Not since Richard Nixon's heyday has there been a more controversial president capable of polarizing public opinion than George W. Bush. From his arrival in office through what many still regard...

A series of four programs 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...

A companion to the major six-part BBC TV series, written by Michael Wood and read by Sam Dastor.Michael Wood weaves a spellbinding narrative out of the 10,000-year history of India.Home...

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.

This ten-part history of mathematics reveals the personalities behind the calculations: the passions and rivalries of mathematicians struggling to get their ideas heard. Professor Marcus du Sautoy...

Gardening can be both a challenge and a joy. Get it right, and it can provide boundless pleasure; get it wrong, and it is a source of infinite frustration. Help is at hand, however, in this...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian uses the lives of the most influential people of all time to sum up human history with wit, knowledge, and a unique ability to explain events and ideas in...

John Miley has compiled the most comprehensive audio account of baseball history in existence—a vast and wildly entertaining assemblage of game tapes from throughout the...

The story of the Government's response to an earlier epidemic of binge-drinking - the nationalization of Carlisle's pubs and breweries as a wartime experiment in 1916, an experiment that lasted...

Maps fascinate us. They chart our understanding of the world and they log our progress, but above all they tell our stories. From the early sketches of philosophers and explorers through to Google...

The Queen’s story is our history: she was not born to be Queen but, a media star since the age of three, she has been the most famous woman in the world for all of our lives.In this definitive...

Twelve Desperate Miles is the story of the November 1942 invasion of Axis forces in North Africa consisting of more than 100 ships carrying over 30,000 soldiers, with a spotlight on a little-known...

Volume One of David Reynolds’s major BBC Radio 4 series explores the origins of contemporary USA from its beginnings to the 1860s.This epic narrative tells America’s story through the...

One hundred years ago, the mightiest "unsinkable" ship began her maiden voyage to cross the Atlantic. An engineering feat eleven stories high, the Titanic contained a list of passengers...

Susanna desperately wants to join the circle of girls who meet every week at the parsonage. What she doesn't realize is that the leader of the group, the malicious Ann Putnam, is about to set off...