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    The Woman-Machine

    Elizabeth Alker celebrates women composers at the forefront of electronic music.

  2. Stewart Lee: Unreliable Narrator

    Comedian Stewart Lee considers the problems and possibilities of unreliable narrators.

  3. Covering Edward Said: 40 years of Islam, Media and the West

    Exploring the legacy of Edward Said's Covering Islam, published forty years ago.

  4. The Tulsa Tragedy that Shamed America

    Alvin Hall tells the story of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

  5. Bob Dylan: Verbatim

    The many variations of Bob Dylan鈥檚 life and music told in his own words.

  6. A Spy in Every Embassy

    The Swiss spy machine company secretly owned by the CIA and German BND.

  7. What鈥檚 Going On Now?

    Emeli Sande marks the 50th anniversary of Marvin Gaye's classic album What's Going On.

  8. The Hunger Strikes

    Peter Taylor revisits the 1981 IRA hunger strikes and assesses their legacy.

  9. Our Bodies, Ourselves

    Five decades on, Laura Barton looks back at a revolutionary text for women's liberation.

  10. A Night with Prince

    Music critic Ann Powers reflects on time spent with Prince in his Hollywood mansion.

  11. Gagarin and the Lost Moon

    Kevin Fong tells the story of Yuri Gagarin's historic 1961 Earth orbit

  12. A Writer and His Country - John le Carr茅 Across Six Decades

    Who was the real John le Carr茅 and what was his relationship with Britain?

  13. A Year on the NHS Frontline

    Dr John Wright shares recordings made over the last year on the covid wards in Bradford.

  14. The Forgotten Referendum

    Bust-ups, bums and Brexit's beginning? - Chris Mason tells the story of the AV referendum.

  15. Search for a Common Culture

    Did a common culture ever exist in the UK, what did it mean and is it needed now?

  16. A Backwards Catastrophe

    Travelling in reverse through the archives to trace the roots of the environmental crisis.

  17. Easier Than Curing a Toothache? The Story of Lobotomy

    Claire Prentice looks at the history of a notorious medical procedure - lobotomy.

  18. The Alliance

    How close were Pope John Paul II and Ronald Reagan at the end of the Cold War?

  19. I'm Terry Gross and this is Fresh Air

    Dolly Alderton turns the tables on the master of the radio interview, Terry Gross.

  20. It's Behind You! The weird and wonderful story of British pantomime

    Cultural historian Christopher Frayling explores the rich and surprising history of panto.

  21. Disorienting: Asians on Screen

    Phil Wang investigates the representation of East and South East Asians in western media.

  22. Da da da DAAAAA!

    Rachel Parris leads us on an irreverent tour of Beethoven's 5th Symphony

  23. Mad Monks

    James Naughtie probes the chequered history and impact of prime ministers' top advisers.

  24. All Things Must Pass at 50

    Composer Nitin Sawhney tells the story of George Harrison鈥檚 most famous album.

  25. 14/11/2020

    Steve Fielding explores how political parties have recovered from big election defeats.

  26. Our Sacred Story

    Alec Ryrie argues that the Second World War is our modern sacred narrative.

  27. Trump: Backwards

    Scrolling backwards through the archive to tell the Trump story in reverse.

  28. Play for Today

    Alison Steadman celebrates 50 years since 大象传媒 TV's seminal drama series began.

  29. A Media Divided

    The end of the Fairness Doctrine and the rise of political polarisation in US broadcasting

  30. The Quebec Emergency

    Margaret Macmillan recalls the 1970 crisis when kidnappings threw Canada into turmoil.

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