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  1. The Silk Road

    Historian Dr Sam Willis travels the most famous trade route in history, the Silk Road.

    BBC News

  2. Behind the Mask: Tutankhamun's Last Tour

    Before Covid-19, a hit exhibition on Tutankhamun was attracting record crowds.

    BBC News

  3. Blood of the Clans

    Neil Oliver presents a series telling the tale of Scotland’s 17th-century civil war.

    BBC One Scotland

  4. African Renaissance: When Art Meets Power

    Afua Hirsch explores Ethiopia, Senegal and Kenya through their art, music and culture.

    BBC Four

  5. From the Mayflower to the Moon (and Back Again)

    A 400-year journey into the creation of the United States with the writer Joe Queenan.

    BBC Radio 4

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  6. Burning the Books by Richard Ovenden

    Anthony Head reads Richard Ovenden's history of deliberate attacks on recorded knowledge.

    BBC Radio 4

  7. Memory Radio

    Memory Radio from the BBC is a space designed to help people living with dementia.

    BBC Radio Scotland

  8. Britain's Biggest Dig

    In preparation for HS2, two massive digs uncover fascinating burials.

    BBC Two

  9. Slighean Trailleachd (Slavery Routes)

    A look at the slave trade in black Africans from the 7th to the 20th century.

    BBC ALBA

  10. Hilarious Histories - What's So Funny About the Past?

    Greg Jenner's Arthurian quest to discover why comedy writers love history.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  11. An Taistealaiche/The Far Traveller

    Documentary on the most intrepid woman traveller of the medieval world.

    BBC ALBA

  12. Monumental Change: The Statue Debate

    Suzanne Packer explores how Welsh statues became a flashpoint for debating bigger issues.

    BBC Radio Wales

  13. Làrach Cogaidh - Loidhne-rèile Burma

    Fianais bho feadhainn dha na bha a' togail a rèile ann am Burma aig àm an Dàrna Cogaidh.

    BBC Radio nan Gàidheal

  14. Enslaved with Samuel L Jackson

    Piecing together the untold story of the transatlantic slave trade.

    BBC Two

  15. Cyfaill Carcharorion

    Rhaglen yn olrhain hanes y diwygiwr carchardai, yr heddychwr a’r dyngarwr Merfyn Turner.

    BBC Radio Cymru

  16. Dè nan robh?

    Cothrom cuairt mac-meanmna a ghabhail.

    BBC Radio nan Gàidheal

  17.

    The Most Successful Assassination in History

    The night Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin was gunned down - changing the Middle East forever.

    BBC Radio 4

  18. Làrach Cogaidh

    Na bha sna seirbhisean armaichte ann an diofar chogaidhean ag innse an sgeulachd.

    BBC Radio nan Gàidheal

  19. Body and Soul - The Oscar Micheaux Story

    Professor Ed Guerrero explores the life of pioneering filmmaker Oscar Micheaux

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  20. Berlin 1945

    Journey back in time to Berlin's most fateful year.

    BBC Four

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  21. My Family, the Holocaust and Me

    Jewish families discover what happened to their relatives during the Holocaust.

    BBC One

  22. Black Spartacus by Sudhir Hazareesingh

    The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture, a slave who rose to lead the Haitian Revolution.

    BBC Radio 4

  23.

    The Raising of Coventry

    Telling the story of the bombing of Coventry 80 years ago on November 14th, 1940.

    BBC Radio 4

  24. Hawks and Doves

    Michael Portillo examines the Crown and Ireland's War of Independence.

    BBC One Northern Ireland

  25. Unknown Warrior 100

    A unique event marking the 100th anniversary of the burial of the Unknown Warrior.

    BBC One

  26.

    Shooting the Darkness

    The defining photographs of the Troubles and the impact on those who captured them.

    BBC One Northern Ireland

  27. The Boundless Sea by David Abulafia

    David Abulafia's human history of the oceans and winner of the Wolfson history Prize 2020.

    BBC Radio 4

  28. Bill W

    The story of Bill W, the man who founded AA. Bill Wilson, am fear a chruthaich an AA.

    BBC ALBA

  29. Great Speeches: Geoffrey Howe

    Sir Geoffrey Howe revisits his resignation speech to the Commons on 13 November 1990.

    BBC Parliament

  30. Bruce Dickinson: Scream for Me Sarajevo

    How the lead singer of Iron Maiden brought music to Sarajevo at the height of Bosnian War.

    BBC Four

  31. Celebrity: A 21st-Century Story

    History series charting the explosion in celebrity culture.

    BBC Two

  32. Iorram – Boat Song

    Across the islands of the Outer Hebrides, voices from the past tell stories of the sea.

    BBC ALBA

  33. Ceol na Loidhne/Song of the Track

    Ingrid Henderson celebrates newly discovered photographs of the West Highland Line.

    BBC ALBA

  34. An Gobha - The Last Blacksmith

    Profile of Calum ‘Steallag’ Macleod, one of Scotland’s last traditional blacksmiths.

    BBC ALBA

  35. In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America

    Documentary about the late John Hume and the Northern Ireland peace process.

    BBC Two Northern Ireland

  36. Lucy Worsley's Royal Palace Secrets

    Lucy Worsley takes us behind closed doors at three treasure-filled royal palaces.

    BBC Four

  37. Iron Women/Boireannaich Iarainn

    Iron Women explores the extraordinary history of women’s golf in Scotland.

    BBC ALBA

  38. The Years That Changed Modern Scotland

    Kirsty Wark reveals how Scotland has transformed over the last 50 years.

    BBC Scotland

  39. How the Irish Shaped Britain

    Fergal Keane explores the profound influence the Irish have had on Britain.

    BBC Radio 4

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  40. My Government and I

    Former prime ministers discuss their dealings with Her Majesty the Queen.

    BBC

  41. Year ‘21

    The story of the creation of Northern Ireland in 1921, told week by week.

    BBC News

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  42. Bevan v Churchill

    Lord Kinnock on how Nye Bevan held Churchill to account in the Commons during the war

    BBC Radio Wales

  43. Can't Get You Out of My Head

    Love, power, money, ghosts of empire, conspiracies, artificial intelligence – and You.

    BBC

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  44. Teicheadh bho Loch Nis/Escape from Loch Ness

    The battle to rescue a rare World War II seaplane that has become stranded on Loch Ness.

    BBC ALBA

  45. Edward Carson and the Fall of Oscar Wilde

    The story of the epic court clash in 1895 between Oscar Wilde and Edward Carson.

    BBC One Northern Ireland

  46. Eng20 Africa Life Clinic Billboard 1

    BBC World Service

  47. Eng20 Africa Life Clinic Billboard 2

    BBC World Service

  48.

    Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed

    Alice Roberts follows a decade-long quest that reveals Stonehenge's oldest secret.

    BBC Two

  49. Hardware, Software, Anywhere

    Nick Baker reflects on how the impact of technology has changed. With Stephen Fry.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  50.

    Atomic: How Dr Strangelove Exploded Pop Culture

    How did Stanley Kubrick and Welsh author Peter George change Cold War culture for ever?

    BBC Radio Wales

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