How a game between Hull City and Manchester United in 1971 changed football forever.
28 Mar 2026,·10 mins
Episode 2
Day three, the halfway point of the walk, but the worst is yet to come.
21 Nov 2011,·30 mins
Jim Naughtie reflects on the origins of the Edinburgh Festival.
05 Aug 2017,·26 mins
Series 1
Episode 5
Matthew Parris on valedictories which embarrassed ministers.
17 Nov 2009,·15 mins
Gyles Brandreth probes the mystery of the missing teddy bears - the first ever made.
27 Jul 2011,·30 mins
Oona King discovers her family's role in the fight for equality for African Americans.
02 Jul 2014,·30 mins
Ahmad Chalabi: traitor to Iraq, or liberator? His distant cousin Selma Chalabi explores.
28 Feb 2023,·28 mins
Anne Askew
Tudor housewife Anne Askew's conversion to Protestantism tore her family apart.
13 Aug 2008,·30 mins
Henry VIII - The King Must Wear Gold
How clothes symbolised power, philosophy, taste, sexuality and personal expression.
06 Apr 2009,·15 mins
Musician and poet Anthony Joseph tries to get to the heart of Calypso star Lord Kitchener
13 Jan 2015,·30 mins
David Aaronovitch asks why Mao's Little Red Book captured the imagination of the West.
05 Feb 2016,·30 mins
How does the Indo-Pakistan war of 1971, which created Bangladesh, still resonate today?
13 Dec 2011,·40 mins
Allan Little analyses some of the factors that have given Cuba such a prominent image.
30 Dec 2008,·40 mins
Opera singer Andrea Baker explores the impact of Frederick Douglass' time in Scotland.
25 Oct 2015,·30 mins
Telling the story of the bombing of Coventry 80 years ago on November 14th, 1940.
16 Nov 2020,·28 mins
How did the Great War shape the life of historian Arnold J Toynbee?
16 Oct 2017,·30 mins
Gerald Scarfe explores the Walt Disney Studio's activity during the Second World War.
02 Sep 2015,·30 mins
Folk singer Eliza Carthy discovers Manchester's 19th-century broadside ballads.
05 Oct 2015,·30 mins
Remembrance Sunday Special Episode 2
Helen Mark presents part two of a special Remembrance Sunday edition of the programme.
11 Nov 2018,·14 mins
Women bishops? Will the Church of England approve them and can it cope with the fallout?
01 Jul 2012,·28 mins
The story of the portrait of a private soldier's sweetheart, painted for him in Auschwitz.
18 May 2011,·30 mins
Beekeeper Martha Kearney explores the importance of honey in antiquity.
27 Jan 2017,·30 mins
Edward VIII, the king who abdicated, was deeply marked by the Great War.
18 Sep 2017,·30 mins
5. Northern Ireland-Healing History?
In the 1970's, a new kind of history teaching began in Northern Ireland.
31 Jan 2020,·14 mins
The night Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin was gunned down - changing the Middle East forever.
02 Nov 2020,·28 mins
Jarvis Cocker uncovers an album made by Sir John Betjeman in 1974.
27 Jul 2014,·28 mins
Singer-songwriter Erykah Badu explores the music generated by the Black Power movement.
12 Jan 2012,·30 mins
Author Viet Thanh Nguyen, film critic Phuong Le and Peter Salmon join Matthew Sweet
10 Mar 2021,·44 mins
Boils and Buboes
Melvyn Bragg examines how an alderman saved the plague ravaged town of Salisbury in 1627.
29 Aug 2002,·30 mins
Historian Zareer Masani examines the details and lasting impact of the Amritsar Massacre.
09 Apr 2019,·28 mins
