How the bouncing bomb came to be.
In the week that the Imperial War Museum North opens on the banks of the Manchester Ship Canal, Dan Cruickshank examines the rebirth of challenging architecture in the city.
With George Alagiah.
The leader of the Palestine Liberation Organisation is no stranger to conflict, but in the current "intifada" Yasser Arafat finds himself under siege not just from the Israelis but also from his own people. Suzanne Goldenberg asks whether he can lead the Palestinians to statehood, or whether he should stand down.
Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the evolution of capitalism during the 20th century and look at the work of Keynes, Friedman, Hayek and Fukuyama.
The British Empire was driven by liberalism and free-market economics, but Ireland's potato famine and mutiny in India revealed its pitfalls.
How the liberal politics and free-market economics of the British Empire unravelled, leading to the potato famine in Ireland and mutiny in India. Show more
BBC staff reflect on the much-derided soap opera Eldorado.
The fifth and final film in Truffaut's series following his alter ego, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Leaud).
In French with English subtitles.
