Episode 10
Sean Bean explores how wartime experiences have filtered down through the generations.
10 Aug 2020,·14 mins
Living with Each Other
Neil MacGregor concludes his series on shared beliefs with a look to the future and hope.
01 Dec 2017,·14 mins
Rudely Truncated
Humphrey Carpenter on how the Third Programme captured the intellectual high ground.
06 Oct 1996,·45 mins
Episode 3
Having a foot in both Europe and Asia forces the inhabitants to question their identity.
22 Feb 2011,·28 mins
The Missing Children
Lucas Laursen investigates Spain's missing children from the Franco era and decades after.
25 Mar 2019,·28 mins
Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again
Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again. Anna talks to PHILIP MICHAEL, LYDIA LOUISA and CHRIS NEWMAN.
17 Jul 2018,·24 mins
Series 1
Episode 5
Matthew Parris on valedictories which embarrassed ministers.
17 Nov 2009,·15 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
Rugby's Great Split
Clare Balding tells a story of lies, expulsions and bigotry when rugby split in two.
13 Feb 2014,·15 mins
Terry Riley: In C
Ivan Hewett examines the chord of C major as found in Terry Riley's In C.
13 Jan 2017,·15 mins
Capgras: the 'Illusion of Doubles'
Clincial psychologist Daniel Freeman explores cases of delusion.
23 Aug 2019,·57 mins
Reggae Memory Radio
A Memory Radio special featuring classic Reggae tracks and BBC Archive.
04 Jun 2021,·53 mins
JP Morgan
Adam Smith tells the story of JP Morgan and his battle against ruinous competition.
21 Oct 2016,·15 mins
5. Out of the Ashes
The first years of peace after the Second World War ended.
13 May 2005,·42 mins
5. Healing the Wounds
How has the community been working to prevent a repeat of the 2005 riots?
21 Apr 2023,·15 mins
Sex, scandal, and the novel that changed the world
The story of Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence.
11 Feb 2026,·15 mins
The final omnibus edition of Thomas Dixon's major new history of friendship.
11 Apr 2014,·58 mins
Episode 2
There may be only two sexes but nature has evolved many weird ways to make female and male
23 Jan 2013,·28 mins
Henry VIII - The King Must Wear Gold
How clothes symbolised power, philosophy, taste, sexuality and personal expression.
06 Apr 2009,·15 mins
Mad for Oasis
9. That’s Not Noel’s Guitar
Nick Brine was 16 and working with the Stone Roses when he met pre-frame Oasis.
22 Aug 2025,·8 mins
Episode 50: The End of the Beginning
The Irish delegation agrees to sign up to the Anglo-Irish Treaty.
10 Dec 2021,·35 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
Napoleon's Way
Anne is in Brussels and Paris to explore the empire of Napoleon Bonaparte.
29 Apr 2013,·28 mins
5. Chronicle of a Mess Foretold
David Goldblatt tells Brazil's history through football.
30 May 2014,·15 mins
The Long Road to Peace
The final episode of Fergal Keane's exploration of the Irish influence on Britain.
25 Jan 2021,·28 mins
Omnibus 2
Gus Casely-Hayford, director of V&A East, tells a human-centred history of fashion.
02 Sep 2022,·57 mins
4. The end of an epidemic?
How activists and medical staff fought the government to U-turn on Aids treatment in SA
30 Oct 2021,·49 mins
How the power of the news media is used as a global government tool for influence.
18 Jul 2011,·30 mins
A 400-year journey into the creation of the United States with the writer Joe Queenan
11 Sep 2020,·57 mins
4. The darkest hours before the dawn.
The clock is ticking as negotiators work through the night to try and strike a deal.
06 Mar 2023,·19 mins
