Historian and broadcaster David Reynolds talks to dramatist Stephen Poliakoff about the inspiration behind his latest work - Close to the Enemy. Show more
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Free Thinking
Winston Churchill and Englishness
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
David Reynolds, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Simon Heffer and David Edgar join Philip Dodd to discuss Winston Churchill through the lens of Englishness. Show more
Start the Week
Gandhi's Early Years
43 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
Bridget Kendall discusses Gandhi's early years with historians Ramachandra Guha and David Reynolds, opera director Phelim McDermott and journalist Bronwen Maddox. Show more
David Reynolds uncovers the story of three summit meetings that have shaped the modern world. He examines Chamberlain's hubristic misreading of Hitler at Munich in 1938. Show more
David Reynolds uncovers the story of three summit meetings that shaped the modern world. How Kennedy and Khrushchev's meeting in Vienna in 1961 nearly led to world war. Show more
David Reynolds uncovers the story of three summit meetings that shaped the modern world. He sees how Reagan and Gorbachev helped ensure a peaceful end to the Cold War. Show more
Travelling to Russian battlefields and using original telegrams and official documents, David Reynolds reassesses Stalin's role in the struggle between Germany and Russia in WWII. Show more
David Reynolds asks why Britain spent much of the war fighting in Africa and Italy, reassessing Churchill's view that the Mediterranean was the soft underbelly of Hitler's Europe. Show more
Long Shadow
Episode 1: Remembering and Understanding
1 hour
First broadcast: on BBC Two ScotlandLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD
David Reynolds examines the legacy of the Great War. In this episode, he looks at how attitudes to the war changed in Britain and Germany. Show more
Long Shadow
Episode 2: Ballots and Bullets
1 hour
First broadcast: on BBC Two ScotlandLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD
Series tracing the legacy of the Great War. David Reynolds looks at how the conflict gave birth to an age of turbulent mass democracy. Show more
Long Shadow
Episode 3: Us and Them
59 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD
Series tracing the legacy of the Great War. David Reynolds argues that the war made national identity a stark either-or issue, a matter of 'us' versus 'them'. Show more
David Reynolds re-examines the war leadership of American president Franklin Roosevelt, who inspired millions with stirring visions of a new and better postwar world. Show more