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Alex Scott
Presenter and former footballer Alex Scott delves into both sides of her family history.
30 Jun 2022,·54 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
A Wonderful Catastrophe
How can we cope with the challenges of digital communication?
12 Jul 2024,·14 mins
Mad for Oasis
10. Some Might Say I Do
Robyn's Oasis inspired wedding photo end up being seen around the world.
22 Aug 2025,·8 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
6. The Last Cry of the Whale
Scientists and ground workers attempt to unearth the delicate Fin whale skull.
18 Nov 2025,·25 mins
10. Exile
The anti-communist chill drives countless Hollywood figures into career exile
25 Mar 2024,·38 mins
The Looking Glass
Five original essays on the power and politics of children’s fiction.
18 Oct 2024,·14 mins
5. An Honourable History
The Bolton 7 take their fight for justice to one of the highest arenas of law.
25 Feb 2025,·41 mins
Episode 8: From the Ashes
Events in Brixton spark a summer of discontent, as rioting breaks out across the country.
21 May 2021,·39 mins
Episode 6 - The Return of the King
The brutal and bloody business of taking, and retaining, the Scottish Throne
29 Feb 2024,·37 mins
10. Fresh Hostilities
Sixty years on, the university is engaged in a new struggle over its history and identity.
24 Mar 2023,·14 mins
The Fire That Scorched Brazil’s History
Inside the ruin of Brazil’s National Museum – and the struggle to revive it
01 Sep 2019,·57 mins
Episode 5
Status. We don’t like to talk about it. Carl Honoré brings it out into the open.
02 Aug 2024,·14 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
Saigon, 1965
In the 1960s the Pentagon set up a research project in an old villa in downtown Saigon.
06 Sep 2024,·41 mins
7. Road to the Past
Kavita meets some of the last survivors of the 1943 Bengal famine.
29 Aug 2024,·40 mins
Ep 6: Afterlife
The last in the series in which Ian Hislop and Helen Lewis celebrate Orwell and Kafka.
09 Jun 2024,·28 mins
8. Spies, Lies and a Political Prize
Dara Ó Briain and Isy Suttie unravel a strange-but-true tale, with guest Chris Chung.
22 Feb 2025,·28 mins
7. Finally
The wait is almost over: GTA6 is coming.
15 Nov 2022,·34 mins
10. Zombie Deer
A new animal madness emerges in North America as history repeats.
23 Oct 2023,·15 mins
Claudia Jones
Meet Claudia Jones, a fearless fighter for civil rights on both sides of the Atlantic
14 Sep 2022,·33 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
Introducing Hometown Boring?
Unearthing hidden histories around the UK in places misjudged as being “boring”
09 Feb 2024,·2 mins
Classical: Re-writing the Score
Exploring Black British classical music, from Samuel Coleridge-Taylor to Chi Chi Nwanoku.
25 Feb 2025,·35 mins
5. Ritual Revival - a bonus episode
A bird ritual is being revived on the Welsh-English border.
25 Feb 2025,·23 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
Requiem for an Illusion
Michael meets his fate at the hands of the Trinidadian court and Britain’s Privy Council.
14 Oct 2022,·49 mins
Omnibus 2
Gus Casely-Hayford, director of V&A East, tells a human-centred history of fashion.
02 Sep 2022,·57 mins
9. Hannah Ingram-Moore in conversation
Captain Tom’s daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore answers our questions.
07 Mar 2025,·25 mins
