The programme that brings history up to date.
Battle of the River Plate: during the Falklands war, the Argentinians made great capital of the last time they'd fought the British -and won, in 1806. SIMON wixchester reports.
Bodyline Bowling: was the England captain, Douglas Jardine , aware of the political implications when he said that he would regain the Ashes but lose a dominion? Timewatch talks to cricket veteran
GLBBY ALLEN.
Death on the Dole: in a time of high unemployment JOHN bauman looks back at how the health of the unemployed was damaged in the 1930s.
Louis XIV: the story of the ' Sun King' of France, who was the first ' politician ' deliberately to mould his own favourable image by setting up the 17th-century equivalent of Saatchi and Saatchi.
Executive producer timothy GARDAM Editor BRUCE NORMAN