Archive on 4 Episodes Available now

As the Statues Fall
Lawrence Pollard traces the history of tearing down public statues.

Uses of Literacy Now
The Uses of Literacy - what can a book on class written 60 years ago tell us about today?

Inquiries - Facing Our Failures
Chris Bowlby reveals a rich history of public inquiries from rail crashes to treachery.

Grayson Perry: En Garde
Grayson Perry goes in search of the moment the avant-garde died.

The Myth of Homosexual Decriminalisation
Peter Tatchell on how the 1967 Sexual Offences Act failed to provide equality for gay men.

Roy Jenkins - Father of the Permissive Society?
Richard Weight explores the key role of Roy Jenkins in the liberal reforms of the 1960s.

A Brief History of the Truth
The truth is like a vegetable your mother makes you eat, nourishing but it tastes terrible

The Real Summer of Love
Historian and writer Dominic Sandbrook looks beyond the flower power, 50 years on.

Apocalypse Nigh
Broadcaster Robin Ince explores our longstanding obsession with the end of days.

The Thirty Year Itch
Phil Tinline explores what the turmoil of the 1970s tells us about British politics today.