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  1. The Haunted Apparatus

    Ian McMillan on the telephone's uncanny past and unsettling future.

  3. The Long, Long Trail

    Roy Hudd explores the forgotten radio masterpiece that inspired Oh What a Lovely War.

  4. The Three Day Week

    White explores the political significance of the 1970s crisis, when Edward Heath was PM.

  5. When Comedy and Politics Collide

    Is satire on radio and TV now harming rather than helping our politics?

  6. Prisoners of Conscience Revisited

    Rex Bloomstein revisits the stories of human rights appeals he made 25 years ago.

  7. Monkey Planet

    Will Self asks where apes end and human apes begin.

  8. Something is Terribly Wrong

    Alan Thompson relives the events in the assassination of President John F Kennedy

  9. The Kennedy Book Depository

    Mark Lawson explores the literary and cultural responses to JFK's assassination.

  10. Presenting the Past - How the Media Changes History

    Juliet Gardiner on how directors, writers and producers achieve authenticity in their work

  11. Gloria and Me

    Glenn Patterson traces the cultural journey of Van Morrison's much-covered song Gloria.

  12. Orson Welles and The War Of The Worlds - Myth or Legend?

    The true story behind the most notorious hoax in radio - Orson Welles' War Of The Worlds.

  13. Not Enough Hours in the Day

    Claudia Hammond looks back at 80 years ago of time use surveys, started by the 大象传媒.

  14. The World Turned Upside Down

    Peter Day argues that the internet is completely revolutionising manufacturing and trade.

  15. Yeats and Heaney: A Terrible Beauty

    Fintan O'Toole looks back at the reputations of WB Yeats and Seamus Heaney.

  16. A Brief History of Irony

    Satirist Joe Queenan charts the rise and fall of the 'nudge nudge wink wink' epidemic.

  17. How to Be, or Not to Be, a Politician

    Using ancient and modern inspiration Anne McElvoy asks how to be or not to be a politician

  18. Bombing Berlin

    Stephen Evans on Wynford Vaughan-Thomas's 1943 dispatch during a bombing raid on Berlin.

  19. This Train Rides Again

    A recreation of the1963 train journey made to Washington by civil rights campaigners.

  20. Scrambled

    Allegra McEvedy reflects on our complex, even scrambled, relationship with the humble egg.

  21. Ivor Cutler at 90

    A celebration of the 90th anniversary of poet, humourist and absurdist Ivor Cutler.

  22. Crime of the Century

    Jake Arnott examines the Great Train Robbery of 1963.

  23. Churchill's Secret Cabinet

    A humble wooden cabinet reveals secrets about how Churchill developed his oratorical style

  24. Dial-a-Poem

    Poet Brian Patten explores the 1960s counter-culture through its radically risqu茅 poetry.

  25. Writers and Radio

    Susannah Clapp talks to authors who grew up at the end of the radio age.

  26. Very British Dystopias

    Steven Fielding looks at the impact of British dystopian political fiction.

  27. The Longest Suicide Note in History

    Denys Blakeway tells the story of Labour's botched campaign in the 1983 general election.

  28. Profumo Confidential

    Tom Mangold revisits the scandal he covered for the Daily Express fifty years ago.

  29. Lives and Politics

    Two remarkable archives, 80 years apart, throw light on what makes a politician tick.

  30. Heroes and Hacks

    Journalist Eamonn O'Neill examines his profession through the legacy of Watergate.

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