Pete Waterman introduces this collection of stories told by the last generation of men to work on the British steam railway.Before cars and planes, railways and steam engines were the main form...

This BBC Radio history series, presented by Mark Whitaker, explores the politics of alcohol through the ages. Beginning with James I's campaign against the demon drink, Whitaker goes on to explore...

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...

Norman Brook was Cabinet Under Secretary during the Second World War and took personal, handwritten notes of the exchanges between Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his ministers.

This program focuses on the largest sea-borne invasion in modern history -- and one of the world's most tightly kept secrets. It brings together dispatches from the BBC War Correspondents who...

‘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...

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...

Una de las lÌneas m·s citadas dentro de la historia de los Estados Unidos es el derecho que todos los hombres tienen a "la vida, la libertad y la b˙squeda de la felicidad". Es en los documentos...

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...

Nature writer Richard Mabey reflects on his lifelong relationship with science and the natural world, in this collection of episodes originally broadcast on Radio 4 in September 2009 and repeated...

A BBC Radio 4 series presented by Justin Webb, featuring eight seasonal letters from the great broadcaster.

This selection contains eight of ‘Cooke’s Christmas’ and ‘New Year...

At once a powerful evocation of his early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice to both the individual and the body politic, James Baldwin galvanized...

The BBC’s Nick Robinson continues his fascinating and absorbing Radio 4 series featuring eight famous British Prime Ministers.This series explores how Prime Ministers have used their power and...

On May 13, 1940, Winston Churchill stood before the House of Commons to deliver his first speech as Prime Minister. Europe was in crisis: Three days earlier, Germany had invaded France and the Low...

From Neville Chamberlain’s historic declaration of war on Germany in 1939 to the sounds of rejoicing crowds on VJ Day in August 1945, the BBC – regarded at home and abroad as the very voice of...