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Factual: History

(386 programmes in total)

  1. 100 Years On The Black Hills
  2. 1707: In the Footsteps of Defoe
  3. 1707: Take an Englishman and a Scotsman
  4. 1707: The Birth of Britain
  5. 1929: Crash, Bang, Wallop
  6. 1968 - The Year of Revolutions
  7. 1968 Day by Day
  8. 1968 Day by Day Omnibus
  9. 1968 The Sixty-Eighters at Sixty
  10. 1968: Day by Day
  11. 1968: Philosophy in the Streets
  12. 1968: Rivers of Blood: The Real Source
  13. 1989: Day by Day Available on BBC iPlayer
  14. 1989: Day by Day Omnibus Available on BBC iPlayer
  15. 1989: How The Wall Fell
  16. 1989: Restitching the City
  17. 1989: Simpson Returns Available on BBC iPlayer
  18. 1989: The '89 Generation
  19. A Blunt Instrument
  20. A Dream of Eleanor
  21. A History of Private Life
  22. A History of Private Life: Omnibus
  23. A History of War and Peace in 4 Menus
  24. A Hogmanay Special
  25. A House with a Past
  26. A Royal Recovery
  27. A Scandal in Galloway
  28. A Short History of Ireland
  29. A Very Theatrical Revolution
  30. A Voyage on Livingstone's Lake
  31. A War Less Ordinary
  32. A' Cuimhneachadh a' Chogaidh Mhòir
  33. A' Ghaidhealtachd 's a' Ghalltachd
  34. Adventures in Junk
  35. Air Mo Chuairt
  36. Alistair Cooke Memorial Lecture
  37. Alistair Cooke's Seasonal Letters from America
  38. All Bull and Brasso - The National Servicemen
  39. Am Blàr a bha as t-earrach
  40. America, Empire of Liberty
  41. America, Empire of Liberty
  42. America, Empire of Liberty Omnibus
  43. Ankle High History
  44. Are You Looking for a Fight? Putting Scotland's Battlefields on the Map
  45. Armistice Day Silence
  46. Art in the Trenches
  47. At War with Wellington
  48. At War with Wellington Docudrama
  49. Auld Firm Old Family
  50. Austria: A Convenient Victim
  51. Back from the Brink: How a Shipyard Defied Closure
  52. Baghdad of the Mind
  53. BBC Radio Solent D Day Special
  54. Be Prepared
  55. Before the War
  56. Behind the Scenes with Carbon Dioxide
  57. Being Prince of Wales
  58. Belsen after Belsen
  59. Biafra Revisited
  60. Big Fish, Small Ponds
  61. Black Students in Red Russia
  62. Bong! The Condensed History of Big Ben
  63. Boom Hall
  64. Brand Cuba
  65. Bricks and Mortals
  66. Brief Lives
  67. Britain In Their Sites
  68. Britain's Sputnik
  69. Britain's White House
  70. Broken Arrow
  71. By Jove Carruthers!
  72. Bye Bye Lullaby
  73. Byzantium Unearthed
  74. Camp 165: Living with the Enemy
  75. Case Reopened
  76. Catholics and Jews
  77. Celebration of Lincolnshire Folk
  78. Ceremony of Remembrance From the Cenotaph
  79. Ceud Bliadhna Available on BBC iPlayer
  80. Charles Wheeler: Coming Home
  81. Charles Wheeler: Evacuation: The True Story
  82. Charles Wheeler: The Child Migrants
  83. Charles Wheeler: The Peacetime Conscripts
  84. China Girl
  85. Chinese in Britain
  86. Chris Bailey
  87. Cleaning Out the Camp
  88. Cò Calvin?
  89. Comrades
  90. Corridor of Sound
  91. Cosmic Quest
  92. Cosmic Quest Omnibus
  93. Countdown to D-Day
  94. Cruickshank on New Zealand
  95. Culloden: A New Battle
  96. Darwin
  97. Darwin: My Ancestor
  98. Daughters of Britannia Available on BBC iPlayer
  99. Daughters of Britannia Omnibus
  100. Dead Sea Scrolls Revisited
  101. Deep in the Heart of Texas
  102. Defining The Decade Available on BBC iPlayer
  103. Deltasonic
  104. Digging Up Your Roots
  105. Diplomatic Dinners
  106. Discovering the Sitwells
  107. Do or Die
  108. Document Available on BBC iPlayer
  109. Eachdraidh na h-Alba
  110. Earth to Earth
  111. Earth, Wind and Pyre
  112. Ebrington - The Fort On The Foyle
  113. Endangered Sounds
  114. Enlightenment
  115. Escape from Marseilles
  116. Falklands 25
  117. Family at War
  118. Farewell To Ninian Park
  119. Fascinating Deaths
  120. Festival of Remembrance
  121. Fiery Cross
  122. Five Meet to Make Up Myths
  123. For the Love of Prague
  124. Forbidden Families
  125. Fowles in Dorset
  126. France's Forgotten Concentration Camps Available on BBC iPlayer
  127. Frankie Vaughan and the Live Gang Show
  128. Freedom Song
  129. From Abacus to Circle Time: A Short History of the Primary School
  130. From Dots to Downloads
  131. Frost Fair
  132. Garibaldi's Grand Scheme
  133. George and Fred's Christmas
  134. God of War, God of Peace
  135. Great Uncle William - A Soldier's Story
  136. Grigorii Efimovich Rasputin - Almost the Truth
  137. Hands across the Sea
  138. Hard Row to Porlock
  139. Harlem Timeline
  140. Hearts and Minds Available on BBC iPlayer
  141. Hebridean War
  142. Henry Cyril Paget: Lord of the Dance
  143. Hidden Henry
  144. Highs and Lows – The Bruntingthorpe Bomber
  145. Hillsborough
  146. Hillsborough Remembered
  147. Hippies
  148. Historians in the Tent of the General
  149. History of Bond Themes
  150. History Zone Available on BBC iPlayer
  151. History's Witness
  152. Hooked on History
  153. How David Hasselhoff Brought Down The Wall
  154. How the Stone Came Home
  155. Hunting Haydn's Head
  156. Hunting the Beagle
  157. Hunting the Beagle
  158. I Got up out of My Seat
  159. I Have Heard The Mermaids Singing
  160. In Afghanistan: 30 Years of Conflict and Chaos
  161. In Living Memory Available on BBC iPlayer
  162. In Pursuit of the Dalai Lama
  163. In Search of the Wantley Dragon
  164. Iran: A Revolutionary State Available on BBC iPlayer
  165. Jacko
  166. Jerry Rocks The Boat
  167. John Bennett's Radio Years
  168. John Ryan
  169. Jon Ronson and the Quest for the Aryan Cow
  170. Keepsakes of Conflict: Remembering World War One
  171. Keith Skues
  172. Ken Snowdon Available on BBC iPlayer
  173. Khmer Rock and the Killing Fields
  174. Kings of the Road
  175. Kith and Kin
  176. Land Lines
  177. Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Men of Fashion
  178. Learning to Love the Microphone
  179. Let Me Entertain You
  180. Letters to Mary
  181. Lions and Dragons
  182. Lord Kitchener's Image
  183. Luting the Past
  184. M Is for Maxwell Knight
  185. Maadai-Kara
  186. Macbeth Remixed
  187. Macbeth the Highland King
  188. Magnetic Memories
  189. Magnetic Memories
  190. Making History Available on BBC iPlayer
  191. Making of the Coal House
  192. Marshall's Plan
  193. Men of Stone
  194. Mendelssohn Weekend
  195. Miss Buttolph's Marvellous Menu Collection
  196. Moonbathing
  197. More Than A Game
  198. Mother Was A Blackshirt
  199. My Alter Ego
  200. My Dad's Diary
  201. My Secret War
  202. My Yiddisher Mother Tongue
  203. Nationalise It!
  204. New Year's Day Concert 2010
  205. Night Witches
  206. No Going Back Available on BBC iPlayer
  207. Odyssey
  208. On the Trail of the Templars
  209. Operation Pied Piper
  210. Orkyology
  211. Ossian
  212. Panty
  213. Paradise Lost: The Story of the Chagos Islands
  214. Past Lives
  215. Past Master
  216. Paupers and Pig Killers
  217. Petrov's Dilemma
  218. Pits and Pulpits
  219. Poland: Spies, Secrets and Lies
  220. Poppies Are Red, Cornflowers Are Blue
  221. Postcards from the White City
  222. Postscript
  223. Prescott at Your Service
  224. Protected by Faith Available on BBC iPlayer
  225. Puppets Through America
  226. Random Edition
  227. Rebels Cymreig Available on BBC iPlayer
  228. Remembrance
  229. Return from Freedom
  230. Return of the Helmet
  231. Robin Hood and the Cuban Revolutionaries
  232. Rockin' against Racism
  233. Romany Roads
  234. SBC Presents...The Union That Never Happened
  235. Scotland's Black History
  236. Scotland's Shame: Bunce Island
  237. Scots Gothic: A Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe in Ayrshire
  238. Secrets of Stonehenge
  239. Shooting Soviets: Cartier-Bresson in Moscow
  240. Shopkeepers of the Nation
  241. Short History of Ireland
  242. Siabost as Bòidhche
  243. Slave and the Showman: The Story of Peter India
  244. Slavery Songlines
  245. Slavery: The Welsh Connection
  246. Sleeping with the Enemy
  247. Snow in Libya
  248. Souls For Sale
  249. Soundscape of 1969
  250. Spectacular Hapsburgs
  251. Spinning Yarns: A History of the Cotton Industry
  252. Squaring the Triangle
  253. Staging Ireland
  254. Stand Down Margaret: Music's Response to Thatcherism
  255. Stephen Butt Available on BBC iPlayer
  256. Stonewall: The Riots That Triggered the Gay Revolution
  257. Strike
  258. Sunday Feature Available on BBC iPlayer
  259. Surfing Tommies' - Part Two
  260. Tales Before the Stave
  261. Tales from Romania - 20 Years After Ceausescu
  262. Ten Popes who Shook the World
  263. The '59 Revival
  264. The '59 Revival: The Outpouring
  265. The 40th Anniversary of Woodstock
  266. The A-Z of Dr Johnson: Words, Words, Words
  267. The Ancient Novel
  268. The Animals' VC
  269. The Art of Rhetoric
  270. The Beatles in Bangor
  271. The Blonde Atomic Traitress
  272. The Brixmis Story
  273. The Cases That Changed Our World
  274. The Chopin Experience
  275. The Conchies of Holton-Cum-Beckering
  276. The Counterfeiter's Tale
  277. The Day The Wall Fell
  278. The Dirty Dozens
  279. The Dundee Ripper
  280. The Early Music Show Available on BBC iPlayer
  281. The Eureka Years
  282. The Fall Of The Berlin Wall
  283. The FBI at 100
  284. The Frost Years
  285. The Grandfather of Self Help
  286. The Grandfather of Self Help
  287. The Highland/Lowland History of Scotland
  288. The Human Button
  289. The Hunt for U12
  290. The Jewish Connection
  291. The Keskidee
  292. The Ladies of Pleasure
  293. The Lament of the SS Mendi
  294. The Long View
  295. The Maggot in Mr Churchill's Kipper
  296. The Making of Modern Medicine
  297. The Man Who Sold Peerages
  298. The Mason Word
  299. The Menin Gate
  300. The Miners Strike
  301. The Missing Penny
  302. The Mother Church of Country Music: The Ryman Auditorium
  303. The Mysterious Commander
  304. The Negro Tragedian
  305. The Night the Troubles Started
  306. The Omnipresent Mr Handel
  307. The Other Notting Hill
  308. The Other Radio Caroline
  309. The Other Radio Caroline
  310. The Other Radio Caroline
  311. The Other Radio Caroline
  312. The Oxbridge Murder
  313. The Partisan Coffee House
  314. The Past Master
  315. The People of the British Museum
  316. The Ping Pong Diplomats
  317. The Preposterous Files
  318. The Price of Peace
  319. The Prime Ministers Available on BBC iPlayer
  320. The Q Camp
  321. The Quaker's Tale
  322. The Queen's Heid
  323. The Race To Dover
  324. The Radical and the Emperor
  325. The Real Maria
  326. The Road to Rome
  327. The Roaring Girls: Women Pirates across the Ages
  328. The Roaring Girls: Women Pirates across the Ages
  329. The Romantic Road: On the Trail of the German Philosophers
  330. The Roots of the British Legion
  331. The Shock of the Knee
  332. The Six Faces of Henry VIII
  333. The Spies Who Knew Too Much
  334. The Story of Silence
  335. The Story of the Welsh Family
  336. The Strange Case of Oliver Cromwell's Head
  337. The Test of Time
  338. The Tiger Takes Guard
  339. The Unknown Face
  340. The Unseen
  341. The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes
  342. The World in a Briefcase
  343. The Wreck of the Alba
  344. There's More Here Than I Thought
  345. Things We Forgot to Remember Available on BBC iPlayer
  346. This Sceptred Isle
  347. This Sceptred Isle: Dynasties
  348. This Sceptred Isle: The 20th Century
  349. Thomas Telford: The Man Who Changed Scotland
  350. Those Baneful Articles
  351. Tiugainn a Dhannsa
  352. To Russia With Love
  353. Tracing Your Roots Available on BBC iPlayer
  354. Trade Roots
  355. Triple Espresso, Marinetti and the Futurists
  356. Twenty Minutes
  357. Twenty Welsh Moments Of The Noughties
  358. Twice Saved or Twice Stolen?
  359. UK Confidential
  360. UK Confidential
  361. UK Confidential
  362. Uncle Sam Goes Pop
  363. Uncovering Pakistan: A Leap Of Faith
  364. Untouchable
  365. Vetch Field: A Swansong
  366. Villains of Liverpool
  367. Wales Observed
  368. Walking on the Moon
  369. Walking Through History
  370. Walking Through Time
  371. We Three Kings
  372. Westminster Follies
  373. Westside Wrens
  374. What You Didn't Learn in School
  375. Whatever Happened To The Working Class
  376. When CB Ruled the Waves
  377. When Hollywood Went To War
  378. When Pirates Ruled the Waves
  379. When the Boats Went Down: An Islay Story
  380. When the Boats Went Down: An Islay Story
  381. When the Pubs Went Dry
  382. Witness Available on BBC iPlayer
  383. Wrecked
  384. Written in Stone
  385. Y Rhyfel Oer
  386. Yn y Dechreuad

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