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Tony Blackburn presents the weekly pop chart show, with performances from M, Squeeze, the Members, the Jacksons, Generation X, Chic, Milk and Honey & Gali Atari and the Jam. Show more
Performances from ELO, T-Rex, 10cc, Alvin Stardust, Mott the Hoople and Meatloaf that owed a debt to the rock 'n' roll of the 1950s. Show more
Danny Baker dons the mortar board in a whistle-stop archival romp through our education system.
Alexander Armstrong explores the literature that inspired Michael Palin and Terry Jones's comedy Ripping Yarns, a parody of the Boys' Own books and magazines of their childhood. Show more
Offbeat comedy which celebrates the role that pointless violence in public schools has played in our splendid nation.
It's not just Irish eyes that are smiling when some of the Emerald Isle's finest exports tell their favourite jokes. Forget the gift of the gab, this lot have the gift of the gag. Show more
British POWs and their Japanese captors tell the story of what happened on the 'Death Railway' built to link Thailand to Burma in 1943, one of the worst atrocities of WWII. Show more
Documentary presented by writer Tim Kendall about the First World War soldier-poet and composer Ivor Gurney, whose powerful poetry captured the experience of the ordinary soldier. Show more
Tony Blackburn presents the weekly pop chart show, with performances from M, Squeeze, the Members, the Jacksons, Generation X, Chic, Milk and Honey & Gali Atari and the Jam. Show more
It's not just Irish eyes that are smiling when some of the Emerald Isle's finest exports tell their favourite jokes. Forget the gift of the gab, this lot have the gift of the gag. Show more
Performances from ELO, T-Rex, 10cc, Alvin Stardust, Mott the Hoople and Meatloaf that owed a debt to the rock 'n' roll of the 1950s. Show more
Alexander Armstrong explores the literature that inspired Michael Palin and Terry Jones's comedy Ripping Yarns, a parody of the Boys' Own books and magazines of their childhood. Show more
