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Forging The Union Episodes Available now
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Part Four - Ever Larger Union
What is the future for the European Union?
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Part Three - Breaking Down the Borders
How British PM Margaret Thatcher gave the EU 'the ambition to advance'
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Part Two - "Tell Them I'm Occupied with Cyprus"
Britain's long and tortuous road to membership of the European Community
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Part One - Never Again
A look back at the first steps taken to create a European Union after the end of WWII