Factual: History A to Z

  1. A Brief History of Mathematics

    Professor Marcus du Sautoy reveals the personalities behind the calculations

  2. A History of the World in 100 Objects

    Director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, retells humanity's history through objects

  3. A History of the World in 100 Objects Omnibus

    The British Museum's Neil MacGregor tells A History of the World in 100 Objects.

  4. A History of the World Special

    The story of the portrait of a private soldier's sweetheart, painted for him in Auschwitz.

  5. A Voyage on Livingstone's Lake

    The story of the MV Ilala, a 60-year-old boat still in use in Malawi and Mozambique.

  6. America, Empire of Liberty

    Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds

  7. Bach's Choir

    Stephen Evans traces the 800-year history of the boys' choir of St Thomas' Church, Leipzig

  8. Baroque in Britain

    Tim Marlow explores Britain's response to Europe's most lavish art movement

  9. Bosphorus

    Edward Stourton explores the life and history of the Bosphorus

  10. Boundaries of Blood

    How does the Indo-Pakistan war of 1971, which created Bangladesh, still resonate today?

  11. Britain's Sputnik

    Roland Pease recalls ZETA, a nuclear energy project unveiled in 1958 by British scientists

  12. Ceud Bliadhna

    Series looking back at Highland news over the last century.

  13. China: As History Is My Witness

    Carrie Gracie presents a series exploring ten great lives from Chinese history

  14. Churchill's Roar

    Melvyn Bragg presents a celebration of the remarkable language of Sir Winston Churchill.

  15. Coming Home

    Charles Wheeler presents personal interpretations about the end of the Second World War.

  16. Cosmic Quest

    Heather Couper presents a narrative history of astronomy

  17. Dambusters Special

    BBC Lincolnshire brings you their Dambusters special.

  18. Dead Sea Scrolls Revisited

    Roger Bolton reassesses one of the world's great archaeological discoveries

  19. Deborah Bull's Dance Nation

    Dancer, writer and broadcaster Deborah Bull presents a social history of dance in the UK

  20. Defining The Decade

    Edward Stourton tries to make sense of the past decade

  21. Democracy on Trial

    Michael Portillo examines the development of democracy over 2,500 years

  22. Discovery of England

    Jonathan Bate explores how Elizabethan culture has shaped our image of England.

  23. Document

    Historical investigation programme, taking a document as a starting point

  24. Domesday Reloaded - Me and My Square

    Five Radio 4 presenters return to a place that had special significance for them in 1986

  25. Domesday Reloaded: How Britain Has Changed

    Danny Dorling uses the Domesday Reloaded data to explore how Britain has changed.

  26. Elizabethan Subjects

    Dr Justin Champion examines the life and times of Elizabeth I's more unusual subjects.

  27. Evita's Odyssey

    The incredible story of the international odyssey made by the embalmed body of Eva Peron.

  28. Extinct!

    Adam Rutherford presents a three-part series on extinction

  29. Fascinating Deaths

    Series investigating the deaths of various creatures

  30. Forbidden Families

    Bettany Hughes tells the stories of women denied their families by the march of history

  31. France's Forgotten Concentration Camps

    Investigating the concentration camps set up in France to hold Spanish Civil War refugees.

  32. From Dunkirk to D-Day

    Charles Wheeler analyses the Allies' resurgence in 1944 from their nadir in 1940/41

  33. From Frestonia to Belgravia: The History of Squatting

    Robert Elms charts the history, ideology and culture of squatting.

  34. Genius Unrecognised

    Tony Hill looks at the genesis of five inventions that define our world today

  35. Good King George

    Simon Heffer re-evaluates the reign of George V.

  36. Hearts and Minds

    Nick Fraser considers the role of intellectuals in relation to world events and conflicts

  37. Hidden Henry

    Piortraits of unknown, intimate and surprising aspects of Henry VIII's character

  38. How Did We Get Here...? Egypt

    Stephen Sackur uncovers the history behind the upheavals in Egypt.

  39. How Dolly Got Rotherham Reading

    Sarfraz Manzoor meets Dolly Parton to discover her 'Imagination Library'.

  40. How New Is the New Philanthropy?

    Hugh Cunningham presents a history of philanthropic giving in Britain

  41. How to Run Europe

    Anne McElvoy explores the history of governing Europe across three eras

  42. Human Kind

    Matthew Taylor tells the story of the last eight years in the life of George Price.

  43. Hunting Haydn's Head

    Simon Townley tells the story of the theft of the skull of composer Joseph Haydn.

  44. Hurricane Rash

    Dr Kevin Fong looks at the birth of modern plastic surgery during World War II.

  45. Images That Changed The World

    Dr Mark Lythgoe tells the untold story of medical imaging

  46. In Living Memory

    Series examining contemporary history

  47. In Our Time

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of ideas

  48. Inside the Academie Francaise

    Agnes Poirier explores the role of the body which protects the French language.

  49. Iran: A Revolutionary State

    John Tusa chronicles the making of modern Iran

  50. Ken Snowdon

    Ken presents the hits and local history from three years gone by.

  51. King James Bible

    The enduring appeal of the King James Bible, 400 years after its original publication.

  52. Ladies of the Links

    Rhona Cameron celebrates the bi-centenary of the earliest known women's golf competition.

  53. Late Nights at the Blue Boar

    Pete Paphides tells the story of the M1's 1960s music meeting place - Blue Boar services.

  54. Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Men of Fashion

    Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen tells the story of dandyism and male peacockery through the ages

  55. Letters to the Russian Front

    A story of Austrian siblings told in their wartime letters to and from the Russian front.

  56. Making History

    Series exploring ordinary people's links with the past

  57. Making Tracks

    Paul Morley charts a history of popular music through recording studios

  58. Mel's Iron Age Holiday

    Mel Giedroyc takes a British family back 2,000 years to live in a Danish Iron Age village.

  59. Old Photographs Fever - The Search for China's Pictured Past

    Historical photographs are rare in China, but now the pictured past is being reclaimed.

  60. Parting Shots

    Matthew Parris marks the passing of the valedictory despatch from British ambassadors

  61. Random Edition

    History series investigating stories taken from archive newspapers

  62. Reading between the Lines

    Michael Morpurgo on the changing experience of learning to read over the last 70 years

  63. Return to Vukovar

    Martin Bell returns 20 years on to the Siege of Vukovar in Croatia.

  64. Royal Racers and Fascinators

    Hardeep Singh Kohli visits Royal Ascot on the 300th anniversary of the racecourse.

  65. Russia: The Wild East

    A history of Russia, written and presented by Martin Sixsmith

  66. Secret Museum

    Secret Mueum looks at the explicit erotic, sexual and pornographic art of Pompeii.

  67. Sexual Nature: A Brief Natural History of Sex

    Adam Rutherford explores the deep history of sex

  68. Shakespeare's London

    Writer Iain Sinclair seeks out echoes of Shakespeare's city in the London of today.

  69. Shakespeare's Restless World

    Neil MacGregor uncovers the stories twenty objects tell us about Shakespeare's world.

  70. Soft Power Hard News

    How the power of the news media is used as a global government tool for influence

  71. Sport and the British

    Clare Balding charts how sport has shaped the British and how Britain has shaped sport

  72. Sporting Witness Archive

    The inside and personal story of key moments from sporting history.

  73. Talking History

    The stories of Leicestershire and Rutland's past.

  74. The Art of Monarchy

    Will Gompertz examines objects in the Royal Collection that define the British monarchy.

  75. The Blood Telegram

    The story of one of the most controversial documents in US diplomatic history.

  76. The Chaplin Archive

    Exploring the vast archive of Chaplin's unfinished scripts, letters and press cuttings

  77. The Communist Cosmos

    Angus Roxburgh explores the years when the Soviet Union ruled space.

  78. The Eureka Years

    Series exploring spectacular years in the history of science

  79. The Forum

    Bridget Kendall chairs The Forum, a place where guests discuss and challenge big ideas.

  80. The Freedom Trail

    Edward Stourton walks the most dangerous WWII escape route over the Pyrenees

  81. The Frock and the Church

    Women bishops? Will the Church of England approve them and can it cope with the fallout?

  82. The History Hour

    From World War II to the Arab Spring, history told by the people who were there

  83. The Ice Cream Van Cometh

    Jim Carey celebrates the ice cream van with enthusiasts Francis Rossi and Johnny Vegas.

  84. The Invention of Germany

    Misha Glenny presents a three part history of Germany before the world wars

  85. The Invention of Spain

    Misha Glenny presents a history of Spain

  86. The London Chronicles

    The sounds of the historic and influential city, through its music, life, noise and people

  87. The London Nobody Knows

    Historian and broadcaster Dan Cruickshank goes off the beaten track in London

  88. The Long View

    Jonathan Freedland presents the series that looks for the past behind the present.

  89. The Luddite Lament

    The songs inspired by the Luddites and their uprisings - which began 200 years ago.

  90. The Lunatic Line

    Ayisha Yahya tells the story of the 600-mile railway line from the Kenyan coast to Uganda

  91. The Making of Modern Medicine

    Narrative history series exploring over 2,000 years of western medicine

  92. The New Elizabethans

    James Naughtie profiles 60 public figures nominated to mark the diamond jubilee

  93. The Nile

    Edward Stourton explores the impact of the famous river on the people of Egypt

  94. The People's D-Day

    Libby Purves travels around Britain to find out about Britain's preparations for D-Day

  95. The People's Post: A Narrative History of the Post Office

    Dominic Sandbrook charts the development of the post office

  96. The People's Songs

    Stuart Maconie tells the story of modern Britain via the songs that provided a soundtrack.