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Series 2
Voting
Andrew Dilnot charts the history of the British state through its numbers.
27 Feb 2015,·15 mins
A Disabled Identity
Peter White reveals the roots of a modern disabled identity in the 19th century.
07 Jun 2013,·14 mins
The Birth of the NHS
Martha Kearney looks at the arguments over creating the NHS in wartime government papers.
30 Jun 2018,·57 mins
5. Ritual Revival - a bonus episode
A bird ritual is being revived on the Welsh-English border.
25 Feb 2025,·23 mins
2. Growth and Impact
Steph McGovern continues her exploration of one of life's essential ingredients - salt.
16 Feb 2015,·30 mins
The New Face of Terror
Has our response to terrorism changed since 1800? Fergal Keane ends his series.
05 Dec 2014,·15 mins
France
War and the French Economy from 1920 – 1940.
23 Aug 2019,·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
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
Lennox Castle Hospital
Anita Anand uncovers hidden stories from recent British history.
14 Aug 2023,·28 mins
The War that Changed the World - in Words
The impact of World War One, as seen by cultural figures around the world.
08 Aug 2015,·49 mins
Episode 5: Reverberations
An examination of the fallout from Britain's atomic testing programme, which began in 1952
11 Nov 2022,·28 mins
Omnibus 2
Gus Casely-Hayford, director of V&A East, tells a human-centred history of fashion.
02 Sep 2022,·57 mins
County Fermanagh - from the Watergate to the Battle of Newtownbutler
Dr Éamon Phoenix journeys through Fermanagh's history from plantation to famine and beyond
19 Aug 2012,·26 mins
A 400-year journey into the creation of the United States with the writer Joe Queenan
11 Sep 2020,·57 mins
Episode 2
Laurie looks at how cultural studies has reached beyond academia and into everyday life.
14 Oct 2013,·28 mins
An Over-Mighty Subject
Anthony Howard looks at the relationship between the Queen and Margaret Thatcher.
18 Feb 2002,·30 mins
Introducing House of the Lion: A Blood Soaked Throne
Susan Morrison & Len Pennie explore the bloody struggles for throne of medieval Scotland.
26 Jan 2024,·2 mins
5. GPS
How GPS transformed navigation in the 1991Gulf War.
24 Oct 2014,·15 mins
Pwy oedd Owain Glyndŵr?
Rhun Emlyn ac Eurig Salisbury sy'n ymuno â Tudur a Dyl Mei i drafod Owain Glyndŵr
67 mins
10. Legacy
'Some of the mindset from the past is gone. It's smaller - my family comes first.'
15 Mar 2024,·15 mins
Episode 50: The End of the Beginning
The Irish delegation agrees to sign up to the Anglo-Irish Treaty.
10 Dec 2021,·35 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
Friend or Foe
Will examines items from the Royal Collection that are associated with war.
10 Aug 2012,·30 mins
Frontlines of Conspiracyland
What are the obstacles that stand between journalists and the truth?
04 Jul 2023,·39 mins
The 300th anniversary of Louis XIV's death, and how fighting him changed Britain forever.
10 Jun 2015,·28 mins
Ripley and Heanor News, 2 July 1948
James Naughtie explores the history of the Amber Valley through front page small ads.
03 Sep 2019,·14 mins
Ayisha Yahya travels on Kenya's 100-year-old railway.
25 Jul 2011,·30 mins
Napoleon's Way
Anne is in Brussels and Paris to explore the empire of Napoleon Bonaparte.
29 Apr 2013,·28 mins
Omnibus Episode 2
Anthropologist David Graeber explores the ways debt has shaped society over 5,000 years.
05 Aug 2016,·58 mins
