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  1. Sgeulachd Cogaidh na h-Artaig/Untold Arctic Wars

    Documentary series that reveals the big picture of events in the Arctic during WWII

    BBC ALBA

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    Florence Nightingale: Nursing Pioneer

    Film following the life of an extraordinary woman who revolutionised modern nursing.

    BBC Four

  3. Colosseum

    Are you not entertained? The Roman Empire's rise and fall at the Colosseum.

    BBC Four

  4. Inside Museums

    Join art critic Alastair Sooke as he discovers how museums around the world are changing.

    BBC News

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  5. Firebombers

    Documentary series looking at an arson campaign in Wales targeting English-owned homes

    BBC One Wales

  6. History on the Edge

    Anita Anand uncovers hidden stories from recent British history.

    BBC Radio 4

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  7. Our Lads in Korea: The Forgotten War

    John Hardy tells the story of the Welshmen who fought in the Korean War in the early 1950s

    BBC Radio Wales

  8. The Restless Republic - Britain Without a Crown by Anna Keay

    The story of the extraordinary decade that followed the execution of Charles I in 1649.

    BBC Radio 4

  9. Reel Histories

    Exploring the history behind celluloid images of our past.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  10. Real Dictators

    Real Dictators explores the hidden lives of history's tyrants. Narrated by Paul McGann.

    BBC Sounds

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  11. Short History Of...

    Witness history's most incredible moments and remarkable people.

    BBC Sounds

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  12. Wally, the Reluctant Nuclear Hero

    The story of Wally, the physicist that prevented nuclear disaster during the Vietnam war.

    BBC Radio 4

  13. The Long and the Short of It

    History show presented by the big man Tim McGarry and the wee man David Hume.

    BBC One Northern Ireland

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    When Hoover Sneezed...

    How the iconic factory shaped postwar Merthyr with laughs, drama, romance and spirit.

    BBC Radio Wales

  15. The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes

    A look at Nazi war crimes and the complex motives at play at the start of the Cold War.

    BBC Two

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  16. Adam Smith: What He Thought and Why It Matters by Jesse Norman

    A succinct and engaging account of the life, times and legacy of economist Adam Smith.

    BBC Radio 4

  17. Notable

    Stars of stage and screen reveal the intense emotional battles of 10 pioneering composers

    BBC Radio 3

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  18. Union with David Olusoga

    David Olusoga exposes the fault lines dividing the UK through the lens of the past.

    BBC Two

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  19. History Channel

    Back-to-back history shows bringing the past to life

    BBC

  20. How to Be a Renaissance Woman by Jill Burke

    An alternative history of the Renaissance, as told by the women behind the paintings.

    BBC Radio 4

  21. The Mandates

    How the effects of French and British mandates in the Middle East still reverberate today.

    BBC Radio 4

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  22. Most of My Heroes Don't Appear on No Stamp

    Black artists nominate a personal hero they feel deserve a postage stamp in their honour.

    BBC News

  23. The Bomb

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    BBC World Service

  24. The Australian Wars

    The forgotten story of the bloody conquest of Australia.

    BBC Four

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  25. Berlin 1933

    Hitler's rise to power, told through the personal writings of those who lived through it.

    BBC Four

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  26. Julius Caesar: The Making of a Dictator

    How Julius Caesar dismantled five centuries of ancient Roman democracy in just 16 years.

    BBC Two

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  27. Shakespeare's Restless World (Omnibus)

    Exploring the world of William Shakespeare through a selection of objects from the time.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  28. The Cows Are Mad

    The strange tale of the 1990s BSE epidemic.

    BBC Radio 4

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  29. Farstraers

    Jocelyn Rendall brings Orkney's history to life.

    BBC Radio Scotland

  30. The Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs

    The inside story of the Arab-Israel conflict.

    BBC Two

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  31. Israel and the Arabs - Elusive Peace

    The events of 1998 to 2005 in the fraught history of the Arab-Israeli peace process.

    BBC Two

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  32. The History Hour

    An hour of historical reporting told by the people who were there.

    BBC Afghan TV

  33. Witness History

    The story of our times told by the people who were there.

    BBC Afghan TV

  34. Map to Mikkeli

    Eva Runciman tracks the journey of a WW2 map from Shetland to a war museum in Finland.

    BBC Radio Scotland

  35. The North East Witch Trials

    Explore how the largest mass execution for witchcraft in English history was forgotten.

    BBC Radio Newcastle

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  36. The Ammanford Anarchist

    Elis James explores how the 'world's most dangerous woman' came to Wales in the 1920s.

    BBC Radio Wales

  37. Ancient Lives with Mary Beard

    Mary Beard unearths the lives of the Ancients.

    BBC Radio 4

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  38. Larach Leabhar Dheir (The Missing Monastery)

    An tòir air Mhanachainn Dhèir a’ leantainn. The search for the Monastery of Deer continues

    BBC ALBA

  39. Immigration Tracks

    Anne MacAlpine traces Scottish Gaelic families who made a new life in Canada a century ago

    BBC ALBA

  40. Killing Sherlock: Lucy Worsley on the Case of Conan Doyle

    A look at the relationship between Arthur Conan Doyle and his creation Sherlock Holmes.

    BBC Two

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  41. Empire of Tea

    Sathnam Sanghera tells the story of our national drink and its imperial past.

    BBC Radio 4

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  42. Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

    Stories that will delight you, scare you, but also make you wiser.

    BBC Sounds

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  43. Bad Women

    The extraordinary stories of the victims of wartime London's Blackout Ripper

    BBC Sounds

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  44. The Space Shuttle That Fell to Earth

    In 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia breaks apart in the skies above America.

    BBC Two

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  45. Hollywood Exiles

    A story of glamour, duplicity and the FBI's battle against communism in Hollywood

    BBC

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  46. Face Down: The Killing of Thomas Niedermayer

    Granddaughters of a businessman abducted 50 years ago uncover the truth about his killing.

    BBC One Northern Ireland

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    Holocaust hero Nicholas Winton on That's Life

    Sir Nicholas Winton was a hero of the Holocaust.

    BBC

  48. Revisionist History

    Malcolm Gladwell's journey through the overlooked and the misunderstood.

    BBC Sounds

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  49. The Great American Buffalo

    Ken Burns recounts the tragic story of America’s national mammal.

    BBC Four

  50. Ian Hislop's Oldest Jokes

    Ian Hislop goes in search of the earliest examples of British comedy staples.

    BBC Radio 4

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