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  1. The Great Inflation

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

    BBC Radio 4

  2. Shock and War: Iraq 20 Years On

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

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  3. Breaking Mississippi

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

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  4. My Cousin, Regime Changer

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

    BBC Radio 4

  5. Woke: The Journey of a Word

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

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  6. Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone

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

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  7. Acid Dream: The Great LSD Plot

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

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  8. How the Holocaust Began

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

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  9. Bugzy Malone’s Grandest Game

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

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  10. The Film We Can't See

    Adam Zmith listens to some lost sound recordings from 1930.

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  11. Bells That Still Can Ring

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

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  12. Simon Schama's History of Now

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

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  13. Agatha Christie: Lucy Worsley on the Mystery Queen

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

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  14. The Channel (Omnibus)

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

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    The Latest Secrets of Hieroglyphs

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

    BBC Four

  16. Understand

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

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  17. Fallout: Living in the Shadow of the Bomb

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

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  18. Colouring in Britain

    Uncovering the incredible lives and stories of Britons of colour, past and present.

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  19. 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

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    The Past is a Foreign Country, with Peter Curran

    Secrets from celebrated Northern Ireland iconoclasts, from peace negotiation to pop.

    BBC Radio 4

  21. Bhopal

    The story of Rajkumar Keswani, the man who foretold the world's worst industrial accident.

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  22. Who Are the '22?

    David Cannadine tells the story of the origins of the 1922 Committee.

    BBC Radio 4

  23. Torn

    Gus Casely-Hayford unpicks the hidden histories behind what we wear.

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  24. Rory Stewart: The Long History of...

    Rory Stewart with a radical take on the concepts that shape our lives.

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  25. The People vs J Edgar Hoover

    An examination of how the first director of the FBI's iron grip still permeates America.

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  26. Lucy Worsley Investigates

    Lucy Worsley re-investigates some of the most dramatic chapters in British history.

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  27. Ardal O’Hanlon: Tomb Raider

    Ardal O'Hanlon explores a 1930s quest to find the first Irish using archaeology.

    BBC One Northern Ireland

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    Belfast's Victory in Vienna: A Footballing Odyssey

    Holly Hamilton tells the story of Glentoran’s historic triumph in the first European cup.

    BBC One Northern Ireland

  29. What Really Happened in the Nineties?

    Robert Carlyle takes us back to moments we missed in the '90s that shaped the world today.

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  30. Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley

    Women from the past being put on trial from a feminist perspective.

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  31. Mysteries of the Bayeux Tapestry

    Experts from archaeologists to astrophysicists offer new insights on the Bayeux Tapestry.

    BBC Four

  32. The Museums That Make Us

    Neil MacGregor tours Britain's museums to explore how the past tells us who we want to be.

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  33. Women in Stitches: The Making of the Bayeux Tapestry

    Who stitched the Bayeux Tapestry? Abigail Youngman looks for clues in the margins.

    BBC Radio 4

  34. 1922: The Birth of Now

    Matthew Sweet investigates objects and events from 1922, the crucial year for modernism.

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  35. The Coming Storm

    America through the looking glass - enter a world where nothing is as it seems.

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  36. Past Forward: A Century of Sound

    Greg Jenner dives deep into the BBC archive to explore what it says about who we are now.

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  37. The Explanation

    Where the world is explained. Making sense of the big stories - looking behind the spin

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  38. The Story of Aids

    The early years of the HIV-AIDS crisis, as told by the people who lived through it

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  39. History on the Edge

    Anita Anand uncovers an extraordinary untold refugee story from 1940.

    BBC Radio 4

  40. Sounds of the 21st Century

    Claudia Winkleman introduces soundscapes of music, news, triumphs & tragedies, 2000-2010.

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  41. The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family

    Meet the Boleyn family. Beautiful. Ruthless. Power-hungry… Misunderstood?

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  42. Uprising

    Film-makers Steve McQueen and James Rogan explore three key events in 1981.

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  43. Atomic: How Dr Strangelove Exploded Pop Culture

    How did Stanley Kubrick and Welsh author Peter George change Cold War culture for ever?

    BBC Radio Wales

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    The Duke of Edinburgh and Wales: A Tribute

    Felicity Evans pays tribute to HRH The Duke of Edinburgh whose death has been announced.

    BBC Radio Wales

  45. In Ten Pictures

    A series of extraordinary lives, each unlocked by a just a handful of images.

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  46. Blitz Spirit with Lucy Worsley

    Lucy Worsley explores the lives of six real people who lived through the Blitz.

    BBC One

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    Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed

    Alice Roberts follows a decade-long quest that reveals Stonehenge's oldest secret.

    BBC Two

  48. How the Irish Shaped Britain

    Fergal Keane explores the profound influence the Irish have had on Britain.

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  49. Iorram – Boat Song

    Across the islands of the Outer Hebrides, voices from the past tell stories of the sea.

    BBC ALBA

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    Shooting the Darkness

    The defining photographs of the Troubles and the impact on those who captured them.

    BBC One Northern Ireland

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