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The Men in the White Coats
Professor Andrea Sella on the shifting image of the scientist in popular culture.
Oluwale
Reassessing a black man’s death and the trial of two policemen 50 years ago.
Plastic: The Biography
Laura Barton outlines the dramatic rise and fall from grace of industrial titan, Plastic.
How America Learned to Laugh Again
How soon is too soon to start making jokes?
Viral
Why do some fake history stories get widely shared on social media?
Jan Morris: Writing a Life
Horatio Clare explores the life, legacy and mythmaking of Jan Morris.
Mercury
Freddie Mercury died 30 years ago this week. What would we ask if he were a star today?
Everyone is an Artist
The untold story of community and socially-engaged art in post-war Britain.
It’s Not How You Start…
Acclaimed novelist Kate Weinberg discovers why endings matter so much to us.
Self on Sebald
20 years after his death, Will Self pieces together the life and work of writer WG Sebald.
Piers Plowright, Soundsmith
Lend your ears to work by legendary 'radio man' Piers Plowright.
The Great Wall
Rana Mitter traces the story of US-China relations in the 50 years since Nixon's visit.
Bloody Sunday: 50 Years On
Fifty years on, Peter Taylor assesses the legacy of 'Bloody Sunday' in Northern Ireland.
Paris-Zurich-Trieste: Joyce l'European
The profound influence that many years spent in Europe had on the work of James Joyce.
Wonderlands
Frank Cottrell-Boyce explores the wonderlands that children's books take us to.
God Knows I'm Gay
Rev Joel Love explores the relationship between the Anglican Church and LGBTQ+ Christians
It's The Pictures That Got Smaller
Robbie Collin explores the transformation of how we see film, from early cinema to TikTok.
Disgusted, Mary Whitehouse
Samira Ahmed assesses the life and legacy of decency campaigner Mary Whitehouse.
The Origins of The Metaverse
Colin Harvey visits a metaverse of the future and explores its cultural roots.
Lines of Duty
Tim Dunn and Toby Jones tell the story of the whistleblower who saved Britain's railways.
Sir Alex Ferguson: Made in Govan
Sir Alex s Mike Sweeney to reflect on the influences that shaped his life and career.
The Ministry of Fun
Sixty years of colourful, complex, cringeworthy encounters between artists and politicians
War on Truth
What’s fake, what’s real? Stories from the information war over Ukraine.
50 Years Without a Clue
Greg James presents a compilation of the long-running, self-styled antidote to games
To Barbra
Dame Maureen Lipman celebrates the radical career of Barbra Streisand.
Russia's Restless '90s
Tim Whewell examines how the tumult in Russia in the 1990s forged the system we see today
We're All Living in OK Computer Now...
An examination of the prophetic qualities of Radiohead's OK Computer, 25 years on.
A Succession of Repetitive Beats
The rave that changed Britain, 1992's Castlemorton Common festival in West Worcestershire.
Over the Top
We're going all the way to celebrate extravagance as Kit Green takes us Over the Top.
Encounters with Elizabeth
Robert Lacey with tales of meetings - official and unexpected - with the monarch.
Ziggy Stardust at 50
Celebrating the golden jubilee of David Bowie’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust.
