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The Risk Makers
Erring is easy in the prophecy business. Why risk is too important to be left to experts!
Bent Coppers
Author Jake Arnott traces the history of corruption in the Metropolitan police.
PE - A History of Violence
Was there a time when physical education did more harm than good?
American Civility: Year Zero
Michael Goldfarb looks at the history of rude, violent debate that has marked US politics.
Powers of Persuasion: How Britain Learned to Sell
Wayne Hemingway charts 100 years of British advertising examining how we learned to sell.
Gareth Gwynn鈥檚 Alternative Archive
Gareth Gwynn presents the first Archive on 4 that looks sideways rather than backwards.
Chemists' Dirty Secret
The weapons of war born in the laboratory.
Where Politicians Come From
Elinor Goodman asks if there has ever been a golden era of public-spirited politicians.
How Santa Claus Stole Christmas
Christopher Frayling explores how Hollywood helped to create the modern global Christmas.
Apollo 8
British astronaut Helen Sharman on the first mission taking humans beyond Earth's orbit