Social history
- Attribution
- Posted10 January 2023
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- Posted9 January 2023
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- Posted26 December 2022
- Attribution
- Posted4 December 2022
The People’s Piazza: A History of Covent Garden. Video, 89 minutes
David Olusoga explores the 400-year history of London’s Covent Garden Piazza.
- AttributionBBC Two
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted9 November 2022
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- Posted25 September 2022
- Attribution
- Posted31 August 2022
Arts & Ideas. 1922: Allotments. Audio, 15 minutes
John Gallagher investigates the Allotments Act of 1922
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Remembers... Hanif Kureishi Remembers... The Buddha of Suburbia. Video, 8 minutes
Hanif Kureishi discusses how his novel became one of the defining TV dramas of the 90s.
- AttributionBBC Four
- Available for over a year
In Suburbia. Better out than in. Audio, 28 minutes
Ian Hislop explores the culture that emerges from, and describes, Suburbia.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Inheritors of Partition. Audio, 42 minutes
The legacy of the division of the Indian subcontinent in Britain today
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted31 July 2022
Arts & Ideas. New Thinking: Citizen researchers and the history of record keeping. Audio, 32 minutes
Dr William Butler and Jenny Bunn from the National Archives discuss record keeping.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Welcome to Rwanda. Audio, 37 minutes
Is Rwanda a devlopment model for the rest of Africa, or an autocratic and ruthless state?
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Hidden History of the Front Door. Audio, 28 minutes
Rachel Hurdley discovers what front doors reveal about security, sociability and status.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Thinking Allowed. Ballroom dancing. Audio, 29 minutes
Ballroom dancing: its social history and sexual politics.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted31 May 2022
- Attribution
- Posted22 May 2022
A Brief History of Progress. Audio, 57 minutes
American satirist Joe Queenan asks what is progress and has it run out?
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted8 May 2022
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- Posted2 April 2022
