Addiction
Luck Be a Lady Tonight. Audio, 28 minutes
Journalist Marverine Cole looks at the increase in female gambling in the UK.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Assignment. Cold Turkey in Karachi. Audio, 25 minutes
Mobeen Azhar finds out how a charity is helping heroin addicts in Karachi.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Asian Network Reports. Special Reports, Secret Young Gamblers. Audio, 25 minutes
Nitin Ganatra asks why Asian children who gamble are the most likely to become addicts.
- AttributionBBC Asian Network
- Available for over a year
Four Thought. Series 2, Musa Okwonga: Life without Facebook. Audio, 15 minutes
Poet Musa Okwonga explores the downside of living a life on Twitter and Facebook.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Face the Facts. Prescribed Addiction. Audio, 27 minutes
The "scandal" that has left up to 1.5 million people addicted to prescription drugs.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Billy Preston: That's the Way God Planned It. Audio, 30 minutes
Rick Wakeman explores the life and music of the so-called Fifth Beatle.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Sugaring the Pill. Audio, 30 minutes
The NHS is paying people to be healthy. But does it really work? Claudia Hammond reports.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Alex Higgins: The People's Champion. Video, 59 minutes
Documentary charting the life of snooker legend Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins.
- AttributionBBC Two
- Available for 11 months
Louis Theroux. The City Addicted to Crystal Meth. Video, 60 minutes
Louis Theroux is in Fresno, California, seeking out the stories and people behind the drug
- AttributionBBC Two
- Available for 10 months
Analysis. Can We Kick the Habit? Audio, 30 minutes
Historian Richard Weight asks why the problem of drug addiction has proved so intractable.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Science View. Faith and Addiction. Audio, 24 minutes
Can religious or spiritual faith assist recovery from addiction?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Agenda. Shopping and the Price of Pleasure. Audio, 26 minutes
Is Christmas shopping a prime case of retail mania? And what makes a shopaholic?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
African Perspective. Smoke Dreams. Audio, 29 minutes
Dr Tony Marinho explores why people smoke cigarettes
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Caffeine. Audio, 14 minutes
The most commonly used drug in the world, present in tea, coffee and soft drinks
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke. Nicotine addiction. Audio, 15 minutes
How the tobacco industry bosses lied about nicotine addiction.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. Video, 184 minutes
George Gershwin's 1935 opera, based on Trevor Nunn's acclaimed 1986 Glyndebourne staging.
- AttributionBBC Two
- Available for over a year
