A Date with Bevin

Series using documentary evidence to throw new light on past events.

• 30 mins

Operation Safe Haven

In 1948, a KLM representative asked Swiss police to ease travel restrictions for Germans.

• 30 mins

BBC Broadcasts from the Bunker

The BBC devised a programme schedule to be transmitted in the event of a nuclear attack.

• 30 mins

Stop Pakistan

What actions did America contemplate to prevent Pakistan from becoming a nuclear power?

• 30 mins

The Doomsday Document

In 1974, Harold Wilson drew up a plan to separate Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK

• 30 mins

The Case of the Suez Maru

Mike examines the events surrounding a massacre of Allied POWs by the Japanese in 1943.

• 30 mins

Britain's Cuban Missile Crisis

Mike examines the events surrounding a massacre of Allied POWs by the Japanese in 1943.

• 30 mins

BBC Bias and the Iranian Revolution

Uncovering papers which accused the BBC of biased reporting of the Iranian revolution.

• 30 mins

06/04/2009

Why black soldiers in the French army were denied the glory of liberating Paris in 1944.

• 30 mins

16/11/2009

How Harold Macmillan misled parliament in 1960 over claims of war prisoner brainwashing.

• 30 mins

23/11/2009

Mike Thomson investigates Britain's role during the 1970 coup in oil-rich Oman.

• 30 mins

Churchill and Spain in World War 2

Mike Thomson on Churchill's desperate efforts to keep Spain out of the Second World War.

• 30 mins

08/03/2010

Mike Thomson investigates Britain's secret involvement in the North Yemen Civil War.

• 30 mins

German PoWs in the UK

Mike Thomson investigates the story behind the German PoWs forced to work in Britain.

• 30 mins

Propaganda in Northern Ireland

Mike Thomson investigates the shadowy world of black propaganda in Northern Ireland.

• 30 mins

16/08/2010

What happened to the toxic chemicals released in the Piper Alpha oil disaster in 1988?

• 30 mins

23/08/2010

Mike Thomson explores claims that the poisoning of a French town in 1951 was an LSD trial.

• 30 mins

30/08/2010

Mike Thomson investigates how Whitehall undermined democracy in British Guiana.

• 30 mins

14/03/2011

Mike Thomson explores documents which shed light on plans to update Polaris in the mid-70s

• 30 mins

21/03/2011

Mike Thomson reveals the truth behind an alleged British plot to kill Lenin.

• 30 mins

28/03/2011

Mike Thomson investigates secret Anglo-Irish co-operation against the IRA in the 1930s.

• 30 mins

01/08/2011

Mike Thomson asks if Britain's part in Zimbabwean peace meant protecting terrorists.

• 30 mins

08/08/2011

Mike Thomson investigates the secret baptism of Jews in Vienna's Anglican church, in 1938.

• 30 mins

The collapse of the 'special relationship', 1973

Mike Thomson investigates the collapse of the US UK special relationship in 1973.

• 30 mins

The White House Coup, 1933

During the 1930s, some of Wall Street's most famous names plotted to overthrow Roosevelt.

• 30 mins

The Gift of Democracy?

Mike Thomson asks whether the British tried to rig Nigeria's first democratic elections.

• 30 mins

The Ghosts of Greenham

How Greenham Common was classed as one of the most dangerous missile sites of all.

• 30 mins

05/03/2012

Mike Thomson investigates the role the French government played in the 1982 Falklands War.

• 30 mins

12/03/2012

Mike Thomson unearths the motives behind the 1949 murder of a British colonial governor.

• 30 mins

19/03/2012

Why were the British Chiefs of Staff in secret contact with enemy Vichy France in 1942?

• 30 mins