
This Sceptred Isle: The Twentieth Century 1901-1919
Reader: Robert Powell
Continuing the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series of the story of Britain, from the start of the twentieth century to the present day.Christopher Lee's history of Britain, 'This Sceptred Isle',...
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Treating Strictly Prohibited
Reader: Allan Beswick
The story of the Government's response to an earlier epidemic of binge-drinking - the nationalisation of Carlisle's pubs and breweries as a wartime experiment in 1916, an experiment that lasted...
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Winston Churchill's Greatest Speeches: Volume 2: The End of the Beginning
Reader: Winston Churchill
In this collection of digitally remastered recordings from the BBC archive we hear first-hand how, in 1940, Chamberlain resigned, Hitler invaded the Low Countries, and Winston Churchill was...
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The Shadow of the Emperor (BBC Radio 3: Sunday Feature)
1911 saw the fall of the Qing Dynasty and the abdication of the last Emperor in China. 100 years on, Isabel Hilton describes how China coped with the collapse and looks for any lingering legacy in...
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World War Two: The Home Front (BBC War Reports)
Reader: Others
In this remarkable collection of BBC recordings, we hear what the people of the Home Front listened to as they lived, loved, laughed and worked through the dark days of World War Two; from the...
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I Confess: The Power of Confession: Episode 1 (Radio 3)
Reader: Kathryn Tempest
I Confess: The Power of the Confession looks at the history of confessions, which links the legal world of Cicero to our own. In Episode one, Dr Kathryn Tempest of Roehampton University excavates...
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Eyewitness 1950 - 1959
Reader: Tim Pigott-Smith
Authentic voices from the past illustrate this unique history of the twentieth century, written by Joanna Bourke and presented by Tim Pigott-Smith.'Eyewitness' provides a rare and fascinating...
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This Sceptred Isle: The Dynasties Volume 4
Reader: Anna Massey
Anna Massey tells the story of some of the ambitious families who helped shape the history of the British Isles and have wielded power behind the scenes for the past 1000 years. The Dynasties...
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Voices of the Powerless: The English Civil War
Melvyn Bragg follows his long historical exploration of the Routes of English with 'Voices of the Powerless', the BBC Radio 4 series in which he explores the lives of the ordinary working men and...
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This Sceptred Isle 10: The Age of Victoria - 1837-1901
Reader: Various
The award-winning story of Britain, from the arrival of Julius Caesar in 55BC to the death of Queen Victoria in 1901Christopher Lee's history of Britain provides the definitive radio account of...
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Nick Robinson's The Prime Ministers: Harold Macmillan (Series 2, Episode 6)
Reader: Nick Robinson
The BBC’s Nick Robinson continues his fascinating and absorbing Radio 4 series featuring eight famous British Prime Ministers, which explores how Prime Ministers have used their power and...
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In Our Time: The Written World
Broadcaster and arts presenter Melvyn Bragg fronts 'The Written World', a five-part BBC Radio 4 series following the origins of writing from its first appearance 6,000 years ago and exploring how...
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Birkett and the Red Stains on the Carpet
Reader: James Lailey
Norman Birkett, the most celebrated advocate of the inter-war years, defends a doctor accused of murdering and dismembering his wife and maid. Starring Neil Dudgeon as Birkett, with Bonnie...
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This Sceptred Isle 09: 1815 - 1837 Regency & Reform
The award-winning story of Britain, from the arrival of Julius Caesar in 55BC to the death of Queen Victoria in 1901. 'Wonderful... This Sceptred Isle has provided one of the greatest treats for...
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The Cutteslowe Walls
Reader: Mark Whitaker
Between 1934 and 1959 a middle-class community in North Oxford shielded itself from the working-class next door behind seven foot high walls. Those who grew up in their shadow tell the story.
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Voices of the Powerless: Coal Mining and the Depression
In this episode taken from the BBC Radio 4 series, Melvyn Bragg visits Merthyr Tydfil to look at the plight of the miners in the Depression.The industrial communities of South Wales, built first...
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Nick Robinson's The Prime Ministers: Stanley Baldwin (Series 1, Episode 7)
Reader: Nick Robinson
From the BBC Radio 4 series presented and written by Nick Robinson that explores how prime ministers have used their power and responded to the great challenges of their time and how they made the...
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America, Empire of Liberty: Volume 3 - Empire and Evil
Reader: Various
Volume Three of David Reynolds’ award-winning BBC Radio 4 series runs from the origins of the Cold War to the inauguration of Barack Obama.This epic narrative tells the saga of the United...
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Out in the World: A Global Gay History
Reader: Richard Coles
Richard Coles examines same sex desire through the ages, in a journey reaching from the UK to India, Egypt, Greece and Native America. In episode one, his quest takes him to Saqqara, Egypt and the...
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Eyewitness 1930 - 1939
Reader: Tim Pigott-Smith
Authentic voices from the past illustrate this unique history of the twentieth century, written by Joanna Bourke and presented by Tim Pigott-Smith.'Eyewitness' provides a rare and fascinating...
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This Sceptred Isle: The Dynasties Volume 2
Reader: Anna Massey
Anna Massey tells the story of some of the ambitious families who helped shape the history of the British Isles and have wielded power behind the scenes for the past 1000 years. The Dynasties...
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Voices of the Powerless: The Reformation
Melvyn Bragg follows his long historical exploration of the Routes of English with 'Voices of the Powerless', the BBC Radio 4 series in which he explores the lives of the ordinary working men and...
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Noise: A Human History - The Complete Series
Reader: David Hendy
This 30-part Radio 4 series explores how our interactions with sound have shaped us over 100,000 years. These specially extended episodes, recorded on location around the world and in...
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The Battle of Britain: From the BBC Archives
Reader: Various
First-hand accounts featuring the RAF pilots who took part in the Battle of Britain - one of the chief turning points of World War Two.'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by...
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Nick Robinson's The Prime Ministers: Herbert Asquith (Series 2, Episode 4)
Reader: Nick Robinson
The BBC’s Nick Robinson continues his fascinating and absorbing Radio 4 series featuring eight famous British Prime Ministers, which explores how Prime Ministers have used their power and...
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