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  1. Lost Children of the Holocaust

    Alex Last traces the fate of 12 children named in a series of post-war 蜜芽传媒 radio appeals

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  2. Napoleon: The Man and the Myths

    Historian Andrew Roberts dispels some myths about Napoleon Bonaparte.

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  3. Ayo Gorkhali: The Gurkhas Are Coming!

    Military historian Hew Strachan on 200 years of Gurkha service to the British Crown.

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    Notes From a Northern Irish Childhood

    Marie-Louise Muir revisits youth orchestras set up during the Troubles in Northern Ireland

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  5. Shadow of the Sun King

    Professor Julian Swann marks the 300th anniversary of the death of Louis XIV of France.

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  6. Rome's Invisible City

    The secret underground treasures that made Rome the powerhouse of the ancient world.

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  7. In Search of the Black Mozart

    Chi-chi Nwanoku searches for great black composers and performers of the 18th century.

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  8. Incarnations: India in 50 Lives

    The history of India told through the lives of 50 phenomenal people.

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  9. Britain's Greatest Generation

    Documentary series about the extraordinary last survivors who fought or lived through WWII

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  10. Hollow Earth: A Travel Guide

    Comedian Robin Ince takes us on a tour of a world beneath the earth's crust.

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  11. Treasures of Ancient Greece

    Series in which Alastair Sooke explores the riches and unique legacy of Greek art.

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  12. A Wing and a Prayer

    Battle of Britain fighter pilots recall the summer of 1940. Presented by Misha Glenny.

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    Voices From Our Industrial Past: Women

    Emma Griffin examines the lives of working women during the industrial revolution.

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    Food in the Frame

    Ruby Tandoh on the fascinating, evolving role played by food in art over the centuries.

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  15. Saudi Arabia: Sands of Time

    Egyptian writer Tarek Osman examines the history of this desert kingdom.

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  16. Promises, Promises: A History of Debt

    Anthropologist David Graeber explores the ways debt has shaped society over 5,000 years.

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  17. Salt

    Steph McGovern discovers that salt is much more than something to season our food with.

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  18. Shoah

    Documentary recounting the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses.

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  19. Churchill's Grave

    William Crawley visits Winston Churchill's final resting place in Bladon, Oxfordshire

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    Kitch!

    Musician and poet Anthony Joseph tries to get to the heart of Calypso star Lord Kitchener

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    Beirut's House of Barakat

    Rebecca Lloyd-Evans visits Beirut's house of memory.

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  22. Magna Carta

    Melvyn Bragg presents a series marking the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta.

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  23. Wittgenstein's Jet

    A jet engine built by Ludwig Wittgenstein in Manchester is investigated by Cassie Newland.

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    Death of An Orchestra

    Supporters of the Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra, including Alan Bennett, tell its history.

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  25. A History of Ideas

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the work of key philosophers and their theories.

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  26. The Frequency of Laughter: A History of Radio Comedy

    Grace Dent presents a conversational history of radio comedy, from 1975 to 2005.

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  27. Dr Hepcat and the Hepster's Dictionary

    Poet Lemn Sissay tells the story of Cab Calloway and his Hepster's Dictionary of jive talk

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  28. Voices of the First World War

    Dan Snow tells the story of World War I through the voices of those who were there.

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  29. Cymry 1914-1918

    Cyfres sy鈥檔 defnyddio dyddiaduron, llythyron ac atgofion i gyflwyno Cymry鈥檙 Rhyfel Mawr,

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  30. Hidden Histories of the Information Age

    Aleks Krotoski explores innovations and cultural events from the age of communication.

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  31. Nancy Storace: Mozart's English Soprano

    Catherine Bott tells the story of Nancy Storace, an English star who worked with Mozart.

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  32. Soldiers of the Empire

    Santanu Das tells the story of the Indian soldiers who served the Empire in WWI.

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  33. Paul is Dead

    In 1969 a rumour swept the world. Paul McCartney had died and been replaced by an impostor

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  34. Germany: Memories of a Nation

    Neil MacGregor explores 600 years of Germany's complex and often challenging history.

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  35. Heaven and Earth: Le Ly Hayslip

    Writer Le Ly Hayslip tells how she survived the Vietnam war and its aftermath.

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    The Lost Women of British Jazz

    Shining a light on the earliest female jazz pioneers, who were erased from music history.

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  37. Operation Stonehenge: What Lies Beneath

    Two-part documentary following a team of scientists hoping to reveal Stonehenge's secrets.

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  38. The Birth of Love

    Dr Laura Ashe reveals how our ideas of romantic love were born in 12th-century literature.

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  39. Heroes at War

    Stories of sporting heroes who went to into battle during the First World War

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  40. Betjeman's Banana Blush

    Jarvis Cocker uncovers an album made by Sir John Betjeman in 1974.

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  41. The Georgians: Restraint, Revolution and Reform

    Amanda Foreman examines how the elite transformed politics in the shadow of revolution.

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  42. Plants: From Roots to Riches

    Our relationship with plants: a major new history by Kew's science director Kathy Willis.

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  43. The Long and the Short of It

    Tim McGarry and Dr David Hume investigate Irish history from different perspectives.

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  44. My Family鈥檚 Fight For Civil Rights

    Oona King discovers her family's role in the fight for equality for African Americans.

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  45. Y Rhyfel Mawr

    Tweli Griffiths yn edrych ar hanes y Rhyfel Mawr 1914-1918 fesul blwyddyn.

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  46. The War That Changed the World

    The effect of World War One from a global perspective

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  47. 1914: Day by Day

    Historian Margaret MacMillan chronicles the road to war in 1914.

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  48. Arnold of the Five Towns

    Samira Ahmed explores the life and work of writer Arnold Bennett.

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    The Science of D-Day

    Engineer Rob Bell explores the new inventions that made the Normandy invasion possible.

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  50. Britain at Sea

    Admiral Lord West tells the story of the Royal Navy during the 20th century.

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