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  1. The Battle of Byker

    Finnish photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen looks back over 40 tumultuous years in Byker.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4

  2. Staffordshire Hoard

    Dan Snow travels unravels the secrets of the Staffordshire Hoard.

    蜜芽传媒 One West Midlands

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    Late Nights at the Blue Boar

    Pete Paphides visits the M1's improbable 1960s music meeting place - Blue Boar Services.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 Extra

  4. Barry Humphries in Weimar

    Barry Humphries shares his passion for the decadent world of 20s and early 30s Berlin.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4

  5. Britain Through a Lens: The Documentary Film Mob

    The unlikely story behind the birth of the British documentary genre.

    蜜芽传媒 Four

  6. Divide and Rule

    Examining the conflicts of 1911 between the House of Commons and the House of Lords.

    蜜芽传媒 Parliament

  7.

    How Dolly Got Rotherham Reading

    Sarfraz Manzoor meets Dolly Parton to discover her 'Imagination Library'

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 Extra

  8.

    The Shipwrecked Bears

    Gyles Brandreth probes the mystery of the missing teddy bears - the first ever made.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 Extra

  9. Wrecsam! Wrecsam!

    Hywel Gwynfryn yn crwydro tref Wrecsam. Hywel discovers Wrexham's mysteries and histories.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio Cymru

  10.

    The Ice Cream Van Cometh

    Jim Carey celebrates the ice cream van with enthusiasts Francis Rossi and Johnny Vegas.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 Extra

  11.

    Human Kind

    Matthew Taylor tells the story of the last eight years in the life of George Price.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4

  12. Wordsworth's Mysterious Trip to Calais

    A love affair and a secret daughter takes Wordsworth to Calais as John Worthen discovers.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4

  13. Terfysg Tredegar

    Golwg ar hanes yr Iddewon yng Nghymru. The Tredegar Riots of August 1911.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio Cymru

  14.

    The Sex Test

    Chris Ledgard asks if gender testing will mean a level playing field for female athletes.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4

  15. Kidnapped: A Georgian Adventure

    The story of James Annesley, whose fate inspired Robert Louis Stevenson's book Kidnapped.

    蜜芽传媒 Four

  16. A Renaissance Education: The Schooling of Thomas More's Daughter

    How the ideas that shaped Margaret More's education changed the cultural life of England.

    蜜芽传媒 Four

  17. Set in Stone

    A look at the gargoyles and grotesques in the architecture of the Palace of Westminster.

    蜜芽传媒 Parliament

  18. Taighean Solais

    Annie Cheape dips into the history of Scottish lighthouses.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio nan G脿idheal

  19. The Tredegar Riots

    Felicity Evans recalls one of Britain's worst anti-Semitic riots, in Tredegar in 1911.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio Wales

  20. Surviving Hitler: A Love Story

    The Jewish teenager and the soldier who survived the Nazis and married in post-war Berlin.

    蜜芽传媒 Four

  21. My Father was a Nazi Commandant

    Film telling the story of a woman grappling with the legacy left by her Nazi father.

    蜜芽传媒 Four

  22.

    Return to Vukovar

    Martin Bell returns 20 years on to the Siege of Vukovar in Croatia.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4

  23. The Pendle Witch Child

    How a girl's testimony sent her relatives and neighbours to the gallows for witchcraft.

    蜜芽传媒 Four

  24. An t-Slighe a bu Mhiosa (The Worst Journey in the World)

    Veterans of the WW2 arctic ship convoys make a pilgrimage along the original route.

    蜜芽传媒 ALBA

  25. Llanelli Riots

    Huw Edwards tells the story of the Llanelli riots that occurred a century ago.

    蜜芽传媒 One Wales

  26. The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest

    The story of George Mallory, who disappeared trying to be the first to conquer Everest.

    蜜芽传媒 Two

  27. Too Much, Too Young: Children of the Middle Ages

    Medievalist Dr Stephen Baxter looks at the Middle Ages through the eyes of children.

    蜜芽传媒 Four

  28. Seven Wonders of the Buddhist World

    Bettany Hughes visits seven wonders that give an insight into the history of Buddhism.

    蜜芽传媒 Two

  29. Re-imagining the City

    Artist Bill Drummond shares his vision of Belfast.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio Ulster

  30. Ten Years On: The Welsh Journalist at 9/11

    Stephen Evans talks to Sian Pari Huws about his experiences at the WTC on 9/11.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio Wales

  31. Hans Litten vs Adolf Hitler: To Stop a Tyrant

    Documentary exploring lawyer Hans Litten's public attempt to challenge Hitler.

    蜜芽传媒 Two

  32. 9/11 Ten Years On

    Peter Allen presents from Manhattan as Americans mark the tenth anniversary of 9/11.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 5 Live

  33. At the Crossroads

    Examining the impact of the 2001 Holy Cross demonstrations on some of the women involved.

    蜜芽传媒 One Northern Ireland

  34. Dinosaurs, Myths and Monsters

    Tom Holland explores how our ancestors sought to explain the remains of dinosaurs.

    蜜芽传媒 Four

  35. A Very Victorian Sex Scandal

    The scandalous life story of East Belfast Unionist MP Edward Samuel Wesley de Cobain.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio Ulster

  36. America Remembers September 11th

    Coverage from New York of the ceremony to mark the tenth anniversary of September 11.

    蜜芽传媒 Two

  37. Britain Remembers September 11th

    A ceremony to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the September 11th attacks.

    蜜芽传媒 One

  38. Entertaining the Troops

    Documentary about the performers who kept up the troops' morale during WWII.

    蜜芽传媒 Four

  39. The Lost Genius of British Art: William Dobson

    Documentary about the 17th-century artist William Dobson, court painter to Charles I.

    蜜芽传媒 Four

  40. Leasan sa Bhas

    A bizarre story of addiction, lust and murder on Scarp in the late 19th century.

    蜜芽传媒 ALBA

  41. The Marvellous Mrs Beeton, with Sophie Dahl

    Sophie Dahl explores the extraordinary life and times of her food heroine, Mrs Beeton.

    蜜芽传媒 Two

  42. 9/11: The Tony Blair Interview

    Former British prime minister Tony Blair talks about his memories of 9/11.

    蜜芽传媒 News

  43. The Spitfire: Britain's Flying Past

    John Sergeant celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Spitfire.

    蜜芽传媒 Two

  44.

    Who found Machu Picchu?

    Hugh Thomson travels to Peru's ancient wonder to unearth the truth behind its discovery.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 Extra

  45. The 1951 Festival of Britain: A Brave New World

    Story behind the festival which showed how to carve out a bright future through design.

    蜜芽传媒 Two

  46. Cailean MacCoinnich

    Colin MacKenzie, the island boy who rose to become the first Surveyor General of India.

    蜜芽传媒 ALBA

  47. Frost on Nixon

    Sir David Frost recalls his landmark interviews with former US president Richard Nixon.

    蜜芽传媒 Two

  48. Treasures of Chinese Porcelain

    Lars Tharp visits China to explore why its porcelain vases are so famous and expensive.

    蜜芽传媒 Four

  49. Pavlopetri - The City Beneath the Waves

    Following the excavation of Pavlopetri, the oldest submerged city in the world.

    蜜芽传媒 Two

  50. Mixed Race Britain : How The World Got Mixed Up

    The story of how throughout history the races of the world's empires have mixed together.

    蜜芽传媒 Two

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