Family and Households

Parenting Secrets | Britain's Secrets with Anne Robinson

Anne Robinson delves into different areas of contemporary British life. She tackles parenting, looking at some of th...

02: Three Girls and Three Babies | The Trouble With Girls

Documentary following friends Becki, Stacey and Vanessa, three 16-year-old girls from Rochdale. Three pregnancies c...

S01E02: Home Sweet Home | Darren McGarvey's Class Wars

Darren examines how social class and where we live impacts our lives in ways that few realise, from our addictions to ...

Am I British? | Panorama

Reporter Greg McKenzie meets young people born or brought up in the UK who say Home Office immigration policy treats them as second-class citizens.

Virtual Adultery And Cyberspace Love | Wonderland

Carolyn has four children and a loving husband, but she's abandoning it all to start a new life with her online lover.

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. ...

Part 2 | 42 Up

Concluding the two-part film offering the latest seven-yearly update on 14 people's lives. Tonight's episode catches up with Paul, who was last seen in Austra...

Part 1 | 42 Up

The first of two films continuing British television's longest-running documentary project, which began in when a group of seven-year-olds were asked their vi...

Real Families With Steve Evans

How much has 21st-century family life in Wales has changed? Does the nation still hold fast to traditional family values or is the family unit...

Jemima Khan And The Part-Time Wife

Jemima Khan investigates the practice of polygamy in the UK today. Why are some Muslim women opting to become part-time wives, and is it a...

Class By Class

This programme looks at the Lyons, a lower middle class family.

01: Baby on Board | Counterblast

Many people strive to be perfect parents. Dr. Mike Fitzpatrick (GP) argues that putting children first and adults last could be damaging to ...

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...

S02E04: Whatever Happened to the Boat People? | A Very British History

Therapist Rachel Nguyen tells the story of the Vietnamese Boat People who came to Britain in the 70s a...

S02E03: The British Chinese | A Very British History

British-born Chinese vlogger Shu Lin explores the history of the Chinese community in the UK from the 1950s through to t...

S02E02: British Bangladeshis | A Very British History

Dr Aminul Hoque tells the story of the thousands of Bangladeshi families who settled in the UK in the 1970s and 1980s.

Privacy And Parenting By Mobile Phone. | Thinking Allowed

Why is privacy so important to us? Laurie Taylor discusses a sociological study of the role that privacy plays in e...

Home Life 2: Single Person Household | Thinking Allowed

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

Home Life 1: Multi-Generational Household | Thinking Allowed

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

Au Pairing And Domestic Labour | Thinking Allowed

Laurie Taylor explores the sociology of housework and the lived experience of au pairing. With Ann Oakley and Rosie Cox.

Poor Kids

Documentary telling the stories of some of the 3.5 million children living in poverty in the UK. They give their thoughts on their situation and their future prosp...

01: Marriage | The British Family

Kirsty Young begins a history of how British families have changed since the Second World War by looking at marriage, and how it has become...

S01E01: Identity Crisis | Darren McGarvey's Class Wars

As Darren examines how social class shapes our identities and destinies, he meets people moving between the classes on...

03: Health | Darren McGarvey: The State We're In

Darren uncovers the heroic efforts of an NHS workforce battling rising patient numbers and an ageing population.

02: To Love And Obey | Love And Marriage: A 20th Century Romance

How, in the 60s and 70s, the traditional ideals of marriage were questioned and challenged as never before b...

01: For Better, For Worse | Love And Marriage: A 20th Century Romance

Series looking at marriage from the 1900s to the present day. This first episode considers the strength...

Christian Marriage And Christian Cohabitation | All Things Considered

Church marriages are in decline. So why does anybody still get married in church? Roy Jenkins looks at ...

05: The Family | Soul of Britain

With the traditional family under immense pressure, Michael Buerk asks whether sex outside marriage and "till death do us part" are still re...

The Rise of Inter-Racial Marriages in the 1980s | Love And Marriage: A 20th Century Romance

Explores different couples' experiences of marriage and how marriage has changed ...

03: To Have And To Hold | Love And Marriage: A 20th Century Romance

How marriage has survived, and for many got stronger, in the era from the 1980s onwards, looking at five ...

Divorce | All Things Considered

As divorce centres open across the UK designed to simplify the ending of marriages, Roy Jenkins looks at how divorce is understood by those f...

Part 2 | 42 Up

Concluding the two-part film offering the latest seven-yearly update on 14 people's lives. Tonight's episode catches up with Paul, who was last seen in Austra...

Part 1 | 42 Up

The first of two films continuing British television's longest-running documentary project, which began in when a group of seven-year-olds were asked their vi...

S01E06: Zena | Underage and Pregnant

A look at what it is like to be underage and pregnant. Zena worries about having a miscarriage or stillbirth and, as she goes into labou...

S01E05: Rebecca and Monique | Underage and Pregnant

A look at what it is like to be underage and pregnant. Sixteen-year-old Rebecca's ambitions to be a horse vet are uncerta...

S01E04: Kacey and Toni | Underage and Pregnant

A look at what it is like to be underage and pregnant. Kacey is preoccupied with thoughts of the imminent birth and Toni doesn...

S01E03: Caroline and Chloe | Underage and Pregnant

A look at what it is like to be underage and pregnant. Caroline and her boyfriend Caine were 14 when they found out they w...

S01E02: Kim and Jasmine | Underage and Pregnant

A look at what it is like to be underage and pregnant. Jasmine is diagnosed with borderline postnatal depression. Teen mum Ki...

S01E01: Charlotte and Allanah | Underage and Pregnant

Series about what it is like to be underage and pregnant meets twins Charlotte and Allanah. Charlotte's baby has caused...

Is Marriage Patriarchal? | Timeshift

A short clip discussing the evolution and traditions of marriage and whether women still lose their identity through the process of marr...

How Do We Pay for the Care of our Elderly? | Panorama

Should the state pay for social care for the elderly or should people sell their homes and be responsible for funding t...

Parenting Secrets | Britain's Secrets with Anne Robinson

Anne Robinson delves into different areas of contemporary British life. She tackles parenting, looking at some of th...

Episode 1 | How the Other Half Live

The show features a wealthy family providing 'sponsorship' for a family living in poverty in the UK.

Saving The Awa Tribe With Justin Rowlatt | Our World

The Awa are believed to be one of the most endangered tribes on the planet as their traditional lifestyle is under threa...

Generation Game | Panorama

Dame Joan Bakewell looks at some of the innovative ways Britain's baby boomers are looking to future-proof their old age.

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...

Rebuilding Relationships | Prison Dads

Part 2 - Preparing for life on the outside and rebuilding relationships with their children.

The Impact of Divorce on Fathers | A Century Of Fatherhood

Fatherhood from the 1990s, access rights to children after divorce, step-parenting, Fathers for Justice.

03: The New Father | A Century Of Fatherhood

The modern father has a more intimate relationship with his children, but the sexual revolution, feminism and modern divorce law...

Part 2 | 42 Up

Concluding the two-part film offering the latest seven-yearly update on 14 people's lives. Tonight's episode catches up with Paul, who was last seen in Austra...

Part 1 | 42 Up

The first of two films continuing British television's longest-running documentary project, which began in when a group of seven-year-olds were asked their vi...

The Men with Many Wives

Some estimate that there are 20,000 polygamous marriages among Muslims in the UK. This documentary explores polygamous life and asks how it can be re...

Japan: the Missing Million | Correspondent

In Japan's cities, hundreds of thousands of young men are turning into recluses, refusing even to leave their rooms. Western psych...

03: Take My Baby | Louis Theroux: Altered States

Louis Theroux explores open adoption in California, where women hand over their babies at birth to adoptive families paying ...

01: Love Without Limits | Louis Theroux: Altered States

Louis Theroux travels to Portland, Oregon, to visit a movement seeking to rewrite the rulebook on how we conduct inti...

01: Baby on Board | Counterblast

Many people strive to be perfect parents. Dr. Mike Fitzpatrick (GP) argues that putting children first and adults last could be damaging to ...

Youth Offending and Parenting | Prison Dads

Part 1 - An insight into young fathers in Glen Parva Young Offenders Institution and how they try to maintain relationships with ...

Changing Family Structures | A Century Of Fatherhood

Changes in family structures as a result of the women's liberation movement and changes in laws to homosexuality and div...

The Changing Role of Fatherhood | A Century Of Fatherhood

The emergence of a new type of fatherhood over the past 50 years as changes in society meant fathers were able to b...

Episode 3 | How the Other Half Live

The show features a wealthy family providing 'sponsorship' for a family living in poverty in the UK.

04: Children | The British Family

Kirsty Young looks at how children have come to dominate family life in the last decade and reveals just how far we have come from the 'see...

Trad Wife | Stacey Dooley Sleeps Over

Stacey investigates the growing community of 'tradwives' - women who have rejected career ambitions in favour of becoming the archetypa...

British Family Life in the 1980s - Part 1 | The British Family

Describes the impact of money and wealth on women's place in the family. Working women and a rise in single pa...

The Domestic Division of Labour | Women

An exploration of the domestic division of labour and discussion with couples as to how it has evolved or hasn't evolved over time.

03: Power | The Ascent of Woman

Dr Amanda Foreman explores the role of women in early civilisations. Amanda looks at the stories of women behind some of the most powerful em...

The Impact of Divorce on Fathers | A Century Of Fatherhood

Fatherhood from the 1990s, access rights to children after divorce, step-parenting, Fathers for Justice.

British Family Life in the 1980s - Part 2 | The British Family

Describes the increase in single parent families.

03: The New Father | A Century Of Fatherhood

The modern father has a more intimate relationship with his children, but the sexual revolution, feminism and modern divorce law...

03: Money | The British Family

Kirsty Young explores the impact of money on British families. She charts the 1980s and 1990s when our pursuit of cash and career had a deep e...

02: Sex | The British Family

Kirsty Young explores the impact of the sexual revolution on British families. She charts the explosion of sexual imagery in the 1970s and recal...

Prison Dads

Filmed over six months in Britain's biggest young offenders institution, Prison Dads follows fathers on the inside and their partners on the outside.

Meet You at the Hippos

Mark Bonnar returns to the Scottish new towns in which he grew up to explore the street sculpture made by artists such as his dad.

Jemima Khan And The Part-Time Wife

Jemima Khan investigates the practice of polygamy in the UK today. Why are some Muslim women opting to become part-time wives, and is it a...

01: Baby on Board | Counterblast

Many people strive to be perfect parents. Dr. Mike Fitzpatrick (GP) argues that putting children first and adults last could be damaging to ...

04: Revolution | The Ascent of Woman

Dr Amanda Foreman explores the role of women in society. In the final episode, Amanda looks at women in revolutions that have transforme...

02: Separation | The Ascent of Woman

Dr Amanda Foreman explores how early civilisations dealt with the status of women. Amanda explores the role of women in Asia under Confu...

01: Civilisation | The Ascent of Woman

Travelling from the Eurasian steppes to the sites of early civilisations, Dr Amanda Foreman explores how early civilisations dealt wit...

05: Bombs at Bedtime | A Labour of Love

This program deals with the exhausting burden caused by the disruption of everyday routines that mothers faced during the Second Worl...

Changing Family Structures | A Century Of Fatherhood

Changes in family structures as a result of the women's liberation movement and changes in laws to homosexuality and div...

The Changing Role of Fatherhood | A Century Of Fatherhood

The emergence of a new type of fatherhood over the past 50 years as changes in society meant fathers were able to b...

Episode 1 | Back in Time for School

Fifteen pupils and three teachers embark on a time-travelling adventure to discover how much life at school has changed. The class start ...

Poor Kids

Documentary telling the stories of some of the 3.5 million children living in poverty in the UK. They give their thoughts on their situation and their future prosp...

Episode 5 | Back in Time for School

The class enters the experimental 1970s. They rewrite the rule book and learn weird and wonderful lessons as the free spirit of the era c...

Marcus Rashford: Feeding Britain's Children

How the England footballer won public and political support for a deeply personal cause. Inside Marcus Rashford's campaign for fr...

Episode 2 | Back in Time for School

Pupils and teachers embark on a time-travelling adventure. The class enters the interwar years. They learn bizarre new languages, test th...

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...

Episode 6 | Back in Time for School

The class embrace the new world of the 1980s. With robots, early computers and synths, the kids get to grips with Britain's new high-tech...

Episode 4 | Back in Time for School

Pupils and teachers embark on a time-travelling adventure. In the swinging 60s, the class experience bricklaying, typing, cooking and eve...

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...

Episode 3 | Back in Time for School

Pupils and teachers embark on a time-travelling adventure. The class enters the 40s and 50s - deportment, debate and even dancing are on ...

04: The 80s | Back in Time for the Weekend

A family gives up its 21st-century technology and travels back in time. The family embrace the 80s, where TV and shopping dominate...

03: The 70s | Back in Time for the Weekend

A family gives up its 21st-century technology and travels back in time. Rob and Steph share more time together, playing darts with...

01: The 50s | Back in Time for the Weekend

A family gives up their 21st-century technology and travels back in time. As they enter the 50s, it's goodbye to the flat-screen T...

04: Children | The British Family

Kirsty Young looks at how children have come to dominate family life in the last decade and reveals just how far we have come from the 'see...

The Family Without Rules | Stacey Dooley Sleeps Over

Stacey visits Brighton couple Matt and Adele, who believe their three children do not need rules, just the freedom to ch...

Episode 7 | Back in Time for School

The pupils and teachers arrive in their final time-travelling decade, the 1990s, ready to embrace girl power, Brit pop, Oasis and Blur, M...

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...

Parenting Secrets | Britain's Secrets with Anne Robinson

Anne Robinson delves into different areas of contemporary British life. She tackles parenting, looking at some of th...

02: The 60s | Back in Time for the Weekend

A family gives up their 21st-century technology and travels back in time. As they enter the 60s, there's more fun to be had - a tr...

Ian Wright: Home Truths

Footballer Ian Wright shares his own story and investigates what effect growing up in a psychologically abusive and violent home has on children in t...

01: Marriage | The British Family

Kirsty Young begins a history of how British families have changed since the Second World War by looking at marriage, and how it has become...

04: The 80s | Back in Time for the Weekend

A family gives up its 21st-century technology and travels back in time. The family embrace the 80s, where TV and shopping dominate...

03: The 70s | Back in Time for the Weekend

A family gives up its 21st-century technology and travels back in time. Rob and Steph share more time together, playing darts with...

01: The 50s | Back in Time for the Weekend

A family gives up their 21st-century technology and travels back in time. As they enter the 50s, it's goodbye to the flat-screen T...

02: The 60s | Back in Time for the Weekend

A family gives up their 21st-century technology and travels back in time. As they enter the 60s, there's more fun to be had - a tr...

Living with the Brainy Bunch

Two struggling GCSE students move in with two of the highest achievers in their year. Can this change in home environment and parental influence...

Ian Wright: Home Truths

Footballer Ian Wright shares his own story and investigates what effect growing up in a psychologically abusive and violent home has on children in t...

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...

Leah Betts: The Girl Next Door | Children Of Drugs

First of a three part series offering an insight into the world of drug use among young people. This prog examines the cas...

06: The Future | Back in Time for the Weekend

A family gives up its 21st-century technology and travels back in time. In the final episode, they discover what the future mig...

S01E03: The Jews of Leeds | A Very British History

Film-maker Simon Glass explores his family history and tells the story of the Yorkshire Jews in the early 20th century.

05: The 90s | Back in Time for the Weekend

A family gives up its 21st-century technology and travels back in time. The family enter the 90s, where new technology arrives at ...

The Impact of Divorce on Fathers | A Century Of Fatherhood

Fatherhood from the 1990s, access rights to children after divorce, step-parenting, Fathers for Justice.

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. ...

03: The New Father | A Century Of Fatherhood

The modern father has a more intimate relationship with his children, but the sexual revolution, feminism and modern divorce law...

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...

Trip Trap | Screen One

The Armstrong family - Ian, Kate and their two children - live in a comfortable country house. But the house conceals a terrible secret.

04: Pig's Head and Bed Bug | A Labour of Love

This program focuses on the daily struggle for survival in Britain by millions of families who lived in poverty, including a lo...

Battered Baby: 2: Breaking the Chain | Horizon

Six weeks after Baby Jane is taken into hospital her parents are fighting for possession. The family show why the right decisi...

Battered Baby: 1: From Generation to Generation | Horizon

An eight-week-old baby is rush ed to hospital bruised and with a broken arm. Her mother has admitted to "shaking he...