Any way to sort out BBC documentaries?

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At www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/formats/docume ... r/episodes there are nearly 4000 random documentaries... but one can't even filter between radio or TV documentaries, let alone according to subject. Anyone has any ideas how this can be done?

Clicking on any one of the "A to Z", "Genres", "Formats" or "Topics" menu items as displayed underneath the main "Categories" header seems to break the available content down into manageable chunks well enough.
What did you want to search for - did none of the above help find it?

Ideally, one would be able to search through the 'documentaries' format (categories can't be refined using 'formats' for some reason, or vice versa, and as such is difficult to further filter out documentaries in that manner). I guess A-Z is the closest it'd come to (an alphabetical) filter, but it's still severely limited, as the descriptions aren't taken into account and if what one is looking for doesn't start at the beginning of the title it would be impossible to find it... e.g. "The science of serotonin" (it would, as such, be much easier if one could simply search for 'serotonin' within the 'documentaries' format).