Main content

Categories: Factual: History

  1. And You, Helen

    Deryn Rees-Jones looks at the passionate life of Helen Thomas, wife of poet Edward Thomas.

    BBC Radio 4

  2. Music in the Great War: Fiddler in the Tower

    Daniel Hope tells the story of Fernando Buschman, a violinist executed for spying in WWI.

    BBC Radio 3

  3. The Old Plane and the Sea: Rescuing the Last Dornier 17

    The challenges faced in recovering a German bomber raised from the seabed.

    BBC News

  4. Tales from the Royal Wardrobe with Lucy Worsley

    Dr Lucy Worsley explores the royal wardrobes of our monarchs over the last 400 years.

    BBC Four

  5. Derek Walcott: A Fortunate Traveller

    Nobel Laureate poet Derek Walcott talks about his life and work at home on St Lucia.

    BBC Radio 4

  6. Boycotts and Broken Dreams: The Story of the 1986 Commonwealth Games

    The story of the 1986 Commonwealth Games, which was boycotted by over half the members.

    BBC One Scotland

  7. The Verse That Stings

    Ian Hislop celebrates the sharp barbs of Alexander Pope and the 18th-century satirists.

    BBC Radio 4

  8. My Dad's Diary

    A British prisoner of war's diary is returned to his daughter.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  9.

    Betjeman's Banana Blush

    Jarvis Cocker uncovers an album made by Sir John Betjeman in 1974.

    BBC Radio 4

  10. The Lancaster: Britain's Flying Past

    John Sergeant celebrates the plane some believe won the war, the Lancaster.

    BBC Two

  11. Poetry Postcards

    Razia Iqbal shares poetry from around the Commonwealth sent to Glasgow for the Games.

    BBC Radio 4

  12. Gallipoli

    Scottish veterans remember their experiences in Gallipoli during World War One.

    BBC Radio Scotland

  13. World War One Remembered Across the Commonwealth

    Live coverage of a day of commemorations marking the centenary of World War I.

    BBC One

  14. Batter My Heart: Growing Up and Growing Old with John Donne

    Ed Docx discovers that John Donne can be a poet for life.

    BBC Radio 4

  15.

    The Birth of Love

    Dr Laura Ashe reveals how our ideas of romantic love were born in 12th-century literature.

    BBC Radio 4

  16. World War One Remembered from the Battlefield

    Coverage of commemorations marking the centenary of World War I.

    BBC Two

  17. Liverpool's Giant War

    Sue Johnston tells the story of the WWI Liverpool Pals.

    BBC One

  18. The Girl in the Diary

    Geraint Talfan Davies reveals how his uncle witnessed the rise of Nazi Germany in the 30s.

    BBC One Wales

  19. Kate Adie's Women of World War One

    Kate Adie examines the impact of women's work during the First World War.

    BBC Two

  20. From Auschwitz with Love

    Recounting Welshman Ron Jones's wartime experience as a prisoner of war in Auschwitz.

    BBC One Wales

  21. In Memoriam: Conversations on a Bench

    Anna Scott-Brown hears tales of loss and hope, turned to poetry by Michael Symmons Roberts

    BBC Radio 4

  22. Match of the Day at 50

    Documentary charting the history of Match of the Day as it celebrates 50 years on the air.

    BBC One

  23. 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

  24. Egypt's Lost Queens

    Professor Joann Fletcher explores life as a woman of power in ancient Egypt.

    BBC Two

  25. Ceasefire

    Documentary exploring the background to the momentous 1994 ceasefires in Northern Ireland.

    BBC One Northern Ireland

  26.

    The Lost Women of British Jazz

    Shining a light on the earliest female jazz pioneers, who were erased from music history.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  27. Am Marloch

    Gilleasbaig MacDhòmhnaill le sgeulachd Alasdair Stiùbhairt mu eilthirich a' Mharloch.

    BBC Radio nan Gàidheal

  28.

    Heaven and Earth: Le Ly Hayslip

    Writer Le Ly Hayslip tells how she survived the Vietnam war and its aftermath.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  29. Tin Town Kids

    Professor Paddy Gray revisits the aluminium prefab homes that sprung up after World War II

    BBC Radio Ulster

  30. Gresford - The Miners' Hymn

    Reflecting on the Gresford Colliery disaster and Robert Saint's tribute to those who died.

    BBC Radio Wales

  31. Return to Gleision

    Documentary about the Gleision disaster, in which four miners died on 15 September 2011.

    BBC Radio Wales

  32. Arthur Frigg and the Railway of Death

    A former POW remembers the experience he endured when forced to build the Burma Railway.

    BBC Radio Ulster

  33. The World's War

    Challenging perceptions of the First World War by exploring its global dimensions.

    BBC Two

  34. Keep the Home Fires Burning

    The story of Ivor Novello and the song that made his name.

    BBC Radio 2

  35. History in Their Hands

    The story of the June 2012 handshake that started a new chapter in Northern Irish history.

    BBC Radio Ulster

  36.

    Paul is Dead

    In 1969 a rumour swept the world. Paul McCartney had died and been replaced by an impostor

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  37.

    Nancy Storace: Mozart's English Soprano

    Catherine Bott tells the story of Nancy Storace, an English star who worked with Mozart.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  38. The Sound of 37

    Documentary which brings Belfast in 1937 to life with never-heard-before recordings.

    BBC Radio Ulster

  39. Swallowed by the Sea: Ancient Egypt's Greatest Lost City

    Maritime archaeologists uncover the Egyptian city of Heracleion, once lost to the sea.

    BBC Two

  40. Bravo Aberystwyth

    Marion Loffler yn ôlrhain hanes Hydref 1914 pan erlidiwyd trigolion Almaenig Aberystwyth.

    BBC Radio Cymru

  41. Thomas Telford: The Man Who Built Britain

    A documentary on the life and work of the famous Scottish engineer Thomas Telford.

    BBC Two Scotland

  42. Cuimhneachain Cogaidh: A' Bheilg

    Criomag a' leantainn Comann Rèiseamaid Ghàidhealach na Ban-rìgh timcheall làraich cogaidh.

    BBC Radio nan Gàidheal

  43. The Future of the Political Interview

    David Dimbleby lectures on The Future of the Political Interview, from Friday 17 July.

    BBC Parliament

  44. The Walking Dead

    Novelist AL Kennedy investigates revenants, Scotland's medieval equivalent of the zombie.

    BBC Radio Scotland

  45.

    Dr Hepcat and the Hepster's Dictionary

    Poet Lemn Sissay tells the story of Cab Calloway and his Hepster's Dictionary of jive talk

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  46. In Search of the Real Searchers

    Mark Burman explores the real history behind the classic 1950s western The Searchers.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  47. Cold War Poet

    Stephen Evans explores how Dylan Thomas's work became a British export during the Cold War

    BBC Radio 4

  48. Gunpowder 5/11: The Greatest Terror Plot

    The inner secrets of the Gunpowder Plot using the words of the plotters themselves.

    BBC Two

  49. Architects of the Divine: The First Gothic Age

    How medieval British stone masons and builders made Gothic architecture their own.

    BBC Four

  50. Cuimhneachain Cogaidh: Cladh nan Sìophartach

    Còmhla ri Comann Rèiseamaid Ghàidhealach na Banrigh aig Cladh Cheddar Villa.

    BBC Radio nan Gàidheal

  2. 1
  3. …
  4. 42
  5. 43
  6. 44
  7. 45
  8. 46
  9. …
  10. 73