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A Brief History of Shame

American satirist Joe Queenan explores Shame.

What if the best anecdotes and stories had a programme to themselves?

Rory Bremner celebrates the life of cricketer and commentator Richie Benaud.

Whitehall files expose how the BBC and government connived to ban 1965 film The War Game.

The story of the UK's first children's charity, The Foundling Hospital.

Writer Amit Chaudhuri explores the idea of exile and modern, secular homelessness.

David Baddiel asks what kind of insect Gregor Samsa becomes in Kafka's The Metamorphosis.

The dawning of the age of Black Aquarius, the second great wave of pop occultism in the UK

Clive Anderson searches for a golden age of respect for the football referee.

Grace Dent presents a field guide to failure.