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Magical Japanese

December 2025 •English

Explore the richness and depth of the Japanese language and discover how words and expressions reflect history, culture and the natural world.

Learn Japanese from the News

December 2025 •English

Our new TV program helps you learn about Japan and the Japanese language through simple and easy Japanese news. You will learn not only Japanese expressions but also the latest situation of Japan.

Japan-easy

December 2025 •English

Learn useful phrases and cool kanji through these 15-minute programs, and you'll realize that "Japanese is easy!"

Easy Japanese for Work

December 2025 •English

Accelerate your Japanese language skills! Learn practical, effective workplace expressions, understand business culture and improve your kanji.

NHK High School Course English Communication I

December 2025 •Japanese

Each session covers English expressions for a variety of situations and occasions. To develop English communication skills, it is important to have a basic understanding of grammar and to actually say things out loud in your own language. Riho Sayashi shares her own learning experiences and gives tips on how to enjoy and improve your English.

Let's Mosey: A Slow Translation Of Final Fantasy VII

December 2025 •English

Tim Rogers spent 800 hours over the course of two years replaying Final Fantasy VII sixteen times in both English and Japanese. This eleven-part series excavates, examines, and explains dozens of tiny nuanced differences between the game's first English translation and its original Japanese script.

Backstory

December 2025 •English

A provocative and in-depth look at the making of a classic movie, providing viewers with great movies. And the stories behind them.

Plastic Fantastic Brain

December 2025 •English

This fascinating two-part programme explores cutting edge research surrounding the brain and its ability to function. In part one, two renowned neurologists are working to understand the brain's "plasticity" and introduce us to a woman who functions well with literally half a brain and a blind professor who learns to "see" with his tongue. Part two explores the brain's elusive capacity to create and store memory, as seen through one man who remarkably remembers every single detail of his life, and an athlete whose memory was wiped clean following a tragic accident.

Myths & Monsters

December 2025 •English

This documentary series tells the stories that have gripped imaginations for centuries and reveals the fascinating and unexpected history behind them.

Body Image

December 2025 •English

A series of films looking at the different shapes and sizes of bodies and people's attitudes to them

The 800 Million Pound Railway Station

December 2025 •English

Series telling the story of the architects, engineers and spin doctors who entered a frantic two year race to make the Royal Opening of St Pancras on time.

Extraordinary Animals

December 2025 •English

Who Do You Think You Are?

December 2025 •English

From roots in the Deep South to the slums of New Jersey, "Who Do You Think You Are?" follows the journeys of some of the most well-known names in American popular culture. Watch as celebrities discover unknown details about themselves and their families while researching their ancestry with the help of historians and genealogical experts.

Better Angels: The Gospel According to Tammy Faye

December 2025 •English

Tammy Faye, the "First Lady of the Electric Church," had a spectacular rise, a scandalous collapse, and an unexpected revival. Her biography raises a question: How did people get the story so wrong?

Lolla: The Story of Lollapalooza

December 2025 •English

Explore the iconic festival, Lollapalooza, which started as a traveling circus of bands including Jane's Addiction, Nine Inch Nails, Butthole Surfers, Rollins Band and Violent Femmes in 1991.

千禧之旅

December 2025 •Chinese

made in Südwest

December 2025 •German

Amigos & Amigos

December 2025 •Portuguese

Thumbs Up!

December 2025 •English

David Choe hitchhikes his way across these United States by (other people's) trains, cars, and boats.

You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment

December 2025 •English

Identical twins change their diets and lifestyles for eight weeks in a unique scientific experiment designed to explore how certain foods impact the body.