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An Over-Mighty Subject
Anthony Howard looks at the relationship between the Queen and Margaret Thatcher.
18 Feb 2002,·30 mins
Simon Jenkins presents a challenging personal view of the economics of contemporary Wales.
16 Mar 2020,·28 mins
Episode 2
How the power of the news media is used as a global government tool for influence.
18 Jul 2011,·30 mins
What stories are hiding among the paints and pigments in an art supplies shop?
29 Aug 2017,·30 mins
Robert Orchard traces the Welsh roots of those who brought down Margaret Thatcher.
29 Nov 2015,·28 mins
4. The darkest hours before the dawn.
The clock is ticking as negotiators work through the night to try and strike a deal.
06 Mar 2023,·19 mins
Were the Welsh Very Religious?
The numbers of chapels here suggests God-fearing, devout people; but is that the reality?
27 mins
Loneliness
The sounds of the historic and influential city, through its music, life, noise and people
10 mins
Gerry Anderson considers Titanic's complex relationship with the city of her birth.
13 Apr 2012,·28 mins
Mukti Jain Campion explores the surprising origins of modern yoga practice.
17 Jun 2016,·30 mins
Art historian Dr. Janina Ramirez is on a mission to decode Durer's Melencolia 1.
26 May 2014,·30 mins
5. Shakespeare's Midlands
Helen Castor on why the action in Shakespeare’s history plays takes place in the Midlands.
27 May 2016,·15 mins
Libby Purves follows the way Britain prepared for the assault on Normandy in June 1944.
05 Jun 2004,·120 mins
Historian Dina Gusejnova tells the story of tarpaulin from the 17th Century to now.
28 Nov 2016,·30 mins
Mystery has surrounded Tomb 55 in the Valley of the Kings ever since it was discovered
24 Nov 1999,·27 mins
How the Natural History Museum packed its collections off to country houses during WWII.
15 Jan 2014,·30 mins
Robert Elms charts the history, ideology and culture of squatting.
22 Nov 2011,·40 mins
The story of one of the most controversial documents in US diplomatic history.
11 Dec 2011,·30 mins
Writer Le Ly Hayslip tells how she survived the Vietnam war and its aftermath.
18 Sep 2014,·30 mins
Roland Pease recalls ZETA, a nuclear energy project unveiled in 1958 by British scientists
16 Jan 2008,·30 mins
Dr Laura Ashe reveals how our ideas of romantic love were born in 12th-century literature.
13 Aug 2014,·28 mins
How some of the earliest American literary classics were actually written in Birmingham.
06 May 2013,·28 mins
Supporters of the Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra, including Alan Bennett, tell its history.
16 Dec 2014,·30 mins
