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  1. John Cage - Composing Controversy

    Composer Gavin Bryars explores the ideas, personas and reception of his mentor John Cage.

  2. Your Starter for Ten: 50 Years of University Challenge

    Mark Damazer celebrates 50 years of his favourite television quiz show.

  3. Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Archive

    Paul Morley on the unknown Anthony Burgess - his northern roots and his work as a composer

  4. Inner Voices - The Burton Diaries

    Melvyn Bragg reassesses the life of Richard Burton through his private diaries.

  5. The Smart Dumb Blonde

    US journalist Maureen Dowd argues that Marilyn Monroe was more smart than dumb.

  6. The Paperback Poets

    Paul Farley marks the 50th anniversary of paperback poetry publishing in the UK.

  7. Woody at 100

    Joe Klein celebrates Woody Guthrie's centenary with a USA road trip.

  8. The Night of the Long Knives

    Peter Oborne revisits British history's most dramatic cabinet reshuffle in 1962.

  9. Bards of the Back Straight

    Poet Paul Farley explores how the language of poetry and sports commentary compare.

  10. Houses v Fields

    Anne McElvoy explores the eternal struggle: Is a green field better than a human home?

  11. A History of the Stiff Upper Lip

    Louisa Foxe reveals the changing British attitude towards the expression of emotion.

  12. The Great Listener

    Alan Dein tells the story of pioneering oral historian Tony Parker.

  13. One Way Ticket - The Beeching Cuts Revisited!

    Michael Portillo assesses the lasting impact of the Beeching cuts on Britain's railways.

  14. Lunch Is for Wimps

    When did you last take a lunch hour? Matthew Sweet explores the demise of the midday break

  15. Hobsbawm: A Life in History

    Historian Prof Eric Hobsbawm is interviewed by Simon Schama about his work and life.

  16. From Our Rome Correspondent

    The 大象传媒's veteran Rome correspondent David Willey looks back at his 50-year career.

  17. Greece: An Unquiet History

    Writer Maria Margaronis asks if the spectre of Greece's past haunts its current nightmares

  18. More Than Just Whale Music

    Christine Finn explores the world of recorded natural sound and those who relax to it.

  19. The Licence to Kill

    Can state-sponsored killings and assassinations ever be justified?

  20. Government Is Not the Solution

    Jonathan Freedland traces the history of American hostility to 'Big Government'.

  21. Playing Doctors and Nurses

    Mark Lawson on the rich history of medical programmes, fact and fiction, on radio and TV.

  22. The Politics of Art

    Tim Marlow looks at how the 大象传媒 TV series Ways of Seeing shook up the art world.

  23. Attention All Shipping

    Peter Jefferson presents an elegy to the Shipping Forecast he used to read.

  24. The Lost World of the Suffragettes

    Dan Snow delves into a huge library of tapes of suffragettes recalling their experiences.

  25. Castaway: 70 Years of Desert Island Discs

    Kirsty Young tells the story of the long-running radio programme.

  26. Freud vs Jung

    Lisa Appignanesi explores the intense relationship between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung.

  27. Bertrand Russell: The First Media Academic?

    Robin Ince listens back to some of the 大象传媒 archive of philosopher Bertrand Russell.

  28. John Arlott: Cricket's Radical Voice

    Mark Whitaker investigates the life of the cricket commentator and political campaigner.

  29. The European Dream

    How the European Union was born in fear, hope and crisis in the decade after World War II.

  30. Ted Hughes: Memorial Tones

    Melvyn Bragg celebrates the Yorkshire poet through a memorial at Westminster Abbey.

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