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Ovid in Changing Times
Tom Holland explores Ovid's approach to change.
A Brief History of Failure
Joe Queenan on the romance of failure, or the dreaded 'failure chic'.
A Brief History of Lust
American satirist Joe Queenan presents a new history of lust.
1917: Eyewitness in Petrograd
Emily Dicks visits St Petersburg to trace her grandfather's memories of 1917's revolutions
The Shape of Things That Came
Professor Sean Street uses audio archives to explore the future history novel by HG Wells.
The Mind in the Media
How stories of mental illness are told in fiction and news.
Torrey Canyon and the Toxic Tides
50 years after the Torrey Canyon, the story of Britain's worst environmental disaster.
Seventy Years in the Planning
Will Self walks the London green belt in search of the 1947 Town and Country Planning Act.
Reporting Terror: 50 Years Behind the Headlines
Peter Taylor reflects on his 50-year career reporting terrorism.
Long Road to Change
Zoe Williams asks what protests movements need to do to achieve long-term success.
A New Life in Europe Revisited
A family of Syrian migrants relive their perilous journey to seek a new life in Europe.
Roots and Holocaust: When TV Taught Us a History Lesson
Gary Younge and Jonathan Freedland reflect on the impact of two landmark TV series.
Blinded by War
Adam Scourfield interviews three British veterans blinded in conflict.
Femmes Fatales
Screen siren Kathleen Turner celebrates the film noir femme fatale's enduring mystique.
Dictators on the Couch
For decades, the CIA profiled the minds of foreign leaders. Daniel Pick investigates.
Father's Day
Mark Thomas peels off the labels of fatherhood - from breadwinner to stay-at-home dad.
999 - Which Service Do You Require?
Ian Sansom dials up the story of the 999 service, launched in 1937.
The Thirty Year Itch
Phil Tinline explores what the turmoil of the 1970s tells us about British politics today.
Apocalypse Nigh
Broadcaster Robin Ince explores our longstanding obsession with the end of days.
The Real Summer of Love
Historian and writer Dominic Sandbrook looks beyond the flower power, 50 years on.
A Brief History of the Truth
The truth is like a vegetable your mother makes you eat, nourishing but it tastes terrible
Roy Jenkins - Father of the Permissive Society?
Richard Weight explores the key role of Roy Jenkins in the liberal reforms of the 1960s.
The Myth of Homosexual Decriminalisation
Peter Tatchell on how the 1967 Sexual Offences Act failed to provide equality for gay men.
Grayson Perry: En Garde
Grayson Perry goes in search of the moment the avant-garde died.
A Life Less Ordinary
Sandra Gregory
Sandra Gregory revisits her years spent in a Thai jail for attempted drug smuggling.
Alex Currie
The minister who became the reluctant spokesman for a fishing community suffering tragedy.
Lisa Potts
How Lisa Potts became a media hero following an attack by a stranger with a machete.
Inquiries - Facing Our Failures
Chris Bowlby reveals a rich history of public inquiries from rail crashes to treachery.
Uses of Literacy Now
The Uses of Literacy - what can a book on class written 60 years ago tell us about today?
As the Statues Fall
Lawrence Pollard traces the history of tearing down public statues.
The Mysteries of Punt PI
Steve Punt explores the eternal appeal of a good mystery.
