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    Bards of the Back Straight

    Poet Paul Farley explores how the language of poetry and sports commentary compare.

  2. Houses v Fields

    Anne McElvoy explores the eternal struggle: Is a green field better than a human home?

  3. A History of the Stiff Upper Lip

    Louisa Foxe reveals the changing British attitude towards the expression of emotion.

  4. The Great Listener

    Alan Dein tells the story of pioneering oral historian Tony Parker.

  5. One Way Ticket - The Beeching Cuts Revisited!

    Michael Portillo assesses the lasting impact of the Beeching cuts on Britain's railways.

  6. Lunch Is for Wimps

    When did you last take a lunch hour? Matthew Sweet explores the demise of the midday break

  7. Hobsbawm: A Life in History

    Historian Prof Eric Hobsbawm is interviewed by Simon Schama about his work and life.

  8. From Our Rome Correspondent

    The BBC's veteran Rome correspondent David Willey looks back at his 50-year career.

  9. Greece: An Unquiet History

    Writer Maria Margaronis asks if the spectre of Greece's past haunts its current nightmares

  10. More Than Just Whale Music

    Christine Finn explores the world of recorded natural sound and those who relax to it.

  11. The Licence to Kill

    Can state-sponsored killings and assassinations ever be justified?

  12. Government Is Not the Solution

    Jonathan Freedland traces the history of American hostility to 'Big Government'.

  13. Playing Doctors and Nurses

    Mark Lawson on the rich history of medical programmes, fact and fiction, on radio and TV.

  14. The Politics of Art

    Tim Marlow looks at how the BBC TV series Ways of Seeing shook up the art world.

  15. Attention All Shipping

    Peter Jefferson presents an elegy to the Shipping Forecast he used to read.

  16. The Lost World of the Suffragettes

    Dan Snow delves into a huge library of tapes of suffragettes recalling their experiences.

  17. Castaway: 70 Years of Desert Island Discs

    Kirsty Young tells the story of the long-running radio programme.

  18. Freud vs Jung

    Lisa Appignanesi explores the intense relationship between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung.

  19. Bertrand Russell: The First Media Academic?

    Robin Ince listens back to some of the BBC archive of philosopher Bertrand Russell.

  20. John Arlott: Cricket's Radical Voice

    Mark Whitaker investigates the life of the cricket commentator and political campaigner.

  21. The European Dream

    How the European Union was born in fear, hope and crisis in the decade after World War II.

  22. Ted Hughes: Memorial Tones

    Melvyn Bragg celebrates the Yorkshire poet through a memorial at Westminster Abbey.

  23. When Reporters Cross the Line

    Stewart Purvis explores the history of impartiality in broadcast news.

  24. Rebuilding Britain for the Baby Boomers

    Maxwell Hutchinson on the architects who rebuilt Britain after the Second World War.

  25. Remembrance

    Denys Blakeway tells the story of the Act of Remembrance.

  26. The Rise and Fall of Robert Maxwell

    20 years after the death of Robert Maxwell, Steve Hewlett assesses his life.

  27. After the Dictator

    With Gaddafi dead, Owen Bennett-Jones explores what happens after dictators fall.

  28. Mind Your PMQs

    Dominic Sandbrook questions the political importance of Prime Minister's Questions.

  29. The Red Bits Are British

    David Cannadine explores the teaching of history in English schools over the past century.

  30. The Parting Glass: The Story of Irish Migration

    The long, tragic legacy of Irish migration is examined by acclaimed writer Fintan O'Toole.

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