How did Stanley Kubrick and Welsh author Peter George change Cold War culture for ever?
29 Apr 2021,·27 mins
Anita Anand uncovers an extraordinary untold refugee story from 1940.
27 Sep 2021,·28 mins
Felicity Evans pays tribute to HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, whose death has been announced.
09 Apr 2021,·27 mins
Rudely Truncated
Humphrey Carpenter on how the Third Programme captured the intellectual high ground.
06 Oct 1996,·45 mins
Hardeep Singh Kohli discovers the royal connections linking Ascot racecourse with fashion.
18 Jun 2011,·30 mins
26/12/2008
Adam Hart-Davis explores the history of the technology of Christmas.
26 Dec 2008,·30 mins
From Sheffield to South Carolina, Johny Pitts explores alternative Black British identity.
06 Oct 2015,·30 mins
Lord West explains why Jutland was the most important battle of the First World War.
22 May 2016,·28 mins
Guto Harri explores the event that shaped Welsh art and literature for a generation.
06 Feb 2020,·28 mins
6: We Imagine With Our Bodies
When the sound archive disappears again, Adam discovers the power of imagination
16 Aug 2022,·31 mins
Jazz composer Julian Joseph goes in search of black classical musicians from the past.
04 Dec 2007,·30 mins
HRH the Duke of Edinburgh recalls his role in a daring rescue during WWII.
27 Jan 2006,·28 mins
The story of Poland's Syrena Records, a label that defined a nation.
12 Jan 2016,·30 mins
Lucie Skeaping hears music written for Pepys, played for the first time since his death.
04 Apr 2017,·30 mins
Series 3
Nigeria
Helon Habila and CM Okonkwo on the flourishing new tradition of Nigerian crime fiction.
21 Nov 2014,·15 mins
Episode 3
Rory Cellan-Jones asks where social networking will go in the future.
09 Feb 2011,·30 mins
Introducing Hometown Boring?
Unearthing hidden histories around the UK in places misjudged as being “boring”
09 Feb 2024,·2 mins
Benjamin Ramm explores one of the strangest chapters in China’s history - mango mania.
12 Feb 2016,·30 mins
Mike Thomson looks at Haiti's long descent into anarchy.
14 Apr 2024,·28 mins
Omnibus 4
The series which traces decisive moments in the history of the NHS.
14 Sep 2018,·58 mins
How the changing climate has shaped the rise and fall of civilisations.
30 May 2026,·75 mins
Watchmaker Rebecca Struthers explores the history and art of timekeeping.
20 Jun 2026,·75 mins
Arnold Schoenberg's 12-tone system redefined music, so why are his works rarely performed?
03 Sep 2024,·28 mins
Why is the brain of a Scottish soldier in a German archive, 80 years after his death?
21 Jan 2025,·42 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
