place in the universe. He looks at how we came to understand that we are not at the cen...

03: Are We Alone? | Human Universe

Professor Brian Cox explores mankind's place in the universe. He considers the possibility of alien life - could it exist and will humans ...

02: Why Are We Here? | Human Universe

Professor Brian Cox explores our place in the universe. He tackles the question that unites the seven billion people sharing this plane...

01: Apeman - Spaceman | Human Universe

Professor Brian Cox explores our place in the universe. He charts the story of humans from apes to the birth of civilisation to our as...

The Impact of Immigration on Identity | Last Whites Of The East End

Mass immigration to Newham in the past 25 years has meant the area is no longer recognisable from the pas...

Part 3 | Living Proof

The boy reunites with monkeys and further discussion of the plausibility of this story takes place.

Part 2 | Living Proof

A discussion with scientists as to whether the evidence the boy who lived with monkeys gives is plausible.

Part 1 | Living Proof

John, a boy in Uganda describing his year living with monkeys when he was 4-5 years old.

Episode 2 | Street Gangs

Graeme focuses on what happens when gang life begins to go wrong. Sharing deeply personal stories, Graeme engages with police and reformed gang memb...

Episode 1 | Street Gangs

Ex-gang member Graeme Armstrong tries to understand why young people are seduced by the perceived glamour and excitement of gang.

My Scientology Movie (2015)

Documentary investigating the Church of Scientology. To find out more about the mysterious organisation, Louis Theroux meets with former members ...

The Riots That Shocked the Country | Panorama

Darragh MacIntyre reports from some of the towns and cities most affected by the recent riots in the UK and asks what can be do...

Episode 3 | Street Gangs

Graeme explores the Wyndford Scheme in Maryhill and travels to Glencoe to meet a man who, like himself, managed to turn his life around and leave ga...

Reggie Yates: Teen Gangs

TV presenter and Radio 1 DJ Reggie Yates explores the culture of fear, anger and violence which drives the dangerous world of teenage gangs.

Aylesbury Prison: Episode 2 | The Choir

With just three weeks to go, Gareth has only seven performers and a handful of half-baked songs. Gareth is still hoping to get a perf...

Gang Culture in Scotland - Part 2 | Street Gangs

An exploration of further reasons young people join gangs, attachment, sense of belonging, relative deprivation, social medi...

Untold: The Secret World of Incels

Filmmaker Ben Zand investigates the dark world of incels. He uncovers shockingly violent content being shared online and meets a British m...

The Story Of Skinheads With Don Letts

Don Letts explores how the skinhead subculture has become associated with street fighting and racism, but had its origins in a moment o...

Aylesbury Prison: Episode 1 | The Choir

Gareth Malone faces a challenge which will test him like no other - to form a choir in one of the toughest prisons for young offender...

Mods and Rockers Rebooted

We take a fresh look at the bank holiday clashes of 1964 to separate fact from fiction as we bring the mods and rockers of the time back to those s...

04: Doowutchyalike | Almost Grown

With Bowie Freaks, Punks and New Romantic's, styles became more weird and changed frequently. This program looks at how cults form styles a...

Gang Culture in Scotland - Part 3 | Street Gangs

Community outreach programmes trying to support young people from gang life and crime. Challenges of life after prison.

Episode 2 | Who's Watching You?

Richard Bilton meets those who have made our private lives their business, and delves in to the criminal underworld of hackers and blaggers w...

Germany's New Nazis | Panorama

Panorama has spent six months in Freital, a small town in Germany, to explore increased levels of far-right extremism in the country.

Insane Fight Club

Documentary charting the rise of the brutal, riotous and chaotic fight club that is taking over the streets of Glasgow.

Generation Grime

Once an underground London sound, Grime has had a huge impact on youth culture. This programme follows Welsh act Astroid Boys on their recent tour.

Drill On Trial

Radio 1Xtra DJ Tiffany Calver explores the response to UK drill - a popular but controversial genre of rap - by the authorities, who blame it for a rise in vi...

City Boy Fight Club

The subculture of white collar boxing has exploded in Britain recently. This film follows Josh and Challon as they square up to each other for the second...