Alistair Cooke presents his own personal selection of ‘Letter from America’ broadcasts from the turbulent years 1969-1978.Alistair Cooke is the microphone’s great observer, the doyen of...

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...

This series explores how prime ministers have used their power and responded to the great challenges of their time and how they made the job what it is today.* Sir Robert Walpole, the first and...

Between 1947 and 1949 the British government, desperately short of workers in the 'essential' industries of agriculture, coal mining and textiles, turned to the millions of East Europeans living...

An examination of the Bush Administration's claim that the post-WW2 occupations of Japan and Germany are a good historical analogy for the occupation of Iraq today.

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...

This series started on the 27th March, 2006 and ran for a total of 240 episodes, taking you on an historical journey spanning the Ice Age, the arrival of Christianity, the Viking era, Brian Boru,...

The story of how Britain's Olympic journey started 400 years ago - in the Cotswolds. It was once thought that the modern Olympics was the brainchild of Baron Pierre de Coubertin alone and put into...

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',...

The special New Year's Day 2011 edition of BBC Radio 4's 'Beyond Westminster', in which Andrew Rawnsley considers the lessons of history for Britain's coalition government - and its...

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...

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 two, Professor John Arnold of Birkbeck College, University...

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...

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...

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...