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    How the Muppet Show Began in Britain

    Louise Gold celebrates The Muppet Show’s anarchic birth in Britain in the mid-1970s.

  2. A Ghost Story for Christmas

    Katherine Rundell unearths the Christmas ghost story.

  3. The Battle of the Drina

    The forgotten story of the siege of Goražde in the Yugoslav wars.

  4. A Journey Behind Bars

    Rex Bloomstein reflects on 50 years exposing stark realities of prison life.

  5. Forbidden Britain: Brief Encounter Revisited

    Nina Wadia on love, guilt and why Brief Encounter still stirs the British conscience.

  6. Man of the People: Paul Graney's Story

    Jeffrey Richards tells the story of Paul Graney - audio history collector.

  7. Jodrell Bank at 80

    Brilliant stories told using archive from the BBC and beyond

  8. Out of This World: 25 Years of the ISS

    East and west collaborate to launch humanity’s first ever international space station.

  9. Aleister Crowley - Master of the Dark Arts

    Paul Morley explores the scandalous life and intriguing musical legacy of Aleister Crowley

  10. A People's History of Gaza

    Gaza's history, from the 1940s to the 2010s, told through the memories of ordinary people

  11. War & Peace: The UN at 80

    At 80, does the peacekeeping organisation still have a role to play?

  12. One Last Chance to See

    Katherine Rundell rediscovers Douglas Adams' epic journeys in search of threatened species

  13. Nine Votes that Count

    Mark Damazer puts the US Supreme Court under the microscope.

  14. Pauline Cutting: Surgery Under Siege

    Saleyha Ahsan tells the story of the woman who inspired her career and life.

  15. Freud v Klein: The Battle For Our Children's Minds

    Tanya Byron explores how two remarkable women transformed the way we understand children.

  16. Outrage Inc

    PR guru Mark Borkowski on the part stunts have played in the history of direct action.

  17. Damage and Repair

    Hilary Ineomo-Marcus hears powerful stories of restorative justice in the UK.

  18. Exposing Hiroshima

    The forgotten story of the first Western journalist to report on the Hiroshima atom bomb.

  19. Pétain on Trial: From Hero to Traitor

    Allan Little explores the legacy of the trial that divided and shook France to its core.

  20. Time, Paper, Bone

    The story of anti-apartheid activist James Booi's disappearance and reburial.

  21. 100 Years of Mein Kampf

    John Kampfner read the world’s most notorious book so you don’t have to.

  22. Simpson's Dictators

    John Simpson looks back at the dictators he's met: the mad, the malign and the meek.

  23. We Were the Mods

    Pete Townshend and Phil Daniels look back on Quadrophenia with their modern-day mirrors.

  24. Here We Go! The Art of the Football Chant

    Les Back charts the history of football chants and asks if they’re modern-day folk songs.

  25. Into the Sharkiverse

    Jon Harvey celebrates 50 years of Jaws with a hilarious history of shark fiction.

  26. Dispatches from the Food Front

    Derek Cooper recalls memorable moments with The Food Programme.

  27. The Braveheart Effect

    Susan Morrison takes a cynical swipe at the most successful film about Scotland ever made.

  28. Philadelphia's Forgotten Bomb

    Why did the Philadelphia police drop a bomb on an occupied house in 1985?

  29. Against the Current: The Great Gatsby at 100

    Sarah Churchwell marks the centenary of F Scott Fitzerald’s The Great Gatsby.

  30. Masters of the Impossible

    Richard Wiseman explores the strange world of mind magic and the life of David Berglas.

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