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Mission Accomplished
The decade began with total US dominance and ended with a challenge from the rise of China
29 Dec 2009,·28 mins
Frederick Kelly
The story of Frederick 'Clegg' Kelly, Olympic rowing champion and First World War hero.
10 Aug 2014,·60 mins
Claudia Jones
Meet Claudia Jones, a fearless fighter for civil rights on both sides of the Atlantic
14 Sep 2022,·33 mins
Historian Zareer Masani examines the details and lasting impact of the Amritsar Massacre.
09 Apr 2019,·28 mins
Omnibus
From Millicent Fawcett to Multiculturalism
Anne McElvoy traces liberalism's development since the Suffragists.
18 Dec 2015,·58 mins
1941. A British psychiatrist is sent to a safe house in Surrey to examine POW Rudolf Hess.
09 Apr 2012,·28 mins
Emma Griffin examines the lives of working women during the industrial revolution.
16 Mar 2015,·30 mins
Catherine Bott tells the story of Nancy Storace, an English star who worked with Mozart.
16 Oct 2014,·30 mins
Martin Bell returns 20 years on to the Siege of Vukovar in Croatia.
22 Aug 2011,·30 mins
Who stitched the Bayeux Tapestry? Abigail Youngman looks for clues in the margins.
03 Jan 2022,·28 mins
Comedian Robin Ince takes us on a tour of a world beneath the earth's crust.
11 Apr 2015,·30 mins
Episode 5
Jane Garvey returns to Liverpool, 25 years on.
02 Sep 2011,·12 mins
Author Howard Sounes reveals the story behind Bob Dylan's song.
17 May 2010,·28 mins
Sarfraz Manzoor goes in search of America's black cowboys
22 Mar 2013,·28 mins
How the iconic factory shaped postwar Merthyr with laughs, drama, romance and spirit.
16 Oct 2023,·27 mins
Sarfraz Manzoor explores a fascinating period of jazz music history in India.
21 Apr 2014,·30 mins
2000-2005
A look back at radio comedy in the early 2000s, with Justin Edwards and Jan Ravens.
06 Dec 2014,·30 mins
Simon Townley learns how 'the father of the symphony' lost his head for 145 years.
30 May 2009,·30 mins
Waiting for Demob Day
Phil Carradice looks at the Welsh experience of National Service between 1947 and 1963.
30 Jul 2020,·28 mins
Danny Dorling uses the Domesday Reloaded data to explore how Britain has changed.
25 Jan 2012,·30 mins
In 1969 a rumour swept the world. Paul McCartney had died and been replaced by an impostor
14 Oct 2014,·30 mins
Jonathan Freedland reassesses Machiavelli and finds the inspiration for modern republics.
18 Nov 2013,·28 mins
A story of Austrian siblings told in their wartime letters to and from the Russian front.
27 Jul 2012,·28 mins
Episode 2
There may be only two sexes but nature has evolved many weird ways to make female and male
23 Jan 2013,·28 mins
Chris Ledgard asks if gender testing will mean a level playing field for female athletes.
10 Aug 2011,·30 mins
4 Extra Debut. Wynford Vaughan-Thomas's journey to Berlin aboard an RAF Lancaster Bomber.
21 Jul 2018,·30 mins
Pete Paphides visits the M1's improbable 1960s music meeting place - Blue Boar Services.
12 Jul 2011,·30 mins
Defoe: The Facts and the Fictions
Mark Lawson presents a documentary exploring the far-reaching influence of Daniel Defoe.
14 Jul 2016,·43 mins
The untold story of The Last Post, one of the world's most famous pieces of music.
11 Nov 2015,·26 mins
Marie-Louise Muir explores the lost tradition of keening for the dead in Ireland.
16 Aug 2016,·30 mins
