Easier Than Curing a Toothache? The Story of Lobotomy

Claire Prentice looks at the history of a notorious medical procedure - lobotomy.

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A Backwards Catastrophe

Travelling in reverse through the archives to trace the roots of the environmental crisis.

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Search for a Common Culture

Did a common culture ever exist in the UK, what did it mean and is it needed now?

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The Forgotten Referendum

Bust-ups, bums and Brexit's beginning? - Chris Mason tells the story of the AV referendum.

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A Year on the NHS Frontline

Dr John Wright shares recordings made over the last year on the covid wards in Bradford.

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A Writer and His Country - John le Carré Across Six Decades

Who was the real John le Carré and what was his relationship with Britain?

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Gagarin and the Lost Moon

Kevin Fong tells the story of Yuri Gagarin's historic 1961 Earth orbit

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A Night with Prince

Music critic Ann Powers reflects on time spent with Prince in his Hollywood mansion.

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Our Bodies, Ourselves

Five decades on, Laura Barton looks back at a revolutionary text for women's liberation.

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The Hunger Strikes

Peter Taylor revisits the 1981 IRA hunger strikes and assesses their legacy.

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What’s Going On Now?

Emeli Sande marks the 50th anniversary of Marvin Gaye's classic album What's Going On.

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A Spy in Every Embassy

The Swiss spy machine company secretly owned by the CIA and German BND.

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Bob Dylan: Verbatim

The many variations of Bob Dylan’s life and music told in his own words.

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The Tulsa Tragedy that Shamed America

Alvin Hall tells the story of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

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Covering Edward Said: 40 years of Islam, Media and the West

Exploring the legacy of Edward Said's Covering Islam, published forty years ago.

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Stewart Lee: Unreliable Narrator

Comedian Stewart Lee considers the problems and possibilities of unreliable narrators.

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The Woman-Machine

Elizabeth Alker celebrates women composers at the forefront of electronic music.

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Millions Like Us

We're told Covid is our Second World War. If so, what does that mean for our politics?

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Thank You & Goodbye

Jim Waterson tells the inside story of the collapse of the News of the World.

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China in Slogans

How Communist Party slogans reveal the turbulent story of modern China.

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Singled Out

A cultural history of the 'single' with Zoe Strimpel - old maids, Bridget Jones and more.

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Well Hello: The Release of John McCarthy

30 years on, ex-hostage John McCarthy reflects on the day of his release.

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Jonathan Miller: Lost Memories

William Miller goes in search of answers to his famous father’s death from Alzheimer’s.

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The Greenham Effect

How the women's peace camp at Greenham Common changed the world.

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Escaping 9/11

A look back at programmes and recordings from the BBC archives.

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Teen Spirit: Nevermind at 30

Douglas Coupland examines how Nirvana’s Nevermind changed the outlook of a generation.

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Nuremberg Remembered

William Shawcross on the legacy of the Nuremberg Military Tribunal.

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The Men in the White Coats

Professor Andrea Sella on the shifting image of the scientist in popular culture.

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Remember Oluwale

Reassessing a black man’s death and the trial of two policemen 50 years ago.

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Plastic: The Biography

Laura Barton outlines the dramatic rise and fall from grace of industrial titan, Plastic.

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