Archive on 4 Episodes Available now
Four Women Poets Today
Carol Ann Duffy, Liz Lochhead, Gillian Clarke and Eavan Boland on gender and poetry.
Media and the Middle East
Why does the Arab-Israeli conflict attract so much media attention? With John Lloyd.
No More Heroes
Angie Hobbs examines the changing nature of the hero, from the Iliad to the present day.
The Eccentric Entrepreneur
Dominic Sandbrook explores the life of 1930s radio station magnate Leonard Plugge.
Vietnam and the Presidents
David Taylor looks at the Vietnam War through the eyes of three presidents.
You Are Feeling Sleepy
The extraordinary history and science of the use of hypnosis in medicine.
Wars, Lies and Audiotape
Historian DD Guttenplan explores what happened in the Gulf of Tonkin on 4 August 1964.
How Britain Went to War
Peter Hennessy examines Britain's secret war planning and preparations before August 1914.
The Stranger in the Mirror
Does the history of our ideas about autism tell us more about ourselves than about autism?
A History of the N-Word
Ellah Allfrey looks at the evolution of the N-word.
