Archive on 4 Episodes Episode guide
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Pevsner: Through Outsider's Eyes
Tom Dyckhoff goes in search of Nikolaus Pevsner.
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Gillian Reynolds: Audiophile
Critic and broadcaster Gillian Reynolds celebrates 50 years’ professional radio listening.
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The Bomb That Made Manchester?
Michael Symmons Roberts examines the myth that the 1996 bomb heralded Manchester's rebirth
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A Guide to the Modern Snob
Writer DJ Taylor creates a user's guide to the snob for the 21st century.
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The Edwards Archive
John Edwards explores the story of the cinema newsreel and the people who filmed history.
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The Camera Never Lies
Bafta award-winning film-maker Molly Dineen examines the concept of truth in documentary.
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Return to Subtopia
Gillian Darley explores "Subtopia", the blurring of space between town and country
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Tennant Looks Back At Osborne
David Tennant explores the back story to Osborne's revolutionary play Look Back in Anger.
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Rising Voices
Fergal Keane explores the cultural landscape of the 1916 Easter Rising.
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Working Class Heroes and Poverty Porn
How the portrayal of the working class and poor in film and TV has changed over 70 years.
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The Unabomber
How a reclusive maths prodigy terrorised America - and how the media amplified his cause.
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Royal Tours
Denys Blakeway looks at the history and purpose of the royal tour.
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Optimism - Our Enemy
Proud pessimist Bryan Appleyard investigates the contemporary cult of optimism.
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The Art of the Lyricist
Clarke Peters explores the art of the musical theatre lyricist.
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How to Go Straight
Ex-convicts tell intimate stories of how they renounced lives of crime.
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The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band: Anarchy Must Be Organised
Neil Innes looks at the collision of art, humour, music and anarchy in the Bonzo Dog Band.
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A Brief History of Disobedience
Joe Queenan offers a Brief History of Disobedience, follow up to Blame, Anger and Shame.
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SKILL, STAMINA and LUCK
Naomi Alderman presents a history of interactive fiction in which YOU are the Listener!
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In the Bluff
Poet Paul Farley shows his hand in a celebration of bluffing, from poker to geo-politics.
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The Art of the Obit
Matthew Bannister celebrates the culture, style, purpose and panache of the obituary
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Embarrassment
Journalist Lynne Truss prepares to cringe as she investigates embarrassment.
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David Bowie: Verbatim
Bowie’s extraordinary life and unparalleled career told in his own words.
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Utopias
Michael Symmons Roberts examines the book behind one of our most influential ideas: Utopia
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Metropolis
Paul Bailey takes a journey through the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ sound archive in celebration of London.
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The Stranger in the Mirror
Does the history of our ideas about autism reveal more about ourselves than about autism?
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Work is A Four Letter Word
Professor Andrew Hussey asks why we should let the toad of work squat on our lives.
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Jay Rayner Pigs Out
Jay Rayner, self-confessed greedy pig, gets serious about porkers.
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The Selling of Sinatra
Jazz singer Kurt Elling doffs his trilby as he explores the life of Frank Sinatra.
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When Britain Had the Right Stuff
Richard Hollingham uncovers the forgotten history of Britons in space.
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Racial Equality Enshrined
Ritula Shah explores Britain's first Race Relations Act, fifty years on.