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  1. The Sex Test

    Chris Ledgard asks if gender testing will mean a level playing field for female athletes.

    BBC Radio 4

  2. Kidnapped: A Georgian Adventure

    The story of James Annesley, whose fate inspired Robert Louis Stevenson's book Kidnapped.

    BBC Four

  3. A Renaissance Education: The Schooling of Thomas More's Daughter

    How the ideas that shaped Margaret More's education changed the cultural life of England.

    BBC Four

  4. Set in Stone

    A look at the gargoyles and grotesques in the architecture of the Palace of Westminster.

    BBC Parliament

  5. Taighean Solais

    Annie Cheape dips into the history of Scottish lighthouses.

    BBC Radio nan Gàidheal

  6. The Tredegar Riots

    Felicity Evans recalls one of Britain's worst anti-Semitic riots, in Tredegar in 1911.

    BBC Radio Wales

  7. Surviving Hitler: A Love Story

    The Jewish teenager and the soldier who survived the Nazis and married in post-war Berlin.

    BBC Four

  8. My Father was a Nazi Commandant

    Film telling the story of a woman grappling with the legacy left by her Nazi father.

    BBC Four

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    Return to Vukovar

    Martin Bell returns 20 years on to the Siege of Vukovar in Croatia.

    BBC Radio 4

  10. The Pendle Witch Child

    How a girl's testimony sent her relatives and neighbours to the gallows for witchcraft.

    BBC Four

  11. An t-Slighe a bu Mhiosa (The Worst Journey in the World)

    Veterans of the WW2 arctic ship convoys make a pilgrimage along the original route.

    BBC ALBA

  12. Llanelli Riots

    Huw Edwards tells the story of the Llanelli riots that occurred a century ago.

    BBC One Wales

  13. The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest

    The story of George Mallory, who disappeared trying to be the first to conquer Everest.

    BBC Two

  14. Too Much, Too Young: Children of the Middle Ages

    Medievalist Dr Stephen Baxter looks at the Middle Ages through the eyes of children.

    BBC Four

  15. Seven Wonders of the Buddhist World

    Bettany Hughes visits seven wonders that give an insight into the history of Buddhism.

    BBC Two

  16. Re-imagining the City

    Artist Bill Drummond shares his vision of Belfast.

    BBC Radio Ulster

  17. Ten Years On: The Welsh Journalist at 9/11

    Stephen Evans talks to Sian Pari Huws about his experiences at the WTC on 9/11.

    BBC Radio Wales

  18. Hans Litten vs Adolf Hitler: To Stop a Tyrant

    Documentary exploring lawyer Hans Litten's public attempt to challenge Hitler.

    BBC Two

  19. 9/11 Ten Years On

    Peter Allen presents from Manhattan as Americans mark the tenth anniversary of 9/11.

    BBC Radio 5 Live

  20. At the Crossroads

    Examining the impact of the 2001 Holy Cross demonstrations on some of the women involved.

    BBC One Northern Ireland

  21. Dinosaurs, Myths and Monsters

    Tom Holland explores how our ancestors sought to explain the remains of dinosaurs.

    BBC Four

  22. A Very Victorian Sex Scandal

    The scandalous life story of East Belfast Unionist MP Edward Samuel Wesley de Cobain.

    BBC Radio Ulster

  23. America Remembers September 11th

    Coverage from New York of the ceremony to mark the tenth anniversary of September 11.

    BBC Two

  24. Britain Remembers September 11th

    A ceremony to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the September 11th attacks.

    BBC One

  25. Entertaining the Troops

    Documentary about the performers who kept up the troops' morale during WWII.

    BBC Four

  26. The Lost Genius of British Art: William Dobson

    Documentary about the 17th-century artist William Dobson, court painter to Charles I.

    BBC Four

  27. Leasan sa Bhas

    A bizarre story of addiction, lust and murder on Scarp in the late 19th century.

    BBC ALBA

  28. The Marvellous Mrs Beeton, with Sophie Dahl

    Sophie Dahl explores the extraordinary life and times of her food heroine, Mrs Beeton.

    BBC Two

  29. 9/11: The Tony Blair Interview

    Former British prime minister Tony Blair talks about his memories of 9/11.

    BBC News

  30. The Spitfire: Britain's Flying Past

    John Sergeant celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Spitfire.

    BBC Two

  31.

    Who found Machu Picchu?

    Hugh Thomson travels to Peru's ancient wonder to unearth the truth behind its discovery.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  32. The 1951 Festival of Britain: A Brave New World

    Story behind the festival which showed how to carve out a bright future through design.

    BBC Two

  33. Cailean MacCoinnich

    Colin MacKenzie, the island boy who rose to become the first Surveyor General of India.

    BBC ALBA

  34. Frost on Nixon

    Sir David Frost recalls his landmark interviews with former US president Richard Nixon.

    BBC Two

  35. Treasures of Chinese Porcelain

    Lars Tharp visits China to explore why its porcelain vases are so famous and expensive.

    BBC Four

  36. Pavlopetri: The City Beneath the Waves

    Following the excavation of Pavlopetri, the oldest submerged city in the world.

    BBC Two

  37. Mixed Race Britain : How The World Got Mixed Up

    The story of how throughout history the races of the world's empires have mixed together.

    BBC Two

  38. Britain's Most Fragile Treasure

    York Minster's Great East Window, the UK's largest expanse of medieval stained glass.

    BBC Four

  39. The Megantic Outlaw

    An immigrant family and a man on the run: the story of Donald Morrison

    BBC ALBA

  40.

    Jack Jackson: Rhythm and Radio Fun Remembered

    Exploring the legacy of musician and broadcaster Jack Jackson.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  41. Operation Jericho

    Martin Shaw takes to the skies to rediscover one of the most audacious raids of WWII.

    BBC Two

  42. Andy Hamilton's Search for Satan

    Documentary exploring who Satan is, where he comes from and what he has been up to.

    BBC Four

  43. The Road to Nowhere

    On the eve of its 25th anniversary, Sally Boazman examines impact of the M25.

    BBC One

  44. Monte Cassino

    The history of the battles surrounding the Italian hill-top monastery of Monte Cassino.

    BBC ALBA

  45.

    From Frestonia to Belgravia: The History of Squatting

    Robert Elms charts the history, ideology and culture of squatting.

    BBC Radio 4

  46. Death in Kabul

    Disaster in Afghanistan, an explorer blamed. Mark Jardine investigates Alexander Burnes.

    BBC Radio Scotland

  47. Hilda Doolittle

    Diana Collecott on wartime poet Hilda Doolittle with readings by Sara Kestelman.

    BBC Radio 4

  48. Mel's Iron Age Holiday

    Mel Giedroyc takes a British family back 2,000 years to live in a Danish Iron Age village.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  49. Ian Hislop: When Bankers Were Good

    A film examining Victorian financiers including Samuel Gurney and Natty Rothschild.

    BBC Two

  50. Escape from the Deep

    Louis de Bernieres uncovers one of the greatest submarine escape stories of WWII.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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