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  1. Fallout: Living in the Shadow of the Bomb

    An examination of the fallout from Britain's atomic testing programme, which began in 1952

    BBC Radio 4

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  2. Sounds from the Seabed

    Lucie Skeaping relives the sound of musical instruments found on Henry VIII’s Mary Rose.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  3. Slighe Naoimh Cuithbeirt/St Cuthbert's Way

    Iagan MacNeil explores the St Cuthbert’s Way, from Melrose to St Boswells.

    BBC ALBA

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    Litir Ghrá ón Dara Cogadh Domhanda

    How a Belfast doctor survived the WWII Japanese POW camps and came home to his sweetheart.

    BBC Two Northern Ireland

  5. Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone

    What it felt like to live through the collapse of communism and democracy.

    BBC

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  6. The Home of Radio

    David Hatch explores the facts, myths and legends of the BBC's much loved 'BH'.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  7. The People’s Piazza: A History of Covent Garden

    David Olusoga explores the 400-year history of London’s Covent Garden Piazza.

    BBC Two

  8. Seanchas sa Chaisteal

    Sgeulachdan agus seanchasan mu chaistealan na Gàidhealtachd.

    BBC Radio nan Gàidheal

  9. Simon Schama's History of Now

    Simon Schama reflects on a life in culture - and its enduring power in shaping our world.

    BBC Two

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  10. Acid Dream: The Great LSD Plot

    This is the story of an attempt to start a revolution of the mind, from a Welsh farmhouse.

    BBC Radio Wales

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  11. Understand

    Unravelling the complexities of the stories and subjects that really matter right now.

    BBC Radio 4

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  12. The Newcomers

    A new radio play marking 50 years since the expulsion of British Asians from Uganda.

    BBC Radio Berkshire

  13. 100 Years of BBC News

    BBC News presenters look back and remember a century of the corporation's news coverage.

    BBC News Channel

  14. Agatha Christie: Lucy Worsley on the Mystery Queen

    Lucy Worsley discovers the origins of Agatha Christie's macabre magic.

    BBC Two

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  15. The Latest Secrets of Hieroglyphs

    How experts are learning more about those who wrote the texts of the ancient Egyptians.

    BBC Four

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    The Channel (Omnibus)

    Five viewpoints assessing the English Channel's impact on the British identity.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  17. Bugzy Malone’s Grandest Game

    Grand Theft Auto shocked and thrilled the world. For rapper Bugzy Malone – it goes deep.

    BBC Radio 5 Live

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  18. Kanaval: A People’s History of Haiti in Six Chapters

    A history of Haiti seen through the lens of its vibrant annual carnival.

    BBC Four

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    Bells That Still Can Ring

    The stories of some of Britain’s most iconic bells – and how they were cast and tuned.

    BBC Radio 4

  20. The Kidnapping of Stephanie Slater

    A 25-year-old estate agent disappears on a routine house viewing.

    BBC Local Radio

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  21. Richard III: Car Park King

    One woman's quest to find a lost medieval English king and what happened next.

    BBC Radio Leicester

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  22. The US and the Holocaust

    How the Holocaust challenged the US's identity as a nation of immigrants.

    BBC Four

  23. Dùthchas

    Life on the isle of Berneray as seen through the lens of 8mm Kodachrome in the 60s and 70s

    BBC ALBA

  24. The Mayfair Hotel Megabuild

    Following building work over six years that's set to transform Claridge's hotel.

    BBC Two

  25. Plaigh air Bord

    Biological warfare experiments off Lewis. Deuchainnean armachd bìth-eòlasach far Leòdhais.

    BBC ALBA

  26. The Forgotten Dead

    Explore the case of a woman whose partially mummified body was found in Bolton in 1982.

    BBC Radio Manchester

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  27. Killing Victoria

    During her 63-year reign, seven men tried to kill Queen Victoria.

    BBC Sounds

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  28. How the Holocaust Began

    Using new evidence, historian James Bulgin reveals the origins of the Holocaust.

    BBC Two

  29. Woke: The Journey of a Word

    Matthew Syed traces the history of a term that's synonymous with our era of angry debate.

    BBC Radio 4

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  30. Drowned – The Flooding of a Village

    A story of the flooding of a village in Wales to provide drinking water for Liverpool.

    BBC Radio Wales

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  31. Frontlines of Journalism

    Jeremy Bowen presents stories from the frontlines of conflict - and journalism itself.

    BBC Radio 4

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  32. My Cousin, Regime Changer

    Ahmad Chalabi: traitor to Iraq, or liberator? His distant cousin Selma Chalabi explores.

    BBC Radio 4

  33. Sequamur: Steidheachadh Sgoil MhicNeacail

    A look at the history of the Nicolson Institute, a secondary school in the Isle of Lewis.

    BBC ALBA

  34. Shock and War: Iraq 20 Years On

    "Essential listening..." Why the US and UK went to war in Iraq and its legacy.

    BBC Radio 4

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  35. Breaking Mississippi

    The explosive inside story of one man's war against racial segregation in the 1960s.

    BBC Radio 4

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  36. The Great Inflation

    How has the experience of hyperinflation in Germany in 1923 shaped the past 100 years?

    BBC Radio 4

  37. Year ’98: The Making of the Good Friday Agreement

    What led to one of the most significant peace settlements in history?

    BBC Radio Ulster

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  38. Tuaman Na h-Èipheit/Tombs of Egypt

    A three-month excavation project to unravel remaining mysteries in Saqqara.

    BBC ALBA

  39. The Prime Ministers of Northern Ireland

    Alvin Jackson examines the complex legacies of the prime ministers of Northern Ireland.

    BBC One Northern Ireland

  40. Cold War Hockey

    Scottish hockey players in the 1960s recall the reality of the Berlin Crisis.

    BBC ALBA

  41. Freuchie Fever: When the Scots Beat the English at the Home of Cricket

    Inspirational story of Freuchie Cricket Club's 1985 National Village Cup win at Lord's.

    BBC Radio Scotland

  42. The Secret Peacemaker

    Father Alec Reid’s secret peace plan to bring about an end to violence in Northern Ireland

    BBC One Northern Ireland

  43. The Agreement

    The inside story of negotiating the Good Friday Agreement and the subsequent referendum.

    BBC One Northern Ireland

  44. Marloch & Metagama: Guthan

    Marloch is Metagama: Guthan.

    BBC Radio nan Gàidheal

  45. Blood on the Dance Floor

    The untold story of the murder of a gay police officer in Northern Ireland in 1997.

    BBC Radio 5 Live

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  46. Marloch is Metagama: Guthan

    Monologues inspired by the recollections of those on board SS Marloch and the SS Metagama.

    BBC ALBA

  47. For The Record: The Selectadisc Story

    From humble beginnings to becoming one of the country’s most iconic record stores.

    BBC Radio Nottingham

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  48. The Warsaw Ghetto: History as Survival

    The story of an extraordinary secret archive recording daily life in the Warsaw Ghetto.

    BBC Radio 4

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  49. Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland

    Unheard testimonies from all sides of the conflict in Northern Ireland, 25 years on.

    BBC Two

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  50. Murder In Mayfair

    The inside story of the hunt for a fugitive in a high-profile murder case

    BBC World Service

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