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Season 2015

  • S2015E01 Pills, Powders and Protein Shakes

    • March 8, 2015
    • BBC News

    Tim Rogers investigates the effectiveness of sports supplements, looking at whether they work and whether users can be sure of what they are getting.

  • S2015E02 The Best Nightclub in Africa

    • April 2, 2015
    • BBC News

    DJ Edu is on a journey to find the best nightlife in Africa as part of the BBC's Richer World season - looking at how many across the world are getting richer. He visits Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa, Morocco and Botswana.

  • S2015E03 Review 2015: The Royal Year

    • December 3, 2015
    • BBC News

    This year the Queen became Britain's longest reigning monarch. Sarah Campbell looks back on the momentous occasion and another royal birth in Review 2015: The Royal Year.

  • S2015E04 Review 2015: The Year in Science

    • December 25, 2015
    • BBC News

    Rebecca Morelle looks back on the year in science – from a British astronaut blasting off into space, to efforts to halt global warming here on Earth.

Season 2018

  • S2018E01 Russia: Rejecting The West

    • March 10, 2018
    • BBC News

    From the conflict in Ukraine to accusations of hacking and then sanctions, relations between Russia and the West have deteriorated dramatically under Vladimir Putin.

  • S2018E02 Money for Nothing: The Finland Experiment

    • March 17, 2018
    • BBC News

    In January 2017 Finland began a bold social experiment: the government started paying 2,000 unemployed Finns basic income.

  • S2018E03 Reinventing the 9-5

    • March 24, 2018
    • BBC News

    From the morning commute, to lunch hours, to the way people are hired and fired - the nature of work is set to change radically in the next two decades.

  • S2018E04 Stories That Shaped The World

    • June 16, 2018
    • BBC News

    BBC Culture asked writers, thinkers and leaders to nominate the stories that they think have shaped the world. Clemency Burton-Hill hosts a panel of authors to discuss the results.

  • S2018E05 Feeling the Heat

    • July 26, 2018
    • BBC News

    As countries around the world feel the effects of the summer heatwave, BBC News looks at the impact and causes of the extreme weather.

  • S2018E06 Witness: 24/11/2018

    • November 24, 2018
    • BBC News

    Witness goes back to the First World War to find out about the life of soldier, poet and writer Robert Graves. Plus how the game of Paintball was invented.

  • S2018E07 Review 2018: The Rural Year

    • December 17, 2018
    • BBC News

    Britain's farmers have faced a year of unusual weather and tough conditions. The BBC's Danny Savage takes a look at 12 months of challenging times in Review 2018: The Rural Year.

  • S2018E08 Review 2018: The Media Year

    • December 18, 2018
    • BBC News

    From fake news to data breaches, big budget TV shows to the changing face of the press, it's been an eventful 12 months for the media. The BBC's Amol Rajan gives his take in Review 2018: The Media Year.

  • S2018E09 Review 2018: The Retail Year

    • December 19, 2018
    • BBC News

    Britain's high streets are going through a dramatic period of change, with big name closures and the shift to online. The BBC's Emma Simpson reports on 12 months that have changed the shape of shopping.

  • S2018E10 Review 2018: The Year in Science

    • December 20, 2018
    • BBC News

    It was the year climate scientists warned it was now or never to save the planet, NASA sent a probe to touch the sun and a paralysed man took his first steps. The BBC's Pallab Ghosh looks back at 12 months in science and the environment.

  • S2018E11 Angela Merkel: Rise and Fall

    • December 8, 2018
    • BBC News

    As her party prepares to select a new leader, Mark Urban reports on the rise and fall of Germany's most dominant politician of the 21st century, Angela Merkel.

  • S2018E12 Review 2018: The Year in Film

    • December 21, 2018
    • BBC News

    Mark Kermode sorts the crackers from the turkeys, in his Christmas review of 2018's big releases on the silver screen.

  • S2018E13 Review 2018: Football Fever

    • December 21, 2018
    • BBC News

    The World Cup in Russia delivered a summer of football fever, with England making a memorable journey to the semi-finals. The BBC's Olly Foster was there and reports on the highs and lows of the tournament.

  • S2018E14 Review 2018: The Year in Politics

    • December 22, 2018
    • BBC News

    The rocky road to Brexit has made it a turbulent year in British politics. Jo Coburn - from the BBC's Politics Live - takes a look back at a seismic 12 months.

  • S2018E15 Review 2018: We Remember

    • December 23, 2018
    • BBC News

    Stephen Hawking, Aretha Franklin, Kofi Annan, John McCain, Stan Lee, Tessa Jowell and Ken Dodd - just a few of those who left us this year, and whose lives are celebrated.

  • S2018E16 Review 2018: The Royal Year

    • December 24, 2018
    • BBC News

    From Harry and Meghan's wedding to Prince Charles's 70th birthday party, the BBC's Daniela Relph looks back at the big events in Review 2018: The Royal Year.

Season 2019

Season 2021

  • S2021E01 Coronavirus: Impact on Education

    • September 6, 2021

    BBC News looks at the long-term effects of the pandemic on education, and what is being done to help children and young people as they return to schools and colleges.

Season 2022

  • S2022E01 Falklands War: The Losing Side

    • June 14, 2022
    • BBC World News

    It's 40 years since the Falklands War, a ten-week armed conflict between the United Kingdom and Argentina over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic. Argentina lost the war, but to this day it maintains that the islands belong to them. Argentina's president told the BBC that he will keep fighting to get them back and has accused Britain of colonialism in the 21st Century.

  • S2022E02 El Salvador's Big Bitcoin Gamble

    • June 18, 2022
    • BBC News

    Joe Tidy reports on President Nayib Bukele's Bitcoin plans in El Salvador, with investment of more than $300 million of public money and plans to build a "Bitcoin City".

  • S2022E03 Return to the Moon

    • August 22, 2022
    • BBC News

    After 50 years, Nasa is getting ready to return humans to the Moon. The Artemis mission will eventually see the first woman and first person of colour walk on the lunar surface.

  • S2022E04 America: Faith on the Front Line

    • November 5, 2022
    • BBC News

    On the eve of the midterm elections, Barbara Plett Usher explores the impact of a new battle for the soul of America, driven by conservative Christian pastors and politicians.

  • S2022E05 Ian Hislop's 2022 In conversation with Amol Rajan

    • December 24, 2022
    • BBC News

    Private Eye's editor, Ian Hislop, talks to the BBC's Amol Rajan about front covers, news aversion, freedom of speech and satire: making sense of the world in 2022.

Season 2023

Additional Specials

  • SPECIAL 0x1 US Election 2016

    • November 8, 2016
    • BBC News

    BBC News looks at how the night unfolded.

  • SPECIAL 0x2 The Lennon Legacy

    • December 4, 2010
    • BBC News

    Tom Brook was the first British reporter to broadcast live from the scene at the Dakota. He looks back on the events of that night and speaks to people about the Lennon legacy. Singer/songwriter James Taylor discloses revelations about meeting Lennon's assassin just days before the attack, and then hearing the gunshots that killed his friend. Irish singer, Bono talks emotionally about the impact Lennon had on his own music. And Lennon's son Sean, who is rarely interviewed about his father, speaks candidly about his legacy.

  • SPECIAL 0x3 Brexit: What's Next?

    • July 2, 2017
    • BBC News

    The negotiations have begun over the UK's departure from the European Union. What is the future now that Theresa May's election gamble failed to deliver the clear mandate she wanted for her Brexit talks with the EU? The BBC's Europe editor Katya Adler and economics editor Kamal Ahmed speak to major players on both sides of the table and those who voted to leave and remain in 2016.

  • SPECIAL 0x4 Life in the Shadow of the Wall: Part 1

    • August 12, 2017
    • BBC News

    President Trump’s administration has promised that prototypes for a wall to be built all along the US-Mexico border will be delivered by the end of summer. But will a wall stop people smuggling and drug trafficking?

  • SPECIAL 0x5 Life in the Shadow of the Wall: Part 2

    • August 18, 2017
    • BBC News

    One of President Trump’s campaign pledges was the construction of a wall along the US-Mexico border. But how would a wall stop drugs and people illegally entering the US?

  • SPECIAL 0x6 Return to Mauritius

    • May 16, 2017
    • BBC News

    Six years after John McAreavey's wife Michaela was killed on honeymoon in Mauritius, BBC Newsline's Mark Simpson joins him as he returns to the island. No-one has ever been convicted of the murder.

  • SPECIAL 0x7 The Obama Generation

    • October 12, 2016
    • BBC News

    As Barack Obama’s time in office nears its end, people who voted for him reflect on his legacy. From California to Chicago to DC, young black voters look back on his Presidency.

  • SPECIAL 0x8 The Health Of Our Oceans

    • BBC News

  • SPECIAL 0x9 Bruce Springsteen - Interview with The Boss

    • October 18, 2016
    • BBC News

    Singer and songwriter Bruce Springsteen speaks to BBC arts editor Will Gompertz about his music, depression and the state of US politics, as he launches his autobiography.

  • SPECIAL 0x10 Japans Never-ending War

    • June 29, 2018
    • BBC News

  • SPECIAL 0x11 Africa's Secret War

    • BBC News

  • SPECIAL 0x12 President Biden's Inauguration

    • January 20, 2021
    • BBC News

    Live build-up and coverage from Washington of the inauguration of Joe Biden as president of the United States. Presented by Katty Kay.

  • SPECIAL 0x13 9/11: Twenty Years On

    • September 11, 2021
    • BBC News

    Special coverage of events being held to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, with Laura Trevelyan in New York.