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Releasing The Bad Vibes
The four objects are back in storage but where does The Museum of Bad Vibes go from here?
09 Aug 2022,·35 mins
A Disabled Identity
Peter White reveals the roots of a modern disabled identity in the 19th century.
07 Jun 2013,·14 mins
6. The Final
Middlesbrough look to end their 128-year trophy drought at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium.
19 Feb 2024,·21 mins
Episode 2
Edward Stourton presents the partisans' stories of the mass POW breakout in 1943.
06 Sep 2013,·28 mins
Boils and Buboes
Melvyn Bragg examines how an alderman saved the plague ravaged town of Salisbury in 1627.
29 Aug 2002,·30 mins
2. NHS - the early years
Concluding the story of general practice from the 1950s to the present day.
15 Jul 2016,·28 mins
VJ Day Anniversary Special
Peter Snow marks the seventieth anniversary of VJ Day at the end of the Second World War.
14 Aug 2015,·28 mins
Omnibus 2
Gus Casely-Hayford, director of V&A East, tells a human-centred history of fashion.
02 Sep 2022,·57 mins
Laurie looks at how cultural studies has reached beyond academia and into everyday life.
14 Oct 2013,·28 mins
Author Viet Thanh Nguyen, film critic Phuong Le and Peter Salmon join Matthew Sweet
10 Mar 2021,·44 mins
It wasn’t easy to build the Bullring
Can Birmingham rise from the challenges of the pandemic?
19 Apr 2021,·10 mins
Felicity Evans pays tribute to HRH The Duke of Edinburgh whose death has been announced.
09 Apr 2021,·28 mins
How a down-at-heel Parisian hotel became the world's avant-garde headquarters.
29 Nov 2012,·30 mins
Katie Derham delves into the fascinating world of musical life during the Second World War
09 Oct 2012,·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
Shahidha Bari goes in search of the biggest poetry competition in the Middle East.
23 Mar 2014,·30 mins
Exploring a strange coincidence from 1957, when John Prescott was a cruise ship waiter.
31 Jan 2007,·30 mins
How has the experience of hyperinflation in Germany in 1923 shaped the past 100 years?
20 Mar 2023,·28 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
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
Marie-Louise Muir revisits youth orchestras set up during the Troubles in Northern Ireland
04 Jun 2015,·30 mins
Military historian Hew Strachan on 200 years of Gurkha service to the British Crown.
08 Jun 2015,·28 mins
The War Without End
Christopher Clark explores the dark legacy of the First World War.
15 Jan 2016,·15 mins
The life and changing times of Woman's Weekly as it celebrates its centenary
09 Feb 2012,·30 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
26/12/2008
Adam Hart-Davis explores the history of the technology of Christmas.
26 Dec 2008,·30 mins
