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Who was the real Noah? According to the Bible, Noah was a holy man who saved humankind and all the animals in a wooden ark two-thirds the size of...

The Maya Biosphere Reserve is the largest rainforest north of the Amazon and was once the heart of the Maya civilization. Amanda Ruggeri explores the...

Chernobyl 1986. A nuclear reactor exploded, spewing out massive quantities of radiation into the atmosphere. Within days, the pollution had spread...

A year on, Warwick University is still reeling from the fall-out over a Facebook group chat where male students made rape threats against their...

The Great Gatsby: Midnight in Manhattan looks at the story’s origins, the roaring 1920s and F. Scott Fitzgerald‘s interest in writing. It...

Paris-based writer Andrew Hussey travels through the glorious art and surprising history of an extraordinary French institution to show that the...

Madness play live from BBC radio 2's "Festival in a day" live from London's Hyde Park.

A secret document which sets out a procedure for dealing with child sex abuse scandals within the Catholic Church is examined by Panorama. Crimen...

Over a person's lifetime they are likely to be prescribed more than 14,000 pills. Antibiotics, cholesterol lowering tablets, anti-depressants,...

As Brazil prepares to host the next World Cup, its people are confronted with the growing problem of child prostitution. The country's relaxed...

Jeremy Marre worked under extreme conditions, sometimes even at gunpoint, to make the programme. And as it unfolds, the documentary questions how...

Movie investigates how poor countries are using FOSS applications for development, and includes stories and interviews from around the world.

Kenza is a donkey - or at least that is what her family thinks of her - so when her uncle fires her from the family cafe, she makes a plan to show...