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Episode 5: Reverberations
An examination of the fallout from Britain's atomic testing programme, which began in 1952
11 Nov 2022,·28 mins
Lennox Castle Hospital
Anita Anand uncovers hidden stories from recent British history.
14 Aug 2023,·28 mins
Episode 5: Politics versus the Past
Misha Glenny explores the European memory wars.
04 Oct 2024,·14 mins
Series 1
The Refrigeration Engineers
Lauren Laverne follows lives of three people who spent an intense period of time together.
21 Aug 2018,·28 mins
Cohesion
Baroness Casey looks at some of the challenges facing whoever wins the general election.
05 Jan 2024,·28 mins
Troubles Shared - EpisodeTwo
Fergal Keane and Peter Taylor look back on reporting the Northern Ireland Troubles
07 Nov 2020,·26 mins
Episode 2
Day three, the halfway point of the walk, but the worst is yet to come.
21 Nov 2011,·30 mins
What Goes Around...
Visiting Voltaire's chateau and an abandoned Cern experiment puts Will in a pensive mood.
09 Jan 2015,·15 mins
Episode 4
Horatio Clare joins the Paris river police as they search the Seine for a drowned man.
06 Nov 2011,·15 mins
Underground Art - Literally
Kirsty and Lucy investigate an arts collective operating in tunnels beneath Paris.
23 Nov 2012,·15 mins
Week 4 Omnibus
Neil MacGregor tours Britain's museums to explore how the past tells us who we want to be.
22 Apr 2022,·57 mins
Enduring Love
A look at enduring love - what is the secret to a happy and enduring partnership?
22 Aug 2004,·22 mins
Evolution of Modern China
Can the old leadership survive in the Chinese century?
30 Aug 2002,·13 mins
Series 2
Voting
Andrew Dilnot charts the history of the British state through its numbers.
27 Feb 2015,·15 mins
Omnibus: Part 2
Marina Warner explores the world of contemporary storytelling.
21 Aug 2015,·58 mins
Episode 3
Michael Portillo examines the past and future of democracy over 2,500 years.
25 May 2010,·45 mins
Deeper Not Wider
Allan examines new resentments and divisions within the EU exposed by the crisis.
12 Feb 2012,·30 mins
Jo
Jules Montague and William Miller meet Jo, who was diagnosed with semantic dementia at 53.
14 Apr 2023,·14 mins
Sir John Tusa explores the state of leadership in large UK organisations today.
25 Jul 2014,·28 mins
Omnibus 2
The story of the systematic doping of the 2012 and 2014 Olympics by the Russian state.
17 Jul 2020,·57 mins
Mozart's Last Symphony
Can we really recreate authentic period music?
08 Jan 1992,·13 mins
Robert McCrum goes through a two-week rehabilitation course to rejuvenate his left side.
09 Mar 2015,·28 mins
‘Is back pain a transmissible disease?' - Dan’s story
Dan lives with agonising back ache, until a pilot study into pain transforms his life.
27 Dec 2022,·28 mins
Grey Wolf and Cresent Moon
Turkey's political and religious upheavals throughout the 20th century
02 Nov 1994,·28 mins
10. No Frills Air Travel
Robert Carlyle takes us back to moments we missed in the 90s that shaped the world today.
13 May 2022,·14 mins
How to Survive in Space
How to Survive in Space: Into Deep Space
Kevin Fong escapes earth’s gravity to examine the challenges on the body
31 Dec 2015,·26 mins
Part II, Mark Lawson on how the story of Rudolf Kastner, the Jew who negotiated with Eichmann, continues to be retold
Mark Lawson explores how the story of Rudolf Kastner has been retold within Israel.
24 Mar 2016,·30 mins
The Black Box of History
Stories from France's troubled history with Algeria and why they still matter today.
25 Feb 2022,·14 mins
The town's hopes are pinned on a good summer season but its fortunes depend on the weather
19 Oct 2009,·30 mins
Episode 11: Insurrection
With Trump out of office, Leah Sottile on what’s next for America’s far-right.
25 Jan 2021,·27 mins
