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Archive on 4 Episodes

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    Lives in a Landscape

    Alan Dein tells the story of ten years of Radio 4's observational documentary series.

  2. A Sympathetic Eye

    Simon Farquhar examines how Man Alive reflected changing TV and social values in the 1960s

  3. 07/11/2015

    Fifty years after abolition, John Tusa reviews the history of the death penalty debate.

  4. The Time Machine

    Comedian Doc Brown activates the flux capacitor back to the world of 21 January 1981.

  5. The Future of the 蜜芽传媒: A History

    Steve Hewlett explores the troubled past behind today's debates on the future of the 蜜芽传媒.

  6. Attention Must Be Paid - Arthur Miller's Centenary

    Christopher Bigsby traces the life and work of Arthur Miller, mostly in Miller's own words

  7. Bernstein, My Mentor

    Acclaimed conductor Marin Alsop remembers her mentor, the great Leonard Bernstein.

  8. John Lennon: Verbatim

    John Lennon's extraordinary life and career told in his own words.

  9. Kindertransport

    How 10,000 unaccompanied children, mostly Jewish, escaped from Nazi Europe to Britain.

  10. From the Self to the Selfie

    Lauren Laverne on the origins and effects of the obsession with selfies.

  11. MP for Penrith and the Border

    Programme following a year in the life of Rory Stewart - an MP with an unusual profile.

  12. The Power of Political Forgetting

    What happens when a major past crisis slips from public memory? With David Aaronovitch.

  13. New Orleans: The Crescent and the Shadow

    Harry Shearer lives in New Orleans. He looks back at the last ten years in the city.

  14. Dickie Attenborough: A Life in Film

    Susan Marling celebrates Richard Attenborough鈥檚 legacy a year on from his death.

  15. Stadium Rock at 50

    50 years after the Beatles played Shea Stadium, Kate Mossman plots a history of Arena rock

  16. Misunderstanding Japan

    What impact have western media representations had on our view of Japan and its people?

  17. Cradle to Grave

    The history of the NHS told through one hospital - the QEII in Welwyn Garden City.

  18. Shhhhhhh

    Lucy Powell offers a quiet celebration of the rich and various virtues of silence.

  19. The Poles and the Planet

    Adam Fowler tracks down the survivors of the 1957 Trans-Antarctic Expedition.

  20. How to Make an Archive on 4

    Alan Dein enters the strange world of instructional records.

  21. Destroyer of Worlds

    How Britain developed the world's first atomic bomb only to lose it to the Americans.

  22. Tomorrow's World, Today

    Tomorrow's World came to our TV screens in 1965. Were any of its predictions correct?

  23. A Brief History of Shame

    American satirist Joe Queenan explores Shame.

  24. Bring Your Darlings Back To Life

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

  25. Morning Everyone

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

  26. The War Game Files

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

  27. The Tokens and the Foundlings

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

  28. Twice Nightly

    Stan Stennett recreates British variety theatre's heyday.

  29. Adventures in Alienation

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

  30. Some Like It Hot

    Cleo Laine revisits the 1940s golden age of the all-girl swing band in the UK and USA.

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