Voices of the Powerless: The Colonisation of Australia
In this episode taken from the BBC Radio 4 series, Melvyn Bragg voyages to Tasmania to find out what a sentence of transportation to Van Diemen's Land really meant to those who survived the...
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The Invention of Childhood
Reader: Michael Morpurgo
Presented by award-winning children's writer Michael Morpurgo, this genuinely ground-breaking history of British childhood from the year 1000 to the present explores, through a wide and colourful...
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Nick Robinson's The Prime Ministers: Willam Gladstone (Series 2, Episode 3)
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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My Empire of Dust
Reader: Wolfgang Stoecker
Wolfgang Stoecker is on a mission to explore the cultural meanings of dust. Cologne-based artist Stoecker has collected samples of dust from historic buildings across Europe and beyond. With the...
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Eyewitness 1900 - 1909
Reader: Tim Pigott-Smith
Tim Pigott-Smith presents a unique audio snapshot of the history of the Twentieth Century.Released in ten volumes, 'Eyewitness' provides a rare opportunity to hear the history of the 20th...
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An Olympick Vision (Radio 3 Sunday Feature)
Reader: Ed Smith
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...
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Voices of the Powerless: The Complete Series
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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Occupation
Reader: Mark Whitaker
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.
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Nick Robinson's The Prime Ministers: Lord Palmerston (Series 1, Episode 4)
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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This Sceptred Isle: Empire Volume 1 - 1155-1783
Reader: Various
This is volume 1 of the eagerly-awaited follow-up to Christopher Lee’s highly-acclaimed and award-winning BBC Radio 4 series.The original ground-breaking series of 'This Sceptred Isle' was a...
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A History of the World in 100 Objects
Reader: Various
In 2010, the BBC and the British Museum embarked on an ambitious project: to tell the story of two million years of human history using one hundred objects selected from the Museum’s vast and...
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I Confess: The Power of Confession: Episode 3 (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 three, witchcraft scholar Dr Emma Wilby of Exeter...
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Eyewitness 1970 - 1979
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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The Lady Behind The Daily Service
Reader: Judy Merry
An account of the astonishing exchange of letters between a very determined lady from Watford and some of the highest officials in the BBC that led on 2nd January 1928 to the first of 75 years of...
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Voices of the Powerless: The Industrial Revolution
In this episode taken from the BBC Radio 4 series, Melvyn Bragg is in urban Lancashire to explore the warp and weft of the Industrial Revolution - how the upheavals of the new mechanisation...
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Letter from America: Volume 2: The Middle Years: The 1970s
Reader: Alistair Cooke
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...
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Nick Robinson's The Prime Ministers: William Pitt (Series 2, Episode 1)
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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The Art of Monarchy
Reader: Will Gompertz
The Royal Collection is one of the most wide-ranging collections of art and artefacts in the world and provides an intriguing insight into the minds of the monarchs who have assembled it. In this...
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Russia: A 1,000-Year Chronicle of the Wild East
Reader: Martin Sixsmith
Russia is a country of cultural refinement; yet a country that rules by ‘the iron fist’, with an ingrained readiness to sacrifice the individual for the collectivist cause. In this riveting...
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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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Nick Robinson's The Prime Ministers: Lord North (Series 1, Episode 2)
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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This Sceptred Isle 5: Restoration and Glorious Revolution - 1660-1702
Reader: Various
The award-winning story of Britain, from the arrival of Julius Caesar in 55BC to the death of Queen Victoria in 1901. Christopher Lee's history of Britain provides the definitive radio account...
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Nick Robinson's The Prime Ministers: Edward Heath (Series 2, Episode 8)
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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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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