Popular history series where the past connects with the present.
Radio 4,·198 episodes
Is the skin that binds a book in Bristol the gruesome remains of a listener's ancestor?
13 Oct 2009,·30 mins
Vanessa Collingridge presents the series exploring ordinary people's links with the past.
06 Oct 2009,·30 mins
30 Jun 2009,·30 mins
Featuring a listener's ancestor who was a hero in a mine rescue in 19th-century Wales.
23 Jun 2009,·30 mins
16 Jun 2009,·30 mins
One of the surviving members of the British whaling fleet recalls life on South Georgia.
09 Jun 2009,·30 mins
02 Jun 2009,·30 mins
26 May 2009,·30 mins
The story of John Bellingham, the only person to murder a British Prime Minister.
19 May 2009,·30 mins
The experiences of a painter and decorator from Sale in 19th-century China.
12 May 2009,·30 mins
Could a leaf collection in Southport provide valuable historical research?
05 May 2009,·30 mins
Professor Mark Stoyle goes in search of the Civil War dead from the siege of Lyme Regis.
28 Apr 2009,·30 mins
Historian Professor Richard Holmes explains how the militia worked in the 18th century.
21 Apr 2009,·30 mins
Bridget Long tries to confirm a family story about her late father during World War Two.
14 Apr 2009,·30 mins
Could a listener's hotel in North Wales once have been the court of Llewellyn the Great?
07 Apr 2009,·30 mins
Vanessa Collingridge investigates the history of a policeman who captured Ned Kelly.
16 Dec 2008,·30 mins
A listener's letter takes the Making History team to Eyemouth in Scotland.
14 Oct 2008,·30 mins
Sue Cook finds out about children strafed by enemy planes in World War Two
16 Nov 2004,·28 mins
