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Real Dictators
Real Dictators explores the hidden lives of history's tyrants. Narrated by Paul McGann.
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Short History Of...
Witness history's most incredible moments and remarkable people.
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Wally, the Reluctant Nuclear Hero
The story of Wally, the physicist that prevented nuclear disaster during the Vietnam war.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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The Long and the Short of It
History show presented by the big man Tim McGarry and the wee man David Hume.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ One Northern Ireland
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When Hoover Sneezed...
How the iconic factory shaped postwar Merthyr with laughs, drama, romance and spirit.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Wales
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The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes
A look at Nazi war crimes and the complex motives at play at the start of the Cold War.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Two
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Adam Smith: What He Thought and Why It Matters by Jesse Norman
A succinct and engaging account of the life, times and legacy of economist Adam Smith.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Notable
Stars of stage and screen reveal the intense emotional battles of 10 pioneering composers
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3
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Union with David Olusoga
David Olusoga exposes the fault lines dividing the UK through the lens of the past.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Two
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How to Be a Renaissance Woman by Jill Burke
An alternative history of the Renaissance, as told by the women behind the paintings.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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The Mandates
How the effects of French and British mandates in the Middle East still reverberate today.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Most of My Heroes Don't Appear on No Stamp
Black artists nominate a personal hero they feel deserve a postage stamp in their honour.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ News
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Berlin 1933
Hitler's rise to power, told through the personal writings of those who lived through it.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Four
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Julius Caesar: The Making of a Dictator
How Julius Caesar dismantled five centuries of ancient Roman democracy in just 16 years.
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Shakespeare's Restless World (Omnibus)
Exploring the world of William Shakespeare through a selection of objects from the time.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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The Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs
The inside story of the Arab-Israel conflict.
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Israel and the Arabs - Elusive Peace
The events of 1998 to 2005 in the fraught history of the Arab-Israeli peace process.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Two
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The History Hour
An hour of historical reporting told by the people who were there.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Afghan TV
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Map to Mikkeli
Eva Runciman tracks the journey of a WW2 map from Shetland to a war museum in Finland.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Scotland
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The North East Witch Trials
Explore how the largest mass execution for witchcraft in English history was forgotten.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Newcastle
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The Ammanford Anarchist
Elis James explores how the 'world's most dangerous woman' came to Wales in the 1920s.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Wales
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Being Roman with Mary Beard
From a slave to an emperor, Mary Beard reveals the real people of the Roman Empire.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Larach Leabhar Dheir (The Missing Monastery)
An tòir air Mhanachainn Dhèir a’ leantainn. The search for the Monastery of Deer continues
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Immigration Tracks
Anne MacAlpine traces Scottish Gaelic families who made a new life in Canada a century ago
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Killing Sherlock: Lucy Worsley on the Case of Conan Doyle
A look at the relationship between Arthur Conan Doyle and his creation Sherlock Holmes.
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Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Stories that will delight you, scare you, but also make you wiser.
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Bad Women
The extraordinary stories of the victims of wartime London's Blackout Ripper
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The Space Shuttle That Fell to Earth
In 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia breaks apart in the skies above America.
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Hollywood Exiles
A story of glamour, duplicity and the FBI's battle against communism in Hollywood
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Face Down: The Killing of Thomas Niedermayer
Granddaughters of a businessman abducted 50 years ago uncover the truth about his killing.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ One Northern Ireland
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Holocaust hero Nicholas Winton on That's Life
Sir Nicholas Winton was a hero of the Holocaust.
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Revisionist History
Malcolm Gladwell's journey through the overlooked and the misunderstood.
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The Great American Buffalo
Ken Burns recounts the tragic story of America’s national mammal.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Four
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Ian Hislop's Oldest Jokes
Ian Hislop goes in search of the earliest examples of British comedy staples.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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House of the Lion: A Blood Soaked Throne
Susan Morrison & Len Pennie explore the bloody struggles for throne of medieval Scotland.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Scotland
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Chinook: Zulu Delta 576
Two-part documentary series examining the 1994 Mull of Kintyre Chinook helicopter crash.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ One Northern Ireland
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Sexton's Tales
George Cole with extraordinary stories of Victorians buried in London's Highgate Cemetery.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Discovering Shetland's Past
Join regional archaeologist Dr Val Tuner as she excavates Shetland's archaeological past.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Scotland
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Hollywood Exiles
A story of glamour, duplicity and the FBI's battle against communism in Hollywood
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ World Service Audio
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Bong! The Condensed History of Big Ben
Adam Long celebrates The Great Clock of the Palace of Westminster.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Three Million
The Bengal Famine of 1943 in British India: the forgotten story of World War II.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Black Gold
Stories about the impact of Stanlow oil refinery on a community and landscape.
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Seun’s Talking Drum British and West African
Journalist Seun Matiluko takes a close look at Britain’s largest Black African group.
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