Archive on 4 Episodes Episode guide
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The Day Brexit Hit Boiling Point
Carolyn Quinn recalls the intense and bitter Parliamentary confrontations over Brexit
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A Broadcasting Life - Sue MacGregor
Sue MacGregor looks back on five decades of broadcasting in this final goodbye to Radio 4.
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Raise Your Game
Jay-Ann Lopez asks if toxic gaming culture can change.
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Spitfire: From the Ashes
How an icon was made, piece by piece, against all odds.
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The End of Coming Out?
Dustin Lance Black asks whether LGBTQ+ people still need to come out publicly.
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LOLs on LPs
David Walliams remembers the comedy albums which inspired him to write and perform.
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The Crunch Convention
A US election like no other, presented by Alistair Cooke
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Summer with Greta
Campaigner Greta Thunberg describes the remarkable and tumultuous past year of her life.
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Apollo 13: The Rescue
Houston, we've had a problem. How the mission of Apollo 13 was saved
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Poetry For Sale?
Poet and copywriter Rishi Dastidar on the relationship between poetry and advertising.
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Girl Power RIP
Journalist and author Ella Whelan asks if contemporary feminism is - well - dead.
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Anthony Blunt: A Question of Retribution?
The controversy caused over the unmasking of Anthony Blunt as a spy.
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The Wellness Phenomenon
Claudia Hammond explores the wellness phenomenon, from its start in California to today.
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So Bad It's Good?
Steve Punt and guests share the joy of films, songs and books that are so bad they're good
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The Empire Strikes Back
40 years ago George Lucas risked everything on making The Empire Strikes Back. Here's how.
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Four Dead in Ohio
Michael Goldfarb explores America at the time of the Kent State massacre, 50 years ago.
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Malcolm McLaren: Spectacular Failure
Paul Gorman assesses the exceptional achievement of Malcolm McLaren who died 10 years ago.
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The Phoney War
The story of the 大象传媒 in the strange period of 1939-1940 and the echoes of Covid-19 today
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The Hubble Legacy
Astronaut Nicole Stott celebrates the cultural legacy of the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Riot Remembered
The St Paul's Riots in Bristol in 1980 remembered by those who took part.
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The End of the Thirty Year Itch
Phil Tinline explores whether we are seeing the emergence of a new political orthodoxy.
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Lights, Camera, Inaction: An Existential Guide to the Movies
Matthew Sweet looks at why mainstream cinema and existentialism seem so fond of each other
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After The Fallout
The human fall out from the Pacific Nuclear tests - dramatically revisited.
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Call Up: The Story of National Service
Sixty years after the call-up ended, Richard Vinen looks back at National Service.
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The Decade of Distrust
Laura Kuenssberg explores the foundations of the scandals that shook faith in elites.
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Everyone's A Star
Chris Stokel-Walker assesses how YouTube has shaped and changed the society we live in.
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Andrea Levy: In Her Own Words
Andrea Levy speaks candidly about her writing life and her impending death.
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I Think I鈥檝e Been Here Before
Repetition is everywhere. Repetition is persuasive. Has Ross Sutherland been here before?
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Backwards Brexit
This week's Archive on 4 goes backwards in time to find the roots and routes of Brexit.
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The Science of Evil
How the Holocaust created a new field of science - social psychology