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Life In Westminster (Season 5, Ep 9)
Season 5 Episode 9
Would you be an MP, at a time when public trust in politicians has fallen to the lowest level in living memory? Could you dedicate yourself to your c…
8 years, 11 months ago
Hacker For Hire (Season 5, Ep 8)
Season 5 Episode 8
Using the same techniques as criminal hackers, ethical ‘white hat’ hackers help governments and companies test their own security. FC (hacker name: ‘…
8 years, 11 months ago
How Are We For Time? (Season 5, Ep 7)
Season 5 Episode 7
Being a TV warm-up is one of the hardest jobs in showbiz. How can you capture the interest and affection of an audience who don’t know who you are, h…
8 years, 11 months ago
The Accidental Pimp (Season 5, Ep 6)
Season 5 Episode 6
Life as a landlord means trusting strangers to live in your house. Try as you might, you can't know everything about them. Sometimes, you just have t…
8 years, 11 months ago
Subliminal Criminal (Season 5, Ep 5)
Season 5 Episode 5
Does the mind of a murderer look any different to yours? Can brain-scanning technology help explain criminal activity? And if could - should that evi…
9 years ago
Anatomy of a Music Festival (Season 5, Ep 4)
Season 5 Episode 4
From Glastonbury to The End Of The Road, Summer festivals continue to colonise the countryside. But how do people pull together such enormous events …
9 years ago
I See Dead People (Season 5, Ep 3)
Season 5 Episode 3
Pathology technician Carla Valentine always knew she wanted to work with corpses. In childhood, she conducted funerals for roadkill. These days, she …
9 years ago
Micronesia's Got Talent (Season 5, Ep 2)
Season 5 Episode 2
Paul Watson realised he would never play football for England - so attempted, instead, to be recruited by the worst international team in the world. …
9 years ago
Serving the Super-Rich (Season 5, Ep 1)
Season 5 Episode 1
There are more billionaires than ever. Rockstars. Oil tycoons. Internet entrepreneurs. And all of them - all of them - employ private staff. The age …
9 years, 1 month ago
Yours Sincerely (Season 4, Ep 10)
Season 4 Episode 10
Is there still a place for the pen-and-paper posted letter? Alison Hitchcock thinks so: when she discovered her friend Brian Greenley had cancer, she…
9 years, 2 months ago