Simon Jenkins presents a challenging personal view of the economics of contemporary Wales.
16 Mar 2020,·28 mins
Episode 2
How the power of the news media is used as a global government tool for influence.
18 Jul 2011,·30 mins
What stories are hiding among the paints and pigments in an art supplies shop?
29 Aug 2017,·30 mins
Robert Orchard traces the Welsh roots of those who brought down Margaret Thatcher.
29 Nov 2015,·28 mins
The Taung Child
Jessica Holm investigates a skull seen as a missing link between apes and humans.
28 Jan 2008,·30 mins
Gerry Anderson considers Titanic's complex relationship with the city of her birth.
13 Apr 2012,·28 mins
Mukti Jain Campion explores the surprising origins of modern yoga practice.
17 Jun 2016,·30 mins
The Fight in Fairyland
Santanu Das tells the story of Indian soldiers on the Western Front.
22 Oct 2014,·30 mins
Libby Purves follows the way Britain prepared for the assault on Normandy in June 1944.
05 Jun 2004,·120 mins
Historian Dina Gusejnova tells the story of tarpaulin from the 17th Century to now.
28 Nov 2016,·30 mins
How the Natural History Museum packed its collections off to country houses during WWII.
15 Jan 2014,·30 mins
Mystery has surrounded Tomb 55 in the Valley of the Kings ever since it was discovered
24 Nov 1999,·27 mins
Robert Elms charts the history, ideology and culture of squatting.
22 Nov 2011,·40 mins
The story of one of the most controversial documents in US diplomatic history.
11 Dec 2011,·30 mins
Writer Le Ly Hayslip tells how she survived the Vietnam war and its aftermath.
18 Sep 2014,·30 mins
Roland Pease recalls ZETA, a nuclear energy project unveiled in 1958 by British scientists
16 Jan 2008,·30 mins
Dr Laura Ashe reveals how our ideas of romantic love were born in 12th-century literature.
13 Aug 2014,·28 mins
How some of the earliest American literary classics were actually written in Birmingham.
06 May 2013,·28 mins
Supporters of the Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra, including Alan Bennett, tell its history.
16 Dec 2014,·30 mins
Poet Lemn Sissay tells the story of Cab Calloway and his Hepster's Dictionary of jive talk
28 Oct 2014,·30 mins
Communism vies with the Catholic church in Italy's post-war comic creation, Don Camillo.
10 Apr 2014,·30 mins
Historical photographs are rare in China, but now the pictured past is being reclaimed.
11 Jul 2012,·30 mins
Jim Carey celebrates the ice cream van with enthusiasts Francis Rossi and Johnny Vegas.
30 Jul 2011,·30 mins
Rebecca Lloyd-Evans visits Beirut's house of memory.
07 Jan 2015,·30 mins
Nick Fraser considers the role of intellectuals in relation to world events.
01 Jun 2009,·30 mins
Journalist Malcolm Jack tells a little-known story from the fall of the Berlin Wall.
04 Nov 2019,·28 mins
Beyond the Reading Wars
Michael Morpurgo how the contemporary debate has been informed by past teaching methods.
29 May 2012,·28 mins
Michael Rosen visits the biggest public lending library in Britain.
11 Sep 2013,·28 mins
Shining a light on the earliest female jazz pioneers, who were erased from music history.
16 Sep 2014,·30 mins
Chris Bowlby tells the story of the attempt to rescue East Germany's Stasi secret files.
14 Sep 2012,·30 mins
