Stratification and Differentiation

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

02: The Decision | The Big School Lottery

A look at the often fraught process of selecting a child's secondary school. On national offer day, cameras capture the families' r...

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...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

School Exclusion at Primary | Don't Exclude Me

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

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, ...

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...

Episode 1 | How the Other Half Live

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

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...

A Polemic Crime | The Trouble With Black Men

David Matthews investigates issues facing British black men. During the 1970s and 80s black youth culture embraced rebellion aga...

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...

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.

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...

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...

Racism | Y Byd ar Bedwar

A focus on racism in Wales - we hear from a young woman and a father who have experienced attacks.

Jobs for the Boys? | Panorama

Former England and Arsenal footballer Sol Campbell investigates why the unemployment rate for young black British men is roughly double that of...

03: America's Long March | Wheeler on America

Charles Wheeler looks at disappointed hopes of black America from LBJ's 1965 Voting Rights Act to radicalism of Louis FARRAKHAN.

Episode 4 | Black Is The New Black

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

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.

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...

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: 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...

Episode 1 | No More Boys and Girls: Can Our Kids Go Gender Free?

Dr Javid Abdelmoneim takes over a year 3 class to see if, after a term of gender-neutral treatment, he can e...

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 ...

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...

05: Giving Up Smoking | The Twinstitute

Twins test the best way to kick a habit, see if hand-washing keeps you healthy and try to improve concentration.

Episode 2 | No More Boys and Girls: Can Our Kids Go Gender Free?

Will Dr Javid Abdelmoneim's gender-neutral mission produce a meaningful change by the end of term?

S08E01: The Divide of the Sexes | Child of Our Time

Now eight, the kids are struggling to make sense of gender roles. In the home they see their parents striving for equalit...

04: Better Brain | The Twinstitute

Twins find out if its possible to get a better brain, repel mosquitoes and get fit just by watching TV!

01: Get Thin Fast | The Twinstitute

Identical twins put competing health theories to the test. This episode tests the best way to lose weight, improve memory and beat pain w...

05: Borders - Rural Poverty and Mental Health | Darren McGarvey's Scotland

Darren discovers that levels of ill mental health in the Scottish Borders are above the national a...

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 ...

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...

EDL Girls: Don't Call Me Racist

Documentary exploring the lives of three women within the English Defence League's ranks - a committed 'EDL Angel' as female members are know...

06: Learn a Language | The Twinstitute

Identical twins test the best way to learn a new language, attempt to look younger and test an easy way to lower your calorie count.

03: HIIT versus Easy | The Twinstitute

This episode explores the best way to get fit, beat nausea, and discovers if you can enhance brain performance.

01: Connie | The Other Side

Connie decides to defend her pregnant friend Gina, but soon discovers why people may not always be willing to tell the truth.

The Women of The EDL | EDL Girls: Don't Call Me Racist

The EDL's principles and examples of their protests and women's involvement in this.<br><br><strong>(Contains sensitiv...

The Transgender Debate | Womanhood

A discussion about what it means to be transgender and the debate over women only spaces.

Cosmetic Surgery and Body Image | Womanhood

An exploration of the objectification of women and how women view their appearance and how this has changed over time.

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...

How Scotland Cut Violent Crime | Panorama

Scotland has dramatically cut violent crime in the past 15 years, but how was it done? Kate Silverton films with Police Scotland's ...

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: Dundee - Drug Death Capital | Darren McGarvey's Scotland

In 2018 Dundee was the drug death capital of Europe - Darren McGarvey goes behind the headlines to find out why....

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...

06: Aberdeen - Poverty at Home | Darren McGarvey's Scotland

Darren travels to oil-rich Aberdeen, where he discovers a city in flux. With the nation's highest number of food ...

S01E03: Power to the People | Darren McGarvey's Class Wars

As Darren examines the power imbalance which lies at the heart of social class, he begins to question whether 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...

01: Britain's Moral Makeover | Ian Hislop's Age of the Do-Gooders

Ian Hislop salutes the unsung heroes of Victorian Britain who improved cities, housing and working conditio...

Deptford High Street | The Secret History of Our Streets

How London has changed since Charles Booth's survey recorded social conditions in 1886. Deptford High Street was onc...

02: Suffer the Little Children | Ian Hislop's Age of the Do-Gooders

Ian Hislop celebrates the dynamic and eccentric Victorian reformers who brought about the most remarkable...

S01E04: Rear-View Mirror | Darren McGarvey's Class Wars

As Darren examines social class, he begins to wonder if we can ever overthrow the legacy it continues to exert over o...

Grenfell

Documentary filmed throughout the year following the Grenfell Tower fire, hearing from those directly affected by the most devastating tower block fire in British h...

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.

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 ...

Why Can't a Woman Succeed Like a Man? | The Trouble with Working Women

Sophie Raworth and Justin Rowlatt investigate what we think of women at work. Why do men still hold th...

Working Class Heroes And Poverty Porn | Archive On 4

Stuart Maconie takes a trip from the Ealing Comedies to Benefits Street, trying to link the working class heroes of mid-...

03: Sinful Sex and Demon Drink | Ian Hislop's Age of the Do-Gooders

The perils of booze and sex are the focus for the final episode of Ian Hislop's series about Victorian re...

The Trouble With Women with Anne Robinson

Anne Robinson meets women from across the UK to find out what is still preventing them from achieving equality and what they are do...

Gender Equality - Have We Reached It? | The Trouble with Working Women

An exploration of issues relating to gender equality and what inequalities still exist in today's soci...

Understanding Poverty in the UK | Famous, Rich and Hungry

Four different families' experiences of poverty shared, looking at how they cope on benefits, with food poverty and...

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

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

01: Britain's Moral Makeover | Ian Hislop's Age of the Do-Gooders

Ian Hislop salutes the unsung heroes of Victorian Britain who improved cities, housing and working conditio...

Lessons In Class | Middle Classes...Their Rise And Sprawl

This program compares the country's oldest school, Winchester College, with a local comprehensive to illustrate the...

Deptford High Street | The Secret History of Our Streets

How London has changed since Charles Booth's survey recorded social conditions in 1886. Deptford High Street was onc...

02: Suffer the Little Children | Ian Hislop's Age of the Do-Gooders

Ian Hislop celebrates the dynamic and eccentric Victorian reformers who brought about the most remarkable...

01: The People in Between | The Middle Classes: Their Rise And Sprawl

Geoffrey Palmer narrates a six-part documentary series tracing the evolution of the middle class in Bri...

A Quiet Night Out: Binge Drinking | Week In Week Out

Phil Parry reports on new figures on drinking which show that Wales has become the binge drinking capital of Britain. He...

03: Sinful Sex and Demon Drink | Ian Hislop's Age of the Do-Gooders

The perils of booze and sex are the focus for the final episode of Ian Hislop's series about Victorian re...

Class By Class

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

03: London | My New Best Friend

Four London kids make the transition from their familiar primary schools to an inner-city secondary school.

02: Scotland | My New Best Friend

Four girls leave tiny primary schools on Scotland islands to start secondary school on the mainland.

01: Cheltenham | My New Best Friend

Four 11-year-old girls leave the familiarity of their prep schools to join Cheltenham Ladies' College.

06: Trouble Ahead | The Middle Classes: Their Rise And Sprawl

Program looks at the way traditional middle-class values and attitudes have been killed off by society and econ...

04: Trouble Makers | The Middle Classes: Their Rise And Sprawl

Middle class radicals come under the spotlight, including Angie Zelter, who has been imprisoned sixteen times ...

03: Leaders of Society | The Middle Classes: Their Rise And Sprawl

This prog looks at how the upper middle classes replaced the aristocracy as the establishment, illustrated...

02: Them and Us | The Middle Classes: Their Rise And Sprawl

tracing the history of the middle classes this programme examines the snobbery & insecurities of the years betwee...

Last Chance Academy | Panorama

The story of one school's groundbreaking battle to save problem pupils from the scrap heap and bring exam success.

Can I Sack Teacher? | Panorama

New research shows that the standard of teaching is the most important factor to a child's education. So why are so many bad teachers being al...

British class survey; Tribute to Geoff Pearson | Thinking Allowed

Laurie Taylor explores a unique piece of research conducted by BBC Lab UK and social scientists. Plus a tri...

Episode 1 | Famous, Rich and Hungry

Four famous volunteers live with families who can't afford to eat. Theo Paphitis moves in with a working mum who regularly skips meals to...

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...

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...

S01E03: Power to the People | Darren McGarvey's Class Wars

As Darren examines the power imbalance which lies at the heart of social class, he begins to question whether the ...

Unequal Opportunities With John Humphrys

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

The Schools Scandal: Playing The System | Panorama

Demand for places at high-achieving state schools across the UK far outstrips supply, turning the schools admissions proce...

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 ...

Lessons In Class | Middle Classes...Their Rise And Sprawl

This program compares the country's oldest school, Winchester College, with a local comprehensive to illustrate the...

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 ...

S01E04: Rear-View Mirror | Darren McGarvey's Class Wars

As Darren examines social class, he begins to wonder if we can ever overthrow the legacy it continues to exert over o...

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...

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 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 | 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...

S01E03: Power to the People | Darren McGarvey's Class Wars

As Darren examines the power imbalance which lies at the heart of social class, he begins to question whether the ...

Private Vs Comprehensive | Posh And Posher: Why Public School Boys Run Britain

Since the decline of grammar schools a comparison is made of how comprehensive schools and pri...

Lessons In Class | Middle Classes...Their Rise And Sprawl

This program compares the country's oldest school, Winchester College, with a local comprehensive to illustrate the...

Moral Panic | Behind The Buzzwords

David Cannadine tells the story behind the buzzword Moral Panic. Where does it come from and where is it going?

I Am Andrew Tate

The explosive story of one of the world's most infamous and controversial internet stars' rise, arrest and fall.

S01E04: Rear-View Mirror | Darren McGarvey's Class Wars

As Darren examines social class, he begins to wonder if we can ever overthrow the legacy it continues to exert over o...

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...

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...

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 ...

Posh And Posher: Why Public School Boys Run Britain

In this provocative documentary, Andrew Neil seeks to find out why politicians from all parties appear to be drawn from a...

Are Grammar Schools the Right Approach? | Posh And Posher: Why Public School Boys Run Britain

This clip explores grammar schools and whether they help level the playing fiel...

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...