When Comedy and Politics Collide

Is satire on radio and TV now harming rather than helping our politics?

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The Three Day Week

White explores the political significance of the 1970s crisis, when Edward Heath was PM.

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The Long, Long Trail

Roy Hudd explores the forgotten radio masterpiece that inspired Oh What a Lovely War.

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A Life Less Ordinary

Christopher Jefferies

Christopher Jefferies assesses the media assault that left his reputation in tatters.

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A Life Less Ordinary

Marcia Shakespeare

Marcia Shakespeare reflects on the media coverage of the murder of her daughter Letisha.

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A Life Less Ordinary

Reality TV

How reality TV has put three ordinary people in the media spotlight.

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John Tavener

Sir Nicholas Kenyon reflects on the life of composer Sir John Tavener.

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The Death of the Spiv

Poet Paul Henry traces the evasive spiv as he slips and slides through the archives.

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The First Generation X

Meet Generation X - the teenagers from the shocking, bestselling 1964 book, 50 years on.

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The Interviewer Stole the Show

Lynn Barber, doyenne of the print interview, traces how the interviewer has taken charge.

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Captive Media: The Story of Patty Hearst

How the kidnapping of a newspaper heiress captivated and transformed the American media.

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Portraying Real Lives

Maxine Peake explores the challenges of playing factual characters.

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Listen without Mother

Fi Glover peels the labels off motherhood, from sacred mother to slummy mummy.

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Dark Horse: An Alec Guinness Archive

Alistair McGowan investigates the enigma of a private man who became a global star.

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Atlantic Crossing

The connection between those who fly the Atlantic and those who guide us over it.

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Pulped Fiction

What makes a literary reputation last? Who's 'in' and who's on the way 'out'?

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Rebel Rebel

Jonathan Agnew looks back at the rebel cricket tours to South Africa between 1981-1990.

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The Benjamin Broadcasts

Michael Rosen discovers Walter Benjamin's radio works for children. Read by Henry Goodman.

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Sentimental Journey

Gyles Brandreth surveys the history of sentimentality, wondering whether to sneer or cheer

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Imagining the Audience

In the days before audience research, who did the early BBC think it was talking to?

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No Destination

Satish Kumar walked 8,000 miles for world peace. Join him as he relives this journey.

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A History of the N-Word

Ellah Allfrey looks at the evolution of the N-word.

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The Stranger in the Mirror

Does the history of our ideas about autism tell us more about ourselves than about autism?

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How Britain Went to War

Peter Hennessy examines Britain's secret war planning and preparations before August 1914.

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Wars, Lies and Audiotape

Historian DD Guttenplan explores what happened in the Gulf of Tonkin on 4 August 1964.

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You Are Feeling Sleepy

The extraordinary history and science of the use of hypnosis in medicine.

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Vietnam and the Presidents

David Taylor looks at the Vietnam War through the eyes of three presidents.

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The Eccentric Entrepreneur

Dominic Sandbrook explores the life of 1930s radio station magnate Leonard Plugge.

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No More Heroes

Angie Hobbs examines the changing nature of the hero, from the Iliad to the present day.

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Media and the Middle East

Why does the Arab-Israeli conflict attract so much media attention? With John Lloyd.

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