BBC Radio History
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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Routes of English: The Hurricane Speaks (Series 4, Programme 3)
Here we take up the story of Caribbean English where the Brixton Routes left off.
For the poet Edward Kamau Braithwaite the legacy of the English language is something from which he, in...$1.49 $2.49
A History of the Brain: The Complete Series
Reader: Geoff Bunn
Dr. Geoff Bunn presents a journey through 5000 years of our understanding of the most complex thing in the known universe: the brain, in this major ten-part BBC Radio 4 series. Human beings...
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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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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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This Sceptred Isle: The Twentieth Century 1939-1959
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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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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A History of the Brain: 'The Beast Within' (Episode 6)
Reader: Geoff Bunn
Dr. Geoff Bunn presents a journey through 5000 years of our understanding of the most complex thing in the known universe: the brain, in this major ten-part BBC Radio 4 series.Episode 6 'The...
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Routes of English: Complete Series 3: Accents and Dialects
Melvyn Bragg looks at dialects from around Britain: the Pitmatic of Northumberland, the dialect of (London/Derry), the increasingly elusive Cornish dialect, Pidgin, and Shropshire dialect, then...
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Routes of English: Import/Export (Series 1, Programme 6)
Conquest, trade and immigration have woven dozens of languages into English. Melvyn Bragg visits Liverpool, home of Scouse, an Irish-based variant of northern English made famous by the Beatles...
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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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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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Eyewitness 1940 - 1949
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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Alistair Cooke's Letters from America: The Elections
Reader: Alistair Cooke
Five specially selected letters from American election years, based on the BBC Radio 4 series ‘Cooke’s Elections’.
Alistair Cooke was a radio legend, entertaining millions of...$7.77 $12.95
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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The Story of the King James Bible: The Legacy
To mark the 400th anniversary of this ‘noblest monument of English prose’, James Naughtie tells the story of how and why James I (VI of Scotland), commissioned a new translation of...
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Churchill Remembered
Reader: Tim Pigott-Smith
‘We Churchills die at forty,’ said Winston in 1908, ‘and I want to put something more on the slate before then.’ By the time he died in 1965, the slate was full.From his earliest days...
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Attila the Hen (BBC Radio 4)
Reader: Cast
BBC Radio 4 programme all about the fashion for keeping chickens in your back garden, a hobby which shows no sign of waning.Natalie Haynes has heard some dark rumours about the true habits of...
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This Sceptred Isle: Empire Volume 2 - 1783-1876
Reader: Various
This is volume 2 of the eagerly-awaited follow-up to Christopher Lee’s highly-acclaimed and award-winning BBC Radio 4 series.BBC Radio 4’s monumental history of Britain picks up the story...
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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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Routes of English: Tabard Inn to Canterbury (Series 1, Programme 4)
The language of sex and death, as Chaucer and others capture English speech of the time.
Melvyn Bragg travels to the great mediaeval cathedral of Canterbury, with its shrine to the...$1.49 $2.49
The Titanic: Voices from the BBC Archive
Reader: Various
The RMS Titanic sailed from Southampton en route for New York on her maiden voyage with 2228 passengers and crew on board. On the 14th April at twenty minutes before midnight, sailing at almost...
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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: 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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Lenny & Will: Act One
Reader: Lenny Henry
My first experience of Shakespeare was reading it out in class and none of us understanding it, and we only got it when we saw the Zeffirelli film of Romeo and Juliet and realised - oh it's a...
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