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Stone Age Sound
Can sound solve the mysteries of a 5000-year-old Neolithic grave in Ireland?
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The First Pirate
The story of Captain Plugge's Radio Normandie, the first station to take on the 大象传媒.
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Fragments in Time
Christopher Morris on the identity of a British woman who kept a diary in WW2 France.
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Opening Nights: Oliver
Based on the Dickens' story, Lionel Bart's musical starring Ron Moody opened in 1960.
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Children Of The Enemy
The story of German children fostered by Dutch families after the Second World War.
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Oh Yes I Am
Mark Ravenhill asks why pantomime still attracts the Christmas crowds.
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A Tale of Harvest Festival
Paul Heiney traces the origins of the Harvest Festival.
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Warpaint: The Story Of Camouflage
How the military were helped by bohemians to create effective camouflage. From 2002.
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The Music Factory
大象传媒 institution Music While You Work was created to give wartime productivity a boost.
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Within These Walls
Professor Jeffrey Richards visits the prison and court at Lancaster Castle.
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Moving Pictures
Emrys Evans recalls the 1939 evacuation of the National Gallery's entire art collection.
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Cooking up a Royal Treat
What was it like to serve in the 1930s? Adrian Bell takes Flo Wadlow back to Norfolk.
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From Dunkirk to D-Day
Charles Wheeler recalls the epic of strategic success that made victory possible.
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The People's D-Day
Libby Purves follows the way Britain prepared for the assault on Normandy in June 1944.
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Past Presence
Why has King John鈥檚 Magna Carta of 1215 endured through wars and even EU arguments?
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Balalaikas In Blackpool
Cold War invasion plans revealed by maps of major British cities, ports and railheads.
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Losing The Children
Michael Rosen explores the meaning behind one of Germany's greatest fairy tales.
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Barbed Wire Ballads
Songs and stories recorded in German prisoner-of-war camps during the First World War.
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Champions of Civil Rights
Davis Miller tells the story of Floyd Patterson, Sonny Liston and Muhammad Ali.
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The Boy who Bought a Field
Francis Pryor meets the archaeologist who bought the land covering a lost medieval town.
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A Right Royal Rescue
HRH the Duke of Edinburgh recalls his role in a daring rescue during WWII.
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The Man Who Sold Peerages
Shaun Ley tells the tale of Maundy Gregory, who sold peerages on behalf of Lloyd George.
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Camel Train
Matthew Parris joins traders on the ancient salt route in Ethiopia's Danakil Depression.
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When CB Ruled the Waves
Dominic Arkwright recalls the heady days of CB radio, introduced in the UK in 1981.
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The Radical and the Emperor
The story of feminist pioneer Sylvia Pankhurst's campaign for Ethiopian independence.
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A Thor in One's Side
Tony Robinson tells the story of Thor Heyerdahl鈥檚 epic journey.
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Miss Buttolph's Marvellous Menu Collection
The tale of a unique collection of 25,000 menus and the stories they can tell us.
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Prescott at Your Service
Exploring a strange coincidence from 1957, when John Prescott was a cruise ship waiter.
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The World in a Briefcase
Stephen Phelps recalls one of the most secret diplomatic missions of the Second World War.
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Endangered Sounds
Simon Fanshawe explores how life's familiar sounds have changed with the times.
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Paradise Lost: The Story of the Chagos Islands
The story of the islanders forced to leave to make way for a military base in the 1960s.
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Roots
Actor and playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah explores the impact of the TV drama series Roots.
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The Road to Rome
On its 50th anniversary, Allan Little recalls the tortured birth of the Treaty of Rome.
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1707: Take an Englishman and a Scotsman
Graeme Garden presents a tongue-in-cheek look at the supposed Anglo-Scottish antipathy.
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1707: The Birth of Britain
Dramatised account of the wheeling and dealing which led to the Act of Union of 1707.
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Auld Firm Old Family
John Wilson explores the history of Glasgow's bitter sectarian divide.
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WW2: War and Words
Twenty momentous years that changed the course of world history, from 1936 to 1956.
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American Voices: A History of America 1917-1941
A fascinating look at America through the eyes of different characters of the era.
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The Victoria Cross: For Valour
Historical documentary. In September 1944, Major Robert Cain won the Victoria Cross.
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Into the Arms of Strangers
Oscar-winning documentary about the Jewish children evacuated from Germany.
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The Miners' Strike
Documentary capturing the extraordinary passions unleashed by the 1984 miners' strike.
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The Elgin Marbles
Andrew Graham-Dixon explores how the Elgin Marbles were removed from Athens.
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Mary Seacole: A Hidden History
Biography of Mary Seacole, a Jamaican nurse who saved thousands of lives in the Crimea.
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Krakatoa Revealed
What really happened during the eruption of volcanic island Krakatoa in 1883?
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Genghis Khan
Film about the warrior Genghis Khan, conquered an empire larger than the Roman Empire.
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When We Were Scouts
Celebrities go camping to mark the 100th anniversary of the Scouting movement.
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A Tudor Feast
A group of historians and archaeologists prepare a Tudor feast without modern techniques.
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Jeremy Clarkson: Greatest Raid of All Time
Jeremy Clarkson tells the story of the 1942 raid on the Nazi dry dock in France.
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