Archive on 4 Episodes Episode guide
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Attention All Shipping
Peter Jefferson presents an elegy to the Shipping Forecast he used to read.
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The Lost World of the Suffragettes
Dan Snow delves into a huge library of tapes of suffragettes recalling their experiences.
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Castaway: 70 Years of Desert Island Discs
Kirsty Young tells the story of the long-running radio programme.
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Freud vs Jung
Lisa Appignanesi explores the intense relationship between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung.
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Bertrand Russell: The First Media Academic?
Robin Ince listens back to some of the 成人快手 archive of philosopher Bertrand Russell.
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John Arlott: Cricket's Radical Voice
Mark Whitaker investigates the life of the cricket commentator and political campaigner.
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The European Dream
How the European Union was born in fear, hope and crisis in the decade after World War II.
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Ted Hughes: Memorial Tones
Melvyn Bragg celebrates the Yorkshire poet through a memorial at Westminster Abbey.
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When Reporters Cross the Line
Stewart Purvis explores the history of impartiality in broadcast news.
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Rebuilding Britain for the Baby Boomers
Maxwell Hutchinson on the architects who rebuilt Britain after the Second World War.
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Remembrance
Denys Blakeway tells the story of the Act of Remembrance.
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The Rise and Fall of Robert Maxwell
20 years after the death of Robert Maxwell, Steve Hewlett assesses his life.
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After the Dictator
With Gaddafi dead, Owen Bennett-Jones explores what happens after dictators fall.
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Mind Your PMQs
Dominic Sandbrook questions the political importance of Prime Minister's Questions.
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The Red Bits Are British
David Cannadine explores the teaching of history in English schools over the past century.
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The Parting Glass: The Story of Irish Migration
The long, tragic legacy of Irish migration is examined by acclaimed writer Fintan O'Toole.
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The Oldest Music Hall
Paul Merton delves into the story of the Leeds City Varieties music hall.
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The Christiania Effect
David Goldblatt visits Christiania in Denmark known for drugs, anarchy and now turning 40.
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The Life and Fate of Vasily Grossman
Jim Riordan uncovers the life and fate of Soviet writer Vasily Grossman, hero and heretic.
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The Day Before 9/11
What was happening on the day before the Twin Towers fell and the world changed?
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JFK, Bobby and Dad
JFK aide Kenneth O'Donnell's daughter Helen presents her father's interview tapes.
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When the Eyes of the World Were on the Clyde
Journalist John Lloyd looks back at the Clydeside work-in of 1971.
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Stephen Fry Does the Knowledge
Stephen Fry's metaphorical taxi journey to discover what knowledge really means.
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Robert Robinson
Laurie Taylor takes a look at the life and work of one of Britain's broadcasting legends.
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Raise Your Glasses
Arthur Smith searches for the best and worst after-dinner speeches in history.
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RP RIP?
Melvyn Bragg observes the decline of RP alongside an increasing pride in regional accents.
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Getting to Know My Father
Justin Webb goes through the archive to get to know Peter Woods; the father he never knew.
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The 1981 Ashes
Mike Brearley tells the story of one of the most remarkable summers of cricket ever seen.
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Schumacher's Big Society
Did EF Schumacher's landmark book Small is Beautiful inspire David Cameron's big idea?
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The Light Music Festival
Paul Morley explores the rise and mysterious fall of light orchestral music.