Social history
One Day In... Leeds West Indian Carnival. Audio, 30 minutes
Dancers, designers, police and parade-goers experience the Leeds West Indian Carnival.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4 Extra
- Available for over a year
Learning to Listen. Audio, 30 minutes
Dominic Sandbrook explores how the first generation of radio listeners learned to listen.
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- Available for over a year
Charting the Border. Audio, 30 minutes
The writer Garrett Carr reveals his unusual map of the Irish border.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4 Extra
- Available for over a year
The Unmaking of the English Working Class. Audio, 28 minutes
Historian Jon Lawrence of Cambridge University asks what has happened to the working class
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Rooms with a View. Audio, 28 minutes
Tom Dyckhoff discovers that few things show our social status as clearly as windows.
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Essex, My Essex. Audio, 30 minutes
Essex born and bred, writer Ian Sansom goes back to the county which made him who he is.
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- Available for over a year
The People's Thatcher. Audio, 43 minutes
Andrew Neil offers a portrait of Margaret Thatcher via the voices of those she governed.
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- Available for over a year
The Forgotten Black Cowboys. Audio, 28 minutes
Sarfraz Manzoor goes in search of America's black cowboys
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- Available for over a year
Open Country. Memories of the Black Isle. Audio, 25 minutes
Felicity Evans visits the Black Isle where residents are collecting landscape memories.
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- Available for over a year
Blackout Ballet. Audio, 30 minutes
Ismene Brown uncovers the story of Mona Inglesby and International Ballet.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Flower Fields. Audio, 30 minutes
Michael Bird explores Cornwall's beautiful, tiny flower fields.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4 Extra
- Available for over a year
The Island. Audio, 30 minutes
Sheppey, landscape of cars, caravans and morose marshland - the place they call The Island
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- Available for over a year
The 'arse that Jack Built. Audio, 1 minute
Ian McMillan goes in search of one of Britain's strangest linguistic features...
- AttributionBBC Radio 4 Extra
- Available for over a year
The British Germans. Audio, 30 minutes
Why many thousands of former British army soldiers have settled in Germany.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The War Brides Return. Audio, 26 minutes
Testimony from the women who sailed across the Atlantic to join their servicemen husbands.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4 Extra
- Available for over a year
After the Flood. Audio, 30 minutes
The writer Kevin Crossley-Holland meets fellow East Anglians affected by coastal erosion.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Hearing the Past. Audio, 28 minutes
Jim Al-Khalili explores what the past would have sounded like to our ancestors.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4 Extra
- Available for over a year
The Peace Corps Writers. Audio, 30 minutes
Bridget Kendall evaluates America's 'missionaries of democracy' in the Peace Corps.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Gone Today, Hair Tomorrow. Audio, 30 minutes
The story of hair as an artefact of remembrance.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4 Extra
- Available for over a year
Pistols At Dawn. Audio, 30 minutes
Historian Justin Champion investigates real life duels and the literature they influenced.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4 Extra
- Available for 22 days
