Archive on 4 Episodes Episode guide
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Hurry Up Please, It's Time
Roberts Hanks explores the pub in literature.
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Please Give Generously
Fergal Keane looks at the relationship between charity and the media.
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AJP at the BBC
The long and turbulent relationship between the BBC and historian AJP Taylor.
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Open Sesame
Konnie Huq looks back at 40 years of Sesame Street, the experimental children's TV show.
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Flexible Friend or Foe
Max Flint explores the arrival of the credit card into British life and its role today.
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So Much Older Then
Veteran journalist Katharine Whitehorn reviews archive recordings that span her lifetime.
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The ITV Story
The history of independent television in the UK, told through the story of Yorkshire TV.
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Mods!
Phil Daniels presents a look back at the Mod movement of the 1960s.
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Carry On Britain
Carolyn Quinn asks what the Carry On series of films tells us about British society.
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The New York '77 Blackout
An exploration of the blackout on 13 July 1977 that plunged New York City into chaos.
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Doctor Who - The Lost Episodes
Shaun Ley investigates what happened to 108 missing episodes of Doctor Who from the 1960s.
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A Dog's Life
Peter White examines the changing role of the working dog.
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The My Lai Tapes
Robert Hodierne reveals the truth about the infamous My Lai massacre of 16 March 1968.
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The Turner Prize Turnaround
Critic Waldemar Januszczak on the public's U-turn on the Turner Prize and modern art.
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Lord Clark - Seeing Through The Tweed
Richard Weight reassesses Kenneth Clark and his landmark BBC TV series, Civilisation.
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Politics Between the Covers
Delving into the seamier side of politics to consider the line where fact meets fiction.
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Radio Hollywood
How the Lux Theatre brought the silver screen to the airwaves in an unlikely alliance.
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This Is the Army, Mr Jones
John Barrowman tells the story of the morale-boosting US army show that toured the world.
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Capering With Ken Campbell
Ian McMillan explores the world of the actor and director Ken Campbell, who died in 2008.
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The Anniversary Anniversary
Dominic Sandbrook scrutinises our obsession with anniversaries.
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When Bailey Met Warhol
Jerry Hall talks to photographer David Bailey about his relationship with Andy Warhol.
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In the Beginning Was the Nerd
Stephen Fry recalls the unnecessary panic that surrounded the so-called Millennium Bug.
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Self on Ballard
Writer Will Self, explores the work of one of Britain's greatest literary talents.
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Scott of Slimbridge
Frank Gardner reflects on the career of ornithologist and broadcaster Sir Peter Scott.
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Agatha Christie's Life in Her Words
Val McDermid listens to previously-unbroadcast recordings made by Agatha Christie.
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Five and the Fascists
Robert Giddings on the confrontation between creativity and Fascism in interwar Germany.
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Under the Red Duster
John Prescott MP tells the little-known story of the British Merchant Navy.
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George Blake: The Confession
A remarkable interview with the notorious double agent, first broadcast in 2009
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On Northern Men
Kay Mellor explores northern male stereotypes in British film and television..
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Soho!
Suggs returns to Soho to find out how this unique community functions today.