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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Easier than curing a toothache? The Story of Lobotomy.

Claire Prentice looks at the history of a notorious medical procedure - lobotomy.

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A Backwards Catastrophe

Travelling in reverse through the archives to trace the roots of the environmental crisis.

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Search for a Common Culture

Did a common culture ever exist in the UK, what did it mean and is it needed now?

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The Forgotten Referendum

Bust-ups, bums and Brexit's beginning? - Chris Mason tells the story of the AV referendum.

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A Year on the NHS Frontline

Dr John Wright shares recordings made over the last year on the covid wards in Bradford.

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A Writer and His Country - John le Carré Across Six Decades

Who was the real John le Carré and what was his relationship with his country, Britain?

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Gagarin and the lost Moon

The story of Yuri Gagarin, the first human to fly into space

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A Night with Prince

Music critic Ann Powers reflects on time spent with Prince in his Hollywood mansion.

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Our Bodies, Ourselves

Five decades on, Laura Barton looks back at a revolutionary text for women's liberation.

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The Hunger Strikes

Peter Taylor revisits the 1981 IRA hunger strikes and assesses their legacy.

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What’s Going On Now?

Emeli Sandé marks the 50th anniversary of Marvin Gaye's classic album What's Going On.

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A Spy in Every Embassy

The Swiss spy machine company secretly owned by the CIA and German BND.

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Bob Dylan: Verbatim

The many variations of Bob Dylan’s life and music told in his own words.

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The Tulsa Tragedy that Shamed America

Alvin Hall tells the story of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

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Covering Edward Said: 40 years of Islam, Media and the West

Exploring the legacy of Edward Said's Covering Islam, published forty years ago.

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Stewart Lee: Unreliable Narrator

Comedian Stewart Lee considers the problems and possibilities of unreliable narrators.

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The Woman-Machine

Elizabeth Alker celebrates women composers at the forefront of electronic music.

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Millions Like Us

We're told Covid is our Second World War. If so, what does that mean for our politics?

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Thank You & Goodbye

Jim Waterson tells the inside story of the collapse of the News of the World.

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China in Slogans

How Communist Party slogans reveal the turbulent story of modern China.

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Singled Out

A cultural history of the 'single' with Zoe Strimpel - old maids, Bridget Jones and beyond

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Well Hello: The Release of John McCarthy

30 years on, ex-hostage John McCarthy reflects on the day of his release.

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Jonathan Miller: Lost Memories

William Miller goes in search of answers to his father’s death from Alzheimer’s.

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The Greenham Effect

How the women's peace camp at Greenham Common changed the world.

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Escaping 9/11

A look back at programmes and recordings from the BBC archives.

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Teen Spirit: Nevermind at 30

Douglas Coupland examines how Nirvana’s Nevermind changed the outlook of a generation.

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Nuremberg Remembered

William Shawcross on the legacy of the Nuremberg Military Tribunal.

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The Men in the White Coats

Prof Andrea Sella on the shifting image of the scientist in popular culture.

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Remember Oluwale

Reassessing a black man’s death and the trial of two policemen 50 years ago.

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Plastic: The Biography

Laura Barton outlines the dramatic rise and fall from grace of industrial titan, Plastic.

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How America Learned to Laugh Again

How soon is too soon to start making jokes?

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Viral

Why do some fake history stories get widely shared on social media?

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Jan Morris: Writing a Life

Horatio Clare explores the life, legacy and mythmaking of Jan Morris.

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Mercury

Freddie Mercury died 30 years ago this week. What would we ask if he were a star today?

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Everyone Is an Artist

James Fox tells an untold story of community and socially-engaged art in post-war Britain.

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It’s Not How You Start…

Acclaimed novelist Kate Weinberg discovers why endings matter so much to us.

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Self on Sebald

20 years after his death, Will Self pieces together the life and work of writer WG Sebald.

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Piers Plowright, Soundsmith

Lend your ears to work by legendary 'radio man' Piers Plowright.

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The Great Wall

Rana Mitter traces the story of US-China relations in the 50 years since Nixon's visit.

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Bloody Sunday: 50 Years On

Fifty years on, Peter Taylor assesses the legacy of 'Bloody Sunday' in Northern Ireland.

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Paris-Zurich-Trieste: Joyce l'European

The profound influence the many years he spent in Europe had on the work of James Joyce.

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Wonderlands

Frank Cottrell-Boyce explores the wonderlands that children's books take us to.

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God Knows I'm Gay

Rev Joel Love explores the relationship between the Anglican Church and LGBTQ+ Christians

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It's The Pictures That Got Smaller

Robbie Collin explores the transformation of how we see film, from early cinema to TikTok.

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Disgusted, Mary Whitehouse

Samira Ahmed assesses the life and legacy of decency campaigner Mary Whitehouse.

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The Origins of The Metaverse

Colin Harvey visits a metaverse of the future and explores its cultural roots.

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Lines of Duty

Tim Dunn and Toby Jones tell the story of the whistleblower who saved Britain's railways.

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Sir Alex Ferguson: Made in Govan

Sir Alex joins Mike Sweeney to reflect on the influences that shaped his life and career.

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The Ministry of Fun

Sixty years of colourful, complex, cringeworthy encounters between artists and politicians

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War on Truth

What’s fake, what’s real? Stories from the information war over Ukraine.

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50 Years Without a Clue

Greg James presents a compilation of the long-running, self-styled antidote to panel games

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To Barbra

Dame Maureen Lipman celebrates the radical career of Barbra Streisand.

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Russia's Restless '90s

Tim Whewell examines how the tumult in Russia in the 1990s forged the system we see today

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We're All Living in OK Computer Now...

An examination of the prophetic qualities of Radiohead's OK Computer, 25 years on.

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A Succession of Repetitive Beats

The rave that changed Britain, 30 years on from the Castlemorton Common festival.

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Over the Top

We're going all the way to celebrate extravagance as Kit Green takes us Over the Top.

• 53 mins

Encounters with Elizabeth

Robert Lacey with tales of meetings - official and unexpected - with the monarch.

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Ziggy Stardust at 50

Celebrating the golden jubilee of David Bowie’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust.

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Kissinger's Century

Henry Kissinger, adviser to US presidents for 6 decades, reflects on his life and career.

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