Series examining contemporary history
Radio 4,路43 episodes
Episode 1
The rise and fall of Lymeswold cheese - the first new British cheese in 200 years.
23 Jan 2013,路28 mins
Episode 2
How South African secret police bombed the London HQ of the African National Congress.
30 Jan 2013,路28 mins
Episode 3
Chris Ledgard meets the men who set up LIFFE, the futures market which shook up the City.
06 Feb 2013,路28 mins
Jaws
Chris Ledgard explores the cinematic and zoological legacy of the Spielberg classic, Jaws.
13 Feb 2013,路28 mins
Jolyon Jenkins looks at Sealand, the real-life "Passport to Pimlico".
01 Aug 2012,路28 mins
History documentary on the American 'ghost ships' sent to be scrapped in Britain in 2003.
08 Aug 2012,路28 mins
Co-education
Chris Ledgard with 1960s school stories of the switch from single sex to co-education.
15 Aug 2012,路28 mins
Episode 4
Chris Ledgard examines how the introduction of the breathalyser changed our behaviour.
22 Aug 2012,路28 mins
Jolyon Jenkins investigates how Dutch Elm Disease swept through England in the mid-1960s.
26 Nov 2008,路30 mins
The New Volunteers
Chris Ledgard tells the story of the Voluntary Service Overseas organisation.
03 Dec 2008,路30 mins
The controversy surrounding the 1976 sculpture which came to be known as the Tate Bricks.
10 Dec 2008,路30 mins
Examines the short-lived and much maligned Sinclair C5 three-wheeler.
17 Dec 2008,路30 mins
Ramstein
Chris Ledgard tells the story of the air show disaster at Ramstein, Germany, in 1988.
08 Feb 2012,路28 mins
Gentlemen and Players
Chris Ledgard revisits the final Gentlemen and Players cricket match in September 1962.
15 Feb 2012,路28 mins
Kung Fu
Jolyon Jenkins charts the rise of the 1970s kung fu craze in the wake of Enter the Dragon.
22 Feb 2012,路28 mins
New history documentary on the 1961 evacuation of the loneliest island, Tristan da Cunha.
03 Aug 2011,路30 mins
The mystery of the Thetford Treasure, one of the most important finds from Roman Britain.
10 Aug 2011,路30 mins
Chris Ledgard revisits the scandal surrounding the notorious play The Romans in Britain.
17 Aug 2011,路30 mins
History documentary on the Portsmouth Sinfonia, 'the world's worst orchestra'.
24 Aug 2011,路28 mins
Chris Ledgard tells the story of Brighton's naturist beach, which opened in 1980.
16 Feb 2011,路30 mins
Chris Ledgard visits New York to explore the origins of zero tolerance policing.
23 Feb 2011,路30 mins
Jolyon Jenkins reports on the "Death of a Princess" film which angered the Saudis in 1980.
02 Mar 2011,路30 mins
First-hand accounts of the Woolworths fire in Manchester in May '79 that killed ten people
09 Mar 2011,路30 mins
Pope John Paul II in Britain
The historic first visit by a Pope to England, Scotland and Wales.
03 Aug 2010,路30 mins
Jolyon Jenkins recalls the university sit-ins of 1970, when revolution was in the air.
10 Aug 2010,路30 mins
The rise of the ostrich investment mania of the 1990s - and why it all went so badly wrong
17 Aug 2010,路30 mins
The Humber Bridge
Chris Ledgard explores the political background to the building of the Humber Bridge.
24 Aug 2010,路30 mins
The 1975 Moorgate tube disaster
Jolyon Jenkins investigates the Moorgate tube crash of February 1975.
02 Dec 2009,路28 mins
The Mapplethorpe Affair
Chris Ledgard examines the work of iconic photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.
09 Dec 2009,路30 mins
The Afghan Crisis
Jolyon Jenkins talks to those involved in the UK's longest plane hijack, in February 2000.
16 Dec 2009,路30 mins
