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1922: The Birth of Now
Matthew Sweet investigates objects and events from 1922, the crucial year for modernism.
´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4
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The Coming Storm
America through the looking glass - enter a world where nothing is as it seems.
´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Past Forward: A Century of Sound
Greg Jenner dives deep into the ´óÏó´«Ã½ archive to explore what it says about who we are now.
´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4
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The Explanation
Where the world is explained. Making sense of the big stories - looking behind the spin
´óÏó´«Ã½ World Service
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The Story of Aids
The early years of the HIV-AIDS crisis, as told by the people who lived through it
´óÏó´«Ã½ World Service
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History on the Edge
Anita Anand uncovers an extraordinary untold refugee story from 1940.
´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Sounds of the 21st Century
Claudia Winkleman introduces soundscapes of music, news, triumphs & tragedies, 2000-2010.
´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 2
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The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family
Meet the Boleyn family. Beautiful. Ruthless. Power-hungry… Misunderstood?
´óÏó´«Ã½ Two
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Atomic: How Dr Strangelove Exploded Pop Culture
How did Stanley Kubrick and Welsh author Peter George change Cold War culture for ever?
´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Wales
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The Duke of Edinburgh and Wales: A Tribute
Felicity Evans pays tribute to HRH The Duke of Edinburgh whose death has been announced.
´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Wales
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A Life in Ten Pictures
A series of extraordinary lives each unlocked by a just a handful of images.
´óÏó´«Ã½ Two
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Blitz Spirit with Lucy Worsley
Lucy Worsley explores the lives of six real people who lived through the Blitz.
´óÏó´«Ã½ One
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Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed
Alice Roberts follows a decade-long quest that reveals Stonehenge's oldest secret.
´óÏó´«Ã½ Two
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How the Irish Shaped Britain
Fergal Keane explores the profound influence the Irish have had on Britain.
´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Shooting the Darkness
The defining photographs of the Troubles and the impact on those who captured them.
´óÏó´«Ã½ One Northern Ireland
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The Raising of Coventry
Telling the story of the bombing of Coventry 80 years ago on November 14th, 1940.
´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4
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The Most Successful Assassination in History
The night Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin was gunned down - changing the Middle East forever.
´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4
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From the Mayflower to the Moon (and Back Again)
A 400-year journey into the creation of the United States with the writer Joe Queenan.
´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Burning the Books by Richard Ovenden
Anthony Head reads Richard Ovenden's history of deliberate attacks on recorded knowledge.
´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4
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You're Dead to Me
The comedy podcast that takes history seriously. Hosted by Greg Jenner.
´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4
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The Call Up
Phil Carradice presents the testimonies of the Welsh men affected by National Service.
´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Wales
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Tutankhamun in Colour
Elizabeth Frood shares the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb as it happened - in colour.
´óÏó´«Ã½ Four
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Art of Persia
Broadcaster and journalist Samira Ahmed reveals the remarkable story of Iran.
´óÏó´«Ã½ Four
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Pandemic 1918
Series on the flu pandemic that devastated much of the planet just over 100 years ago.
´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Legacy of War
How wartime experiences have informed the dynamics of families in subsequent generations.
´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Spitfire: The People’s Plane
Before a plane could save a country, the people had to build it
´óÏó´«Ã½ World Service
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Homeschool History
Fun history lessons for all the family, presented by Horrible Histories' Greg Jenner.
´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Wales: A Twentieth Century Tragedy?
Simon Jenkins presents a challenging personal view of the economics of contemporary Wales.
´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4
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The Californian Century
Stanley Tucci imagines the history of modern California as a Hollywood screenplay.
´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Royal History’s Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley
Lucy Worsley dispels the myths behind some of the key moments in royal history.
´óÏó´«Ã½ Two
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Remembering Tryweryn
Guto Harri explores the event that shaped Welsh art and literature for a generation.
´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4
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The Windermere Children: In Their Own Words
The pioneering project in 1945 to rehabilitate child survivors of the Holocaust.
´óÏó´«Ã½ Four
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The Remarkable Resistance of Lilo
Lilo and her husband Erich Gloeden hid Jews from the Nazis in wartime Berlin
´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Villages by the Sea
Series looking at coastal villages that have often been on the front line of history.
´óÏó´«Ã½ One
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Welcome Money
Journalist Malcolm Jack tells a little-known story from the fall of the Berlin Wall.
´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Junior Historians
Pupils from around Scotland delve into local history and produce their own documentary.
´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Scotland
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Have You Heard George's Podcast?
The award-winning podcast from George the Poet delivers a fresh take on inner city life.
´óÏó´«Ã½ Sounds
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Mathair a' Chinn Suidhe – Trump’s Mother
The life story of the Scottish mother of re-elected US president Donald Trump.
´óÏó´«Ã½ ALBA
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Raiders of the Lost Past with Janina Ramirez
Three archaeological finds that changed our understanding of the origins of civilisation.
´óÏó´«Ã½ Two
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Rise of the Nazis
How Hitler seized, kept and fell from power - and the postwar manhunt for war criminals.
´óÏó´«Ã½ Two
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World War 2: The Economic Battle
Duncan Weldon tells the story of the economic issues behind the start of World War Two.
´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Charles I: Downfall of a King
How Charles I’s rule collapsed in just fifty tempestuous days.
´óÏó´«Ã½ Four
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The Moon and Us
A special documentary celebrating the anniversary of the moon landing.
´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Wales
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The Singer Story: Made in Clydebank
How the Singer sewing machine helped establish the town of Clydebank.
´óÏó´«Ã½ Scotland
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Encounters with Victoria
Lucy Worsley explores Queen Victoria's reign through significant encounters.
´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Amritsar 1919: Remembering a British Massacre
Historian Zareer Masani examines the details and lasting impact of the Amritsar Massacre.
´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4
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The Decade That Invented the Future: The 1970s
Ten essays on how this remarkable decade shaped the world in which we now live.
´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Spain's Lost Generations
Lucas Laursen examines the long shadow cast by the Civil War on modern Spain today.
´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4