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A look back at Chicago's underground feminist abortion service.

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The Science of Evil

How the Holocaust created a new field of science - social psychology

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I Think I’ve Been Here Before

Repetition is everywhere. Repetition is persuasive. Has Ross Sutherland been here before?

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Andrea Levy: In her own words

Andrea Levy speaks candidly about her writing life and her impending death.

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Everyone's a Star

Chris Stokel-Walker assesses how YouTube has shaped and changed the society we live in.

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The Decade of Distrust

Laura Kuenssberg explores the foundations of the scandals that shook faith in elites.

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Call Up: The Story of National Service

Sixty years after the call-up ended, Richard Vinen looks back at National Service.

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After The Fallout

The human fall out from the Pacific Nuclear tests - dramatically revisited.

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Lights, Camera, Inaction: An Existential Guide to the Movies

Matthew Sweet looks at why mainstream cinema and existentialism seem so fond of each other

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The End of the Thirty Year Itch

Phil Tinline explores whether we are seeing the emergence of a new political orthodoxy.

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Riot Remembered

The St Paul's Riots in Bristol in 1980 remembered by those who took part.

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I'm Terry Gross and this is Fresh Air

Dolly Alderton turns the tables on the master of the radio interview, Terry Gross.

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The Hubble Legacy

Astronaut Nicole Stott celebrates the cultural legacy of the Hubble Space Telescope.

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The Phoney War

The story of the BBC in the strange period of 1939-1940 and the echoes of Covid-19 today

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Malcolm McLaren: Spectacular Failure

Paul Gorman assesses the exceptional achievement of Malcolm McLaren, who died 10 years ago

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Four Dead in Ohio

Michael Goldfarb explores America at the time of the Kent State massacre, 50 years ago.

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The Empire Strikes Back

40 years ago George Lucas risked everything on making The Empire Strikes Back. Here's how.

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So Bad It's Good?

Steve Punt and guests share the joy of films, songs and books that are so bad they're good

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The Wellness Phenomenon

Claudia Hammond explores the wellness phenomenon, from its start in California to today.

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Anthony Blunt: A Question of Retribution?

David Cannadine on the controversy caused by the unmasking of Anthony Blunt as a spy.

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Girl Power RIP

Journalist and author Ella Whelan asks if contemporary feminism is - well - dead.

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Poetry For Sale?

Poet and copywriter Rishi Dastidar on the relationship between poetry and advertising.

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Apollo 13: The Rescue

Houston, we've had a problem. How the mission of Apollo 13 was saved

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Summer with Greta

Campaigner Greta Thunberg describes the remarkable and tumultuous past year of her life.

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The Crunch Convention

A US election like no other, presented by Alistair Cooke

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LOLs on LPs

David Walliams remembers the comedy albums which inspired him to write and perform.

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The End of Coming Out?

Dustin Lance Black asks whether LGBTQ+ people still need to come out publicly.

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Spitfire: From the Ashes

How an icon was made, piece by piece, against all odds. With historian Victoria Taylor.

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Raise Your Game

Jay-Ann Lopez asks if toxic gaming culture can change.

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A Broadcasting Life

Sue MacGregor looks back on five decades of broadcasting in this final goodbye to Radio 4.

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The Day Brexit Hit Boiling Point

Carolyn Quinn recalls the intense and bitter Parliamentary confrontations over Brexit

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The Quebec Emergency

Margaret Macmillan recalls the 1970 crisis when kidnappings threw Canada into turmoil.

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A Media Divided

The end of the Fairness Doctrine and the rise of political polarisation in US broadcasting

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Play for Today

Alison Steadman celebrates 50 years of BBC television's seminal drama series.

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Trump: Backwards

Scrolling backwards through the archive to tell the Trump story in reverse.

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Our Sacred Story

Alec Ryrie argues that the Second World War is our modern sacred narrative.

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14/11/2020

Steve Fielding explores how political parties have recovered from big election defeats.

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All Things Must Pass at 50

Composer Nitin Sawhney tells the story of George Harrison’s most famous album.

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Da da da DAAAAA!

Rachel Parris leads us on an irreverent tour of Beethoven's 5th Symphony.

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Disorienting

Phil Wang investigates the representation of East and South East Asians in western media.

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It's Behind You! The weird and wonderful story of British pantomime

Cultural historian Christopher Frayling explores the rich and surprising history of panto.

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The Alliance

How close were Pope John Paul II and Ronald Reagan at the end of the Cold War?

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