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  1. Merry Xmas Everybody - The People's Choice

    Your suggestions are in... It's Chriiiistmaaas!

  2. Radio Ga Ga - A Celebration of Radio

    Stuart looks at the very medium which brought music to the ears of the British public.

  3. Solsbury Hill - Our Love of the Countryside

    Stuart Maconie explores how popular music reflects Britain's love of the great outdoors.

  4. Our House - Home Is Where the Heart Is

    Using Madness's 1982 hit Our House to examine the importance of home ownership in Britain.

  5. Living in the Past - Progressive and Art-School Rock

    Stuart focusses on the era of Progressive Rock music.

  6. Another Brick in the Wall - The Best Days of Our Lives?

    Another Brick in the Wall - The Best Days of Our Lives?

  7. The Love Cats - A Peculiarly British Style

    Stuart focusses on the early 80s and the notion of the Goth.

  8. You Should Be Dancing - Living for the Weekend

    Stuart looks at our desire to welcome in the weekend.

  9. One Day Like This - The Music Festival Experience

    Stuart Maconie examines how the British music festival became a universal experience.

  10. Do They Know It's Christmas? - How Pop Found a Social Conscience

    Tonight Stuart looks at Band Aid and how pop music found a social conscience.

  11. Bye-Bye Baby - Pop Heartthrobs

    Teen heartthrobs have been part of modern culture from Rudolph Valentino to Harry Styles.

  12. Move It - The British Take on Rock 'n' Roll

    Cliff Richard's first hit ushered in a very British take on an American import.

  13. 5:15 - Youth Tribes

    Pop's journey from tribalism to multi-cultural smorgasbord.

  14. World in Motion - The British Love of Football

    Tonight, Stuart looks at the music surrounding our love of the national game: football.

  15. Shipbuilding - The Falklands War

    Robert Wyatt's single spotlights the ambivalence of a nation brought together in wartime.

  16. Don't Cry for Me Argentina - Musicals

    Andrew Lloyd Webber's smash hit demonstrates the UK's unerring love of musical theatre.

  17. Bleeding Love - X Factor and Talent Shows

    Do TV talent shows shorten the lifespan of a star's career and make us all talent scouts?

  18. The Ying Tong Song - Comedy and Popular Music

    How the Goons's two-chord classic epitomises the UK's love of novelty comedy hits.

  19. Give Ireland Back to the Irish - The Troubles

    Stuart Maconie looks at the political trouble and music around the early to mid 1970s.

  20. How Soon Is Now? - The Sound of the Post-Industrial North

    The Smiths epitomise the true independence of Northern indie music.

  21. Wannabe - Girl Power and Feminism

    How five young women reinvented feminism for themselves in the late 90s.

  22. Light Flight - The Folk Revival

    The marriage of folk and electricity gives British folk a new lease of life.

  23. Tubthumping - Environmentalism and Anti-Globalism

    Stuart looks at environmentalism and anti-globalism in music, focusing on Chumbawamba.

  24. Gold - Thatcherism and the aspiration of the 80s

    How the aspirational culture of Thatcherism became reflected in the UK's charts.

  25. Dedicated Follower of Fashion - Swinging London

    London becomes the epicentre of the Swinging '60s; the rest of the UK looks on enviously.

  26. Lad and Ladette Culture

    Stuart looks at the lad and ladette culture which began in the early 1990s.

  27. Y Viva Espana - The Advent of Package Holidays

    Stuart Maconie continues the series charting the history of modern Britain in 50 records.

  28. Paranoid - The Birth of Heavy Metal

    How the industrial noise of the West Midlands helped give birth to a whole new genre.

  29. Can't Get You Out of My Head - Manufactured Pop and Svengalis

    Stuart Maconie continues charting the history of modern Britain in over 50 records.

  30. Can't Get You Out of My Head - Manufactured Pop and Svengalis

    How a diminutive Aussie soap star went from actress to diva and reinvented bubblegum pop.

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