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    Listen without Mother

    Fi Glover peels the labels off motherhood, from sacred mother to slummy mummy.

  2. Portraying Real Lives

    Maxine Peake explores the challenges of playing factual characters.

  3. Captive Media: The Story of Patty Hearst

    How the kidnapping of a newspaper heiress captivated and transformed the American media.

  4. The Interviewer Stole the Show

    Lynn Barber, doyenne of the print interview, traces how the interviewer has taken charge.

  5. The First Generation X

    Meet Generation X - the teenagers from the shocking, bestselling 1964 book, 50 years on.

  6. The Death of the Spiv

    Poet Paul Henry traces the evasive spiv as he slips and slides through the archives.

  7. Burroughs at 100

    Iggy Pop explores the life of William S Burroughs, America's most iconoclastic writer.

  8. John Tavener

    Sir Nicholas Kenyon reflects on the life of composer Sir John Tavener.

  9. The Haunted Apparatus

    Ian McMillan on the telephone's uncanny past and unsettling future.

  11. The Long, Long Trail

    Roy Hudd explores the forgotten radio masterpiece that inspired Oh What a Lovely War.

  12. The Three Day Week

    White explores the political significance of the 1970s crisis, when Edward Heath was PM.

  13. When Comedy and Politics Collide

    Is satire on radio and TV now harming rather than helping our politics?

  14. Prisoners of Conscience Revisited

    Rex Bloomstein revisits the stories of human rights appeals he made 25 years ago.

  15. Monkey Planet

    Will Self asks where apes end and human apes begin.

  16. Something is Terribly Wrong

    Alan Thompson relives the events in the assassination of President John F Kennedy

  17. The Kennedy Book Depository

    Mark Lawson explores the literary and cultural responses to JFK's assassination.

  18. Presenting the Past - How the Media Changes History

    Juliet Gardiner on how directors, writers and producers achieve authenticity in their work

  19. Gloria and Me

    Glenn Patterson traces the cultural journey of Van Morrison's much-covered song Gloria.

  20. 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.

  21. Not Enough Hours in the Day

    Claudia Hammond looks back at 80 years ago of time use surveys, started by the 蜜芽传媒.

  22. The World Turned Upside Down

    Peter Day argues that the internet is completely revolutionising manufacturing and trade.

  23. Yeats and Heaney: A Terrible Beauty

    Fintan O'Toole looks back at the reputations of WB Yeats and Seamus Heaney.

  24. A Brief History of Irony

    Satirist Joe Queenan charts the rise and fall of the 'nudge nudge wink wink' epidemic.

  25. How to Be, or Not to Be, a Politician

    Using ancient and modern inspiration Anne McElvoy asks how to be or not to be a politician

  26. Bombing Berlin

    Stephen Evans on Wynford Vaughan-Thomas's 1943 dispatch during a bombing raid on Berlin.

  27. This Train Rides Again

    A recreation of the1963 train journey made to Washington by civil rights campaigners.

  28. Scrambled

    Allegra McEvedy reflects on our complex, even scrambled, relationship with the humble egg.

  29. Ivor Cutler at 90

    A celebration of the 90th anniversary of poet, humourist and absurdist Ivor Cutler.

  30. Crime of the Century

    Jake Arnott examines the Great Train Robbery of 1963.

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