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Archive on 4 Episodes

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    Kindertransport

    How 10,000 unaccompanied children, mostly Jewish, escaped from Nazi Europe to Britain.

  2. From the Self to the Selfie

    Lauren Laverne on the origins and effects of the obsession with selfies.

  3. MP for Penrith and the Border

    Programme following a year in the life of Rory Stewart - an MP with an unusual profile.

  4. The Power of Political Forgetting

    What happens when a major past crisis slips from public memory? With David Aaronovitch.

  5. New Orleans: The Crescent and the Shadow

    Harry Shearer lives in New Orleans. He looks back at the last ten years in the city.

  6. Dickie Attenborough: A Life in Film

    Susan Marling celebrates Richard Attenborough鈥檚 legacy a year on from his death.

  7. Stadium Rock at 50

    50 years after the Beatles played Shea Stadium, Kate Mossman plots a history of Arena rock

  8. Misunderstanding Japan

    What impact have western media representations had on our view of Japan and its people?

  9. Cradle to Grave

    The history of the NHS told through one hospital - the QEII in Welwyn Garden City.

  10. Shhhhhhh

    Lucy Powell offers a quiet celebration of the rich and various virtues of silence.

  11. The Poles and the Planet

    Adam Fowler tracks down the survivors of the 1957 Trans-Antarctic Expedition.

  12. How to Make an Archive on 4

    Alan Dein enters the strange world of instructional records.

  13. Destroyer of Worlds

    How Britain developed the world's first atomic bomb only to lose it to the Americans.

  14. Tomorrow's World, Today

    Tomorrow's World presenter James Burke looks at the future the TV programme predicted.

  15. A Brief History of Shame

    American satirist Joe Queenan explores Shame.

  16. Bring Your Darlings Back To Life

    What if the best anecdotes and stories had a programme to themselves?

  17. Morning Everyone

    Rory Bremner celebrates the life of cricketer and commentator Richie Benaud.

  18. The War Game Files

    Whitehall files expose how the 大象传媒 and government connived to ban 1965 film The War Game.

  19. The Tokens and the Foundlings

    The story of the UK's first children's charity, The Foundling Hospital.

  20. Twice Nightly

    Stan Stennett recreates British variety theatre's heyday.

  21. Adventures in Alienation

    Writer Amit Chaudhuri explores the idea of exile and modern, secular homelessness.

  22. Some Like It Hot

    Cleo Laine revisits the 1940s golden age of the all-girl swing band in the UK and America.

  23. The Choke

    Brains behaving badly: how talented people are fooled into failing. With Matthew Syed.

  24. Don't Write, Make a Record

    Alan Dein explores how people recorded their own voices on gramophone records.

  25. The Entomology of Gregor Samsa

    David Baddiel asks what kind of insect Gregor Samsa becomes in Kafka's The Metamorphosis.

  26. The Escape Factory

    How Britain's other secret service, MI9, ensured daring escapes of WWII prisoners.

  27. Black Aquarius

    The dawning of the age of Black Aquarius, the second great wave of pop occultism in the UK

  28. Music Hall Reclaimed

    Barry Cryer hears how recordings are restored so that music hall stars can be heard again.

  29. Who's Your Father, Referee?

    Clive Anderson searches for a golden age of respect for the football referee.

  30. The Liverpool Poets

    Pete McCarthy examines the work of Roger McGough, Brian Patten and Adrian Henri.

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