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Lives and Politics

Two remarkable archives, 80 years apart, throw light on what makes a politician tick.

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Profumo Confidential

Tom Mangold revisits the scandal he covered for the Daily Express 50 years ago.

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From Donald Winnicott to the Naughty Step

Anne Karpf on psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, among the first to broadcast to new mothers.

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Iraq Tales: What the Army Learned

Chris Parry uses the US Army's oral history archive to tell the history of the Iraq war.

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