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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?
The Three Day Week
White explores the political significance of the 1970s crisis, when Edward Heath was PM.
The Long, Long Trail
Roy Hudd explores the forgotten radio masterpiece that inspired Oh What a Lovely War.
A Life Less Ordinary
Christopher Jefferies
Christopher Jefferies assesses the media assault that left his reputation in tatters.
Marcia Shakespeare
Marcia Shakespeare reflects on the media coverage of the murder of her daughter Letisha.
Reality TV
How reality TV has put three ordinary people in the media spotlight.
John Tavener
Sir Nicholas Kenyon reflects on the life of composer Sir John Tavener.
The Death of the Spiv
Poet Paul Henry traces the evasive spiv as he slips and slides through the archives.
The First Generation X
Meet Generation X - the teenagers from the shocking, bestselling 1964 book, 50 years on.
The Interviewer Stole the Show
Lynn Barber, doyenne of the print interview, traces how the interviewer has taken charge.
Captive Media: The Story of Patty Hearst
How the kidnapping of a newspaper heiress captivated and transformed the American media.
Portraying Real Lives
Maxine Peake explores the challenges of playing factual characters.
Listen without Mother
Fi Glover peels the labels off motherhood, from sacred mother to slummy mummy.
Dark Horse: An Alec Guinness Archive
Alistair McGowan investigates the enigma of a private man who became a global star.
Atlantic Crossing
The connection between those who fly the Atlantic and those who guide us over it.
Pulped Fiction
What makes a literary reputation last? Who's 'in' and who's on the way 'out'?
Rebel Rebel
Jonathan Agnew looks back at the rebel cricket tours to South Africa between 1981-1990.
The Benjamin Broadcasts
Michael Rosen discovers Walter Benjamin's radio works for children. Read by Henry Goodman.
Sentimental Journey
Gyles Brandreth surveys the history of sentimentality, wondering whether to sneer or cheer
Imagining the Audience
In the days before audience research, who did the early BBC think it was talking to?
No Destination
Satish Kumar walked 8,000 miles for world peace. him as he relives this journey.
A History of the N-Word
Ellah Allfrey looks at the evolution of the N-word.
The Stranger in the Mirror
Does the history of our ideas about autism tell us more about ourselves than about autism?
How Britain Went to War
Peter Hennessy examines Britain's secret war planning and preparations before August 1914.
Wars, Lies and Audiotape
Historian DD Guttenplan explores what happened in the Gulf of Tonkin on 4 August 1964.
You Are Feeling Sleepy
The extraordinary history and science of the use of hypnosis in medicine.
Vietnam and the Presidents
David Taylor looks at the Vietnam War through the eyes of three presidents.
The Eccentric Entrepreneur
Dominic Sandbrook explores the life of 1930s radio station magnate Leonard Plugge.
