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A Brief History of Failure

Joe Queenan on the romance of failure, or the dreaded 'failure chic'.

• 57 mins

A Brief History of Lust

American satirist Joe Queenan presents a new history of lust.

• 60 mins

1917: Eyewitness in Petrograd

Emily Dicks visits St Petersburg to trace her grandfather's memories of 1917's revolutions

• 58 mins

The Shape of Things That Came

Professor Sean Street uses audio archives to explore the future history novel by HG Wells.

• 57 mins

The Mind in the Media

How stories of mental illness are told in fiction and news.

• 57 mins

Torrey Canyon and the Toxic Tides

50 years after the Torrey Canyon, the story of Britain's worst environmental disaster.

• 58 mins

Seventy Years in the Planning

Will Self walks the London green belt in search of the 1947 Town and Country Planning Act.

• 60 mins

Reporting Terror: 50 Years Behind the Headlines

Peter Taylor reflects on his 50-year career reporting terrorism.

• 58 mins

Long Road to Change

Zoe Williams asks what protests movements need to do to achieve long-term success.

• 57 mins

A New Life in Europe Revisited

A family of Syrian migrants relive their perilous journey to seek a new life in Europe.

• 58 mins

Roots and Holocaust: When TV Taught Us a History Lesson

Gary Younge and Jonathan Freedland reflect on the impact of two landmark TV series.

• 57 mins

Blinded by War

Adam Scourfield interviews three British veterans blinded in conflict.

• 58 mins

Femmes Fatales

Screen siren Kathleen Turner celebrates the film noir femme fatale's enduring mystique.

• 57 mins

Dictators on the Couch

For decades, the CIA profiled the minds of foreign leaders. Daniel Pick investigates.

• 60 mins

Father's Day

Mark Thomas peels off the labels of fatherhood - from breadwinner to stay-at-home dad.

• 60 mins

999 - Which Service Do You Require?

Ian Sansom dials up the story of the 999 service, launched in 1937.

• 60 mins

The Thirty Year Itch

Phil Tinline explores what the turmoil of the 1970s tells us about British politics today.

• 58 mins

Apocalypse Nigh

Broadcaster Robin Ince explores our longstanding obsession with the end of days.

• 57 mins

The Real Summer of Love

Historian and writer Dominic Sandbrook looks beyond the flower power, 50 years on.

• 60 mins

A Brief History of the Truth

The truth is like a vegetable your mother makes you eat, nourishing but it tastes terrible

• 57 mins

Roy Jenkins - Father of the Permissive Society?

Richard Weight explores the key role of Roy Jenkins in the liberal reforms of the 1960s.

• 58 mins

The Myth of Homosexual Decriminalisation

Peter Tatchell on how the 1967 Sexual Offences Act failed to provide equality for gay men.

• 58 mins

Grayson Perry: En Garde

Grayson Perry goes in search of the moment the avant-garde died.

• 57 mins

A Life Less Ordinary

Sandra Gregory

Sandra Gregory revisits her years spent in a Thai jail for attempted drug smuggling.

• 60 mins

A Life Less Ordinary

Alex Currie

The minister who became the reluctant spokesman for a fishing community suffering tragedy.

• 60 mins

A Life Less Ordinary

Lisa Potts

How Lisa Potts became a media hero following an attack by a stranger with a machete.

• 60 mins

Inquiries - Facing Our Failures

Chris Bowlby reveals a rich history of public inquiries from rail crashes to treachery.

• 58 mins

Uses of Literacy Now

The Uses of Literacy - what can a book on class written 60 years ago tell us about today?

• 58 mins

As the Statues Fall

Lawrence Pollard traces the history of tearing down public statues.

• 57 mins

The Mysteries of Punt PI

Steve Punt explores the eternal appeal of a good mystery.

• 57 mins