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  1. Falklands Night - House of Commons Debate

    Historic emergency debate in the House of Commons after the invasion of the Falklands.

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  2. A Gothic Cathedral

    Simon Fanshawe's story of Roget's Thesaurus compiled by an eminent Victorian. From 1998.

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  3. A Short History of the Fork

    Four curved prongs from a fat ridge, joined to a handle. Joe Farrell investigates forks.

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  4. Stone Age Sound

    Can sound solve the mysteries of a 5000-year-old Neolithic grave in Ireland?

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  5. The First Pirate

    The story of Captain Plugge's Radio Normandie, the first station to take on the 蜜芽传媒.

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  6. Fragments in Time

    Christopher Morris on the identity of a British woman who kept a diary in WW2 France.

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  7. Opening Nights: Oliver

    Based on the Dickens' story, Lionel Bart's musical starring Ron Moody opened in 1960.

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  8. Children Of The Enemy

    The story of German children fostered by Dutch families after the Second World War.

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  9. Oh Yes I Am

    Mark Ravenhill asks why pantomime still attracts the Christmas crowds.

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  10. A Tale of Harvest Festival

    Paul Heiney traces the origins of the Harvest Festival.

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  11. Warpaint: The Story Of Camouflage

    How the military were helped by bohemians to create effective camouflage. From 2002.

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  12. The Music Factory

    蜜芽传媒 institution Music While You Work was created to give wartime productivity a boost.

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  13. Within These Walls

    Professor Jeffrey Richards visits the prison and court at Lancaster Castle.

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  14. Moving Pictures

    Emrys Evans recalls the 1939 evacuation of the National Gallery's entire art collection.

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  15. Cooking Up A Royal Treat

    What was it like to serve in a 1930s country house?

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    From Dunkirk to D-Day

    Charles Wheeler recalls the epic of strategic success that made victory possible.

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    The People's D-Day

    Libby Purves follows the way Britain prepared for the assault on Normandy in June 1944.

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  18. Past Presence

    Why has King John鈥檚 Magna Carta of 1215 endured through wars and even EU arguments?

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  19. Balalaikas In Blackpool

    Cold War invasion plans revealed by maps of major British cities, ports and railheads.

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  20. Losing The Children

    Michael Rosen explores the meaning behind one of Germany's greatest fairy tales.

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  21. Barbed Wire Ballads

    Songs and stories recorded in German prisoner-of-war camps during the First World War.

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  22. Champions of Civil Rights

    Davis Miller tells the story of Floyd Patterson, Sonny Liston and Muhammad Ali.

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  23. The Boy who Bought a Field

    Francis Pryor meets the archaeologist who bought the land covering a lost medieval town.

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  24.

    A Right Royal Rescue

    HRH the Duke of Edinburgh recalls his role in a daring rescue during WWII.

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  25. The Man Who Sold Peerages

    Shaun Ley tells the tale of Maundy Gregory, who sold peerages on behalf of Lloyd George.

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  26. Camel Train

    Matthew Parris joins traders on the ancient salt route in Ethiopia's Danakil Depression.

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  27. Comrades

    Ivor Gaber recounts the history of the British Communist Party.

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  28. The Q Camp

    Jolyon Jenkins recounts a forgotten story of the Second World War.

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  29. When CB Ruled the Waves

    Dominic Arkwright recalls the heady days of CB radio, introduced in the UK in 1981.

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  30. The Radical and the Emperor

    The story of feminist pioneer Sylvia Pankhurst's campaign for Ethiopian independence.

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  31. A Thor in One's Side

    Tony Robinson tells the story of Thor Heyerdahl鈥檚 epic journey.

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  32. Miss Buttolph's Marvellous Menu Collection

    The tale of a unique collection of 25,000 menus and the stories they can tell us.

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  33.

    Prescott at Your Service

    Exploring a strange coincidence from 1957, when John Prescott was a cruise ship waiter.

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  34. The World in a Briefcase

    Stephen Phelps recalls one of the most secret diplomatic missions of the Second World War.

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  35. Endangered Sounds

    Simon Fanshawe explores how life's familiar sounds have changed with the times.

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  36. Paradise Lost: The Story of the Chagos Islands

    The story of the islanders forced to leave to make way for a military base in the 1960s.

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  37. Roots

    Actor and playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah explores the impact of the TV drama series Roots.

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  38. The Road to Rome

    On its 50th anniversary, Allan Little recalls the tortured birth of the Treaty of Rome.

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  39. 1707: Take an Englishman and a Scotsman

    Graeme Garden presents a tongue-in-cheek look at the supposed Anglo-Scottish antipathy.

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  40. 1707: The Birth of Britain

    Dramatised account of the wheeling and dealing which led to the Act of Union of 1707.

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  41. Auld Firm Old Family

    John Wilson explores the history of Glasgow's bitter sectarian divide.

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  42. WW2: War and Words

    Twenty momentous years that changed the course of world history, from 1936 to 1956.

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  43. American Voices: A History of America 1917-1941

    A fascinating look at America through the eyes of different characters of the era.

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  44. The Victoria Cross: For Valour

    Historical documentary. In September 1944, Major Robert Cain won the Victoria Cross.

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  45. Into the Arms of Strangers

    Oscar-winning documentary about the Jewish children evacuated from Germany.

    蜜芽传媒 Two

  46. The Miners' Strike

    Documentary capturing the extraordinary passions unleashed by the 1984 miners' strike.

    蜜芽传媒 Two

  47. The Elgin Marbles

    Andrew Graham-Dixon explores how the Elgin Marbles were removed from Athens.

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  48. Mary Seacole: A Hidden History

    Biography of Mary Seacole, a Jamaican nurse who saved thousands of lives in the Crimea.

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  49. Krakatoa Revealed

    What really happened during the eruption of volcanic island Krakatoa in 1883?

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  50. Genghis Khan

    Film about the warrior Genghis Khan, conquered an empire larger than the Roman Empire.

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