Episode 2
Laurie looks at how cultural studies has reached beyond academia and into everyday life.
14 Oct 2013,·28 mins
3: Remembering
Experts call for a permanent memorial to remember the North East Witch Trial victims
31 Oct 2023,·12 mins
Frontlines of Conspiracyland
What are the obstacles that stand between journalists and the truth?
04 Jul 2023,·39 mins
Responsibility for the Great War has been a fierce battle for meaning ever since 1914.
04 Feb 2014,·43 mins
Omnibus
How Can I Know Anything at All?
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how we can know anything at all.
07 Aug 2015,·58 mins
Series 5
The Return of the Soldier
Francine Stock concludes her four-year exploration of how artists responded to WWI.
22 Sep 2018,·28 mins
It's Good to Talk
The final programme in Diarmaid Ferriter's look back at a turbulent Anglo-Irish century.
13 May 2016,·28 mins
5. Healing the Wounds
How has the community been working to prevent a repeat of the 2005 riots?
21 Apr 2023,·15 mins
Jersey
Grandchildren of a Spanish forced labourer visit Jersey
Joan Carles Lluch and Xavier Lluch uncover the fate of their grandfather.
13 May 2026,·4 mins
6. Glitch
Exposing the hurdles and challenges of putting on an event of this size.
13 Jun 2024,·50 mins
Surviving the strike
Hard-working families faced new poverty in confusing times for the community.
02 Mar 2024,·18 mins
Introducing House of the Lion: A Blood Soaked Throne
Susan Morrison & Len Pennie explore the bloody struggles for throne of medieval Scotland.
26 Jan 2024,·2 mins
5. A new theory
After 42 years, there’s a startling new avenue of enquiry.
04 Jul 2022,·18 mins
7. Finally
The wait is almost over: GTA6 is coming.
15 Nov 2022,·34 mins
The Story of Strike
Jonny Owen selects highlights from the podcast series about the 1984-85 miners' strike.
03 Jun 2024,·30 mins
Series 1
Episode 5
Matthew Parris on valedictories which embarrassed ministers.
17 Nov 2009,·15 mins
The Discovery of the Island of England
Jonathan Bate examines how a distinct Isle of England found its place on the world map.
10 Apr 2003,·30 mins
Series 8
The football split in Northern Ireland – who is kicking with the wrong foot?
Tim McGarry and Dr David Hume kick around the political football of, well, football.
10 Feb 2024,·30 mins
Series 2
Ripley and Heanor News, 2 July 1948
James Naughtie explores the history of the Amber Valley through front page small ads.
03 Sep 2019,·14 mins
Chaos
Is chaos good or bad? Bettany Hughes explores the place of disruption in our lives.
21 Apr 2017,·15 mins
Episode 3
Edward is in the Nile Delta, one of the most intensively farmed areas on the planet.
17 Feb 2012,·28 mins
Episode 10
Sean Bean explores how wartime experiences have filtered down through the generations.
10 Aug 2020,·14 mins
10. No Frills Air Travel
Robert Carlyle takes us back to moments we missed in the 90s that shaped the world today.
13 May 2022,·14 mins
The Birth of the NHS
Martha Kearney looks at the arguments over creating the NHS in wartime government papers.
30 Jun 2018,·57 mins
1975-1979
How crucial developments from this remarkable decade shaped the world we live in now.
12 Apr 2019,·57 mins
Tutankhamun and Egyptomania; Nosferatu; Pirandello's Henry IV; Einstein, Time and Aboriginal Modernism
An omnibus edition of four things from 1922 with an impact a century later.
04 Feb 2022,·57 mins
Cheap British Beer
The story of money and humanity reaches a run on the punt and the rise of M-PESA.
15 Nov 2024,·14 mins
Scramble
A day that changed the course of World War Two
11 Jul 2020,·18 mins
The fall of the Shah led to the creation of the world's first Islamic republic.
01 Jul 2009,·30 mins
Incarnations: India in 50 Lives - Omnibus
Omnibus Series 1 Episode 5
Audio portraits of William Jones, Rani of Jhansi, Jyotirao Phule and Birsa Munda.
25 Nov 2016,·58 mins
