Archive on 4 Episodes Episode guide
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Live and Let Diet
Fern Britton charts the history of diets undertaken by British slimmers over the decades.
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Shticks and Stones: Jewish Comedy and Anti-Semitism
David Schneider explores how Jewish humour is impacted by anti-Semitism.
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A Most Consequential Death
Exploring the inside story of the death of Dr David Kelly 20 years on.
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How I Ruined Medicine
Dr Phil Hammond asks if his satire and journalism have undermined the NHS.
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Last Man Standing
In the near future, Paul Farley finds that he is the last person on the planet.
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A Brief History of Boomers
American satirist Joe Queenan (b1950) addresses the faults and failings of a generation.
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The Rocky Horror Radio Show
Rocky Horror is 50... but where did Rocky come from, and where's he going next?
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The Great Outdoors
Matthew Sweet investigates the history of the Great Outdoors.
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Marvel vs DC: Contest of the Champions
Exploring the decades long, cosmic culture war between Marvel and DC comics.
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The Socrates of San Francisco
The story of Howard Gossage, a remarkable ad man who tried to change the world.
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Whatever Happened to JB Priestley?
Stuart Maconie asks why JB Priestley has all but disappeared from our cultural life.
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Charles: The Making of a King
Sarah Montague looks at the events and experiences shaping the life of King Charles III.
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Tanni Grey-Thompson: Still Not Equal
Tanni Grey-Thompson looks at how attitudes to disabled people have changed over 50 years.
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The Other F Word
Jonathan Freedland asks what the word fascism means in the 2020s.
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The British Bhangra Explosion
Anita Rani delves into the archives to tell the story of the British bhangra explosion.
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What Kind of Scotland?
Allan Little recalls the impact of a radical drama on Scottish society and politics.
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Celebrating 50 Years of From Our Own Correspondent
Charles Wheeler presents some of the most memorable extracts from 大象传媒 journalists
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The Funny Old World of Victor Lewis Smith
Dom Joly on the brilliant, bonkers, contrary, groundbreaking iconoclast Victor Lewis-Smith
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Writing Our Mothers
A journey into the ways women writers have written the mother.
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The Wheeler Century
Shirin Wheeler reflects on the legacy of her father, 大象传媒 journalist Charles Wheeler.
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Dramatic Beats
Michael Symmons Roberts celebrates a century of 大象传媒 Radio Drama.
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Oh Yoko!
To mark her 90th birthday, this is Yoko Ono on her own terms, in her own words.
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My Sylvia Plath
Emily Berry presents a personal meditation on the life and afterlife of Sylvia Plath.
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Knock Knock: 200 Years of Sound Effects
Crash! bang! wallop! Composer Sarah Angliss celebrates the power of sound effects.
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What Has Media Training Done to Politics?
Matthew Parris explores the rise of media training in politics and the political interview
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Annie Nightingale's Age of Irreverence
Annie Nightingale explores the links between new music and comedy during the 1960s.
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#TheQueue
Mark Thomas explores why the British believe they鈥檙e born to queue.
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'Twas the Night Before Christmas: The poem that changed the world
A celebration of 'A Visit from St Nicholas' with the poet Luke Wright
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Richard Rogers, Catalyst
Tom Dyckhoff looks back through the archive at the life and work of Richard Rogers.
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Liz Truss鈥檚 Big Gamble
Nick Robinson discovers the inside story of the UK's shortest ever premiership.