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A brief history of...
29 VIDEOS
Total Duration
2:06:02
2.2m views
A child's eye view...
7 VIDEOS
Total Duration
19:40
95.6k views
A question of ethics
12 VIDEOS
Total Duration
1:02:14
713.6k views
A world without...
6 VIDEOS
Total Duration
26:07
956.3k views
Amazing animations
32 VIDEOS
Total Duration
2:18:04
4.8m views
Amazing women in STEM you need to know about
14 VIDEOS
Total Duration
1:09:44
814.6k views
An A-Z of -isms
26 VIDEOS
Total Duration
1:12:13
1.3m views
Ancient thinking
11 VIDEOS
Total Duration
41:39
663.4k views
Are you robot ready?
9 VIDEOS
Total Duration
28:38
193.4k views
Artificial intelligence: What kind of world do we want?
13 VIDEOS
Total Duration
54:36
627.9k views
Ask Us Anything
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Total Duration
17:55
209.2k views
Astonishing medical breakthroughs
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Total Duration
55:57
799.1k views
B
BBC Briefing
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Total Duration
25:34
370.1k views
BBC Ideas meets BBC Bitesize
4 VIDEOS
Total Duration
14:56
415.3k views
Beyond belief
6 VIDEOS
Total Duration
13:01
58.2k views
Biohacking: How far would you go to build a better you?
4 VIDEOS
Total Duration
26:44
222.4k views
Birth stories
9 VIDEOS
Total Duration
34:07
174.1k views
Brain power: Understanding human intelligence
4 VIDEOS
Total Duration
23:00
210.7k views
C
Celebrating LGBT history
4 VIDEOS
Total Duration
16:41
137.9k views
Challenging taboos
12 VIDEOS
Total Duration
49:48
781.6k views
Civilisations
6 VIDEOS
Total Duration
19:09
57.8k views
Comic genius
7 VIDEOS
Total Duration
21:51
121.6k views
Conspiracies and controversies
12 VIDEOS
Total Duration
55:55
1.4m views
Crime and punishment
15 VIDEOS
Total Duration
1:13:33
838.5k views
Crossing Divides
5 VIDEOS
Total Duration
26:00
725.5k views
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Day of the scientist
7 VIDEOS
Total Duration
31:40
482.2k views
Debunking modern myths
19 VIDEOS
Total Duration
1:10:12
2.3m views
Deep sport
18 VIDEOS
Total Duration
1:14:48
937.5k views
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Edible histories
12 VIDEOS
Total Duration
36:26
985.2k views
Effortless economics
5 VIDEOS
Total Duration
14:22
293k views
Eponyms explored
6 VIDEOS
Total Duration
18:23
439.3k views
Expand your mind with Radio 4
32 VIDEOS
Total Duration
2:51:51
2.6m views
Expand your mind with the University of Oxford
4 VIDEOS
Total Duration
19:07
531.8k views
Extraordinary pioneers
27 VIDEOS
Total Duration
1:55:09
1.9m views
F
Fab finds from the BBC archive
13 VIDEOS
Total Duration
50:43
371.3k views
Face-to-face
3 VIDEOS
Total Duration
22:49
132.9k views
Fashionable thinking
15 VIDEOS
Total Duration
54:38
1.5m views
Feminism: The fight for equality
16 VIDEOS
Total Duration
1:07:06
416k views
Festive picks
14 VIDEOS
Total Duration
52:39
1.7m views
Five things about…
19 VIDEOS
Total Duration
1:21:04
2.6m views
Food for thought
14 VIDEOS
Total Duration
51:04
1.9m views
Free Thinking 2018
6 VIDEOS
Total Duration
23:43
616.9k views
Free Thinking festival 2019
6 VIDEOS
Total Duration
24:03
309.4k views
Futurefest: Occupy the future
8 VIDEOS
Total Duration
24:11
342.1k views
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Get a taste of BBC Ideas: Short films for curious minds
32 VIDEOS
Total Duration
2:35:26
5.3m views
Getting from A to B
7 VIDEOS
Total Duration
28:51
469.6k views
H
Habits of the highly successful
10 VIDEOS
Total Duration
36:53
682.9k views
Health and wellbeing
26 VIDEOS
Total Duration
2:19:11
3.8m views
Hidden histories
18 VIDEOS
Total Duration
1:37:17
2m views
Hope and humanity
9 VIDEOS
Total Duration
49:03
1.3m views
How easy is it to predict the future?
12 VIDEOS
Total Duration
46:33
424.7k views
How it feels to be human
32 VIDEOS
Total Duration
2:15:16
3.2m views
How to be happy at work (yes, really)
19 VIDEOS
Total Duration
1:19:26
1.7m views
How to make your life easier
20 VIDEOS
Total Duration
1:20:55
3.2m views
How to navigate modern life
32 VIDEOS
Total Duration
2:18:26
3m views
How to win at stuff
6 VIDEOS
Total Duration
14:34
370.8k views
How we live now
8 VIDEOS
Total Duration
31:17
571.2k views
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IMHO
18 VIDEOS
Total Duration
1:06:52
1.1m views
Ideas for making the world a better place
14 VIDEOS
Total Duration
54:26
533.4k views
Ideas on a park bench
4 VIDEOS
Total Duration
9:52
62.3k views
Ideas that shaped the world
15 VIDEOS
Total Duration
1:04:13
1.1m views
Ideas that will restore your faith in humanity
6 VIDEOS
Total Duration
25:39
17.8k views
Inner city life
8 VIDEOS
Total Duration
31:58
390.9k views
International Women's Day 2019
10 VIDEOS
Total Duration
40:51
517.7k views
Is there a better way?
25 VIDEOS
Total Duration
1:48:22
2.6m views
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Leisure and pleasure
12 VIDEOS
Total Duration
50:05
864.1k views
Life Lessons
8 VIDEOS
Total Duration
30:30
230.8k views
Life in 2039
5 VIDEOS
Total Duration
16:27
566.6k views
Life's big questions
10 VIDEOS
Total Duration
1:01:12
1.5m views
Love, sex and relationships
16 VIDEOS
Total Duration
1:06:04
1.1m views
Lunchtime learning
16 VIDEOS
Total Duration
1:05:20
2.2m views
M
Made in partnership with the Royal Society
23 VIDEOS
Total Duration
2:05:18
3.5m views
Made in partnership with the Science Museum
2 VIDEOS
Total Duration
10:29
75.9k views
Mavericks
6 VIDEOS
Total Duration
23:00
194.8k views
Medical matters
27 VIDEOS
Total Duration
2:12:30
3.2m views
Modern Me
23 VIDEOS
Total Duration
1:41:41
2.3m views
Modern family life
10 VIDEOS
Total Duration
47:21
457.7k views
Monday mind food
10 VIDEOS
Total Duration
37:32
850.3k views
Money, money, money...
15 VIDEOS
Total Duration
46:02
456k views
More fab finds from the archive
14 VIDEOS
Total Duration
55:56
597.7k views
More videos for curious minds from The Open University
26 VIDEOS
Total Duration
1:59:52
2.7m views
Move to improve your mood
3 VIDEOS
Total Duration
14:12
39.4k views
Musical legends you need to know
6 VIDEOS
Total Duration
26:41
233.8k views
My autistic self
4 VIDEOS
Total Duration
15:39
233.2k views
My comic book inspiration
2 VIDEOS
Total Duration
7:46
33.7k views
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Naturally clever
14 VIDEOS
Total Duration
44:49
1.2m views
Nature and us
16 VIDEOS
Total Duration
1:18:46
1.7m views
New thinking that could change your life
21 VIDEOS
Total Duration
1:33:40
2.4m views
Newtopias
6 VIDEOS
Total Duration
15:24
293.7k views
O
Older and Wiser
6 VIDEOS
Total Duration
26:23
420.5k views
Our Planet Now
18 VIDEOS
Total Duration
1:23:46
1.7m views
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Powering our planet
8 VIDEOS
Total Duration
35:05
699.4k views
Prejudice unpacked
4 VIDEOS
Total Duration
18:30
231k views
Psychology
17 VIDEOS
Total Duration
1:19:13
1.8m views
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Radical research
11 VIDEOS
Total Duration
59:35
1m views
Reflections on dying
14 VIDEOS
Total Duration
59:46
1.1m views
Reflections on race
18 VIDEOS
Total Duration
1:14:35
797.4k views
Reflections on time
6 VIDEOS
Total Duration
27:07
656.9k views
Remarkable writers
11 VIDEOS
Total Duration
42:06
378.7k views
Remember when? Curiosities from the recent past
13 VIDEOS
Total Duration
52:28
813.5k views
Rethinking disability
13 VIDEOS
Total Duration
50:45
590.8k views
Rethinking mental health
26 VIDEOS
Total Duration
2:12:35
1.5m views
Russell Kane's Alternative Obituaries
5 VIDEOS
Total Duration
12:44
196.4k views
S
Say what? The benefits of learning languages
5 VIDEOS
Total Duration
21:40
478.3k views
Sheer escapism
19 VIDEOS
Total Duration
1:26:52
2.3m views
Sleep matters
6 VIDEOS
Total Duration
20:57
1m views
Stephen Hawking - the man who explained the universe
5 VIDEOS
Total Duration
7:11
57.6k views
Stuck at home? This is a playlist for you
13 VIDEOS
Total Duration
53:59
2.2m views
Sustainable thinking
31 VIDEOS
Total Duration
2:22:57
3.1m views
T
The FutureFest playlist
8 VIDEOS
Total Duration
25:04
320.4k views
The Open University
32 VIDEOS
Total Duration
2:51:14
3.5m views
The Sideways playlist
3 VIDEOS
Total Duration
7:31
185.2k views
The body - a very human obsession
28 VIDEOS
Total Duration
1:56:06
2.8m views
The funny thing about...
10 VIDEOS
Total Duration
34:31
310.2k views
The hidden history of hand gestures
6 VIDEOS
Total Duration
13:46
266.1k views
The hidden meanings in everyday life
15 VIDEOS
Total Duration
1:18:40
1.4m views
The ideas that shape us
5 VIDEOS
Total Duration
11:51
64.4k views
The incredible power of music
11 VIDEOS
Total Duration
45:46
421.1k views
The joy of physics
12 VIDEOS
Total Duration
47:48
1.6m views
The magic of maths
5 VIDEOS
Total Duration
21:34
501.9k views
The resilience playlist
17 VIDEOS
Total Duration
1:11:09
1.5m views
The shape of us
4 VIDEOS
Total Duration
15:27
367.3k views
The social self
18 VIDEOS
Total Duration
1:20:22
1m views
The spoken word
3 VIDEOS
Total Duration
7:23
113.1k views
The story of human emotions
8 VIDEOS
Total Duration
30:57
799.2k views
The videos we just can't get enough of
19 VIDEOS
Total Duration
1:26:13
2.6m views
The wonderful world of words
27 VIDEOS
Total Duration
1:25:23
2.6m views
The working from home playlist
7 VIDEOS
Total Duration
26:02
998.4k views
Thinkers from the past on our world today
6 VIDEOS
Total Duration
25:15
260.4k views
Thought experiments
9 VIDEOS
Total Duration
45:35
960.8k views
Trailblazers from history
4 VIDEOS
Total Duration
18:10
188.7k views
Truth, trust and 'fake news'
9 VIDEOS
Total Duration
46:29
694k views
U
Understanding the human brain
32 VIDEOS
Total Duration
2:33:25
3.2m views
Universal wonders
23 VIDEOS
Total Duration
1:32:48
3m views
Unsung heroines
14 VIDEOS
Total Duration
1:06:37
1m views
V
Viewsnight
12 VIDEOS
Total Duration
26:48
144.9k views
Visionaries guaranteed to inspire you
15 VIDEOS
Total Duration
1:03:43
765.7k views
W
War and peace
6 VIDEOS
Total Duration
31:32
454.7k views
What animals can teach us
6 VIDEOS
Total Duration
22:06
531k views
What does that funny squiggle mean?
8 VIDEOS
Total Duration
15:04
581.9k views
What is freedom?
5 VIDEOS
Total Duration
17:52
263.6k views
What will the future be like?
9 VIDEOS
Total Duration
38:43
855k views
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You're doing it wrong...
6 VIDEOS
Total Duration
14:45
1.7m views
Young people tackling society's problems
6 VIDEOS
Total Duration
19:47
14.6k views
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