Categories: Factual: History

Duration 24:12

The Documentary

Partion Voices: Aftermath

The best of BBC World Service documentaries and other factual programmes.

World Service

Duration 30:00

Our Story

Series 11

Dounreay

Mark Stephen hears the stories of the North East's distinctive past.

Radio Scotland

Duration 30:00

Seachdain sa Chogadh

Seachdainean sa Chogadh

Episode 53

Na bha tachairt sa Chiad Chogadh gach seachdain bho chionn ceud bliadhna.

Radio nan Gàidheal

Duration 30:00

Driving Bill Drummond

Bill Drummond is driving to every county in Ireland in five days. But what's driving Bill?

Radio 4

Duration 15:00

The Old Road

Journey's End

Patrick Muirhead retraces the 1899 footsteps of Hilaire Belloc

Radio 4 Extra

Duration 1:00:00

Talking History

13/08/2017

The stories of Leicestershire and Rutland's past.

Radio Leicester

Duration 28:00

Protest Nation

The 1990s

Professor Dai Smith offers a view of Wales in the 1960s.

Radio Wales

Duration 1:00:00

Pete Wilson

Jemima Parry-Jones MBE

Pete Wilson explores the characters and communities that make Gloucestershire great.

Radio Gloucestershire

Duration 1:29:00

Roy Noble

13/08/2017

Music and chat

Radio Wales

Duration 1:15:00

Gay Britannia

How to Have a Perfect Marriage, Series 1 Omnibus

Features celebrating LGBT history in Britain

Radio 4 Extra

Duration 28:00

World War One: The Cultural Front

Series 4

The Jazz Kings Go to War

Francine Stock explores how World War I changed art, words and society.

Radio 4

Duration 30:00

Seirbheis Nàiseanta

Episode 1 of 2

Triùir Uibhisteach a' cuimhneachadh air an t-Seirbheis Nàiseanta a rinn iad fhèin.

Radio nan Gàidheal

Duration 30:00

Taisgte

Cur-Seachadan

Taghadh Choinnich MhicIllEathain à Museum is Tasglann nan Eilean ùr an Caisteal Leòdhais.

Radio nan Gàidheal

Duration 2:00:00

Edinburgh 70: Nothing Short of a Miracle

Jim Naughtie reflects on the origins of the Edinburgh Festival.

Radio 3

Duration 28:00

The Long View

03/08/2017

History series in which stories from the past shed light on current events

Radio 4

Duration 28:00

Making History

The Charter of the Forest

Series exploring the latest historical and archaeological research

Radio 4

Duration 30:00

When Greeks Flew Kites

Generational Breakdown

Monthly series in which Sarah Dunant finds stories from the past to help frame the present

Radio 4

Duration 28:00

Hedd Wyn: The Poet and the Hero

Actor Huw Garmon looks back at the life of Welsh poet and hero Hedd Wyn.

Radio Wales

Duration 30:00

The Long and the Short of It

Series 3

Was Home Rule Rome Rule?

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

Radio Ulster

Duration 57:00

Voices of the First World War

Omnibus 1917

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

Radio 4

Duration 15:00

Waco: Surviving the Apocalypse

28/07/2017

The story of the 1993 Waco siege and the lasting impact on those who survived.

Radio 4

Duration 1:00:00

Stonewall: The Riots That Triggered the Gay Revolution

Tom Robinson examines the legacy of the Stonewall protests for the gay community.

Radio 2

Duration 29:33

I Was There

Decriminalisation of homosexuality

Historic moments from history told by those who lived through them.

Radio 5 live

Duration 30:00

Fragments in Time

Christopher Morris on the identity of a British woman who kept a diary in WW2 France.

Radio 4 Extra

Duration 58:00

Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze

Series 2

Omnibus 3

Bridget Kendall presents an oral history tracing decisive moments of the Cold War.

Radio 4

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