Throwback Thursday
The Human League & Heaven 17
3 hours
Christian Carlisle is on a mission to unearth untold stories about the history of music from across South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire. Show more
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H2O Podcast
QE2's final departure from Southampton (archive from 2008). 13 Nov, 2018
1 hour, 25 minutes
First broadcast:Available for over a year
On 11th of November 2008, the iconic liner QE2 left Southampton on her final voyage, bound for a new life as a floating hotel in Dubai. Show more
Greg Jenner introduces his new series of fun history lessons for all the family.
Tudur Owen a Dyl Mei sy’n ein tywys drwy hanes Cymru, un cwestiwn ar y tro... y tro hyn yn taflu goleuni ar yr "Oesoedd Tywyll". Show more
How to Invent a Country
The Invention of Britain #4 - so many different little corners!
34 minutes
First broadcast:Available for over a year
Scotland, England, Ireland, Wales - why all these borders, and what do they mean?
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence follow history’s story-laden lines and linkages. Take HS2 from London’s graveyards to discover cross-dressing Welshmen rioting over new toll roads. Show more
A chance to hear stories and items now stored in the archives.
4 Extra Debut. Soprano Catherine Bott tells the story of Nancy Storace, an English singing superstar who worked with Mozart. From 2014. Show more
Bridget Kendall hears three veterans of the Cold War proxy conflict in Angola - one Angolan, one Cuban and one South African. Show more
Poet Mab Jones explores the compelling story of the slain poet Hedd Wyn and how he came to symbolise the heavy losses Wales suffered during the First World War. Show more
Bridget Kendall hears how, in the 1980s, US nuclear weapons came to English villages - and how this shaped the lives of a local farmer, a peaceful protestor and a US pilot. Show more
Bridget Kendall presents an oral history of the early Cold War. Stories of Perestroika and Glasnost in the USSR. Show more
Tom Holland views Heathrow in the Iron Age and asks if a mound in a Slough car park could be a Saxon burial site. Also, the 1,900th anniversary of Hadrian becoming Emperor of Rome. Show more
Voices of the First World War
Etaples Mutiny
15 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
Soldiers, officers and military policemen give their perspective on how events unfolded during the mutiny in the British Army at Etaples in September 1917. Show more
Bridget Kendall hears how East and West Germans experienced the reunification of their country and how it had changed their lives for better or worse. Show more
Bridget Kendall presents an oral history of the early Cold War. Stories from three participants in the Singing Revolution in Estonia. Show more
Bridget Kendall presents an oral history of the Cold War. Stories from an English village which played host to American nuclear weapons; perestroika; the fall of the Berlin Wall. Show more
4 Extra Debut. From Peter Sellers to Richard Burton. Peter Noble's 'Movie-Go-Round' film star interviews from the 1950s and 60s. From June 1995. Show more
Bridget Kendall hears stories from the Cold War, from East Germany to the Angolan Civil War, from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan to Poland's 'Solidarity' movement. Show more
Bridget Kendall presents an oral history of the early Cold War. Stories from three people who remember the events of 1991 in the USSR. Show more