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What the Romans Did for Us
The innovations and inventions brought to Britain by the Romans.
Âé¶¹Éç Two
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The West: A New History of an Old Idea by NaoÃse Mac Sweeney
Naoise Mac Sweeney interrogates the myth of the west and its exclusively European origins.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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The Boy in the Peking Hotel
A London schoolboy's terrifying adventures in Chairman Mao's China.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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History's Heroes
Historian Alex von Tunzelmann shines a light on extraordinary people from across history.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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The Beauty Queen Riots
How one spark made a neighbourhood explode in Birmingham in 2005.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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Geamaichean an Uabhais – Munich/Terror at the Games – Munich
Reconstruction of the day when terrorists struck at the Munich Olympic games.
Âé¶¹Éç ALBA
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Sgeulachd Cogaidh na h-Artaig/Untold Arctic Wars
Documentary series that reveals the big picture of events in the Arctic during WWII
Âé¶¹Éç ALBA
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Florence Nightingale: Nursing Pioneer
Film following the life of an extraordinary woman who revolutionised modern nursing.
Âé¶¹Éç Four
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Inside Museums
Join art critic Alastair Sooke as he discovers how museums around the world are changing.
Âé¶¹Éç News
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Firebombers
Documentary series looking at an arson campaign in Wales targeting English-owned homes
Âé¶¹Éç One Wales
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Our Lads in Korea: The Forgotten War
John Hardy tells the story of the Welshmen who fought in the Korean War in the early 1950s
Âé¶¹Éç Radio Wales
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The Restless Republic - Britain Without a Crown by Anna Keay
The story of the extraordinary decade that followed the execution of Charles I in 1649.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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Real Dictators
Real Dictators explores the hidden lives of history's tyrants. Narrated by Paul McGann.
Âé¶¹Éç Sounds
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Wally, the Reluctant Nuclear Hero
The story of Wally, the physicist that prevented nuclear disaster during the Vietnam war.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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The Long and the Short of It
History show presented by the big man Tim McGarry and the wee man David Hume.
Âé¶¹Éç One Northern Ireland
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When Hoover Sneezed...
How the iconic factory shaped postwar Merthyr with laughs, drama, romance and spirit.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio Wales
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The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes
A look at Nazi war crimes and the complex motives at play at the start of the Cold War.
Âé¶¹Éç Two
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Adam Smith: What He Thought and Why It Matters by Jesse Norman
A succinct and engaging account of the life, times and legacy of economist Adam Smith.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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Notable
Stars of stage and screen reveal the intense emotional battles of 10 pioneering composers
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 3
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Union with David Olusoga
David Olusoga exposes the fault lines dividing the UK through the lens of the past.
Âé¶¹Éç Two
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How to Be a Renaissance Woman by Jill Burke
An alternative history of the Renaissance, as told by the women behind the paintings.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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The Mandates
How the effects of French and British mandates in the Middle East still reverberate today.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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Most of My Heroes Don't Appear on No Stamp
Black artists nominate a personal hero they feel deserve a postage stamp in their honour.
Âé¶¹Éç News
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Berlin 1933
Hitler's rise to power, told through the personal writings of those who lived through it.
Âé¶¹Éç Four
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Julius Caesar: The Making of a Dictator
How Julius Caesar dismantled five centuries of ancient Roman democracy in just 16 years.
Âé¶¹Éç Two
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Shakespeare's Restless World (Omnibus)
Exploring the world of William Shakespeare through a selection of objects from the time.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4 Extra
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Israel and the Arabs - Elusive Peace
The events of 1998 to 2005 in the fraught history of the Arab-Israeli peace process.
Âé¶¹Éç Two
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The History Hour
An hour of historical reporting told by the people who were there.
Âé¶¹Éç Afghan TV
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Map to Mikkeli
Eva Runciman tracks the journey of a WW2 map from Shetland to a war museum in Finland.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio Scotland
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The North East Witch Trials
Explore how the largest mass execution for witchcraft in English history was forgotten.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio Newcastle
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The Ammanford Anarchist
Elis James explores how the 'world's most dangerous woman' came to Wales in the 1920s.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio Wales
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Being Roman with Mary Beard
From a slave to an emperor, Mary Beard reveals the real people of the Roman Empire.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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Larach Leabhar Dheir (The Missing Monastery)
An tòir air Mhanachainn Dhèir a’ leantainn. The search for the Monastery of Deer continues
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Immigration Tracks
Anne MacAlpine traces Scottish Gaelic families who made a new life in Canada a century ago
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Killing Sherlock: Lucy Worsley on the Case of Conan Doyle
A look at the relationship between Arthur Conan Doyle and his creation Sherlock Holmes.
Âé¶¹Éç Two
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Empire of Tea
Sathnam Sanghera tells the story of our national drink and its imperial past.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Stories that will delight you, scare you, but also make you wiser.
Âé¶¹Éç Sounds