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5. Northern Ireland-Healing History?
In the 1970's, a new kind of history teaching began in Northern Ireland.
31 Jan 2020,·14 mins
Dance Yourself Cheerful
Dancer Deborah Bull looks at the role dance has played during some of our toughest times.
28 Sep 2012,·15 mins
Felicity Evans pays tribute to HRH The Duke of Edinburgh whose death has been announced.
09 Apr 2021,·28 mins
People from around the UK and beyond recall their meetings with Diana, Princess of Wales.
28 Aug 2017,·58 mins
How a down-at-heel Parisian hotel became the world's avant-garde headquarters.
29 Nov 2012,·30 mins
Sarfraz Manzoor meets Dolly Parton to discover her 'Imagination Library'
23 Jul 2011,·30 mins
Felicity Evans meets some of the journalists who reported on the Aberfan disaster.
21 Oct 2016,·42 mins
Dai Smith asks what meaning might be found in the deaths of so many people at Aberfan.
21 Oct 2016,·27 mins
Matthew Taylor tells the story of the last eight years in the life of George Price.
03 Aug 2011,·30 mins
Exploring a strange coincidence from 1957, when John Prescott was a cruise ship waiter.
31 Jan 2007,·30 mins
Colin Grant reports on the 50th anniversary of the Leeds West Indian Carnival.
28 Aug 2017,·30 mins
How did Stanley Kubrick and Welsh author Peter George change Cold War culture for ever?
29 Apr 2021,·27 mins
Anita Anand uncovers an extraordinary untold refugee story from 1940.
27 Sep 2021,·28 mins
Dr Kevin Fong looks at the birth of modern plastic surgery during World War II.
08 May 2012,·28 mins
Ruby Tandoh on the fascinating, evolving role played by food in art over the centuries.
15 Mar 2015,·30 mins
Professor Emma Griffin explores how British workers became tied to the clock.
30 May 2017,·30 mins
Felicity Evans pays tribute to HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, whose death has been announced.
09 Apr 2021,·27 mins
As Cuba faces fresh crisis, Will Grant explores what the island's future holds.
15 Aug 2026,·57 mins
Series 1
2. Nationhood
Anindita Ghosh explores how the printing press promoted the rise of nationalism in India.
20 Apr 2017,·30 mins
Violence and tribalism at music gigs in the late 70s and 80s. Adrian Goldberg presents.
10 Sep 2015,·30 mins
Gyles Brandreth probes the mystery of the missing teddy bears - the first ever made.
27 Jul 2011,·30 mins
Ahmad Chalabi: traitor to Iraq, or liberator? His distant cousin Selma Chalabi explores.
28 Feb 2023,·28 mins
David Aaronovitch asks why Mao's Little Red Book captured the imagination of the West.
05 Feb 2016,·30 mins
How did the Great War shape the life of historian Arnold J Toynbee?
16 Oct 2017,·30 mins
Jarvis Cocker uncovers an album made by Sir John Betjeman in 1974.
27 Jul 2014,·28 mins
Rudely Truncated
Humphrey Carpenter on how the Third Programme captured the intellectual high ground.
06 Oct 1996,·45 mins
Hardeep Singh Kohli discovers the royal connections linking Ascot racecourse with fashion.
18 Jun 2011,·30 mins
Historian Zareer Masani examines the details and lasting impact of the Amritsar Massacre.
09 Apr 2019,·28 mins
1941. A British psychiatrist is sent to a safe house in Surrey to examine POW Rudolf Hess.
09 Apr 2012,·28 mins
Secrets from celebrated Northern Ireland iconoclasts, from peace negotiation to pop.
05 Sep 2022,·28 mins
