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Surviving the Blitz
Robert Hall meets those survivor of the Blitz and finds out how it changed Britain.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ News
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Vines On The Front Line
In a country better known for war than wine Jeremy Bowen meets the winemakers of Lebanon.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Five Meet to Make Up Myths
Gyles Brandreth explores the creative connections between five Victorian authors.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Charles Byrne - The Irish Giant
The story of Charles Byrne the famous Irish Giant and some possible modern-day relatives.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Two Northern Ireland
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The Sinking of the Laconia: Survivors' Stories
Documentary on the sinking of the Cunard Liner Laconia in World War II.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Two
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The Shirt Factory Horn
Engaging and poignant documentary charting the work and legacy of Derry's shirt factories.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ One Northern Ireland
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One Way to Necropolis
The story of the "dead line" where trains carried the departed to their last stop.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Abraham Lincoln: Saint or Sinner?
Documentary re-assessing the reputation of American president, Abraham Lincoln.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Four
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The Lighthouse Stevensons
The story of the remarkable family who tamed the wild Scottish coastline.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Two Scotland
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The Choir Invisible
Ian Hislop finds out why women, excluded from much of Victorian society, wrote many hymns
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Baker Boys: How the Co-op Started
Revealing the incredible vision of the co-operative movement's Welsh founder Robert Owen.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ One Wales
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Am Politician
A further look at the SS Politician incident, as romanticised in the film Whisky Galore.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ ALBA
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Midweek - An-diugh
Contributors reflect on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ television items filmed for Midweek in the Highlands in 1974.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio nan Gà idheal
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David Butler Lecture - The 2010 Prime Ministerial Debates
Professor Stephen Coleman delivers a lecture on the 2010 Prime Ministerial Debates.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Parliament
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Votes for Women
Barbara Collins with the story of Lillian Metge, founder of the Lisburn Suffrage Society.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Ulster
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How Did We Get Here...? Egypt
Stephen Sackur uncovers the history behind the upheavals in Egypt.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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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.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Four
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Ice Emigrants
How one Armagh family traced its family roots to the Great Famine.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ One Northern Ireland
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Poisoned Angel - The Story of Alma Rose
The life and death of a woman who led a women's orchestra in Auschwitz.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Welsh Icons
Eddie Butler takes us through Welsh history to discover the origins of some Welsh icons.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Two Wales
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Clydebank Blitz
Documentary about the intense and devastating wartime bombing of Clydebank.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ One Scotland
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Mother Teresa 123 Springhill Avenue
How the Catholic Church forced Mother Teresa to leave her west Belfast home in the 1970s.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ One Northern Ireland
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Esler on Eichmann
Gavin Esler on the legacy of the trial of Adolf Eichmann, architect of the Holocaust.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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The Communist Cosmos
Angus Roxburgh explores the years when the Soviet Union ruled space.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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The Great Estate: The Rise & Fall of the Council House
A history of one of Britain's greatest social revolutions - council housing.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Four
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Dear Diary
Vivid first-hand accounts of life in Northern Ireland during the Second World War.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Ulster
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The Belfast Blitz
Survivors of the WWII bombing campaign remember the raids that devastated the city.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ One Northern Ireland
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Bailout Boys Go to Dublin
The inside story of Ireland's bailout. Six months on, the main players tell their story.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Votes for Women
Barbara Collins with the story of Lillian Metge, founder of the Lisburn Suffrage Society.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Ulster
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The Baby Born in a Concentration Camp
The story of Anka Bergman, who gave birth to her daughter in a Nazi concentration camp.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ One
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The Secrets of Scott's Hut
Ben Fogle joins the international effort to preserve Captain Scott's hut in Antarctica.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Two
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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.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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A History of the World Special
The story of the portrait of a private soldier's sweetheart, painted for him in Auschwitz.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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The Viking Sagas
Dr Janina Ramirez finds out about one of the great Viking stories - the Laxdaela Saga.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Four
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Dino Stampede
What was the cause of the only dinosaur stampede to be discovered?
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Two Scotland
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Na Fir-TÃ ileisg
Fionnlagh Macleòid a' meòrachadh air a h-uile car is toinneamh san sgeulachd aca.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio nan Gà idheal
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The Luddite Lament
The songs inspired by the Luddites and their uprisings - which began 200 years ago.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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A303: Highway to the Sun
Tom Fort whisks us through the landscape around the A303 road and 5,000 years of history.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Four
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The Golden Age of Canals
The home movies of the enthusiasts who helped to save Britain's inland waterways.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Four
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Operation Crossbow
How the Allies used 3D photographs to thwart the Nazis' superweapons.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Two
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Bombed But Not Broken - House of Commons
Looking back to 1941 when the chamber of the House of Commons was destroyed in the Blitz.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Parliament
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Battling for Votes
Ros Ball takes a look back at the suffragettes' campaign for women's voting rights.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Parliament
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Tubáiste Bhaile Mhánais
Dónall Mac Ruairà investigates the 1943 explosion of a WWII sea mine in Ballymanus.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Two Northern Ireland
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Vote 2001
David Dimbleby presents the General Election results from Thursday 7 June 2001.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Parliament
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Egypt's Lost Cities
A team heads to Egypt in an attempt to uncover lost cities beneath the sands.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ One
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Smuigleiri Leabhar
An Irish poet and a Lithuanian director explore the links between language and identity.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Two Northern Ireland
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World War Two: 1941 and the Man of Steel
David Reynolds reassesses Stalin's role in the struggle between Germany and Russia.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Four
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Royal Racers and Fascinators
Hardeep Singh Kohli discovers the royal connections linking Ascot racecourse with fashion.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Leo Africanus; A Man Between Two Worlds
The story of the 16th century adventurer Leo Africanus, author of The Description Africa.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ HD
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Summer Over England
An evocation from the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Archive of summers past, of long grass and long days and rain.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra