Factual: History A to Z
- 1913: The Year Before
Michael Portillo challenges the notion of calm before the storm of the Great War
- A Brief History of Mathematics
Professor Marcus du Sautoy reveals the personalities behind the calculations
- A History of the World in 100 Objects
Director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, retells humanity's history through objects
- A History of the World in 100 Objects Omnibus
The British Museum's Neil MacGregor tells A History of the World in 100 Objects.
- A History of the World Special
The story of the portrait of a private soldier's sweetheart, painted for him in Auschwitz.
- A Right Royal Rescue
HRH the Duke of Edinburgh recalls his role in a daring rescue during WWII.
- A Voyage on Livingstone's Lake
The story of the MV Ilala, a 60-year-old boat still in use in Malawi and Mozambique.
- America, Empire of Liberty
Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds
- Bach's Choir
Stephen Evans traces the 800-year history of the boys' choir of St Thomas' Church, Leipzig
- Baroque in Britain
Tim Marlow explores Britain's response to Europe's most lavish art movement
- Bosphorus
Edward Stourton explores the life and history of the Bosphorus
- Boundaries of Blood
How does the Indo-Pakistan war of 1971, which created Bangladesh, still resonate today?
- Britain's Sputnik
Roland Pease recalls ZETA, a nuclear energy project unveiled in 1958 by British scientists
- Ceud Bliadhna
Series looking back at Highland news over the last century.
- China: As History Is My Witness
Carrie Gracie presents a series exploring ten great lives from Chinese history
- Churchill's Roar
Melvyn Bragg presents a celebration of the remarkable language of Sir Winston Churchill.
- Coming Home
Charles Wheeler presents personal interpretations about the end of the Second World War.
- Cosmic Quest
Heather Couper presents a narrative history of astronomy
- Dead Sea Scrolls Revisited
Roger Bolton reassesses one of the world's great archaeological discoveries
- Deborah Bull's Dance Nation
Dancer, writer and broadcaster Deborah Bull presents a social history of dance in the UK
- Defining The Decade
Edward Stourton tries to make sense of the past decade
- Democracy on Trial
Michael Portillo examines the development of democracy over 2,500 years
- Disability: A New History
Peter White presents a history of disability in the 18th and 19th centuries
- Discovery of England
Jonathan Bate explores how Elizabethan culture has shaped our image of England.
- Document
Historical investigation programme, taking a document as a starting point
- Domesday Reloaded - Me and My Square
Five Radio 4 presenters return to a place that had special significance for them in 1986
- Domesday Reloaded: How Britain Has Changed
Danny Dorling uses the Domesday Reloaded data to explore how Britain has changed.
- Elizabethan Subjects
Dr Justin Champion examines the life and times of Elizabeth I's more unusual subjects.
- Evita's Odyssey
The incredible story of the international odyssey made by the embalmed body of Eva Peron.
- Extinct!
Adam Rutherford presents a three-part series on extinction
- Fascinating Deaths
Series investigating the deaths of various creatures
- Forbidden Families
Bettany Hughes tells the stories of women denied their families by the march of history
- France's Forgotten Concentration Camps
Investigating the concentration camps set up in France to hold Spanish Civil War refugees.
- From Dunkirk to D-Day
Charles Wheeler analyses the Allies' resurgence in 1944 from their nadir in 1940/41
- From Frestonia to Belgravia: The History of Squatting
Robert Elms charts the history, ideology and culture of squatting.
- Genius Unrecognised
Tony Hill looks at the genesis of five inventions that define our world today
- Good King George
Simon Heffer re-evaluates the reign of George V.
- Hearts and Minds
Nick Fraser considers the role of intellectuals in relation to world events and conflicts
- Hidden Henry
Piortraits of unknown, intimate and surprising aspects of Henry VIII's character
- How Did We Get Here...? Egypt
Stephen Sackur uncovers the history behind the upheavals in Egypt.
- How Dolly Got Rotherham Reading
Sarfraz Manzoor meets Dolly Parton to discover her 'Imagination Library'.
- How New Is the New Philanthropy?
Hugh Cunningham presents a history of philanthropic giving in Britain
- How to Run Europe
Anne McElvoy explores the history of governing Europe across three eras
- Human Kind
Matthew Taylor tells the story of the last eight years in the life of George Price.
- Hunting Haydn's Head
Simon Townley tells the story of the theft of the skull of composer Joseph Haydn.
- Hurricane Rash
Dr Kevin Fong looks at the birth of modern plastic surgery during World War II.
- Images That Changed The World
Dr Mark Lythgoe tells the untold story of medical imaging
- In Living Memory
Series examining contemporary history
- In Our Time
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of ideas
- Inside the Academie Francaise
Agnes Poirier explores the role of the body which protects the French language.
- Iran: A Revolutionary State
John Tusa chronicles the making of modern Iran
- Ken Snowdon
Ken presents the hits and local history from three years gone by.
- King James Bible
The enduring appeal of the King James Bible, 400 years after its original publication.
- Ladies of the Links
Rhona Cameron celebrates the bi-centenary of the earliest known women's golf competition.
- Late Nights at the Blue Boar
Pete Paphides tells the story of the M1's 1960s music meeting place - Blue Boar services.
- Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Men of Fashion
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen tells the story of dandyism and male peacockery through the ages
- Letters to the Russian Front
A story of Austrian siblings told in their wartime letters to and from the Russian front.
- London's Oldest Prison: A History of Criminal Justice
History professor Jerry White tells the story of HMP Brixton
- Making History
Series exploring ordinary people's links with the past
- Making Tracks
Paul Morley charts a history of popular music through recording studios
- Mel's Iron Age Holiday
Mel Giedroyc takes a British family back 2,000 years to live in a Danish Iron Age village.
- Old Photographs Fever - The Search for China's Pictured Past
Historical photographs are rare in China, but now the pictured past is being reclaimed.
- Parting Shots
Matthew Parris marks the passing of the valedictory despatch from British ambassadors
- Random Edition
History series investigating stories taken from archive newspapers
- Reading between the Lines
Michael Morpurgo on the changing experience of learning to read over the last 70 years
- Return to Vukovar
Martin Bell returns 20 years on to the Siege of Vukovar in Croatia.
- Royal Racers and Fascinators
Hardeep Singh Kohli visits Royal Ascot on the 300th anniversary of the racecourse.
- Russia: The Wild East
A history of Russia, written and presented by Martin Sixsmith
- Secret Museum
Secret Mueum looks at the explicit erotic, sexual and pornographic art of Pompeii.
- Sexual Nature: A Brief Natural History of Sex
Adam Rutherford explores the deep history of sex
- Shakespeare's London
Writer Iain Sinclair seeks out echoes of Shakespeare's city in the London of today.
- Shakespeare's Restless World
Neil MacGregor uncovers the stories twenty objects tell us about Shakespeare's world.
- Soft Power Hard News
How the power of the news media is used as a global government tool for influence
- Sport and the British
Clare Balding charts how sport has shaped the British and how Britain has shaped sport
- Sporting Witness Archive
The inside and personal story of key moments from sporting history.
- Talking History
The stories of Leicestershire and Rutland's past.
- The Art of Monarchy
Will Gompertz examines objects in the Royal Collection that define the British monarchy.
- The Blood Telegram
The story of one of the most controversial documents in US diplomatic history.
- The Chaplin Archive
Exploring the vast archive of Chaplin's unfinished scripts, letters and press cuttings
- The Communist Cosmos
Angus Roxburgh explores the years when the Soviet Union ruled space.
- The Eureka Years
Series exploring spectacular years in the history of science
- The Forum
Bridget Kendall chairs The Forum, a place where guests discuss and challenge big ideas.
- The Freedom Trail
Edward Stourton walks the most dangerous WWII escape route over the Pyrenees
- The Frock and the Church
Women bishops? Will the Church of England approve them and can it cope with the fallout?
- The History Hour
From World War II to the Arab Spring, history told by the people who were there
- The Ice Cream Van Cometh
Jim Carey celebrates the ice cream van with enthusiasts Francis Rossi and Johnny Vegas.
- The Invention of Germany
Misha Glenny presents a three part history of Germany before the world wars
- The Invention of Spain
Misha Glenny presents a history of Spain
- The London Chronicles Archive
The sounds of the historic and influential city, through its music, life, noise and people
- The London Nobody Knows
Historian and broadcaster Dan Cruickshank goes off the beaten track in London
- The Long View
Jonathan Freedland presents the series that looks for the past behind the present.
- The Luddite Lament
The songs inspired by the Luddites and their uprisings - which began 200 years ago.
- The Lunatic Line
Ayisha Yahya tells the story of the 600-mile railway line from the Kenyan coast to Uganda
- The Making of Modern Medicine
Narrative history series exploring over 2,000 years of western medicine
- The New Elizabethans
James Naughtie profiles 60 public figures nominated to mark the diamond jubilee
- The Nile
Edward Stourton explores the impact of the famous river on the people of Egypt
