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Sliced Bread - Series 17
Air Conditioning
What's the best way to keep your home cool?
30 Jul 2026,·28 mins
Invisible Hands: The American Century
2. The Prophet
The story of the man who started the cold war. With a telegram.
04 Aug 2026,·31 mins
Sucking Up: A Guide to Sycophancy Through the Ages
Don't you look gorgeous today, dear listener!
01 Aug 2026,·57 mins
Lady on Trial
Georgina Weldon - Wrongly Committed
Lucy Worsley meets a Victorian opera singer who fought the Lunacy Laws – and won.
04 Aug 2026,·28 mins
Lockerbie
6. Chasing Ghosts
After almost four decades, a new Lockerbie trial.
22 Jul 2026,·29 mins
Will I get hit by a meteor?
How dangerous are meteors?
31 Jul 2026,·37 mins
Breakin' the Cycle
6. The Final Act
D’s arrested and imprisoned. Today he’s broken his cycle, but the film remains unfinished.
02 Sep 2026,·29 mins
Being remembered
Matthew Bannister on changing attitudes to dying, death and how we memorialise our dead.
24 Apr 2026,·14 mins
Precious Stones
A journey through stone, memory, and the traces we leave behind.
02 Aug 2026,·28 mins
Aliens
Ellen and Mark on film and TV’s enduring fascination with UFOs and extraterrestrial life.
31 Jul 2026,·42 mins
Dead Rabbit
10. Catch Me
A verdict. Dan and Lucy ask: is violence winning? Turns out, dead animals are everywhere.
20 Jul 2026,·18 mins
Brainless
Meet the highly intelligent, bright yellow blob that doesn’t have a brain.
29 Jul 2026,·28 mins
No World Order
6. A Multipolar World
Where next for the rules-based order?
31 Aug 2026,·35 mins
The Batista brothers: Meat and money
How Brazilian brothers Wesley and Joesley Batista built the world’s largest meat empire
27 Jul 2026,·39 mins
Being Greek
BONUS: Mary Beard on Homer's Odyssey
Mary Beard talks to film director Uberto Pasolini about the power of Homer's Odyssey.
21 Jul 2026,·13 mins
Plants and the Mystery of Consciousness
Are plants intelligent? Could they help us unravel the mystery of consciousness?
08 May 2026,·14 mins
The Sound of Soft Power
Does the world still need international radio as a tool of soft power?
01 Aug 2026,·49 mins
6. Black Mirror
A disturbing TV episode helps Ruth see her own life differently.
16 Jun 2026,·25 mins
"It's not a purge!" Kemi Badenoch on forging a future for her party
Kemi Badenoch MP, Leader of the Conservative Party.
25 Jul 2026,·35 mins
Kieron
A man whose sentence was longer than he had been alive.
21 Apr 2025,·42 mins
Letby Hospital: Maternity failings at the Countess of Chester
Concerns raised over standards in maternity care at the Countess of Chester Hospital
21 Jul 2026,·37 mins
Series 3
6. Deleted
Jenny decides if she wants to continue to belong to the global DNA database.
09 Jun 2026,·28 mins
3. Modern boarding
Nicky Campbell explores the modern boarding school experience.
17 Feb 2025,·42 mins
Skatepark designers Nine Yards
The designers of Paris's Olympic skatepark start work on a new project in Amsterdam
03 Aug 2026,·26 mins
Episode 3: Stoke-on-Trent; Britain's betting city
How Stoke-on-Trent has such deep bonds with gambling's big success story: Bet365
31 Mar 2025,·42 mins
Can we live with extreme heat?
Are we ready for a hotter climate?
30 Jul 2026,·24 mins
The Balkans
The Birth and Death of Yugoslavia
Misha Glenny returns to the Balkans to report on the birth and death of Yugoslavia.
13 Apr 2026,·42 mins
Rastafari and I
Silas Gray travels to Ethiopia to explore the legacy he inherited from his Rastafarian dad
31 Jul 2026,·26 mins
Why do Brits love tea? (from Here For The History)
Historians Alice Loxton and Ben Henderson explore the origins of the British love of tea.
21 Jul 2026,·32 mins
The President's Path: Does Zelensky have the upper hand in the Ukraine war?
Are relations between Trump and Zelensky warming?
31 Jul 2026,·16 mins
