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Rinsed: 3. Turd Nerds
Season 11 Episode 3
The 'Dossier of Despair' that reveals what's happening to some of Britain’s rivers.
A retired police detective, a former machine learning academic, a…
1 month, 1 week ago
Rinsed: 2. Water Works
Season 11 Episode 2
The centuries old battle between public good and private profit that’s still being fought today.
Kate Lamble holds her nose and plunges into the long…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Rinsed: 1. The Bridge
Season 11 Episode 1
After watching their local river grow murky and lifeless, two retired neighbours decide to take on the water industry and its regulators. The unlikel…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Rinsed: Trailer
Season 11 Episode 1
This is the story of a sewage scandal. How a centuries old battle between public good and private profit created an almighty stink. And who pays to c…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
How Reading Made Us: 3. How Reading Made Our Politics
Season 10 Episode 3
Learning to read permanently alters your brain. It changes the emotions you experience and the way you relate to others. When a society learns to rea…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
How Reading Made Us: 2. How Reading Made Our Feelings
Season 10 Episode 2
Reading seems an unremarkable skill. When we say something is as “easy as ABC”, we mean it is very easy indeed. In fact, learning to read has dramati…
3 months ago
How Reading Made Us: 1. How Reading Made Our Brains
Season 10 Episode 1
Reading seems an unremarkable skill. After all, everyone can read. Even small children. When we say something is as “easy as ABC”, we mean it is very…
3 months, 1 week ago
How Reading Made Us: Trailer
Season 10 Episode 1
The story of how reading made us and what might happen if we stop - with James Marriott.
3 months, 3 weeks ago
An American Journey: 4. Life and Liberty
Season 9 Episode 4
As James Naughtie concludes his series about the ideas tying America's birth 250 years ago to the United States today, he examines freedom, asking wh…
4 months, 1 week ago
An American Journey: 3. Establishing Justice
Season 9 Episode 3
James Naughtie continues his look at the ideas tying America's founding to the modern United States, asking how 'justice' has been understood by diff…
4 months, 2 weeks ago