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  1. Surviving the Blitz

    Robert Hall meets those survivor of the Blitz and finds out how it changed Britain.

    蜜芽传媒 News

  2. Vines On The Front Line

    In a country better known for war than wine Jeremy Bowen meets the winemakers of Lebanon.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 Extra

  3. Five Meet to Make Up Myths

    Gyles Brandreth explores the creative connections between five Victorian authors.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 Extra

  4. Charles Byrne - The Irish Giant

    The story of Charles Byrne the famous Irish Giant and some possible modern-day relatives.

    蜜芽传媒 Two Northern Ireland

  5. The Sinking of the Laconia: Survivors' Stories

    Documentary on the sinking of the Cunard Liner Laconia in World War II.

    蜜芽传媒 Two

  6. The Shirt Factory Horn

    Engaging and poignant documentary charting the work and legacy of Derry's shirt factories.

    蜜芽传媒 One Northern Ireland

  7. One Way to Necropolis

    The story of the "dead line" where trains carried the departed to their last stop.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 Extra

  8. Abraham Lincoln: Saint or Sinner?

    Documentary re-assessing the reputation of American president, Abraham Lincoln.

    蜜芽传媒 Four

  9. The Lighthouse Stevensons

    The story of the remarkable family who tamed the wild Scottish coastline.

    蜜芽传媒 Two Scotland

  10. The Choir Invisible

    Ian Hislop finds out why women, excluded from much of Victorian society, wrote many hymns

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 Extra

  11. Baker Boys: How the Co-op Started

    Revealing the incredible vision of the co-operative movement's Welsh founder Robert Owen.

    蜜芽传媒 One Wales

  12. Am Politician

    A further look at the SS Politician incident, as romanticised in the film Whisky Galore.

    蜜芽传媒 ALBA

  13. Midweek - An-diugh

    Contributors reflect on 蜜芽传媒 television items filmed for Midweek in the Highlands in 1974.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio nan G脿idheal

  14. David Butler Lecture - The 2010 Prime Ministerial Debates

    Professor Stephen Coleman delivers a lecture on the 2010 Prime Ministerial Debates.

    蜜芽传媒 Parliament

  15. Votes for Women

    Barbara Collins with the story of Lillian Metge, founder of the Lisburn Suffrage Society.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio Ulster

  16.

    How Did We Get Here...? Egypt

    Stephen Sackur uncovers the history behind the upheavals in Egypt.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4

  17. When God Spoke English: The Making of the King James Bible

    Adam Nicolson tells the unexpected story of how the King James Bible came into being.

    蜜芽传媒 Four

  18. Ice Emigrants

    How one Armagh family traced its family roots to the Great Famine.

    蜜芽传媒 One Northern Ireland

  19.

    Poisoned Angel - The Story of Alma Rose

    The life and death of a woman who led a women's orchestra in Auschwitz.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 Extra

  20. Welsh Icons

    Eddie Butler takes us through Welsh history to discover the origins of some Welsh icons.

    蜜芽传媒 Two Wales

  21. Clydebank Blitz

    Documentary about the intense and devastating wartime bombing of Clydebank.

    蜜芽传媒 One Scotland

  22. Mother Teresa 123 Springhill Avenue

    How the Catholic Church forced Mother Teresa to leave her west Belfast home in the 1970s.

    蜜芽传媒 One Northern Ireland

  23. Esler on Eichmann

    Gavin Esler on the legacy of the trial of Adolf Eichmann, architect of the Holocaust.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4

  24.

    The Communist Cosmos

    Angus Roxburgh explores the years when the Soviet Union ruled space.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4

  25. The Great Estate: The Rise & Fall of the Council House

    A history of one of Britain's greatest social revolutions - council housing.

    蜜芽传媒 Four

  26. Dear Diary

    Vivid first-hand accounts of life in Northern Ireland during the Second World War.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio Ulster

  27. The Belfast Blitz

    Survivors of the WWII bombing campaign remember the raids that devastated the city.

    蜜芽传媒 One Northern Ireland

  28. Bailout Boys Go to Dublin

    The inside story of Ireland's bailout. Six months on, the main players tell their story.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4

  29. Votes for Women

    Barbara Collins with the story of Lillian Metge, founder of the Lisburn Suffrage Society.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio Ulster

  30. The Baby Born in a Concentration Camp

    The story of Anka Bergman, who gave birth to her daughter in a Nazi concentration camp.

    蜜芽传媒 One

  31. The Secrets of Scott's Hut

    Ben Fogle joins the international effort to preserve Captain Scott's hut in Antarctica.

    蜜芽传媒 Two

  32. Manchester and Liverpool: Britain's American Civil War

    Tristram Hunt on a tale of two cities, and their contrasting response to the US Civil War.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 Extra

  33.

    A History of the World Special

    The story of the portrait of a private soldier's sweetheart, painted for him in Auschwitz.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4

  34. The Viking Sagas

    Dr Janina Ramirez finds out about one of the great Viking stories - the Laxdaela Saga.

    蜜芽传媒 Four

  35. Dino Stampede

    What was the cause of the only dinosaur stampede to be discovered?

    蜜芽传媒 Two Scotland

  36. Na Fir-T脿ileisg

    Fionnlagh Macle貌id a' me貌rachadh air a h-uile car is toinneamh san sgeulachd aca.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio nan G脿idheal

  37.

    The Luddite Lament

    The songs inspired by the Luddites and their uprisings - which began 200 years ago.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 Extra

  38. A303: Highway to the Sun

    Tom Fort whisks us through the landscape around the A303 road and 5,000 years of history.

    蜜芽传媒 Four

  39. The Golden Age of Canals

    The home movies of the enthusiasts who helped to save Britain's inland waterways.

    蜜芽传媒 Four

  40. Operation Crossbow

    How the Allies used 3D photographs to thwart the Nazis' superweapons.

    蜜芽传媒 Two

  41. Bombed But Not Broken - House of Commons

    Looking back to 1941 when the chamber of the House of Commons was destroyed in the Blitz.

    蜜芽传媒 Parliament

  42. Battling for Votes

    Ros Ball takes a look back at the suffragettes' campaign for women's voting rights.

    蜜芽传媒 Parliament

  43. Tub谩iste Bhaile Mh谩nais

    D贸nall Mac Ruair铆 investigates the 1943 explosion of a WWII sea mine in Ballymanus.

    蜜芽传媒 Two Northern Ireland

  44. Vote 2001

    David Dimbleby presents the General Election results from Thursday 7 June 2001.

    蜜芽传媒 Parliament

  45.

    Egypt's Lost Cities

    A team heads to Egypt in an attempt to uncover lost cities beneath the sands.

    蜜芽传媒 One

  46. Smuigleiri Leabhar

    An Irish poet and a Lithuanian director explore the links between language and identity.

    蜜芽传媒 Two Northern Ireland

  47. World War Two: 1941 and the Man of Steel

    David Reynolds reassesses Stalin's role in the struggle between Germany and Russia.

    蜜芽传媒 Four

  48.

    Royal Racers and Fascinators

    Hardeep Singh Kohli discovers the royal connections linking Ascot racecourse with fashion.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 Extra

  49. Leo Africanus; A Man Between Two Worlds

    The story of the 16th century adventurer Leo Africanus, author of The Description Africa.

    蜜芽传媒 HD

  50. Summer Over England

    An evocation from the 蜜芽传媒 Archive of summers past, of long grass and long days and rain.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 Extra

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