Series examining contemporary history
Radio 4,路43 episodes
Episode 1
The rise and fall of Lymeswold cheese - the first new British cheese in 200 years.
Episode 2
How South African secret police bombed the London HQ of the African National Congress.
Episode 3
Chris Ledgard meets the men who set up LIFFE, the futures market which shook up the City.
Jaws
Chris Ledgard explores the cinematic and zoological legacy of the Spielberg classic, Jaws.
Jolyon Jenkins looks at Sealand, the real-life "Passport to Pimlico".
History documentary on the American 'ghost ships' sent to be scrapped in Britain in 2003.
Co-education
Chris Ledgard with 1960s school stories of the switch from single sex to co-education.
Episode 4
Chris Ledgard examines how the introduction of the breathalyser changed our behaviour.
Jolyon Jenkins investigates how Dutch Elm Disease swept through England in the mid-1960s.
The New Volunteers
Chris Ledgard tells the story of the Voluntary Service Overseas organisation.
The controversy surrounding the 1976 sculpture which came to be known as the Tate Bricks.
Examines the short-lived and much maligned Sinclair C5 three-wheeler.
Ramstein
Chris Ledgard tells the story of the air show disaster at Ramstein, Germany, in 1988.
Gentlemen and Players
Chris Ledgard revisits the final Gentlemen and Players cricket match in September 1962.
Kung Fu
Jolyon Jenkins charts the rise of the 1970s kung fu craze in the wake of Enter the Dragon.
New history documentary on the 1961 evacuation of the loneliest island, Tristan da Cunha.
The mystery of the Thetford Treasure, one of the most important finds from Roman Britain.
Chris Ledgard revisits the scandal surrounding the notorious play The Romans in Britain.
History documentary on the Portsmouth Sinfonia, 'the world's worst orchestra'.
Chris Ledgard tells the story of Brighton's naturist beach, which opened in 1980.
Chris Ledgard visits New York to explore the origins of zero tolerance policing.
Jolyon Jenkins reports on the "Death of a Princess" film which angered the Saudis in 1980.
First-hand accounts of the Woolworths fire in Manchester in May '79 that killed ten people
Pope John Paul II in Britain
The historic first visit by a Pope to England, Scotland and Wales.
Jolyon Jenkins recalls the university sit-ins of 1970, when revolution was in the air.
The rise of the ostrich investment mania of the 1990s - and why it all went so badly wrong
The Humber Bridge
Chris Ledgard explores the political background to the building of the Humber Bridge.
The 1975 Moorgate tube disaster
Jolyon Jenkins investigates the Moorgate tube crash of February 1975.
The Mapplethorpe Affair
Chris Ledgard examines the work of iconic photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.
The Afghan Crisis
Jolyon Jenkins talks to those involved in the UK's longest plane hijack, in February 2000.
