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Archive on 4 Episodes

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    Cradle to Grave

    The history of the NHS told through one hospital - the QEII in Welwyn Garden City.

  2. Shhhhhhh

    Lucy Powell offers a quiet celebration of the rich and various virtues of silence.

  3. The Poles and the Planet

    Adam Fowler tracks down the survivors of the 1957 Trans-Antarctic Expedition.

  4. How to Make an Archive on 4

    Alan Dein enters the strange world of instructional records.

  5. Destroyer of Worlds

    How Britain developed the world's first atomic bomb only to lose it to the Americans.

  6. Tomorrow's World, Today

    Tomorrow's World came to our TV screens in 1965. Were any of its predictions correct?

  7. A Brief History of Shame

    American satirist Joe Queenan explores Shame.

  8. Bring Your Darlings Back To Life

    What if the best anecdotes and stories had a programme to themselves?

  9. Morning Everyone

    Rory Bremner celebrates the life of cricketer and commentator Richie Benaud.

  10. The War Game Files

    Whitehall files expose how the BBC and government connived to ban 1965 film The War Game.

  11. The Tokens and the Foundlings

    The story of the UK's first children's charity, The Foundling Hospital.

  12. Twice Nightly

    Stan Stennett recreates British variety theatre's heyday.

  13. Adventures in Alienation

    Writer Amit Chaudhuri explores the idea of exile and modern, secular homelessness.

  14. Some Like It Hot

    Cleo Laine revisits the 1940s golden age of the all-girl swing band in the UK and USA.

  15. The Choke

    Brains behaving badly: how talented people are fooled into failing.

  16. Don't Write, Make a Record

    Alan Dein explores how people recorded their own voices on gramophone records.

  17. The Entomology of Gregor Samsa

    David Baddiel asks what kind of insect Gregor Samsa becomes in Kafka's The Metamorphosis.

  18. The Escape Factory

    How Britain's MI9 ensured daring escapes of Second World War prisoners.

  19. Black Aquarius

    The dawning of the age of Black Aquarius, the second great wave of pop occultism in the UK

  20. Music Hall Reclaimed

    Barry Cryer hears how recordings are restored so that music hall stars can be heard again.

  21. Who's Your Father, Referee?

    Clive Anderson searches for a golden age of respect for the football referee.

  22. The Liverpool Poets

    Pete McCarthy examines the work of Roger McGough, Brian Patten and Adrian Henri.

  23. Epic Fail

    Grace Dent presents a field guide to failure.

  24. Lern Yerself Scouse

    Paul Farley cooks a pot of Scouse as he explores the complex flavours of the Scouse accent

  25. Remembering Sue Townsend, Aged 68 3/4

    Adrian Mole's creator, Sue Townsend, is remembered by friends, family and in her own words

  26. A Brief History of Anger

    American satirist Joe Queenan presents spats, tantrums and explosions from the archive.

  27. The Petticoat Vote

    Jo Fidgen explores how the women's vote has changed British politics and society.

  28. The Hills Are Alive

    Sixty years after The Sound of Music, Mark Kermode hears from the team who made it happen.

  29. Malled: 60 Years of Undercover Shopping

    Will Self explores the appeal of the shopping mall.

  30. Read My Lips: Why Politicians Speak the Way They Do

    Jonathan Powell explores the secret language of politicians.

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