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Spoken Like a Woman
Anne Karpf explores the way women have shaped the sound of British radio.
Embracing Idleness
Oliver Burkeman uses the archive to explore the controversial subject of idleness.
The Devil's Horn
British jazz musician Soweto Kinch examines the intriguing history of the saxophone.
Iraq Tales: What the Army Learned
Chris Parry uses the US Army's oral history archive to tell the history of the Iraq war.
Wheeler: The Final Word
David Taylor and Charles Wheeler's probe into Johnson and Nixon's clash over Vietnam.
DNA 60 Years On
Robert Winston traces the impact of DNA - from its discovery 60 years ago to today.
Dr K
Should we Henry Kissinger as America's wise strategist or its ruthless operator?
Collar the Lot
Tom Conti explores the story of Italian internment in Britain during World War II.
From Donald Winnicott to the Naughty Step
Anne Karpf on psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, among the first to broadcast to new mothers.
Heroes and Hacks
Journalist Eamonn O'Neill examines his profession through the legacy of Watergate.
Lives and Politics
Two remarkable archives, 80 years apart, throw light on what makes a politician tick.
Profumo Confidential
Tom Mangold revisits the scandal he covered for the Daily Express fifty years ago.
Very British Dystopias
Steven Fielding looks at the impact of British dystopian political fiction.
Writers and Radio
Susannah Clapp talks to authors who grew up at the end of the radio age.
Dial-a-Poem
Poet Brian Patten explores the 1960s counter-culture through its radically risqué poetry.
Churchill's Secret Cabinet
A humble wooden cabinet reveals secrets about how Churchill developed his oratorical style
Crime of the Century
Jake Arnott examines the Great Train Robbery of 1963.
Ivor Cutler at 90
A celebration of the 90th anniversary of poet, humourist and absurdist Ivor Cutler.
Scrambled
Allegra McEvedy reflects on our complex, even scrambled, relationship with the humble egg.
This Train Rides Again
A recreation of the1963 train journey made to Washington by civil rights campaigners.
Beyond the Kitchen Sink
Paul Allen uses the archive to explore the social changes that led to the British New Wave
Bombing Berlin
Stephen Evans on Wynford Vaughan-Thomas's 1943 dispatch during a bombing raid on Berlin.
A Brief History of Irony
Satirist Joe Queenan charts the rise and fall of the 'nudge nudge wink wink' epidemic.
Yeats and Heaney: A Terrible Beauty
Fintan O'Toole looks back at the reputations of WB Yeats and Seamus Heaney.
The World Turned Upside Down
Peter Day argues that the internet is completely revolutionising manufacturing and trade.
Not Enough Hours in the Day
Claudia Hammond looks back at 80 years ago of time use surveys, started by the BBC.
Orson Welles and The War Of The Worlds - Myth or Legend?
The true story behind the most notorious hoax in radio - Orson Welles' War Of The Worlds.
Gloria and Me
Glenn Patterson traces the cultural journey of Van Morrison's much-covered song Gloria.
The Kennedy Book Depository
Mark Lawson explores the literary and cultural responses to JFK's assassination.
Monkey Planet
Will Self asks where apes end and human apes begin.
When Comedy and Politics Collide
Is satire on radio and TV now harming rather than helping our politics?
