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    The Anniversary Anniversary

    Dominic Sandbrook ponders the compelling appeal of anniversaries.

  2. The Stranger in the Mirror

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

  3. A History of the N-Word

    Ellah Allfrey looks at the evolution of the N-word.

  4. No Destination

    Satish Kumar walked 8,000 miles for world peace. Join him as he relives this journey.

  5. Imagining the Audience

    In the days before audience research, who did the early BBC think it was talking to?

  6. Sentimental Journey

    Sneer or cheer? Gyles Brandreth surveys the history of sentimentality.

  7. The Benjamin Broadcasts

    Michael Rosen discovers Walter Benjamin's radio works for children. Read by Henry Goodman.

  8. Rebel Rebel

    Jonathan Agnew looks back at the rebel cricket tours to South Africa between 1981-1990.

  9. Pulped Fiction

    What makes a literary reputation last? Who's 'in' and who's on the way 'out'?

  10. Ray Gosling: Sum Total

    The complex life and career of maverick broadcaster Ray Gosling, who died in 2013.

  11. I'm in Charge

    Bruce Forsyth and Paul Jackson on the London Palladium, which opened on Boxing Day 1910.

  12. The Siege of Dien Bien Phu

    In 1954, at Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam, French soldiers lost both a battle and an empire.

  13. Atlantic Crossing

    The connection between those who fly the Atlantic and those who guide us over it.

  14. Dark Horse: An Alec Guinness Archive

    Alistair McGowan investigates the enigma of a private man who became a global star.

  15. Listen without Mother

    Fi Glover peels the labels off motherhood, from sacred mother to slummy mummy.

  16. Portraying Real Lives

    Maxine Peake explores the challenges of playing factual characters.

  17. Captive Media: The Story of Patty Hearst

    How the kidnapping of a newspaper heiress captivated and transformed the American media.

  18. The Interviewer Stole the Show

    Lynn Barber, doyenne of the print interview, traces how the interviewer has taken charge.

  19. The First Generation X

    Meet Generation X - the teenagers from the shocking, bestselling 1964 book, 50 years on.

  20. The Death of the Spiv

    Poet Paul Henry traces the evasive spiv as he slips and slides through the archives.

  21. Burroughs at 100

    Iggy Pop explores the life of William S Burroughs, America's most iconoclastic writer.

  22. John Tavener

    Sir Nicholas Kenyon reflects on the life of composer Sir John Tavener.

  23. The Haunted Apparatus

    Ian McMillan on the telephone's uncanny past and unsettling future.

  25. The Long, Long Trail

    Roy Hudd explores the forgotten radio masterpiece that inspired Oh What a Lovely War.

  26. The Three Day Week

    White explores the political significance of the 1970s crisis, when Edward Heath was PM.

  27. When Comedy and Politics Collide

    Is satire on radio and TV now harming rather than helping our politics?

  28. Prisoners of Conscience Revisited

    Rex Bloomstein revisits the stories of human rights appeals he made 25 years ago.

  29. Monkey Planet

    Will Self asks where apes end and human apes begin.

  30. Something is Terribly Wrong

    Alan Thompson relives the events in the assassination of President John F Kennedy

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