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The Mandates
How the effects of French and British mandates in the Middle East still reverberate today.
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Union with David Olusoga
David Olusoga exposes the fault lines dividing the UK through the lens of the past.
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Monsters of Music with Tom Allen
Comedian Tom Allen and guests explore the scandalous lives of classical music's legends.
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Wally, the Reluctant Nuclear Hero
The story of Wally, the physicist that prevented nuclear disaster during the Vietnam war.
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Florence Nightingale: Nursing Pioneer
Film following the life of an extraordinary woman who revolutionised modern nursing.
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History's Heroes
Nicola Coughlan and Helena Bonham Carter shine a light on extraordinary people in history.
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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.
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Frontlines of Journalism
Jeremy Bowen presents stories from the frontlines of conflict - and journalism itself.
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The Warsaw Ghetto: History as Survival
The story of an extraordinary secret archive recording daily life in the Warsaw Ghetto.
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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.
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Murder In Mayfair
The inside story of the hunt for a fugitive in a high-profile murder case
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The Beauty Queen Riots
How one spark made a neighbourhood explode in Birmingham in 2005.
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The Great Inflation
How has the experience of hyperinflation in Germany in 1923 shaped the past 100 years?
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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.
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Breaking Mississippi
The explosive inside story of one man's war against racial segregation in the 1960s.
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My Cousin, Regime Changer
Ahmad Chalabi: traitor to Iraq, or liberator? His distant cousin Selma Chalabi explores.
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Woke: The Journey of a Word
Matthew Syed traces the history of a term that's synonymous with our era of angry debate.
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Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone
What it felt like to live through the collapse of communism and democracy.
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Acid Dream: The Great LSD Plot
This is the story of an attempt to start a revolution of the mind, from a Welsh farmhouse.
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How the Holocaust Began
Using new evidence, historian James Bulgin reveals the origins of the Holocaust.
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Bugzy Malone’s Grandest Game
Grand Theft Auto shocked and thrilled the world. For rapper Bugzy Malone – it goes deep.
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The Mayfair Hotel Megabuild
Following building work over six years that's set to transform Claridge's hotel.
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The Film We Can't See
Adam Zmith listens to some lost sound recordings from 1930.
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Bells That Still Can Ring
The stories of some of Britain’s most iconic bells – and how they were cast and tuned.
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Simon Schama's History of Now
Simon Schama reflects on a life in culture - and its enduring power in shaping our world.
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Agatha Christie: Lucy Worsley on the Mystery Queen
Lucy Worsley discovers the origins of Agatha Christie's macabre magic.
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The Channel (Omnibus)
Five viewpoints assessing the English Channel's impact on the British identity.
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The Latest Secrets of Hieroglyphs
How experts are learning more about those who wrote the texts of the ancient Egyptians.
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The People’s Piazza: A History of Covent Garden
David Olusoga explores the 400-year history of London’s Covent Garden Piazza.
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Fallout: Living in the Shadow of the Bomb
An examination of the fallout from Britain's atomic testing programme, which began in 1952
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Colouring in Britain
Uncovering the incredible lives and stories of Britons of colour, past and present.
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Litir Ghrá ón Dara Cogadh Domhanda
How a Belfast doctor survived the WWII Japanese POW camps and came home to his sweetheart.
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The Past is a Foreign Country, with Peter Curran
Secrets from celebrated Northern Ireland iconoclasts, from peace negotiation to pop.
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Bhopal
The story of Rajkumar Keswani, the man who foretold the world's worst industrial accident.
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Who Are the '22?
David Cannadine tells the story of the origins of the 1922 Committee.
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Back in Time for Birmingham
A look at the life of South Asian families who settled in Britain from the 1950s onwards.
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The People vs J Edgar Hoover
An examination of how the first director of the FBI's iron grip still permeates America.
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Lucy Worsley Investigates
Lucy Worsley re-investigates some of the most dramatic chapters in British history.
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Belfast's Victory in Vienna: A Footballing Odyssey
Holly Hamilton tells the story of Glentoran’s historic triumph in the first European cup.
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What Really Happened in the Nineties?
Robert Carlyle takes us back to moments we missed in the '90s that shaped the world today.
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Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley
Lucy Worsley investigates the crimes of Victorian women from a contemporary perspective.
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The Misinvestigations of Romesh Ranganathan
Romesh Ranganathan explores some of the most mysterious celebrity deaths.
Â鶹Éç Two England
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Mysteries of the Bayeux Tapestry
Experts from archaeologists to astrophysicists offer new insights on the Bayeux Tapestry.
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The Museums That Make Us
Neil MacGregor tours Britain's museums to explore how the past tells us who we want to be.
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Women in Stitches: The Making of the Bayeux Tapestry
Who stitched the Bayeux Tapestry? Abigail Youngman looks for clues in the margins.
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1922: The Birth of Now
Matthew Sweet investigates objects and events from 1922, the crucial year for modernism.
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The Coming Storm
America through the looking glass - enter a world where nothing is as it seems.
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