Firearms
The Essay. Gun Culture, Sniper. Audio, 15 minutes
Nicholas Rankin explores the emergence of the deadly 'force reducer' that is the sniper.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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The Essay. Gun Culture, Pistols at Dawn. Audio, 15 minutes
Historian John Gallagher examines the history and etiquette of duelling with pistols.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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The Essay. Gun Culture, Gotham's Gun Baron. Audio, 15 minutes
Brian DeLay discusses Marcellus Hartley, the first important American arms dealer.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
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The Essay. Gun Culture, Taking Aim - Renaissance-Style. Audio, 15 minutes
The origins of gunpowder-fired weapons on the battlefields and in Renaissance Italy.
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The Why Factor. Carrying Guns. Audio, 18 minutes
In the countries where it’s legal, why do people choose to bear arms?
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Assignment. Gaddafi and the Man with the Golden Gun. Audio, 23 minutes
The search for the golden gun seized by rebels when Col Gaddafi was captured
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Punt PI. Series 6, The Case of the Vanishing Machine Gun Maker. Audio, 30 minutes
Steve Punt investigates the vanishing machine gun inventor, William Cantelo.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Assignment. Guns and Mental Health in America. Audio, 28 minutes
The toxic mix of gun addiction and mental health in America
- AttributionBBC World Service
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File on 4. Illicit Arms Trade. Audio, 38 minutes
Allan Urry asks how gunrunners can fuel the global illegal arms trade from within the UK.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Punt PI. Series 5, A Very Strange Stash. Audio, 30 minutes
Steve Punt is called on to investigate a dead pensioner's secret stash of arms.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Drama on 4. SE8. Audio, 45 minutes
By Janice Okoh. A teenager is shot in a nightclub and no-one will talk to the police.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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The Reunion. Dunblane. Audio, 45 minutes
Sue McGregor reunites people affected by the Dunblane school shootings in 1996.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Things We Forgot to Remember. Series 3, On Suffragettes. Audio, 30 minutes
Parts of the Suffragette movement's history have been conveniently forgotten.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Assignment. The shooting of Jean Charles De Menezes. Audio, 22 minutes
The shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes in July 2005
- AttributionBBC World Service
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