Colonialism
Arts & Ideas. French writing and politics. Audio, 45 minutes
Leïla Slimani, President Macron's champion of French culture and language, is interviewed
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Imperial Inversion of Cricket. Audio, 28 minutes
Amol Rajan asks if England's old imperial guidance and governance of cricket is history.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Free Thinking 2017, Faith, Fire and the Family. Audio, 15 minutes
Catherine Fletcher on the story of her grandfather, a missionary in India.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Sami Shah's Beginner's Guide to Pakistan. Episode 1. Audio, 25 minutes
Sami looks at Pakistan's political history, from its foundations in British-ruled India.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for 3 months
Four Thought. Series 4, The Trouble with Paradise. Audio, 15 minutes
Carrie Gibson argues that we need to rethink our notion of paradise.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Dylan Thomas: The Beach of Falesa. Audio, 100 minutes
Dylan Thomas screenplay set in the South Seas. A 'Film for Voices'.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4 Extra
- Available for over a year
Shipwrecks: Britain's Sunken History. A World Turned Upside Down. Video, 58 minutes
The story of shipwrecks moves into the Georgian age, when Britain ruled the waves.
- AttributionBBC Four
- Available for 8 months
In Our Time. The Berlin Conference. Audio, 42 minutes
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Berlin Conference and the Scramble for Africa.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
1913: The Year Before. The Empire. Audio, 15 minutes
Michael explores the tensions that existed before 1914 between the Empire and its colonies
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Great Lives. Prince Alamayu. Audio, 30 minutes
Lemn Sissay chooses Prince Alamayu who, like him, was Ethiopian but fostered in Britain.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Henrik Ibsen - A Doll's House. Audio, 120 minutes
Ibsen's play transposed to India, 1879: Can Niru save her huband's reputation?
- AttributionBBC Radio 4 Extra
- Available for over a year
Open Book. Gillian Slovo on General Gordon and Empire. Audio, 28 minutes
Mariella Frostrup with the latest from the world of books and authors.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Sunday Feature. Out in the World - A Global Gay History, Episode 3. Audio, 45 minutes
Richard Coles looks at the conflict between sexuality and gender identity.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
In Our Time. Bolivar. Audio, 45 minutes
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Simon Bolivar, the liberator of South America.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
In Our Time. Heart of Darkness. Audio, 45 minutes
Melvyn Bragg discusses Joseph Conrad’s novel, Heart of Darkness.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Agenda. Legacy of Colonialism in a Modern World. Audio, 26 minutes
Is the legacy of colonialism's brutal passage to modernity all bad?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Slavery. Audio, 29 minutes
How slavery began in Africa
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
The Radio History of The World. God and Gold: the Spanish in South America. Audio, 13 minutes
The tragedy of Europe's first contact with the natives of America
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
The Story of Africa. Challenges to Colonialism. Audio, 29 minutes
The growing African resistance to racism and colonialism
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
