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Factual: Life Stories

(268 programmes in total)

  1. A Blunt Instrument
  2. A Box of Wittgensteins Available on BBC iPlayer
  3. A Celestial Star in Piccadilly
  4. A Child's Christmas in Wales
  5. A Great Wall
  6. A Jewel in the Comedy Crown
  7. A Life in Cans
  8. A Night with... George Melly
  9. A Voyage to Lundy
  10. A Wonderful Way to Make a Living
  11. Adrian's Wall
  12. Advice to the Living
  13. Alan Garner: The Return to Brisingamen
  14. Ali Abbas: In His Own Words
  15. Aliyah: Going Up
  16. An Interior Life
  17. Anatomies of Betrayal
  18. Anatomy of a Car Crash
  19. Angels Don't Swear: Marty Feldman Revisited
  20. Arthur Mee: Encyclopaedist
  21. Arthur O'Connor's Last Flight
  22. Between Ourselves
  23. Between Rock and a Good Cause
  24. Beyond These Walls
  25. Biafra Revisited
  26. Big Fish, Small Ponds
  27. Bill Mitchell: The Man Who Wrestled Pumas... Probably
  28. Birds and the Battlefield
  29. Blasted: The Life and Death of Sarah Kane
  30. Blondin of Niagara Falls and Ealing
  31. Bob Marley: The Chrysler Year
  32. Boris Yeltsin: A Flawed Giant
  33. Born with Down's
  34. Bowling For Love
  35. Brandreth's Pills
  36. Britain's Blonde Bombshell: The Diana Dors Story
  37. Burl Ives
  38. Charles Wheeler: Looted Art
  39. Child of the State
  40. Children of the Olympic Bid
  41. Chinua Achebe: A Hero Returns
  42. City Limits
  43. City Messengers: Still Pedalling?
  44. Coward, the Poet
  45. Danny Kaye: UNICEF's Jester
  46. Darwin Songs
  47. Darwin: My Ancestor
  48. Desert Island Discs Available on BBC iPlayer
  49. Discovering the Sitwells
  50. Dominoes Goes Home
  51. Don't Hang Up
  52. Doonesburyland
  53. Einstein's Fiddle Available on BBC iPlayer
  54. Ena
  55. Encounters with the Pink Dame
  56. Femme Fatale: The Story of Nico
  57. Fifty Years before the Masthead
  58. Following Wainwright
  59. For Nature, Not Humans
  60. Forbidden Families
  61. Forever 22
  62. Frankie's House
  63. Freak Out! The Frank Zappa Story
  64. Freedom Song
  65. Gangs, Guns and Families
  66. Garibaldi's Grand Scheme
  67. Gesualdo: Musician and Murderer
  68. Great Aunt Mary's Tune
  69. Great Lives Available on BBC iPlayer
  70. Gurinder, The Movie
  71. Hamish Henderson: A Various Man
  72. Harry Worth: The Man in the Window
  73. Henry Cyril Paget: Lord of the Dance
  74. Here We Come
  75. Hovis Has Left the Building
  76. How Robin Ince Got His Groove Back
  77. I Don't Know What to Say
  78. I Was a Child Prodigy
  79. I Was Morrissey's Drummer
  80. I Was Peckinpah's Girl Friday
  81. I Was Peter Sellers' Personal Assistant
  82. I Was Put on Trial by Al Qaeda
  83. I Was...
  84. If You're Reading This
  85. In Search of Forgiveness
  86. In Search of Sid
  87. Inheritance
  88. Inside The Taj
  89. Into the Gap
  90. It Was A Dark and Stormy Night
  91. It's My Story
  92. Jay-Z: From Brooklyn to the Boardroom
  93. Jean
  94. Joan Armatrading's Favourite Guitarists
  95. John Curwen and His Moveable Doh
  96. Jon Ronson On Available on BBC iPlayer
  97. Journey of a Lifetime Available on BBC iPlayer
  98. Journey to Armenia: Komitas - The Saddest Music in the World
  99. Journey to Armenia: Mandelstam - The Long Desired for Voyage
  100. Just What I Always Wanted
  101. Keeping the Faith
  102. Ken Clarke's Jazz Greats
  103. Ken Dodd: How Tickled I've Been
  104. Ken Dodd: How Tickled I've Been
  105. Knowing Nelson Mandela
  106. Lady Bountiful and the Bluecoat Boys
  107. Larry Stephens: The Man Who Never Was
  108. Last Word Available on BBC iPlayer
  109. Lawrence Ferlinghetti: A Reluctant Beat
  110. Lennon's Private Passion: Cape Wrath
  111. Leo, Rusty and ME
  112. Leonard and Marianne
  113. Leslie Charteris: A Saintly Centennial
  114. Letters Home
  115. Letters to Myself
  116. Li Yuan-Chia
  117. Life After Tom
  118. Linnaeus and the Immorality of Bluebells
  119. Lives in a Landscape
  120. Losing the Habit
  121. Lost Voices
  122. Love Death and the Lady: The Life and Music of Shirley Collins
  123. Ludwig Koch and the Music of Nature Available on BBC iPlayer
  124. M Is for Maxwell Knight
  125. Making History Available on BBC iPlayer
  126. Making the Grade
  127. Menotti
  128. Merry Widows
  129. Money Can't Buy You Class?
  130. More Untold Stories
  131. Mr Haydn's London Experience
  132. Music to Drive to
  133. Musical Migrants
  134. My Alter Ego
  135. My Life in Soap
  136. My Teenage Diary
  137. My Yiddisher Mother Tongue
  138. National Obsession
  139. Nigel Balchin: The Small Back Room Boy
  140. Nightingale of the Nile
  141. No Triumph, No Tragedy
  142. No Triumph, No Tragedy
  143. Nobody Told Me to Oil My Boots
  144. Not Now Arthur
  145. O Lucky Man!
  146. Obama: Professor President
  147. On the Ropes Available on BBC iPlayer
  148. One Hundred Years of Concrete
  149. One Woman's Struggle: The Story of the MOBO Awards
  150. Oscar Marzaroli: The Man Who Captured Scotland
  151. Ouch! Men and Shaving
  152. Over The Rainbow With Yip Harburg
  153. Parkmasters
  154. Percy and Jock: One Man and His Dog
  155. Percy Edwards Showdown
  156. Peter Bogdanovich's Saturday Morning Pictures
  157. Philip Pullman and Miss Jones
  158. Pieces of a Man
  159. Prescott at Your Service
  160. Profile Available on BBC iPlayer
  161. Real World
  162. Received with Thanks
  163. Received with Thanks Available on BBC iPlayer
  164. Remembering Alan
  165. Remembering Alistair Cooke
  166. Retracing Elmet
  167. Return from Guantanamo
  168. Reunion
  169. Robert Winston's Musical Analysis
  170. Robin Hood and the Cuban Revolutionaries
  171. Romany Roads
  172. Ronnie's Last Show
  173. Rover: Two Years On
  174. Runaway Train
  175. Saturday Live Available on BBC iPlayer
  176. Schumpeter Rising
  177. Snow in Libya
  178. Soldier's Haven
  179. Sound the Horne: The 100th Anniversary of Our Ken
  180. South of My Days
  181. Spoon, Jar, Jar, Spoon: The Two Sides of Tommy Cooper
  182. Squaring the Triangle
  183. Standing up for Liverpool
  184. Stash: The Dandy Aesthete of Swinging London
  185. Street Circus
  186. Strictly Come Brucie
  187. Take Two
  188. Taking a Stand Available on BBC iPlayer
  189. Talk Amongst Yourselves: The Billy Dainty Story
  190. Talking about Lionel
  191. Ted Hughes: Eco Warrior
  192. Terry Nutkins: In the Ring of Bright Water
  193. Thank You
  194. The Accidental Volunteer
  195. The Appalling Mr Dali
  196. The Bard of Salford
  197. The Best DJ You've Never Heard in Your Life
  198. The Best Years of His Life
  199. The Big Man
  200. The Blonde Atomic Traitress
  201. The Bond Correspondence
  202. The Broken Melody
  203. The Call
  204. The Chambers Available on BBC iPlayer
  205. The Choice
  206. The Clinton Years
  207. The Conchies of Holton-Cum-Beckering
  208. The Deighton File
  209. The Diary
  210. The Egg and I: Betty MacDonald Had a Farm
  211. The Entrepreneur's Wound Available on BBC iPlayer
  212. The Flight from Tehran: British-Iranians 30 Years On
  213. The GI Blues of Elvis Presley
  214. The Good Samaritan
  215. The Hidden World of Jacques Cousteau
  216. The Homecoming
  217. The House I Grew up In
  218. The Jazz Baroness
  219. The Last Nazi Hunter
  220. The Man Who Bought Hendrix's Stage
  221. The Man Who Sold Peerages
  222. The Man Who Was Bojangles
  223. The Monsarrat Archive
  224. The Muse of Rose Street
  225. The Name of the Father
  226. The Negro Tragedian
  227. The Pain of Laughter: The Last Days of Kenneth Williams
  228. The Party's Over
  229. The Perfect House
  230. The Poet of Albion
  231. The Poet of Sparty Lea: In Search of Barry MacSweeney
  232. The Price of a Pint of Milk
  233. The Prime Ministers Available on BBC iPlayer
  234. The Rainbow Tribe
  235. The Reunion Available on BBC iPlayer
  236. The Romantic Road: On the Trail of the German Philosophers
  237. The Sarah Party
  238. The Saving of Fordhall Farm
  239. The Sex Lives of Us
  240. The Sex Lives of Us: Gay Times
  241. The Simple Pie Man
  242. The Single Life
  243. The Sound Makers
  244. The Strange Story of Rudolph Dunbar
  245. The Tall Guy
  246. The Trumpet Shall Sound
  247. The Two-Minute Silence
  248. The Women of Rainer Maria Rilke
  249. There's More Here Than I Thought
  250. Thoroughly Modest Mollie
  251. Tintin's Guide to Journalism
  252. Together against the Odds
  253. Top of the Class
  254. Travels with Cap'n Bob
  255. Triple Espresso, Marinetti and the Futurists
  256. Turned out Nice Again!
  257. Twin Sisters, Two Faiths Available on BBC iPlayer
  258. Ursula Le Guin at 80
  259. US Comics Confidential
  260. Van Gogh: Seeing Red
  261. Walls and Peace
  262. What Scientists Believe
  263. What's in Your Head
  264. Wheatstone, His Sighing Reed, and the Great Regondi
  265. Who Was Opal? Available on BBC iPlayer
  266. William Burroughs: Nothing Is True, Everything Is Permitted
  267. Young Governors Take Control
  268. Youssou N'Dour at 50: Africa's Greatest Star

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