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5. Out of the Ashes
The first years of peace after the Second World War ended.
13 May 2005,·42 mins
Cheap British Beer
The story of money and humanity reaches a run on the punt and the rise of M-PESA.
15 Nov 2024,·14 mins
Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again
Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again. Anna talks to PHILIP MICHAEL, LYDIA LOUISA and CHRIS NEWMAN.
17 Jul 2018,·24 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
Capgras: the 'Illusion of Doubles'
Clincial psychologist Daniel Freeman explores cases of delusion.
23 Aug 2019,·57 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
Ballad of Harry Stokes
The story of Harry Stokes – a trans man born in 1799.
16 mins
A West Coast Monument
Why a landmark building in Oban by John Stewart McCaig never got finished.
27 Jul 2012,·15 mins
Omnibus Edition: Part 2
Carrie Gracie presents a series exploring ten great lives from Chinese history.
19 Oct 2012,·58 mins
1. It's Seun Not Sean!
What can history teach us about the UK’s largest Black African group today?
21 Feb 2024,·35 mins
5. Nadar - The Psychological Side of Photography
Nadar, the photographer adept at capturing his subjects' inner worlds in the 19th century.
01 Aug 2025,·14 mins
5. Flight of Imagination
Ralph Steadman shares his passion for flying and Leonardo.
03 May 2019,·14 mins
Rugby's Great Split
Clare Balding tells a story of lies, expulsions and bigotry when rugby split in two.
13 Feb 2014,·15 mins
Omnibus 2/2. 1945 - 2020
Stanley Tucci tells the story of modern California from Hollywood to Silicon Valley.
08 Mar 2020,·57 mins
The Saudi Arabian Spring
Tarek Osman considers how the impact of the 2011 Arab uprisings was felt in Saudi Arabia.
16 Mar 2015,·28 mins
Scramble
A day that changed the course of World War Two
11 Jul 2020,·18 mins
London versus the Rest?
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore historical connections to today's big issues.
04 Feb 2020,·28 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
Classical: Re-writing the Score
Exploring Black British classical music, from Samuel Coleridge-Taylor to Chi Chi Nwanoku.
25 Feb 2025,·35 mins
Living with Each Other
Neil MacGregor concludes his series on shared beliefs with a look to the future and hope.
01 Dec 2017,·14 mins
Henry The Father
Susan Doran and Henry VIII's biographer, Lucy Wooding, explore Henry's role as father.
27 May 2009,·15 mins
5. GPS
How GPS transformed navigation in the 1991Gulf War.
24 Oct 2014,·15 mins
Omnibus
How Can I Know Anything at All?
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how we can know anything at all.
07 Aug 2015,·58 mins
Series 2
Voting
Andrew Dilnot charts the history of the British state through its numbers.
27 Feb 2015,·15 mins
Episode 3
Rory Cellan-Jones asks where social networking will go in the future.
09 Feb 2011,·30 mins
A Disabled Identity
Peter White reveals the roots of a modern disabled identity in the 19th century.
07 Jun 2013,·14 mins
4. The end of an epidemic?
How activists and medical staff fought the government to U-turn on Aids treatment in SA
30 Oct 2021,·49 mins
5. Where Woke Goes to Die
Matthew Syed traces the evolution of a term that's synonymous with our era of angry debate
24 Feb 2023,·14 mins
Kerry Irving
Kerry Irving and Max the Miracle Dog.
03 Mar 2020,·17 mins
Surviving the strike
Hard-working families faced new poverty in confusing times for the community.
02 Mar 2024,·18 mins
