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Seriously is home to the world’s best audio documentaries and podcast recommendations, and host Vanessa Kisuule brings you two fascinating new episodes... more

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Episodes

Haiti - Descent Into Anarchy

With criminal gangs now controlling most of Haiti's capital and no function government, Mike Thomson explores what caused this spiralling... more

07 May 2024 · 28 minutes
A Dentist's Life

In February 2024, the NHS dental crisis hit the headlines as hundreds of people queued outside a dental practice in... more

03 May 2024 · 28 minutes
Counterfeit Characters

What do Artificial Intelligence and digital technology mean for actors and their relationship with audiences?Leading acting coach Geoffrey Colman, who... more

26 Apr 2024 · 29 minutes
Home Fires

Richard King explores the past and present of the second homes debate in Wales, revisiting the story of Meibion Glyndwr... more

23 Apr 2024 · 28 minutes
Fragments - The London Nail Bombings

It's 25 years since London suffered three vicious nail bomb attacks - holdalls filled with 4-inch nails and hand-made explosives... more

19 Apr 2024 · 27 minutes
Mila’s Legacy

How many medicines can you think of created for just one person? The likelihood is none - which is... more

16 Apr 2024 · 28 minutes
Protein: Powerhouse or Piffle?

Take a trip around the supermarket and you'll see shelves of products claiming to be 'high in protein'. Scroll through... more

12 Apr 2024 · 28 minutes
Rwanda Thirty Years On

Victoria Uwonkunda makes an emotional journey back to Rwanda, where she grew up. It’s the first time she’s visited since... more

09 Apr 2024 · 28 minutes
Dehumidified

One baffling online scam – involving a £138 dehumidifier – and a humiliated BBC producer who will not rest until... more

05 Apr 2024 · 28 minutes
Do We Still Need the Pips?

To mark the centenary of the Greenwich Time Signal on the BBC, Paddy O'Connell asks the unaskable - Do We... more

02 Apr 2024 · 29 minutes
Wokewash - Episode 1

Following on from the success of Green Inc and with the same bold, provocative and entirely un-switchoffable energy, writer, comedian... more

29 Mar 2024 · 29 minutes
The War the World Forgot

Since it gained Independence in 1956 Sudan has had at least 2 major civil wars. The last one resulted in... more

26 Mar 2024 · 28 minutes
Farmers and Furious

Following wide ranging farmers' protests across Europe, now British farmers are starting to show their discontent with thousands of farmers... more

15 Mar 2024 · 28 minutes
Decolonising Russia

All along Russia’s border, in former Soviet republics, the Ukrainian war has prompted a new, more assertive sense of national... more

12 Mar 2024 · 27 minutes
How to Build an Oil Field

In September 2023 permission was given to develop Rosebank, the UK’s largest untapped oil field. Located west of Shetland, the... more

08 Mar 2024 · 28 minutes
The Forensic Jeweller

Jewellery can tell us so much about people - the ones that wore it, and the ones that made it.... more

05 Mar 2024 · 29 minutes
The Rise of Sinn Féin

Ireland correspondent Chris Page looks at the growth of Sinn Féin across the island of Ireland over the last 30... more

27 Feb 2024 · 28 minutes
Who Do You Really Think You Are?

We’re a nation obsessed with genealogy. Millions of us are gripped by TV shows like 'Who Do You Think You... more

23 Feb 2024 · 28 minutes
Prosecuting Polmont

In 2018, within a few months of each other, Katie Allan and William Lindsay took their own lives at Polmont... more

20 Feb 2024 · 28 minutes
How to Read the News - Episode 1

When journalists tell stories, they rarely start at the beginning but instead with the latest development. Context comes towards the... more

16 Feb 2024 · 14 minutes
Graceland in the Glens

In 2019, Elvis Presley Enterprises threatened to deconstruct Graceland and move it to Saudi Arabia, Tokyo, or whoever was the... more

13 Feb 2024 · 28 minutes
The Screening Dilemma

Ronnie Helvy is on his way for a screening test. He's in his sixties and wants an assessment to check... more

09 Feb 2024 · 28 minutes
Hotel Room Art

The inside story of art in hotel rooms - and why hoteliers think it's so important to get it right.... more

06 Feb 2024 · 28 minutes
Seven Deadly Psychologies - 1. Pride

Becky Ripley and Sophie Ward take a cold hard look at the psychology behind each of the seven deadly sins.... more

12 Jan 2024 · 28 minutes
Seven Deadly Psychologies - 2. Greed

Becky Ripley and Sophie Ward take a cold hard look at the psychology behind each of the seven deadly sins,... more

12 Jan 2024 · 28 minutes
Seven Deadly Psychologies - 3. Lust

Becky Ripley and Sophie Ward take a cold hard look at the psychology behind each of the seven deadly sins,... more

12 Jan 2024 · 28 minutes
Seven Deadly Psychologies - 4. Envy

Becky Ripley and Sophie Ward take a cold hard look at the psychology behind each of the seven deadly sins,... more

12 Jan 2024 · 29 minutes
Seven Deadly Psychologies - 5. Gluttony

Becky Ripley and Sophie Ward take a cold hard look at the psychology behind each of the seven deadly sins,... more

12 Jan 2024 · 28 minutes
Seven Deadly Psychologies - 6. Wrath

Becky Ripley and Sophie Ward take a cold hard look at the psychology behind each of the seven deadly sins,... more

12 Jan 2024 · 28 minutes
Seven Deadly Psychologies - 7. Sloth

Becky Ripley and Sophie Ward take a cold hard look at the psychology behind each of the seven deadly sins.... more

12 Jan 2024 · 28 minutes
Finding My Father

This is a remarkable true story of how an elderly former engineer met a new partner, who eventually put in... more

09 Jan 2024 · 29 minutes
The Green Backlash

As the individual costs of the EU’s Green Deal are becoming clearer, many people across Europe say they are unwilling... more

05 Jan 2024 · 29 minutes
The Big League

Real Madras, Borussia Moobsandbackfat, OB City, Man Titty, Inter PieAmi, Pork Vale, ScranMere Rovers - all real teams that play... more

02 Jan 2024 · 28 minutes
South Africa: The Children of Paradise - Episode 1

Three decades after the momentous transition from Apartheid to a democratic South Africa, Fergal Keane returns to see what happened... more

22 Dec 2023 · 29 minutes
Empire of Tea - Episode 1

George Orwell described tea as “one of the mainstays of civilization in this country.” But how did this foreign plant... more

15 Dec 2023 · 14 minutes
Across the Divide - Episode 1

Families from the many sides of the Gaza/Israeli dispute share and reflect on their own personal histories and day-to-day existence.

12 Dec 2023 · 28 minutes
Scorchio! The Story of the Weather Girl

Within weeks of starting as a weather presenter, Sam Fraser’s arse had its own online fan club and she featured... more

28 Nov 2023 · 29 minutes
Battle Grounds: Culture Wars in the Countryside - Vegans

The British countryside is often portrayed as a green and pleasant land - a rural idyll. But under the surface,... more

24 Nov 2023 · 15 minutes
The Reinvention of Italy

Anne McElvoy goes on the road in Italy in the latest in her series exploring the convulsions of political and... more

21 Nov 2023 · 29 minutes
Military Ink

Glasgow’s west end is home to the Primrose Path Tattoo Society where ex-service men & women have gravitated to reflect,... more

17 Nov 2023 · 28 minutes
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Within weeks of starting as a weather presenter, Sam Fraser’s arse had its own online fan club and she featured on a... more