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Frontlines of Journalism
Jeremy Bowen presents stories from the frontlines of conflict - and journalism itself.
Â鶹Éç Radio 4
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My Cousin, Regime Changer
Ahmad Chalabi: traitor to Iraq, or liberator? His distant cousin Selma Chalabi explores.
Â鶹Éç Radio 4
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Sequamur: Steidheachadh Sgoil MhicNeacail
A look at the history of the Nicolson Institute, a secondary school in the Isle of Lewis.
Â鶹Éç ALBA
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Shock and War: Iraq 20 Years On
"Essential listening..." Why the US and UK went to war in Iraq and its legacy.
Â鶹Éç Radio 4
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Breaking Mississippi
The explosive inside story of one man's war against racial segregation in the 1960s.
Â鶹Éç Radio 4
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The Great Inflation
How has the experience of hyperinflation in Germany in 1923 shaped the past 100 years?
Â鶹Éç Radio 4
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Year ’98: The Making of the Good Friday Agreement
What led to one of the most significant peace settlements in history?
Â鶹Éç Radio Ulster
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Tuaman Na h-Èipheit/Tombs of Egypt
A three-month excavation project to unravel remaining mysteries in Saqqara.
Â鶹Éç ALBA
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The Prime Ministers of Northern Ireland
Alvin Jackson examines the complex legacies of the prime ministers of Northern Ireland.
Â鶹Éç One Northern Ireland
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Cold War Hockey
Scottish hockey players in the 1960s recall the reality of the Berlin Crisis.
Â鶹Éç ALBA
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Freuchie Fever: When the Scots Beat the English at the Home of Cricket
Inspirational story of Freuchie Cricket Club's 1985 National Village Cup win at Lord's.
Â鶹Éç Radio Scotland
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The Secret Peacemaker
Father Alec Reid’s secret peace plan to bring about an end to violence in Northern Ireland
Â鶹Éç One Northern Ireland
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The Agreement
The inside story of negotiating the Good Friday Agreement and the subsequent referendum.
Â鶹Éç One Northern Ireland
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Blood on the Dance Floor
The untold story of the murder of a gay police officer in Northern Ireland in 1997.
Â鶹Éç Radio 5 Live
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Marloch is Metagama: Guthan
Monologues inspired by the recollections of those on board SS Marloch and the SS Metagama.
Â鶹Éç ALBA
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For The Record: The Selectadisc Story
From humble beginnings to becoming one of the country’s most iconic record stores.
Â鶹Éç Radio Nottingham
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The Warsaw Ghetto: History as Survival
The story of an extraordinary secret archive recording daily life in the Warsaw Ghetto.
Â鶹Éç Radio 4
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Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland
Unheard testimonies from all sides of the conflict in Northern Ireland, 25 years on.
Â鶹Éç Two
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Murder In Mayfair
The inside story of the hunt for a fugitive in a high-profile murder case
Â鶹Éç World Service
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The US and the Holocaust/Ameireaga agus an t-Olocost
Series examining how the American people responded to the Holocaust.
Â鶹Éç ALBA
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What the Romans Did for Us
The innovations and inventions brought to Britain by the Romans.
Â鶹Éç Two
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The West: A New History of an Old Idea by NaoÃse Mac Sweeney
Naoise Mac Sweeney interrogates the myth of the west and its exclusively European origins.
Â鶹Éç Radio 4
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The Boy in the Peking Hotel
A London schoolboy's terrifying adventures in Chairman Mao's China.
Â鶹Éç Radio 4
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History's Heroes
Nicola Coughlan and Helena Bonham Carter shine a light on extraordinary people in history.
Â鶹Éç Radio 4
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The Beauty Queen Riots
How one spark made a neighbourhood explode in Birmingham in 2005.
Â鶹Éç Radio 4
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Geamaichean an Uabhais – Munich/Terror at the Games – Munich
Reconstruction of the day when terrorists struck at the Munich Olympic games.
Â鶹Éç ALBA
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Sgeulachd Cogaidh na h-Artaig/Untold Arctic Wars
Documentary series that reveals the big picture of events in the Arctic during WWII
Â鶹Éç ALBA
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Florence Nightingale: Nursing Pioneer
Film following the life of an extraordinary woman who revolutionised modern nursing.
Â鶹Éç Four
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Firebombers
Documentary series looking at an arson campaign in Wales targeting English-owned homes
Â鶹Éç One Wales
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Our Lads in Korea: The Forgotten War
John Hardy tells the story of the Welshmen who fought in the Korean War in the early 1950s
Â鶹Éç Radio Wales
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The Restless Republic - Britain Without a Crown by Anna Keay
The story of the extraordinary decade that followed the execution of Charles I in 1649.
Â鶹Éç Radio 4
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Real Dictators
Real Dictators explores the hidden lives of history's tyrants. Narrated by Paul McGann.
Â鶹Éç Sounds
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Wally, the Reluctant Nuclear Hero
The story of Wally, the physicist that prevented nuclear disaster during the Vietnam war.
Â鶹Éç Radio 4
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The Long and the Short of It
History show presented by the big man Tim McGarry and the wee man David Hume.
Â鶹Éç One Northern Ireland
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When Hoover Sneezed...
David Hughes tells the social history of how Hoover shaped postwar Merthyr.
Â鶹Éç Radio Wales
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The Devil’s Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes
A look at Nazi war crimes and the complex motives at play at the start of the Cold War.
Â鶹Éç Two
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Adam Smith: What He Thought and Why It Matters by Jesse Norman
A succinct and engaging account of the life, times and legacy of economist Adam Smith.
Â鶹Éç Radio 4
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Monsters of Music with Tom Allen
Comedian Tom Allen and guests explore the scandalous lives of classical music's legends.
Â鶹Éç Sounds
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Union with David Olusoga
David Olusoga exposes the fault lines dividing the UK through the lens of the past.
Â鶹Éç Two
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How to Be a Renaissance Woman by Jill Burke
An alternative history of the Renaissance, as told by the women behind the paintings.
Â鶹Éç Radio 4
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The Mandates
How the effects of French and British mandates in the Middle East still reverberate today.
Â鶹Éç Radio 4
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