Nitrates, Nitrites and Meat: What Is the Cancer Link?
Why curing agents help preserve meat, how nitrite chemistry raises a cancer concern, and why the established finding about processed meat does not yet explain rising bowel-cancer rates in younger adults.
Programme style: Explainer
26 Sept 2026
Alexandria’s Lost Library
A collection, a scholarly community and an enduring influence: what Alexandria’s Library was, what the ancient fire accounts say, and what archaeology reveals about its uncertain ending.
Programme style: Explainer
26 Sept 2026
Who Can Decide for You?
What a Lasting Power of Attorney does in England and Wales, why you might want one, and how its two versions differ — including when an attorney can act and why their authority ends at death.
Programme style: Explainer
20 Sept 2026
Why the American Civil War Began
How slavery’s future became a struggle over political power, why Lincoln’s election prompted secession, and how that crisis became war at Fort Sumter.
Programme style: Explainer
20 Sept 2026
The Apprenticeship Gap
Britain’s traditional apprenticeships weakened as industrial employment and the arrangements supporting employer training eroded. Rebuilding their appeal means offering more than a familiar name: paid work, protected teaching, recognised skills and worthwhile opportunities afterwards.
Programme style: Story-led documentary
16 Sept 2026
What Were the Hanging Gardens?
A garden built upwards: later ancient writers describe terraces and galleries carrying deep soil and large trees, supplied by lifted river water. Their accounts offer a vivid physical picture, while the identification at Babylon—or possibly Nineveh—remains unresolved.
Programme style: Explainer
16 Sept 2026
Reform’s £72 Million: Who Can Give, and How Much?
Reform’s reported donations expose a central choice in British democracy: checking who funds a party does not limit how much powerfully concentrated funding the rules allow.
Programme style: Explainer
12 Sept 2026
What Has Britain Sanctioned Over Israel and the West Bank?
The UK’s 8 September 2026 package combined immediate sanctions on five people with plans to restrict settlement-linked commerce. What do those measures do, and why has the Government connected violence, settlement expansion and economic activity?
Programme style: Explainer
12 Sept 2026
Why Hormuz Matters
Hormuz concentrates enormous energy flows on a route with limited substitutes. Starting with the current Iran–United States confrontation, this explainer follows those flows, tests the pipeline alternative, and explains how market effects can reach British pumps and household bills on different timetables.
Programme style: Explainer
7 Sept 2026
The Bayeux Tapestry: Conquest, Survival, London
Two connected histories: the struggle for England’s crown in 1066, shaped into a narrative favourable to William, and the embroidery’s own journey through cathedral custody, Napoleonic reuse and an exceptional loan to London. The account is dated 6 September 2026, when the embroidery had arrived at the British Museum but its announced public opening was still ahead.
Programme style: Story-led documentary
3 Sept 2026
The Touchline Temper
What football is beginning to hear — and act on — at children’s matches
2 Sept 2026
After the Gin Rush
What makes a British craft spirit last?
1 Sept 2026
Dolly Parton: The Life She Gave
How a songwriter built freedom, a public voice and a legacy of books.
31 Aug 2026
The Wide View
Roman’s journey to L2 and the universe’s hidden physics
30 Aug 2026
The Missiles and the Mirror
Cuba, nuclear brinkmanship and the secret bargain behind Kennedy’s apparent triumph
27 Aug 2026
The Missing First Rung
AI, junior desk work and Britain’s Generation Z
25 Aug 2026
The Troubles: From Civil Rights to Shared Power
How a divided state escalated into conflict, and how the 1998 Agreement changed the rules
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