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  1. Stone Age Sound

    Can sound solve the mysteries of a 5000-year-old Neolithic grave in Ireland?

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  2. 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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  3. Fragments in Time

    Christopher Morris on the identity of a British woman who kept a diary in WW2 France.

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  4. Opening Nights: Oliver

    Based on the Dickens' story, Lionel Bart's musical starring Ron Moody opened in 1960.

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  5. Children Of The Enemy

    The story of German children fostered by Dutch families after the Second World War.

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  6. Oh Yes I Am

    Mark Ravenhill asks why pantomime still attracts the Christmas crowds.

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  7. A Tale of Harvest Festival

    Paul Heiney traces the origins of the Harvest Festival.

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  8. Warpaint: The Story Of Camouflage

    How the military were helped by bohemians to create effective camouflage. From 2002.

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  9. The Music Factory

    大象传媒 institution Music While You Work was created to give wartime productivity a boost.

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  10. Within These Walls

    Professor Jeffrey Richards visits the prison and court at Lancaster Castle.

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  11. Moving Pictures

    Emrys Evans recalls the 1939 evacuation of the National Gallery's entire art collection.

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  12. 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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  15. Past Presence

    Why has King John鈥檚 Magna Carta of 1215 endured through wars and even EU arguments?

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  16. Balalaikas In Blackpool

    Cold War invasion plans revealed by maps of major British cities, ports and railheads.

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  17. Losing The Children

    Michael Rosen explores the meaning behind one of Germany's greatest fairy tales.

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  18. Barbed Wire Ballads

    Songs and stories recorded in German prisoner-of-war camps during the First World War.

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  19. Champions of Civil Rights

    Davis Miller tells the story of Floyd Patterson, Sonny Liston and Muhammad Ali.

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  20. 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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  22. 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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  24. Comrades

    Ivor Gaber recounts the history of the British Communist Party.

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  25. The Q Camp

    Jolyon Jenkins recounts a forgotten story of the Second World War.

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  26. When CB Ruled the Waves

    Dominic Arkwright recalls the heady days of CB radio, introduced in the UK in 1981.

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  27. The Radical and the Emperor

    The story of feminist pioneer Sylvia Pankhurst's campaign for Ethiopian independence.

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  28. A Thor in One's Side

    Tony Robinson tells the story of Thor Heyerdahl鈥檚 epic journey.

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  29. 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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  31. The World in a Briefcase

    Stephen Phelps recalls one of the most secret diplomatic missions of the Second World War.

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  32. Endangered Sounds

    Simon Fanshawe explores how life's familiar sounds have changed with the times.

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  33. 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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  34. Roots

    Actor and playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah explores the impact of the TV drama series Roots.

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  35. The Road to Rome

    On its 50th anniversary, Allan Little recalls the tortured birth of the Treaty of Rome.

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  36. 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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  37. 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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  38. Auld Firm Old Family

    John Wilson explores the history of Glasgow's bitter sectarian divide.

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  39. WW2: War and Words

    Twenty momentous years that changed the course of world history, from 1936 to 1956.

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  40. 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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  41. The Victoria Cross: For Valour

    Historical documentary. In September 1944, Major Robert Cain won the Victoria Cross.

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  42. Into the Arms of Strangers

    Oscar-winning documentary about the Jewish children evacuated from Germany.

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  43. The Miners' Strike

    Documentary capturing the extraordinary passions unleashed by the 1984 miners' strike.

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  44. The Elgin Marbles

    Andrew Graham-Dixon explores how the Elgin Marbles were removed from Athens.

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  45. Mary Seacole: A Hidden History

    Biography of Mary Seacole, a Jamaican nurse who saved thousands of lives in the Crimea.

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  46. Krakatoa Revealed

    What really happened during the eruption of volcanic island Krakatoa in 1883?

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  47. Genghis Khan

    Film about the warrior Genghis Khan, conquered an empire larger than the Roman Empire.

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  48. When We Were Scouts

    Celebrities go camping to mark the 100th anniversary of the Scouting movement.

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  49. A Tudor Feast

    A group of historians and archaeologists prepare a Tudor feast without modern techniques.

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  50. 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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