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JFK: Calamity and Conspiracy
Nicky Campbell looks back 50 years to the day John F Kennedy was killed.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 5 Live
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The Fir Tree
Film telling the story of a Christmas tree through the 'voice' of the tree itself.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Four
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Suffragettes Lecture
Baroness Hollis of Heigham delivers a lecture on the Suffragettes, from 6 November.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Parliament
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Kindertransport: Journey to Life
75 years after Kindertransport, those who came to Britain speak about their memories.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ News
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July 1914 Crisis Lecture
Historian Vernon Bogdanor lectures on Diplomacy: Sir Edward Grey and the Crisis of 1914.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Parliament
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PQ17: An Arctic Convoy Disaster
Jeremy Clarkson tells the story of the Arctic convoys of WWII and their greatest disaster.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Two
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Charles Chilton - Lincoln Frees the Slaves
The history of slavery and the American Civil War, through songs and eyewitness accounts.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Charles Chilton - Journey Into Space Again
Charles Chilton and his cast recall 1953, when six million listeners were moon bound.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Music of the Monarchy with David Starkey
David Starkey presents music created for- and by royalty, performed in historic locations.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Two
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Dinosaurs in the Drawing Room
How the Natural History Museum packed its collections off to country houses during WWII.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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The Search for Alfred the Great
Neil Oliver joins a team investigating the final resting place of Alfred the Great.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Two
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Remembering the Holocaust: Defiant Requiem
How a choir of Jewish prisoners defiantly performed Verdi's Requiem in front of the Nazis.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Four
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Belfast City: Mud, Sweat and 400 Years
Dick Strawbridge charts Belfast's journey from humble sandbank to industrial powerhouse.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ One Northern Ireland
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Easter Island: Mysteries of a Lost World
Jago Cooper uses scientific and archaeological evidence to examine Easter Island's demise.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Four
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Walking With the Dead
Writer Colm TóibÃn explores the Dublin locations haunted by James Joyce's Dubliners.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Dan Snow's History of the Winter Olympics
Historian Dan Snow looks back at 90 years of the Winter Olympics.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Two
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Mystery of the Moor
Mike Dilger investigates Bronze Age burial goods discovered on Dartmoor.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ One
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The Necessary War
Sir Max Hastings argues that the First World War was far from being futile.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Two
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Venus in View
Mari Griffith examines the motivation behind the attack on The Rokeby Venus 100 years ago
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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The Great Glass Mystery
Examining the disappearance of stained glass from Coventry Cathedral during WWII.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ One
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World War One At ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½
Stories from the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Front 1914-1918. Robert Hall presents.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ News
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The Miners' Strike - A Personal Memoir by Kim Howells
Kim Howells recalls the miners' strike of 30 years ago and and ponders its outcome.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ One Wales
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Hidden Histories: WW1's Forgotten Photographs
The story of British and German soldiers' photography during the First World War.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Four
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I Was There: The Great War Interviews
Never-before-seen footage from interviews with eyewitnesses of the First World War.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Two
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Oh Do Shut Up Dear! Mary Beard on the Public Voice of Women
Mary Beard on how women have been silenced throughout the history of Western culture.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Four
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Poetry Idol
Shahidha Bari goes in search of the biggest poetry competition in the Middle East.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Building Burma's Death Railway: Moving Half the Mountain
British POWs and their Japanese captors tell the story of one of WWII's worst atrocities.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Four
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The Machine Gun and Skye's Band of Brothers
A look at the Maxim machine gun and how it affected one Hebridean community.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Two Scotland
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The Greatest Knight: William the Marshal
The fascinating story of knighthood, told through the life of Sir William Marshal.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Two
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Cuimhneachain Cogaidh: Catriona Garbutt
Catriona Garbutt le cuimhneachain teaghlaich mun Chiad Chogadh.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio nan Gà idheal
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Blind Date with Don Camillo
Communism vies with the Catholic church in Italy's post-war comic creation, Don Camillo.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Thatcher and the IRA: Dealing with Terror
Documentary examining Margaret Thatcher's strategy of dealing with the IRA.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ One Northern Ireland
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Good Friday: Passion, War and Peace
An insight into the Passion narrative through the lens of the First World War.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Scotland
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Bombay Jazz
Sarfraz Manzoor explores a fascinating period of jazz music history in India.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Easter Sunday: Bayonets and Green Blades
Ministers Duncan McLaren and Sigrid Marten explore the places and people of WW1.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Scotland
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Messiah at the Foundling Hospital
Revealing the story of how Handel's Messiah helped save London's Foundling Hospital.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Two
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The First Action Movie
1903 Sheffield's on location 'Daring Daylight Burglary' inspired every action movie since.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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50 Golden Years of Sport on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Two
Celebrating 50 years of sporting coverage on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Two.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Two
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The Art of Keynes
Nicholas Wapshott on how the economist used government money to buy paintings in WWI.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Generation War: Fact and Fiction
Martha Kearney and guests examine the facts behind the German drama series Generation War.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Two
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The French Revolution: Tearing up History
Dr Richard Clay retells the history of the French Revolution through the story of its art.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Four
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Melencolia
Art historian Dr. Janina Ramirez is on a mission to decode Durer's Melencolia 1.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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The Mysterious Mr Webster: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Arts at the Globe
Revealing the mysterious man who many consider Shakespeare's greatest rival.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Two
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D-Day Dames
Lyse Doucet recounts the stories of American women war correspondents in London for D-Day.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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70th Anniversary of D-Day
Commemorations in Normandy on the 70th anniversary of D-Day.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 5 Live
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A King's Speech - Martin Luther King on Tyneside
Lenny Henry tells the story of Martin Luther King's visit to Tyneside in 1967.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ One
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The Science of D-Day
Engineer Rob Bell explores the new inventions that made the Normandy invasion possible.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ One
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Britain's Greatest Pilot: The Extraordinary Story of Captain Winkle Brown
The FAA pilot recounts his experiences up to and during the Second World War.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Two