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Series 2
Useless Men Jokes
Ian Hislop returns to unearth the oldest examples of five varieties of British joke.
05 Sep 2025,·14 mins
Battle of Shiloh
Battle of Shiloh, American Civil War
29 May 2025,·36 mins
Omnibus
Omnibus: Historian Ben Macintyre on guile in war, from the Old Testament to modern times.
07 Feb 2020,·57 mins
1914: Day by Day - Omnibus
Episode 6
Margaret Macmillan tells the story of the events leading up to the First World War.
10 Aug 2014,·28 mins
Sheds
A boy scout assembles parts for the nuclear reactor he’s building in his mother’s shed.
22 Oct 2024,·27 mins
Episode 3
The fall of the Shah led to the creation of the world's first Islamic republic.
01 Jul 2009,·30 mins
6. The Microdoctrine
Final episode of the LSD saga about an attempt to spark a revolution of the mind.
23 Nov 2022,·25 mins
Chapter 4: After Empire
Once Upon a Time in Kampala
A Ugandan cab driver forms an unlikely bond with a sex worker during the covid lockdown.
22 Dec 2023,·26 mins
The Legacy
The lasting legacy of the March and how its roots still reach to the highest levels.
12 Mar 2014,·28 mins
Episode 5
Napoleon ended his life on a distant island. Andrew Roberts asks what history made of him.
19 Jun 2015,·15 mins
Katrice Lee: A Father’s Story
4. Living in Hope
Richard Lee shares the reality of everyday life and key milestones that have been marked.
27 May 2025,·17 mins
The Taung Child
Jessica Holm investigates a skull seen as a missing link between apes and humans.
28 Jan 2008,·30 mins
8. Shredded
Hoover’s death starts a race to control his secret files. But his power continues.
23 Jun 2022,·14 mins
4. Filling the Mind
Education, the chattering classes and the novel in Roman society.
09 Feb 2003,·30 mins
6. Moral Courage
Diane Foley must decide whether to face a man linked to her son’s murder - or not.
10 Feb 2026,·31 mins
Series 2: Omnibus 12
Broadcasting North and South to Brookeborough’s fall, written by Jonathan Bardon.
19 Jul 2020,·29 mins
16/08/2026
Short stories based in 1950s Pembroke and a Welsh choir celebrating its 10th anniversary.
16 Aug 2026,·116 mins
25/12/2018
Archive interviews with those who experienced the First World War.
25 Dec 2018,·57 mins
Dr Robert Lynch - Partition and the Anglo-Irish Treaty
A series of talks on the centenary of Partition and establishment of Northern Ireland.
04 Oct 2021,·23 mins
Nicolas Bourbaki
Professor Marcus du Sautoy argues that mathematics drives science.
25 Jun 2010,·15 mins
Ali Ansari concludes his grand tour of Iranian history travelling from the 1700s to today.
09 Jul 2012,·28 mins
The Story of the King James Bible
James Naughtie on the enduring place of the King James Bible in British culture.
05 Jan 2011,·45 mins
The Legacy of Magna Carta
Melvyn Bragg examines the 800-year legacy of Magna Carta.
08 Jan 2015,·43 mins
Cosy Mysteries
Cal Flyn's journey around mystery nears an end as the writer explores crime fiction.
20 Mar 2026,·14 mins
Facing The Music
Joseph Haydn: Letting Go of Loneliness
David Suchet plunges into Haydn’s isolation and how it was shattered in war-torn Vienna.
17 Feb 2025,·29 mins
The World of Our Making (AD 1914-2010)
Neil MacGregor completes his history of humanity, told through the objects it has made
03 Dec 2010,·60 mins
The Great Change
Michael Portillo talks to a number of historians about the turmoil of the pre-war years.
21 Jun 2013,·15 mins
Episode 2
Edward Stourton presents the partisans' stories of the mass POW breakout in 1943.
06 Sep 2013,·28 mins
6. Take Back the City
While peace transforms the country, the twists continue in the story.
24 Apr 2023,·28 mins
Series 6
What Happens Next: Part 2
Sally and Nick return with more of their favourite family history items from past series.
11 Oct 2011,·30 mins
