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    A Brief History of Disobedience

    Joe Queenan offers a Brief History of Disobedience, follow up to Blame, Anger and Shame.

  2. SKILL, STAMINA and LUCK

    Naomi Alderman presents a history of interactive fiction in which YOU are the Listener!

  3. In the Bluff

    Poet Paul Farley shows his hand in a celebration of bluffing, from poker to geo-politics.

  4. The Art of the Obit

    Matthew Bannister celebrates the culture, style, purpose and panache of the obituary

  5. Embarrassment

    Journalist Lynne Truss prepares to cringe as she investigates embarrassment.

  6. David Bowie: Verbatim

    David Bowie’s extraordinary life and career told in his own words.

  7. Utopias

    Michael Symmons Roberts examines the book behind one of our most influential ideas: Utopia

  8. Metropolis

    Paul Bailey takes a journey through the BBC sound archive in celebration of London.

  9. The Stranger in the Mirror

    Does the history of our ideas about autism reveal more about ourselves than about autism?

  10. Work is A Four Letter Word

    Professor Andrew Hussey asks why we should let the toad of work squat on our lives.

  11. Jay Rayner Pigs Out

    Jay Rayner, self-confessed greedy pig, gets serious about porkers.

  12. The Selling of Sinatra

    Jazz singer Kurt Elling doffs his trilby as he explores the life of Frank Sinatra.

  13. When Britain Had the Right Stuff

    Richard Hollingham uncovers the forgotten history of Britons in space.

  14. Racial Equality Enshrined

    Ritula Shah explores Britain's first Race Relations Act, fifty years on.

  15. Lives in a Landscape

    Alan Dein tells the story of 10 years of BBC Radio 4's observational documentary series.

  16. A Sympathetic Eye

    Simon Farquhar examines how Man Alive reflected changing TV and social values in the 1960s

  17. 07/11/2015

    Fifty years after abolition, John Tusa reviews the history of the death penalty debate.

  18. The Time Machine

    Comedian Doc Brown activates the flux capacitor back to the world of 21 January 1981.

  19. The Future of the BBC: A History

    Steve Hewlett explores the troubled past behind today's debates on the future of the BBC.

  20. Attention Must Be Paid - Arthur Miller's Centenary

    Christopher Bigsby traces the life and work of Arthur Miller, mostly in Miller's own words

  21. Bernstein, My Mentor

    Acclaimed conductor Marin Alsop remembers her mentor, the great Leonard Bernstein.

  22. John Lennon: Verbatim

    John Lennon's extraordinary life and career told in his own words.

  23. Kindertransport

    How 10,000 unaccompanied children, mostly Jewish, escaped from Nazi Europe to Britain.

  24. From the Self to the Selfie

    Lauren Laverne on the origins and effects of the obsession with selfies.

  25. MP for Penrith and the Border

    Programme following a year in the life of Rory Stewart - an MP with an unusual profile.

  26. The Power of Political Forgetting

    What happens when a major past crisis slips from public memory? With David Aaronovitch.

  27. New Orleans: The Crescent and the Shadow

    Harry Shearer lives in New Orleans. He looks back at the last ten years in the city.

  28. Dickie Attenborough: A Life in Film

    Susan Marling celebrates Richard Attenborough’s legacy a year on from his death.

  29. Stadium Rock at 50

    50 years after the Beatles played Shea Stadium, Kate Mossman plots a history of Arena rock

  30. Misunderstanding Japan

    What impact have western media representations had on our view of Japan and its people?

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