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  1. Remembering the Holocaust: Defiant Requiem

    How a choir of Jewish prisoners defiantly performed Verdi's Requiem in front of the Nazis.

    BBC Four

  2. Belfast City: Mud, Sweat and 400 Years

    Dick Strawbridge charts Belfast's journey from humble sandbank to industrial powerhouse.

    BBC One Northern Ireland

  3. Easter Island: Mysteries of a Lost World

    Jago Cooper uses scientific and archaeological evidence to examine Easter Island's demise.

    BBC Four

  4. Walking With the Dead

    Writer Colm Tóibín explores the Dublin locations haunted by James Joyce's Dubliners.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  5. Dan Snow's History of the Winter Olympics

    Historian Dan Snow looks back at 90 years of the Winter Olympics.

    BBC Two

  6. The End of the Pier Show

    Can Hastings Pier rise from the ashes and reinvent herself?

    BBC One

  7. Mystery of the Moor

    Mike Dilger investigates Bronze Age burial goods discovered on Dartmoor.

    BBC One

  8. The Necessary War

    Sir Max Hastings argues that the First World War was far from being futile.

    BBC Two

  9.

    Venus in View

    Mari Griffith examines the motivation behind the attack on The Rokeby Venus 100 years ago

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  10. The Great Glass Mystery

    Examining the disappearance of stained glass from Coventry Cathedral during WWII.

    BBC One

  11. World War One At Home

    Stories from the Home Front 1914-1918. Robert Hall presents.

    BBC News

  12. The Miners' Strike - A Personal Memoir by Kim Howells

    Kim Howells recalls the miners' strike of 30 years ago and and ponders its outcome.

    BBC One Wales

  13. Hidden Histories: WW1's Forgotten Photographs

    The story of British and German soldiers' photography during the First World War.

    BBC Four

  14.

    I Was There: The Great War Interviews

    Never-before-seen footage from interviews with eyewitnesses of the First World War.

    BBC Two

  15. Oh Do Shut Up Dear! Mary Beard on the Public Voice of Women

    Mary Beard on how women have been silenced throughout the history of Western culture.

    BBC Four

  16.

    Poetry Idol

    Shahidha Bari goes in search of the biggest poetry competition in the Middle East.

    BBC Radio 4

  17. Building Burma's Death Railway: Moving Half the Mountain

    British POWs and their Japanese captors tell the story of one of WWII's worst atrocities.

    BBC Four

  18. The Machine Gun and Skye's Band of Brothers

    A look at the Maxim machine gun and how it affected one Hebridean community.

    BBC Two Scotland

  19. The Greatest Knight: William the Marshal

    The fascinating story of knighthood, told through the life of Sir William Marshal.

    BBC Two

  20. Cuimhneachain Cogaidh: Catriona Garbutt

    Catriona Garbutt le cuimhneachain teaghlaich mun Chiad Chogadh.

    BBC Radio nan Gàidheal

  21.

    Blind Date with Don Camillo

    Communism vies with the Catholic church in Italy's post-war comic creation, Don Camillo.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  22. Thatcher and the IRA: Dealing with Terror

    Documentary examining Margaret Thatcher's strategy of dealing with the IRA.

    BBC One Northern Ireland

  23. Good Friday: Passion, War and Peace

    An insight into the Passion narrative through the lens of the First World War.

    BBC Radio Scotland

  24.

    Bombay Jazz

    Sarfraz Manzoor explores a fascinating period of jazz music history in India.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  25. Easter Sunday: Bayonets and Green Blades

    Ministers Duncan McLaren and Sigrid Marten explore the places and people of WW1.

    BBC Radio Scotland

  26. Messiah at the Foundling Hospital

    Revealing the story of how Handel's Messiah helped save London's Foundling Hospital.

    BBC Two

  27.

    The First Action Movie

    1903 Sheffield's on location 'Daring Daylight Burglary' inspired every action movie since.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  28. 50 Golden Years of Sport on BBC Two

    Celebrating 50 years of sporting coverage on BBC Two.

    BBC Two

  29. The Art of Keynes

    Nicholas Wapshott on how the economist used government money to buy paintings in WWI.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  30. Generation War: Fact and Fiction

    Martha Kearney and guests examine the facts behind the German drama series Generation War.

    BBC Two

  31. The French Revolution: Tearing up History

    Dr Richard Clay retells the history of the French Revolution through the story of its art.

    BBC Four

  32.

    Melencolia

    Art historian Dr. Janina Ramirez is on a mission to decode Durer's Melencolia 1.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  33. The Mysterious Mr Webster: BBC Arts at the Globe

    Revealing the mysterious man who many consider Shakespeare's greatest rival.

    BBC Two

  34. D-Day Dames

    Lyse Doucet recounts the stories of American women war correspondents in London for D-Day.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  35. 70th Anniversary of D-Day

    Commemorations in Normandy on the 70th anniversary of D-Day.

    BBC Radio 5 Live

  36. A King's Speech - Martin Luther King on Tyneside

    Lenny Henry tells the story of Martin Luther King's visit to Tyneside in 1967.

    BBC One

  37. The Science of D-Day

    Engineer Rob Bell explores the new inventions that made the Normandy invasion possible.

    BBC One

  38. Britain's Greatest Pilot: The Extraordinary Story of Captain Winkle Brown

    The FAA pilot recounts his experiences up to and during the Second World War.

    BBC Two

  39. Normandy '44: The Battle Beyond D-Day

    James Holland reassesses the 77-day Battle for Normandy that followed D-Day.

    BBC Two

  40. Hail Marys and Miniskirts

    The story of the many Irish women who started new lives in Britain in the 1950s and 60s.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  41. The Little Stamp that Became the Most Valuable Thing in the World

    Joshua Levine charts the life of the 1-Cent Magenta, the most expensive stamp in the world

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  42. Bannockburn Begins

    Louise Welsh explores the meaning of the battle of Bannockburn on its 700th anniversary.

    BBC Radio Scotland

  43.

    Arnold of the Five Towns

    Samira Ahmed explores the life and work of writer Arnold Bennett.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  44. Seven Wonders of Brazil

    Robert Beckford explores the key ingredients that make up Brazilian Christianity.

    BBC Two

  45. D-Day Battles in the Shadows

    The French resistance's battle to stop a German division reaching the landing beaches.

    BBC News

  46. From Scotland with Love

    Film exploring Scotland's past and made entirely of Scottish film archive.

    BBC Two Scotland

  47. The Lost Poets of the Raincoat Shop

    Ian McMillan discovers lost poets through notes found on the floor of a derelict shop.

    BBC Radio 4

  48.

    My Family’s Fight For Civil Rights

    Oona King discovers her family's role in the fight for equality for African Americans.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  49. World War One At Home

    Stories from around the UK that link the places we live in today with the events of WWI.

    BBC News

  50. A Bitter Legacy

    A look at how politicians have dealt with the legacy of the Good Friday Agreement.

    BBC Radio Ulster

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