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Series 7
Chris Ledgard recalls the outbreak of the early 1950s.
1990 Poll Tax Riots
Jolyon Jenkins recalls the Poll Tax demonstration of March 1990.
1967 Mossdale Caverns Tragedy
Ray Kershaw recalls the 1967 tragedy at Mossdale Caverns, when six young potholers drowned
The 1974 Lions
Chris Ledgard recalls the controversial 1974 British Lions rugby tour to South Africa.
Series 10
The Contraceptive Train
The story of the women who defied Irish law by bringing contraceptives into the country.
T Dan Smith
The story of T Dan Smith, Labour leader of Newcastle city council who was jailed in 1974.
Oil in Dorset
How did newly privatised BP extract oil from Dorset in the 1980s without a fight?
Jenny Lives with Eric and Martin
Jolyon Jenkins recalls the controversy in 1986 that surrounded a children's picture book.
Series 11
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.
Sunday Trading
Chris Ledgard explores the restoration of Sunday trading in August 1994.
Series 12
Pope John Paul II in Britain
The historic first visit by a Pope to England, Scotland and Wales.
Episode 2
Jolyon Jenkins recalls the university sit-ins of 1970, when revolution was in the air.
Episode 3
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.
Series 13
Episode 1
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.
Episode 4
First-hand accounts of the Woolworths fire in Manchester in May '79 that killed ten people
Series 14
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'.
Series 15
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.
Series 9
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.