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    Rising Voices

    Fergal Keane explores the cultural landscape of the 1916 Easter Rising.

  2. Working Class Heroes and Poverty Porn

    How the portrayal of the working class and poor in film and TV has changed over 70 years.

  3. The Unabomber

    How a reclusive maths prodigy terrorised America - and how the media amplified his cause.

  4. Royal Tours

    Denys Blakeway looks at the history and purpose of the royal tour.

  5. Optimism - Our Enemy

    Proud pessimist Bryan Appleyard investigates the contemporary cult of optimism.

  6. The Art of the Lyricist

    Clarke Peters explores the art of the musical theatre lyricist.

  7. How to Go Straight

    Ex-convicts tell intimate stories of how they renounced lives of crime.

  8. The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band: Anarchy Must Be Organised

    Neil Innes looks at the collision of art, humour, music and anarchy in the Bonzo Dog Band.

  9. A Brief History of Disobedience

    Joe Queenan offers a Brief History of Disobedience, follow up to Blame, Anger and Shame.

  10. SKILL, STAMINA and LUCK

    Naomi Alderman presents a history of interactive fiction in which YOU are the Listener!

  11. In the Bluff

    Poet Paul Farley shows his hand in a celebration of bluffing, from poker to geo-politics.

  12. The Art of the Obit

    Matthew Bannister celebrates the culture, style, purpose and panache of the obituary

  13. Embarrassment

    Journalist Lynne Truss prepares to cringe as she investigates embarrassment.

  14. David Bowie: Verbatim (2016)

    Bowie鈥檚 extraordinary life and unparalleled career told in his own words.

  15. Utopias

    Michael Symmons Roberts examines the book behind one of our most influential ideas: Utopia

  16. Metropolis

    Paul Bailey takes a journey through the 大象传媒 sound archive in celebration of London.

  17. The Stranger in the Mirror

    Does the history of our ideas about autism reveal more about ourselves than about autism?

  18. Work is A Four Letter Word

    Professor Andrew Hussey asks why we should let the toad of work squat on our lives.

  19. Jay Rayner Pigs Out

    Jay Rayner, self-confessed greedy pig, gets serious about porkers.

  20. The Selling of Sinatra

    Jazz singer Kurt Elling doffs his trilby as he explores the life of Frank Sinatra.

  21. When Britain Had the Right Stuff

    Richard Hollingham uncovers the forgotten history of Britons in space.

  22. Racial Equality Enshrined

    Ritula Shah explores Britain's first Race Relations Act, fifty years on.

  23. Lives in a Landscape

    Alan Dein tells the story of ten years of Radio 4's observational documentary series.

  24. A Sympathetic Eye

    Simon Farquhar examines how Man Alive reflected changing TV and social values in the 1960s

  25. 07/11/2015

    Fifty years after abolition, John Tusa reviews the history of the death penalty debate.

  26. The Time Machine

    Comedian Doc Brown activates the flux capacitor back to the world of 21 January 1981.

  27. The Future of the 大象传媒: A History

    Steve Hewlett explores the troubled past behind today's debates on the future of the 大象传媒.

  28. Attention Must Be Paid - Arthur Miller's Centenary

    Christopher Bigsby traces the life and work of Arthur Miller, mostly in Miller's own words

  29. Bernstein, My Mentor

    Acclaimed conductor Marin Alsop remembers her mentor, the great Leonard Bernstein.

  30. John Lennon: Verbatim

    John Lennon's extraordinary life and career told in his own words.

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