Episode list

About ancient medicine and healing arts around the world.

Worldwide, more than a billion people live in slums. As many as one million of them in the Kenyan slum of Kibera. Slum Survivors tells the stories of a few of them and charts their remarkable courage in the face of extreme poverty.

Jim Fallon is a US-based neuroscientist. In a weird coincidence at work several years ago, Jim says he accidentally discovered that his own brain scans showed identical activity to that of a psychopath.

In Tokyo, three women take us through the realm of fuzoku; the world of erotic entertainment in Japan. Yuna is an aspiring actress in hard-core films, Nao engages clients in hard-chats and Miho is a well-known striptease artist. We learn about their dreams, we follow them at work and during their free time, in host clubs where they drink and find escorts, and in nightclubs where shibari, the art of sadomasochistic binding, is practiced.

Denmark's legislature approved a motion that bans bestiality; the goal of the action is to combat animal-sex tourism.

Throughout the history of pop music, the popular genre of choice has always gone hand in hand with the effects of whatever drugs are proliferated throughout the current youth culture. This is no mere coincide; it's hard to imagine a more perfect pairing than certain substances and certain sonic tempos, pitches, and rhythms. This was even the case during the 16th Century when the first coffee houses opened in Europe. Classical music became more uptempo and erratic; Bach even composed "Coffee Cantata" about an addiction to the stuff. Below we explore the link between drugs and musical movements.

With over 100 billion porn pages visited and streamed annually, journalist and adult film director Ovidie investigates how modern technology has changed the adult film industry.

Is an online support group for so-called "virtuous paedophiles" likely to protect children from harm? And Liberal Bill Heffernan says he has a police list which names a former prime minister in a group of prominent alleged paedophiles.

The studio Momotaro in Tokyo produces the series "Yariman Wagon" directed and acted by Rizu Suzuki with co-star Eimi Fukada - a show about sexy girls picking up boys/men to have sex with in their car.

In an increasingly sexualised world, life without sex can be a curious anomaly. But for some people, celibacy is a choice they've made, while others have been born with no sexual attraction.

Our ancestors had sex - we're the evidence. And, despite what the social mores of many past eras might have tried to say to the contrary, they had quite a lot of it - although they generally had to be a lot more discreet about it. Even the most straight-laced of eras had its share of scandal, and the documentary Sex and Sensibility demonstrates that the genteel Georgian era was no exception.

Do transgender women belong in women's sports? On Gender Games, we hear from transwomen and female athletes about inclusion, fairness and safety.

Explores male sexuality and its common insecurities. Male sexuality is plagued by unshakeable clichés. For example, they cannot get enough of it, like to boast about it unabashedly, want as many different partners as possible and prefer to be dominant in bed. But is male sexuality really that rigid?