Tom Paulin, Bonnie Greer and Hari Kunzru join Mark Lawson. Shown last Friday on BBC2.
A Proms-based discussion.
Simon Schama delivers the inaugural lecture - an examination of the relationship between history and television. The talk includes excerpts from his own A History of Britain.
Peter Watkins's drama-documentary centres on the Battle of Culloden - the last battle fought on British soil, and one of the most mishandled and brutal - in which young pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie was defeated in the 1745 rebellion.
AJP Taylor's unscripted, unrehearsed talks brought history alive for millions of television viewers. This impromptu talk was recorded in 1979, and - before illness intervened -was intended as the first in a series called The Years Between.
In the last of the three-part drama, the literary family are in exile in the US in the 1940s and early 1950s.
One off drama questioning the role of traditional medicine in a child's fight against leukaemia.