
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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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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The Strange Case of Oliver Cromwell's Head
Reader: Mark Whitaker
September 3rd 2008 marked the 350th anniversary of Oliver Cromwell's death - but his severed head was only finally put to rest in 1960. This is the extraordinary story of what happened to it.
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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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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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Electronic Brains
Reader: Mark Whitaker
A series of four programmes which tells the human stories of some of the computer pioneers in three countries, Britain, America and the Ukraine. Each is a little cameo of social history of the...
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Voices of the Powerless: The Highland Clearances
Visiting the Hebridean island of Mull today, it's not long before someone mentions the steep decline in population that the Scottish highlands and islands suffered 150 to 200 years ago. And it...
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Nick Robinson's The Prime Ministers: Benjamin Disraeli (Series 1, Episode 5)
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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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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Squatters' Paradise
Reader: Mark Whitaker
Lack of housing was perhaps the most urgent social problem facing post-war Britain. In the summer of 1946 tens of thousands of people took the situation - and the law - into their own hands,...
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Voices of the Powerless: The Norman Conquest
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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Nick Robinson's The Prime Ministers: Earl Grey (Series 2, Episode 2)
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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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 Napoleonic Wars
In this episode taken from the BBC Radio 4 series, Melvyn Bragg travels to the historic dockyard of Chatham to explore the life of a seaman in Nelson's navy.Our popular image of the 18th century...
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Nick Robinson's The Prime Ministers: Sir Robert Peel (Series 1, Episode 3)
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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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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Who Was Wenceslas, and Who Decided he was Good?
Reader: Mark Whitaker
St. Wenceslas, King of Bohemia in the early 10th century, is the greatest of all Czech national heroes. And when a Victorian cleric wrote a carol about him in 1853 it was a pointed political gesture.
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Beyond Westminster: Lessons Learnt from Coalitions Past (BBC Radio 4)
Reader: Various
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...
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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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Voices of the Powerless: The Great Plague
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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Nick Robinson's The Prime Ministers: Harold Wilson (Series 2, Episode 7)
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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Conversations with Gandhi
Reader: Mark Whitaker
For most of the time between 1906 and 1914 a young Englishwoman by the name of Millie Graham Polak, together with her husband, shared the same house in South Africa as Mahatma Gandhi and his...
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Nick Robinson's The Prime Ministers: Sir Robert Walpole (Series 1, Episode 1)
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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Nick Robinson's The Prime Ministers: Clement Attlee (Series 1, Episode 8)
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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I Confess: The Power of Confession: Episode 4 (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 four, Dr Iain Lauchlan of Edinburgh University explores the...
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