Social Inequality

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 1 | Don't Exclude Me

With school exclusions at their highest in a decade, behavioural expert Marie Gentles visits Milton Hall Primary School in Southend to help the ...

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.

Britain's Teenage Drug Runners

With astonishing access, BBC Three explores how gang members are using teenage drug runners to sell large amounts of crack and heroin miles aw...

Episode 2 | Don't Exclude Me

Marie Gentles continues her work at Hilton Hall Primary School, helping six-year-old Oscar and nine-year-old Olivia deal with behavioural issues...

School Exclusion at Primary | Don't Exclude Me

This short clip shows the pressures on schools to manage challenging behaviour.

The Big Debate: Living Longer

Are the baby boomers having it all at the expense of the next generations? We are living longer than ever before but are we planning properly f...

Care Home Kids: Looking for Love

Film in which singer-songwriter Ashley John Batiste looks at children growing up in the UK care system with little chance of adoption and no...

Understanding the Foster Care System | Care Home Kids: Looking for Love

Ashley John-Baptiste revisits his experiences of care and talks to young people and foster carers abo...

Life at 100 | Panorama

Presented by Joan Bakewell, this Panorama special follows seven people who have reached 100 years or more, looking at how they live their lives.

All Work and Low Pay | Panorama

Panorama goes undercover to reveal how some employers exploit loopholes or get round the rules so that their workers are paid below the Natio...

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.

02: The Best Years Of My Life | Almost Grown

The teens are often years of extreme emotion. Daily life at school and home can be boring, but the teens can also be great. Do w...

01: That's What I Want... | Almost Grown

Series looking at teenagers from after the war onwards. This episode compares the economic status of the teenager from the post war ...

Green Book (2018)

New York, 1962: Italian-American nightclub bouncer Tony Lip gets taken on as a driver for acclaimed African American pianist Donald Shirley on a tour of th...

The Black American Fight for Freedom

Fifty years on from the promise of equality and the Civil Rights Act, this documentary reveals the moments where America had the chance ...

George Floyd: A Killing That Shook the World | Panorama

Thousands of people have joined marches against racism after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Clive Myrie ...

South Africa: 1: The White Slums | Reggie Yates' Extreme

In 2013 Reggie Yates spent a week in South Africa's largest white squatter camp, Coronation Park. Are young white So...

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, ...

Moonlight (2016)

A coming-of-age drama that presents the childhood, adolescence and early adult life of Chiron, born to a drug-addicted single mother in Miami and facing dif...

Secrets Of An Isis Smartphone

With extraordinary access to a smartphone used by three British men who went to fight in Syria, Mobeen Azhar uncovers what made them join ISIS ...

From Syria to Scotland | Our Lives

This Our Lives documentary follows the new lives of the Syrian refugee families who have made the small Scottish island of Bute their home.

01: The Rioters | The Riots: In Their Own Words

The story of the riots of 2011, using accounts from the rioters themselves as well as previously unseen footage to tell the s...

Get Out (2017)

Chris and his girlfriend Rose head to upstate New York to meet her parents for the first time. When they arrive, Rose's parents are genial and welcoming to hi...

The Primary

The Primary captures a term in the life of Welford Primary School, a thriving school with pupils from 17 different ethnic backgrounds. The film follows headmaste...

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.

Ethnicity, Diversity and Education | The Primary

This clip follows a term in one of the most diverse schools in Birmingham, with at least 17 different ethnic backgrounds.

Monumental: Bristol after Colston

Will the toppling of the statue of a slave trader in Bristol change the lives of black people in the city? Musician, activist and Bristolia...

Statue Wars: One Summer in Bristol

Follows Bristol’s mayor, Marvin Rees, as he and the city respond to the extraordinary events which followed the toppling of the Colston St...

The Morality Of Multiculturalism | Moral Maze

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

Episode 1 | Black Is The New Black

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

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.

Radicalised young men | Secrets Of An Isis Smartphone

An exploration of what turns someone into a violent extremist. <br><br><strong>(Topics of radicalisation, extremism, gr...

The Poverty Problem | Bangladesh at 50

British Bangladeshis have one of the highest relative poverty rates of any ethnic group in the UK, with many living in low income hous...

The Cult Next Door

The extraordinary story of a strange cult, which came to light in 2013 when news broke about three women emerging from a small flat in south London after ...

Emmeline Pankhurst | Icons

Emmeline Pankhurst rallied women in one of the largest protests London had ever seen, before leading them in a campaign of militancy and vandalism...

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 ...

04: Glasgow - Dying Young | Darren McGarvey's Scotland

In Scotland's largest city, one in four men die younger than anywhere else in the UK - it is called the Glasgow effect...

03: West Dunbartonshire - Worst Place to Be a Woman | Darren McGarvey's Scotland

West Dunbartonshire is the worst place in Scotland to be a woman, yet the bordering council ...

Female Astronauts, Second Chances, Jackie Weaver, Celebs And The Male Gaze | Woman's Hour

Emma Barnett talks to astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, we talk to Jackie Weaver af...

Idris Elba: Our Knife Crime Crisis

Idris Elba confronts the reality of knife crime, speaking to those most affected - from the streets to the system - in a quest to uncover ...

02: Education | Darren McGarvey: The State We're In

Darren McGarvey sets out to understand why the privately educated dominate Britain's top jobs and uncovers the amazing st...

How to Break into the Elite

Amol Rajan investigates how much class still matters in Britain's elite professions. What does it take for bright working-class youngsters to bre...

Happy Families? | Are We Having Fun Yet?

Series looking at changing Britain examines how childhood and families have transformed over the last decade. But from the scramble ...

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...

02: Edinburgh - Crime | Darren McGarvey's Scotland

In Edinburgh, Darren examines the link between poverty and crime: how does it impact kids and their future? But soon Darre...

Trainspotting (1996)

Smart, funny, sickly, and sometimes just plain unconscious, Mark Renton is a hero of our times. Set in an underbelly of Edinburgh the city fathers never...

Episode 2 | How to Crack the Class Ceiling

Amol Rajan looks at solutions to Britain's class inequality problem. How can employers and policy makers ensure a level playing fi...

Episode 1 | How to Crack the Class Ceiling

How can working class students break through the barriers to landing Britain's elite jobs? Amol Rajan investigates the tips and tr...

Episode 1 | The Super-Rich and Us

Jacques Peretti investigates how the super-rich are transforming Britain. He looks at why the wealthy were drawn to Britain and meets the s...

Unequal Opportunities With John Humphrys

John Humphrys examines the reasons behind the stark educational attainment gap between advantaged and disadvantaged pupils, which ha...

Breadline Kids

Sobering documentary following families in Dumfries, Glenrothes, Glasgow and Aberdeen who are struggling to make ends meet.

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 ...

Episode 1 | 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, th...

Is Westminster dominated by a privileged elite? | Posh And Posher: Why Public School Boys Run Britain

Exploration of issues of social class and education. Whether a public s...

Episode 1 | How the Other Half Live

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

Why Can't a Woman Earn As Much As a Man? | The Trouble with Working Women

Sophie Raworth and Justin Rowlatt ask why, several decades after the Equal Pay Act, there is still ...

The Old Oak (2023)

A pub landlord in a previously thriving mining community in County Durham struggles to hold on to his pub and keep it as the one remaining public space pe...

Saltburn (2023)

A student at Oxford University finds himself drawn into the world of a charming, aristocratic classmate, who invites him to his eccentric family's sprawling ...

Steps Back | Play for Today

Fifteen years after leaving Brighouse Gerry takes his fiancee, Nita, home. What will they find?