Archive Hour, Archive on Four

Last Edited: 15-Jan-2018 A Global British Comedy Collaborative document. Edited by John Lucas
Broadcast source is BBC Radio Four unless otherwise indicated. Recordings are good unless otherwise indicated.

The two names refer to the same program. Archive on Four began to be used, I think in 2009, at least partly to avoid confusion about 45 minute long repeats of the program. It is still referred to as Archive Hour in some BBC articles and messages.

A note about repeated episodes and "missing" recordings: Contemporary cataloguing of Archive Hour episodes began on 26-Jul-2008. Prior to that time (roughly 175 episodes), repeat broadcasts may or may not have been noted but were not cataloged as they were broadcast. This results in three possibilities for repeated episodes in the following tables:
  1. A repeated episode before 26-Jul-2008 and noted at the time as a repeat -- the row for that date is in gray and "no programme or repeat?" as given as the title
  2. A repeated episode before 26-Jul-2008 and not noted as a repeat at the time -- the episode is fully listed but the earlier broadcast date (with recording) is included in the Date column. The repeated copy is still retained.
  3. A repeated episode after 26-Jul-2008 and noted as a repeat at the time -- the episode is shown as a repeat and no recording of the repeat was preserved

1998 2000-2001 2002-2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

1998-1999
Date
 Episode
 Title
 Cast
 Parameters
08-Aug-1998
15-Aug-1998		   The Railway Station - Gorgeous Palaces and Solemn Temples
  1. City Stations
  2. Country Stations
 no credits
[Jeffrey Richards
Producer: Ivan Howlett]
 56:01, 78781, S
56:01, 78776, S
12-Sep-1998   The Code Breakers no credits
[Christopher Andrew
Producer: Paul Bajoria]
 56:40, 79689, S
21-Nov-1998   Alistair Cooke - a Celebration -- Alistair Cooke at 90 no credits
[Alistair Cooke
Introduced By: Nick Clarke.
Producer: Tony Grant]
 57:02, 80217, S
2000-2001
Date
 Episode
 Title
 Cast
 Parameters
Jan-2000
BBC R4X
19-Jul-2014
Boy, Oh Boy, He's Going Down
 Sean Street
produced by Julian May
 56:45, 53096, S
19-Feb_2000
R7		 2000-8 Talking to Oneself -- The Art of the Monologue
 Michael Williams 57:11, 53616, S
01-Jul-2000
Do What You Like With Him -
The Unreal Life Of Sherlock Holmes
 Nick Utechin
produced by Ian Dougherty
 56:47, 55988, M
18-Nov-2000
repeat of
08-Aug-1998		   Gorgeous Palaces and Solemn Temples no credits 54:52, 102901, S
25-Nov-2000
repeat of
15-Aug-1998		   Milk Churns, a Porter and a Cat
 no credits 55:59, 104975, S
2000
BBC R4X
26-Jul-2014
Broadcasting Freedom
 Bonnie Greer
 56:26, 52799, S
end missing
20-Jan-2001 2001-3 Queen Victoria Amanda Foreman
Produced by Bob Dickinson		 56:49, 79918, S
19-May-2012 2001-20
Humph at 80
 Graeme Garden
produced by Kathy Drysdale		 56:39, 53116, S
26-May-2001 2001-21 Simon Hoggart -- Spies Like Us Simon Hoggart
produced by Anne-Marie Cole		 57:56, 64497, S
23-Jun-2001 2001-25 Arnold Brown - Making Our Entertainment Arnold Brown
produced by Helen Garrison		 57:55, 58890, S
30-Jun-2001 2001-26 An Un-English Englishman -- Fred Perry
 Charles Lambert
produced by Ian Bent
 57:21, 51051, S
    Ballerina Deborah Bull, Margot Fonteyn,
Tamara Karsavina, Alicia Markova,
Lynn Seymour
Producer: Philippa Ritchie		  
14-Jul-2001 2001-28 Are You Local -- local radio
 Roger Phillips
produced by Rob Ketteridge and
Horatio Clare
 56:43, 55392, S
    Thou Art Awful, but I Like Thee
 Tim Brooke-Taylor
Producer: Ashley Blaker
 
28-Jul-2001 2001-30 Viking on Mars
 Leo Enright
produced by Pam Rutherford
 56:33, 48104, S
04-Aug-2001 2001-31 From Buchan to Bond
 Nigel Fountain
Produced by Bob Dickinson
 57:54, 55893, S
11-Aug-2001 2001-32 A Caribbean Jerusalem
 Joanna Newman
produced by Sue Ellis
 56:37, 47993, S
18-Aug-2001 2001-33 Three Days That Changed the World 
Bridget Kendall
Producer: Simon Elmes
 
25-Aug-2001 2001-34 That'll Never Work on the Wireless
 Sean Street
produced by Julian May
 57:00, 68305, S
  35 Gandhi's Mill Tour
Bhikhu Parekh
Producer: Libby Cross
 
08-Sep-2001
36 Stuff and Nonsense
Graeme Garden
produced by Thomas Morris
56:50, 13323, M
  37 The Co-op
Chris Bowlby
Producer: Smita Patel		  
  38 The Children's Crusaders
Ian McMillan
Producer: Alastair Wilson
 
  39 Thugs
Dick Hobbs
Producer: Paul Kobrak
 
06-Oct-2001 40 The Pictures Are Better
 Peter White
produced by Chreyl Gabriel
 56:42, 63856, S
  41 The Paris Files
Jon Sopel
Producer: Tony Grant
 
  42 Going for Bronze
Ian McMillan
Producer: Alastair Wilson
 
27-Oct-2001 43 Working On The Lines --
The Change from Steam to Diesel
 Ivan Howlett
produced by Angela Hind		 56:57, 51091, S
  44 Do What You Like with Him -
the Unreal Life of Sherlock Holmes
Nick Utechin
Producer: Ian Docherty
 
10-Nov-2001 45 Sink the Bismarck
 Charles Wheeler
produced by David Prest
 56:54, 68063, S
17-Nov-2001 46 The Flying Enterprise
see also 14-Oct-2006 for another episode about this
 Frank Delaney
produced by Simon Elmes
 56:42, 38242, m
  47 Bookclub Special - Douglas Adams
James Naughti
 
01-Dec-2001 48 Double Disney
 Russell Davies
produced by Nick Eutekin
 55:28, 58771, S
08-Dec-2001 49 Ten Pound Poms
 Alistair Thomson
 
 56:40, 80294, S
  50 DJ Culture Mark Lamarr
Producer: Peter Everett
 
22-Dec-2001 51 Twice Nightly
 Stan Stennett
produced by Sara Davies
 57:57, 51729, S
2002-2003
Date
 Episode
 Title
 Cast
 Parameters
05-Jan-2002 2002-1 Fired By The Ring
 Brian Sibley
produced by Frances Burns		 57:45, 57899, S
12-Jan-2002 2002-2 Silent Voices
 Jeffrey Richards
produced by Libby Cross
 57:41, 48523, S
19-Jan-2002
BBC R7		 2002-3 I'd Know That Voice Anywhere --
Voice Recognition
 no credits
[Alistair McGowan, Winston Churchill,
Richard Burton, Kenneth Williams,
Margaret Thatcher, Anthony Clare
Producer: Beaty Rubens]
 56:45, 53218, S
    Airports
Steve Punt
Producer: Geoff Ballinger
 
         
         
         
         
02-Mar-2002 2002-9 Daughters of the Radical Suffragists
 Jill Liddington
produced by Janet Graves		 57:55, 37482, S
04-May-2002
Radio's Lost Property
 Russell Davies
produced by Simon Elmes
 57:08, 13393, S
22-Jun-2002 2002-25 Iron Horses -- transition from horses to tractors
 Ivan Howlett
produced by Nick Patrick		 56:51, 13328, m
2004
Date
 Episode
 Title
 Cast
 Parameters
21-Feb-2004 2004-8 Charles Chilton
 Russell Davies
produced by Mark Burman		 56:50, 53282, S
20-Mar-2004 2004-12 The Island Race -- Isle of Man TT Race
 Murray Walker
produced by Richard  McElroy		 57:13, 53654, S
27-Mar-2004 2004-13 Frogs and Rosbifs --
Centenary of entente cordiale
 Antoine de Court
produced by Lucy Ash		 57:40, 54074, S
17-Apr-2004 2004-16 And Grandma in the Back Seat
 Matthew Parris
produced by Ivan Howlett and
Nick Patrick
 57:24, 53821, S
24-Apr-2004 2004-17 I Too Am America
 Carol Phillips
produced by Jane Beresford		 57:35, 53998, S
01-May-2004 2004-18 Rowleys Heath -- Newmarket and the horse
 Ivan Howlett
produced by Nick Patrick
 57:07, 53563, S
19-Jun-2004 2004-25 New Town Voices Milton Keynes
 Jonathan Grantsey
produced by Jonathan Fyles
 57:11, 53615, S
18-Sep-2004 2004-38 Living with Oil
 Hugo Manson
produced by Tony Phillips		 57:04, 53512, S
25-Sep-2004 2004-39 Stalin the Terrible
 Jim Riordan
produced by Alison Verson Smith		 56:55, 53368, S
09-Oct-2004 2004-41 Ready Teddy
 Ray Gosling
produced by Bob Dickinson		 57:14, 53671, S
16-Oct-2004 2004-42 Saint Mugg--Malcolm Muggeridge
 Miles Kington
produced by Marilyn Harris		 56:51, 53300, S
23-Oct-2004 2004-43 Battling with Weather
 Helen Young
produced by Adrian Washbourn		 57:10, 53599, S
30-Oct-2004 2004-44 The Life of Henry Mancini
 Carl Davis
produced by Fiona Kroll		 57:19, 53740, S
06-Nov-2004 2004-45 A Gallery of Voices --
Tate Gallery sound archive
 Verity Sharp
produced by Alan Hall		 57:14, 53669, S
13-Nov-2004 2004-46 The Shoddy Business--wool recycled
 Roni Robinson
produced by Andy Cartwright		 56:48, 53253, S
20-Nov-2004 2004-47 A Concert Hall in the Sky--Music for the radio
 Humphrey Carpenter
produced by Mahini Patel		 57:30, 53916, S
27-Nov-2004 2004-48 Brave or Lucky? --
150 Years of Winning the VC
 Peter deLiminier
produced by Libby Cross and
Graham Hoylett		 57:19, 53747, S
04-Dec-2004 2004-49 Clydebuilt Comics with Nicholas Parsons
 Nicholas Parsons
produced by Louise Dyall		 56:58, 53422, S
11-Dec-2004 2004-50 The Hills Are Alive --
40th anniversary of Sound of Music film
 Mark Curmode
produced by Bob Dickinson
 57:07, 53556, S
18-Dec-2004 2004-51 Transplantation -- 50th anniversary of kidney transplant
 Graham Easton
produced by Beth Eastwood		 56:56, 53387, S
2005
Date
 Episode
 Title
 Cast
 Parameters
08-Jan-2005 1 Enter the Workhouse
 Anthony Burton
produced by Eve Streeter and
Dominic Byrne		 57:17, 53706, S
15-Jan-2005 2 In Loving Memory--The Memorial Service
 Alan Coren
produced by Paul Kobrack		 56:51, 53310, S
22-Jan-2005 3 no programme or repeat?
Louis's Lost Tapes (in Radio Times)
  Humphrey Lyttelton
Producer: Kate Bissell
 
29-Jan-2005 4 Farewell to Winston -- The State Funeral
 Nicholas Whichell
produced by David Prest and Stuart Henderson		 57:36, 54001, S
05-Feb-2005
repeat of
21-Feb-2004
 5 Charles Chilton
 Russell Davies
produced by Mark Burman		 56:57, 53406, S
12-Feb-2005 6 Miller on Mic -- Tribute to Arthur-Miller
 Christopher Bigsby
produced by Julian May		 57:30, 53907, S
19-Feb-2005 7 His Masters Voice --The Story of Argo
 Alan Dein
produced by Lawrence Grissell		 57:03, 53491, S
26-Feb-2005
repeat of
August 2003
 8 Lance Corporal Baronowski s Vietnam
 produced by Alan Hall 57:06, 53542, S
05-Mar-2005 9 Into the Wild Blue --
Emory Cook s Recordings
 produced by Paul Kent 57:29, 53893, S
12-Mar-2005 10 The parade's gone by --
history of silent movies
 Michael Poynton
produced by Neil Rosser		 57:31, 53932, S
19-Mar-2005 11 The North South Divide
 Jim White
produced by Bob Dickinson		 56:55, 53366, S
26-Mar-2005 12 The House of the Future
 Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen
produced by Tracy Logan 		57:07, 53554, S
02-Apr-2005 13 Down the Wires
 Matthew Parris
produced by Christina Capsiou		 57:06, 53533, S
09-Apr-2005
 14
 The Shanghai Sailors
Merchant Seamen Repatriated after WWII
 Ivan Howlett
Produced by Angela Hind
 57:10, 53605, S
16-Apr-2005 15 25x26.2 -- The London Marathon
 Matthew Parris
produced by Monise Durani		 57:14, 53665, S
23-Apr-2005 16 A Cumberland Odyssey --
Preserving folk music
 Mike Harding 57:00, 53443, S
30-Apr-2005 17 Building on Hope Street --
Liverpool Cathedral
 Charley Lambert
produced by Ian Bent		 56:56, 53391, S
07-May-2005
repeat of
09-Oct-2004
 18 Ready Teddy
 Ray Gosling
produced by Bob Dickinson		 57:07, 53549, S
14-May-2005 19 The Spirit and the Flesh
 Richard Holloway
produced by Hazel Marshall		 57:02, 53480, S
21-May-2005 20 Based on the Book
 Robert Giddings
produced by Sara Davies		 56:47, 53243, S
28-May-2005 21 Plucked from the Fire
 Tim Whewell
 56:58, 53412, S
04-Jun-2005
repeat of
17-Apr-2004
 22 And Grandma in the Back Seat
 Matthew Parris
produced by Ivan Howlett and Nick Patrick
 57:20, 53751, S
11-Jun-2005 23 The Truth about Arthur Legge
 James Naughtie
produced by Martin Smith		 57:13, 53641, S
18-Jun-2005 24 Hitler's Prisoner, Churchill's Friend
 Nigel Warburton
produced by Faith Lawrence		 57:33, 53964, S
25-Jun-2005 25 The Story of Township Music
 Afabia Questarton
produced by Paul Evans		 57:21, 53780, S
02-Jul-2005 26 Which Consumer
 John Waite
produced by Bernadette O'Connell		 56:55, 53366, S
09-Jul-2005 27 The Torres Strait Expedition
 Janet Topfargian
produced by Peter Nash		 57:07, 53552, S
16-Jul-2005 28 Eyes in the Sky
 Leo Enright
produced by Tracy Logan		 57:01, 53466, S
23-Jul-2005 29 To Win the Peace --
the 1945 general election
 John Cole
produced by Nick Eutekin		 57:13, 53649, S
30-Jul-2005 30 In Eighty Years -- Alan Whickers
 Michael Palin
produced by Jane Wray		 57:10, 53598, S
06-Aug-2005 31 A Timelapse of Dartmoor
 Tony Soper
produced by Sheena Duncan		 57:13, 53654, S
13-Aug-2005 32 Oh What a Lovely Pier
 Tony Liddington
produced by Angela Hind		 56:35, 53063, S
20-Aug-2005 33 Northern Edition
 Simon Hoggart
produced by Cecile Wright		 57:07, 53549, S
27-Aug-2005 34 Listen to Britain
 Safraz Mansoor
Produced by Sarah Parker		 56:51, 53307, S
03-Sep-2005 35 Celebrating 50 years of From Our
Own Correspondent
 Charles Wheeler
produced by Tony Grant		 57:00, 53447, S
10-Sep-2005 36 A Monstrous Regiment
 Jackie Ashley
Deborah McGarrin		 57:29, 53892, S
17-Sep-2005 37 Auntie Beeb and her Little Listeners
 Jean Seaton
produced by Sally Flatman		 57:06, 53535, S
24-Sep-2005 38 The British on Top of the World
 Stephen Venables
produced by Andrew Carter		 57:08, 53573, S
01-Oct-2005 39 Weird Science with Brian Aldiss
 Brian Aldiss
produced by Foster Stirling		 57:03, 53495, S
08-Oct-2005 40 America's Barefoot Refugees
 produced by Jolyon Jenkins 57:21, 53776, S
15-Oct-2005 41 Looking for Lawrence --70th anniversary
 John Simpson
produced by Christine Akatsiou		 56:52, 53316, S
22-Oct-2005 42 Fossilised Fish Hooks
 Miles Kington
produced by Sarah Jane Hall		 57:36, 54015, S
29-Oct-2005 43 The Sound of America --
the story of NPR
 Joe Queenan
produced by Neil Gardner		 57:54, 54296, S
05-Nov-1005 44 The Mantovani Sound
 Kstherine Bolt
produced by Jolyon Jenkins
 57:22, 53794, S
12-Nov-1005 45 Selling us the Soviets
 Chris Bowlby
produced by Smita Patel		 56:54, 53347, S
19-Nov-1005 46 Hospital radio
 Caroline Quinn
produced by Virgiia Phillips		 56:56, 53385, S
26-Nov-1005 47 Following Wainwright
 Mark Radcliff
produced by Jeff Byrd		 57:08, 53565, S
03-Dec-2005 48 Lennon--The Wenner Tapes
 produced by Simon Hollis 57:24, 53820, S
10-Dec-2005 39 Mad about the Boy --
Ivor Novello and Noel Coward
 Kit Hesketh-Harvey 56:51, 53311, S
17-Dec-2005 50 Tsunami audio memorial
 Julian Petifer
produced by Tanya Dattar		 55:33, 52081, S
24-Dec-2005 51 Lomax at Christmas
 Martin Carthy
produced by Paul Kent		 57:24, 53822, S
2006
Date
 Episode
 Title
 Cast
 Parameters
07-Jan-2006 1 Mr Munrow His Study
 Jeremy Summerlee
produced by Neil George		 57:18, 53733, S
14-Jan-2006 2 The Dream Boats
 George Salmon, Billy Harrison, Richie Barton,
Johnny Walker, John Hibbert
interviews by Jerry Holsgrove		 57:04, 53505, S
21-Jan-2006 3 The 1979 Fastnet Race disaster
 David Lomax
produced by Isobel Eaton		 56:37, 53090, S
28-Jan-2006 4 Alexander Korda the Man Who Took
on Hollywood
 Francine Stock
produced by Bob Dickinson		 57:01, 53459, S
04-Feb-2006 5 The Ship that Broke the Camels Back
 Frank Field
Janet Graves		 57:20, 53751, S
11-Feb-2006 6 Voices from the Past
 Colm Toibin
Ophelia Byrne		 57:22, 53794, S
18-Feb-2006 7 Not What It Used to Be–-
England and Nostalgia
 Sean Street
produced by Julian May		 57:35, 53987, S
25-Feb-2006 8 Make Yourself a home
 Safraz Mansoor
produced by Marc Ricards		 57:07, 53554, S
04-Mar-2006 9 An Audience with Norman Corwin
 Norman Corwin
produced by Kate McCall		 57:34, 53975, S
11-Mar-2006 10 20000 Leagues under the Ice
 Charles Wheeler
produced by Mark Burman		 56:34, 53039, S
18-Mar-2006 11 The Home of Radio -- Broadcasting House
 David Hatch
produced by Alexandra Feacham		 57:18, 53721, S
25-Mar-2006 12 Fifty Years of the English Stage Company
 Ken Campbell
produced by Karen Rose		 57:25, 53836, S
01-Apr-2006 13 The Grand National
 Charlie Lambert
produced by Ian Bent		 57:50, 54231, S
08-Apr-2006 14 Speaking for Ourselves
 Jeff Adam Spink
produced by Mike Greenwood		 57:00, 53439, S
15-Apr-2006 15 The Queen at 80--Royal Tours
 Dennis Blakeway
produced by Jo Coombes		 56:48, 53251, S
22-Apr-2006 16 Say It Plain--US Civil rights
 Doten Adibayo
produced by Paul Vickers
 57:12, 53620, S
29-Apr-2006 17 High Society--
rise and fall of tower blocks
 Stuart Henderson
produced by Jules Wilkinson		 56:57, 53405, S
06-May-2006 18 Wild Times--
the career of David Attenborough
 Brian Leith
produced by Sheena Duncan		 57:02, 53483, S
13-May-2006 19 I'd Like to Teach the World --
self-improvement
 Nigel Warburton
produced by Lindsay Leonard		 56:24, 52881, S
20-May-2006 20 Down Your Way Revisited
 Geoffrey Richards
produced by Libby Cross		 57:14, 53660, S
27-May-2006
repeat of
13-Nov-2004		 21 The Shoddy Business--wool recycled
 Roni Robinson
produced by Andy Cartwright		 57:03, 53493, S
03-Jun-2006 22 Thanks for Listening--
the career of John Ebden
 Nick Baker
produced by Emma Kingsley		 57:18, 53730, S
10-Jun-2006 23 A Feather in Their Cap--the RSPB
 Ken Clarke
produced by Fiona Roberts		 57:27, 53872, S
17-Jun-2006 24 Three Mile Island--March 1979
 Martin Bell
produced by Jo Meek		 57:16, 53703, S
24-Jun-2006 25 Potteries Fascists
 Gerry Northam
produced by John Byrne and
Gerry Northam
 57:00, 53448, S
01-Jul-2006 ? No programme or repeat?    
08-Jul-2006 26 Dolly's Decade
 Sally Magnusson
produced by Monise Dhurani		 57:02, 53470, S
15-Jul-2006 27 District Six--Capetown
 Nigel Wrench
produced by Jo Meek		 57:19, 53739, S
22-Jul-2006 28 Wriggling with Eels--East End Comedy
 Lee Hurst
produced by James Crawford		 57:57, 54330, S
29-Jul-2006 29 Putting It Simply--science on radio
and television
 Cathy Sykes
produced by Deborah Cohen		 57:01, 53466, S
05-Aug-2006 30 Escape from Victory
 Ian Macmillan
produced by Annie Searle
 57:00, 53452, S
12-Aug-2006 31 Run TK--Skateboarding Duck
 Steve Hewlett
produced by Angela Hind		 57:17, 53714, S
19-Aug-2006 32 Remember Last Summer
 Nick Mays
produced by Kevin Dawson		 56:59, 53432, S
26-Aug-2006 33a Same Time Same Place Next Year
 Malcolm Taylor
produced by Julian May		 57:58, 54348, S
28-Aug-2006 33b Betjeman the Broadcaster
 Miles Kington
produced by Richard Bannerman		 56:46, 53226, S
02-Sep-2006 34 Diva
 Peggy Reynolds
produced by Sara Davies		 57:10, 53603, S
09-Sep-2006 35 New York Reflections Five Years On
 Stephen Evans
produced by Adele Armstrong		 57:09, 53579, S
16-Sep-2006 36 Discover Your Inner Durrell
 Bridget Nichols
produced by Ariane Koch		 57:15, 53680, S
23-Sep-2006 37 Europe--Ruins to Recovery
 Chris Bowlby 56:51, 53301, S
30-Sep-2006 38 The House
 Matthew Parris
produced by Kate Bissell		 57:02, 53471, S
07-Oct-2006 39 The Wapping Revolution
 Andrew Neale
produced by Phillipa Goodrich and Anne Tyreman		 57:08, 53570, S
14-Oct-2006 40 The Saga of the Flying Enterprise
 Ivan Howlett
produced by Angela Hind		 57:10, 53595, S
21-Oct-2006 41 Down the Wires--The Electrophone
 Matthew Parris
produced by Christina Capsiou		 57:03, 53487, S
28-Oct-2006 42 Suez--The Missing Dimension
 Scott Lucas
produced by Simon Jacobs		 57:21, 53769, S
04-Nov-2006 43 A Comfort to the Enemy
 Steve Hewlett
produced by Neil George		 57:00, 53439, S
11-Nov-2006 44 Living with AIDS--Blood Brothers
 Winifred Robinson
produced by James Crawford		 57:02, 53475, S
18-Nov-2006 45 Man of the People--Paul Graney's Story
 Geoffrey Richards
produced by Libby Cross		 56:53, 53337, S
25-Nov-2006 46 Down at the Docks
 Gerry Anderson
produced by Christina Capsiou		 57:18, 53733, S
02-Dec-2006 47 Give Us Your Money
 Caroline Quinn
produced by Simon Clancy		 57:16, 53730, S
09-Dec-2006 48 The Edwards Archive--newsreel cameramen
 John Edwards
edited by Peter Everett		 57:09, 53580, S
16-Dec-2006 49 Not Like That--Like This
 Julian Warricker
produced by James Crawford
 56:51, 53308, S
23-Dec-2006 ? no programme or repeat?
Wild Times - David Attenborough at 80 (in RadioTimes)
 David Attenborough, Brian Leith
Producer: Sheena Duncan		  
30-Dec-2006 50 The Poles and the Planet
 Adam Fowler
produced by Anna Scott-Brown		 57:05, 53530, S
2007
Date
 Episode
 Title
 Cast
 Parameters
06-Jan-2007 1 In the Dark Tower-- Louis MacNeice at the BBC
 Paul Muldoon
produced by Julian May		 57:03, 53493, S
13-Jan-2007 ? no programme or repeat?
The Truth about Walter Legge (in Radio Times)
 James Naughtie
Producer: Martin Smith		  
20-Jan-2007 2 Back to Square One--80 Years of Football on the Radio
 Barry Davis
Nicola Swords		 57:05, 5317, S
27_Jan-2007
repeat of
15-Oct-2005		 3 Looking for Lawrence --70th anniversary
 John Simpson
produced by Christine Akatsiou		 56:56, 53383, S
03-Feb-2007 4 SAS--The Originals
 Gordon Stevens
produced by Julian Mayers		 57:19, 53736, S
10-Feb-2007 5 Out on Air
 Richard Coles
produced by Dixie Stewart and
Paula McGinley		 56:59, 53430, S
17-Feb-2007
repeat of
16-Jul-2005		 6 Eyes in the Sky
 Leo Enright
produced by Tracy Logan		 58:00, 54376, S
24-Feb-2007
repeat of
23-Jul-2005		 7 To Win the Peace -- the 1945 general election
 John Cole
produced by Nick Eutekin		 57:15, 53673, S
03-Mar-2007 8 The Cancer of the Trail--
The overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah
 read by Alex Tidilate
produced by Ruth Evans
 57:19, 53744, S
10-Mar-2007 9 Harry Belafonte at 80
 Stephen Evans
produced by Paul Evans		 56:49, 53274, S
17-Mar-2007 10 Strangers in the Night
 Michael Nicholson
produced by Sarah Taylor		 57:08, 53568, S
24-Mar-2007 11 50 Years in Europe--
Where Away Goals Count Double
 Jim White
produce by Kevin Moseley		 57:25, 53829, S
31-Mar-2007 12 Denis Healey at 90
 Eleanor Goodman
produced by Patrick Gregory		 57:13, 53649, S
07-Apr-2007 13 Light at the End of the Chunnel
 Sean Street
produced by Alan Hall		 56:25, 52892, S
14-Apr-2007 14 The Women Left on the Shore
 Samantha Riches
produced by Bella Bannerman		 57:11, 53622, S
21-Apr-2007 ? no programme or repeat?
The Mantovani Sound (in Radio Times)
 Catherine Bott
Producer: Jolyon Jenkins
 
28-Apr-2007 15 Auntie Beeb and Religion
 Jean Seaton
produced by Bob Dickinson		 56:58, 53417, S
05-May-2007 16 The Stone of Destiny
 James Naughtie
produced by Richard Bannerman		 57:15, 53673, S
12-May-2007 17 All the People I Hoped Were Dead
 produced by Sara Jane Hall 56:50, 53283, S
19-May-2007 18 Olivier
 Mark Lawson
produced by Julia Adamson		 57:05, 53528, S
26-May-2007 19 Test Match Special--Ball by Ball
 Rory Bremner
produced by Tom Alban		 57:17, 53711, S
02-Jun-2007 20 Basil Spence
 Sarib Genter
produced by Robin Reid		 57:17, 53712, S
09-Jun-2007 21 The People's Place
 Harry Enfield
produced by Susan Kinnion		 56:46, 53229, S
16-Jun-2007 22 Back to the Future
 Adam Hart Davis
produced by Libby Cross		 57:05, 53517, S
23-Jun-2007 23 A Small Country Life
 Sheila McKenna
produced by Jeff Bird		 57:13, 53644, S
30-Jun-2007 24 Flanders on Flanders
 Stephanie Flanders
produced by Hugh Levinson		 57:27, 53866, S
07-Jul-2007 25 Men in Bow Ties
 Lars Tharp
produced by Lindsay Leonard		 57:06, 53539, S
14-Jul-2007 26 A Philosophy to Live By--
1951 US prrogramme This I Believe
 Jay Allerson
produced by Emily Williams		 57:12, 53630, S
21-Jul-2007 ? no programme or repeat?
Mr Munrow, His Study (in Radio Times)
 Jeremy Summerly
Producer: Neil George
 
28-Jul-2007 27 Footlights and Fancy Free
 Lisa Jardine
produced by Siobhan McClelland		 56:50, 53289, S
04-Aug-2007 28 India-Pakistan 07--Debating the Divide
 Safrz Mansoor
produced by Neil George and
Mahini Patel		 56:56, 53378, S
11-Aug-2007 29 Britain's Space Race
 Hava Cooper
produced by Martin Redfern		 56:58, 53416, S
18-Aug-2007 30 On the Grapevine--
Oral History of the Wine Trade
 Jansis Robinson
produced by Peter Everett		 57:02, 53476, S
25-Aug-2007 ? no programme or repeat?
Make Yourself at Home (in Radio Times)
 Sarfraz Manzoor
Producer: Mark Rickards
  
01-Sep-2007 31 Saving the Sounds of History
 Sean Street
produced by Julian May		 57:49, 54205, S
08-Sep-2007 ? no programme or repeat?
The Sounds of America, the Story of NPR (in Radio Times)
 Joe Queenan
Producer: Neil Gardner
 
15-Sep-2007
repeat of
10-Dec-2005		 32 Mad about the Boy --
Ivor Novello and Noel Coward
 Kit Hesketh-Harvey 56:55, 53369, S
22-Sep-2007 33 A Quarrel In A Faraway Country
 David Vaughn 57:10, 53608, S
29-Sep-2007
repeat of
13-May-2006		 34 I'd Like to Teach the World --
self-improvement
 Nigel Warburton
produced by Lindsay Leonard		 56:13, 52718, S
06-Oct-2007 35 The Documentary Pioneers
 Francine Stock
produced by Sarah Room and
Colleen Grant		 57:04, 53501, S
13-Oct-2007 36 Stalin's People -- War against the Family
 Orlando Figes
produced by Mark Burman		 55:35, 52:16, S
20-Oct-2007 37 Stalin's People -- Freedom or Death
 Orlando Figes
produced by Mark Burman		 57:15, 53673, S
27-Oct-2007 38 The Sound and the Fury
 Tom Robinson
produced by Alan Hall		 56:36, 53068, S
03-Nov-2007 39 How Tickled I've Been - Ken Dodd interviewed
 Ricky Tomlinson
produced by Stephen Garner		 57:10, 53603, S
10-Nov-2007 40 Close to Home--The Story of Local Radio
 Libby Purvis
produced by Paula McGinley		 57:16, 53688, S
17-Nov-2007 41 The Editors
 Andrew Neil
produced by Lindsay Leonard		 57:10, 53595, S
24-Nov-2007 42 The Sounds of Flanders
 Frank Gardner
produce by Christina Capsiou		 57:00, 53449, S
01-Dec-2007
 43 Maids and Mistresses
 Christina Hardament
produced by Emily Williams		 56:59, 53425, S
08-Dec-2007
 ? no programme or repeat?
Wriggling with Eels (in Radio Times)
 Lee Hurst
Albert Chevalier, Max Miller,
Alf Garnett, Ricky Grover
Producer: James Crawford
 
15-Dec-2007
 44 Acoustic Attic
 Judith Kaplan 57:00, 53439, S
22-Dec-2007
 45 Virtuoso
 Peggy Reynolds
produced by Sara Davies		 56:57, 53400, S
29-Dec-2007
 46 The Shoemakers
 Ray Gosling
produced by Bob Dickinson		 57:12, 53632, S
2008
Date
 Episode
 Title
 Cast
 Parameters
05-Jan-2008 1 God, Pirates and Ovaltineys
 Sean Street
produced by Julian May		 57:05, 53527, S
12-Jan-2008 2 Snowy Streets of St Petersburg
 Martin Sixsmith
produced by Alan Hall		 57:14, 53665, S
19-Jan-2008 3 no programme or repeat?
Same Time,Same Place, Next Year (in RT)
 Doc Rowe
Presented By: Malcolm Taylor		  
26-Jan-2008 4 50 Years of Ban the Bomb
 Matthew Parris
produced by Jo Wheeler		 57:03, 53500, S
02-Feb-2008 5 Munich and the Making of Manchester
 Michael Cripp
produced by Chris Greene		 56:59, 53435, S
09-Feb-2008 6 Mods
 Phil Daniels
produced by Simon Hollis and Eddie Pillar		 56:07, 52621, S
16-Feb-2008 7 Gould's Mind
 Piers Plowright
produced by Michael Silken		 56:55, 53369, S
23-Feb-2008
repeat of
29-Jul-2006
 8 Putting It Simply
 Cathy Sykes
produced by Deborah Cohen		 56:46, 53220, S
01-Mar-2008 9 The Larkin Tapes
 Paul Farley
produced by Julian Wilkinson		 57:02, 53476, S
08-Mar-2008 10 Alan Parker on David Lean
 Adrian Edwards 56:57, 53400, S
15-Mar-2008 11 1968 The My Lai Tapes
 Robert Hodier
produced by Rosie Goldsmith		 56:40, 53134, S
22-Mar-2008 12 Wunderkind -- Herbert von Karajan
 Mark Lawson
produced by Simon Elmes		 56:56, 53391, S
29-Mar-2008 13 Britain's Business Problem
 Robert Peston
produced by David Stenhouse		 57:00, 53439, S
05-Apr-2008 14 Giving Way to a New Era  --
Microphones in the House of Commons
 produced by Rosemay Foxcroft and
Ashley Byrne		 57:14, 53665, S
12-Apr-2008
repeat of
16-Dec-2006
 15 Not Like That, Like This
 Julian Warricker
produced by James Crawford
 57:00, 53445, S
19-Apr-2008 16 A Rage in Dalston
 Alan Dein
produced by Mark Burman		 57:16, 53692, S
26-Apr-2008 17 Kington's Last Tapes
 Tony Staybaker
produced by Sara Davies		 56:53, 53329, S
03-May-2008 18 Adventures in the BBC Archives --
In Search of Anthony Eden
 Douglas Hurd
produced by Phil Tinline		 57:16, 53702, S
10-May-2008 19 The Terrible Truth --
public service educational publications
 Tom Robinson
produced by Jo Meek		 57:30, 53913, S
17-May-2008 20 When Seagulls Follow the Trawler
 Brian Cooney
produced by Penny Latin		 57:16, 67125, S
24-May-2008 21 Reith at 60 [1 of 2]
 Laurie Taylor
produced by Sheila Cook and
Richard Fenton Smith		 57:07, 53554, S
31-May-2008 22 Reith at 60 [2 of 2]
 Laurie Taylor
produced by Sheila Cook and
Richard Fenton Smith		 57:10, 53598, S
07-Jun-2008 23 The Dream Time of Jazz
 Mary Beth Hamilton
produced by Tim Dee		 56:55, 53366, S
14-Jun-2008 24 The Ration Book Olympics
 Clare Balding
produced by Emma Kingsley		 57:19, 53738, S
21-Jun-2008 25 Like Blackpool Went Through Rock
 Sean Street
produced by Sarah Parker		 57:23, 53810, S
28-Jun-2008 26 The Ballad of the Radio Feature
 not announced 56:47, 53250, S
05-Jul-2008 27 Piper Alphas Legacy
 Mark Steven
produced by Monise Dhurani		 57:15, 53673, S
12-Jul-2008 28 The New York '77 Blackout
 Sidney Schonberg
produced by Simon Hollis		 56:40, 53134, S
19-Jul-2008 29 The Dirtiest Race in History
 Steve Cram
produced by Julian Mayers		 57:06, 53535. S
26-Jul-2008
 30
 Archive Hour – Carry On Films at 50
 Carolyn Quinn
Produced by Jane Ashley
 57:20, 53751, S
02-Aug-2008
 snne31
 The Man Who Invented Stereo,
Alan Blumlein
 Martin Shankleman
Produced by Martin Redfern
 57:00, 53439, S
09-Aug-2008

 snne32
 Love at the Lighthouse - Marie Stopes
 Sue MacGregor
Poduced by Jacqueline Curtheways
 57:22, 53783, S
16-Aug-2008
 snne33
 Fortress Totobag:
The Story of the Notting Hill Riots
 Henry Bonsou
produced by Kate Bland
 57:56, 54317, S
23-Aug-2008
 snne34
 With God on Our Side
 Richard Holloway
produced by Lucy Holland
 57:24, 53820, S
30-Aug-2008
 snne35
 Liverpool - Sinner and Saint
 Stewart Henderson
Produced by Joe Koons
 57:02, 53473, S
06-Sep-2008
 snne36
 Then Was the Winter of our Discontent
 Anne Perkins
 Produced by Jane Ashley
 57:11, 53620, S
09-Apr-2005
repeated
13-Sep-2008
 snne37
 The Shanghai Sailors
Merchant Seamen Repatriated after
WWII
 Ivan Howlett
Produced by Angela Hind
 57:22, 53796, S
20-Sep-2008 snne38 The Voices in my Head
 Julian Rhind-Tutt
Produced by TIm Dee
 56:57, 53398, S
27-Sep-2008 snne39 Julian Baggini's Sound Philosophy
 Julian Baggini
Produced by Tim Dee
 56:27, 52933, S
04-Oct-2008 snne40 King of Comedy - Geoffrey Perkins
 Angus Deayton, Clive Anderson, Michael
Portillo, Graham Linehan, John Lloyd
Produced by Simon Elmes and Colin Anderson
 57:20, 53758, S
11-Oct-2008 snne41 The Palace and The Beeb
 David Cannadine
Produced by Brian King
 57:40, 54076, S
18-Oct-2008 snne42 How Radio Comedy Changed a Nation
 Nicholas Parsons
Produced by Joe Meek
 57:05, 53520, S
25-Oct-2008 snne43 Potteries Fascists
 Gerry Northam
Produced by John Byrne and Gerry Northam
 56:48, 53260, S
01-Nov-2008 snne44 Saigon Songs - The Lansdale Tapes
 Martin Bell
Produced by Vince Hunt
 57:21, 53768, S
08-Nov-2008 snne45 Adventures in the BBC Archives,
the Cambridge spies
 Stella Rimington
Produced by Phil Tinline
 57:19, 53743, S
gaps
15-Nov-2008 snne46 Fair Play Chaps
 DJ Taylor
produced by
56:37: 53088, S
22-Nov-2008 snne47 Here's Kenny
 Mark Paytress
produced by Sion Price
 57:22: 53789, S
29-Nov-2008 snne48 Studs Terkel - Back in the Wax Museum
 Alan Dein
produced by Christine Capsew
 56:51: 53309, S
06-Dec-2008 snne49 The King and Dr Cannon
 Sean Stowell
produced by Lindsey Leonard
 56:30: 52978, S
13-Dec-2008 snne50 Men in Bow Ties
 Lars Tharp
produced by Lindsey Leonard
 56:58: 53420, S
20-Dec-2008 snne51 Home Recorded Voices
 Sean Street
produced by Andy Cartwright
 56:59: 53434, S
27-Dec-2008 snne52 Rediscovering Your Inner Durrell
 Bridget Nicholls
produced by Ariane Koch
 57:10: 53602, S
2009
Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
03-Jan-2009 1 The Bow Dialogues Joan Bakewell 57:24, 53823, S
10-Jan-2009 2 Bremner on Bush - A Final Farewell Rory Bremner
Produced by Lucy Greenwell and
Simon Jacobs 		56:51, 53304, S
17-Jan-2009 3 Nations of the Cross -
The King's Cross area Arrivals and Departures 		Alan Dein
Produced by Mark Berman 		57:12, 53636, S
24-Jan-2009 4 Nations of the Cross -
The King's Cross area End of the Line 		Alan Dein
Produced by Mark Berman 		56:56, 53381, S
31-Jan-2009 5 Pinter on Air Ian Smith
Produced by Phil Tinline 		57:21, 53776, S
07-Feb-2009 6 The Book Burners Mike Wooldridge
Produced by Pamindah Kadkah and
Sarah Conkey 		57:04, 53512, S
14-Feb-2009 7 Island Dreams Gwyneth Lewis
Produced by Faith Lawrence 		57:18, 53732, S
21-Feb-2009 8 Agony Jenni Murray
Produced by Cecile Wright 		56:47, 53248, S
28-Feb-2009 9 A Strong Song Tows Us -
Another History of English Poetry 		Lee Hall
Produced by Kate Rowland 		56:58, 53413, S
07-Mar-2009 10 A Tibetan Odyssey - 50 Years in Exile Isabel Hilton
Produced by Emylys Thomas 		56:55, 53366, S
14-Mar-2009 11 Radio Sales -
the history of radio advertising in the UK 		Brian Hayes
Produced by Jane Ashley 		56:58, 53410, S
21-Mar-2009 12 Tell Me A StoryCorps Simon Garfield
Produced by Maria Burgess 		57:03, 53493, S
28-Mar-2009 13 Beat Mining with the Vinyl Hoover Toby Amies
Produced by Tamsin Hughes 		57:02, 53474, S
04-Apr-2009 14 From Midpoint to Endpoint -
Talking With John Updike 		Mark Lawson
Produced by Robin Reid 		57:05, 53517, S
11-Apr-2009 15 Carl Sagan - A Personal Voyage Brian Cox
Produced by Alexandra Feacham 		56:55, 53365, S
18-Apr-2009 16 For One Night Illegally -
The History of the Bootleg 		David Hepworth
Produced by Mike Charmin 		57:09, 53583, S
25-Apr-2009 17 Working for Margaret Matthew Parris
Produced by Simon Hollis 		57:26, 53849, S
02-May-2009 18 Pete Seeger at 90 Vincent Dowd
Produced by Beattie Rubens 		56:50, 53287, S
09-May-2009 19 John Barbirolli - Angel of the North James Naughtie
Produced by Adrian Edwards 		57:01, 53462, S
16-May-2009 20 A Laureate's Legacy - The Poetry Archive Andrew Motion, Richard Carrington
Produced by Julian May 		57:23, 53811, S
23-May-2009 21 The Many Lives of Roald Dahl Sophie Dahl
Produced by Anna Horsborough-Porter 		56:43, 53186, S
30-May-2009 22 Lynne Truss - Did I Really Ask That? Lynne Truss
produced by 		56:21,52842, S
06-Jun-2009 23 Bill Buckley - Mr Right Michael Portillo
produced by Vicki Barker and Bill Cram		 56:36, 53074, S
13-Jun-2009 24 The First A and R Man -
the story of Fred Gaisberg 		Paul Gambaccini
produced by Danny Ecclestone and
Emily Palmer 		57:00, 53439, S
20-Jun-2009 25 When Courtney Met Chris Courtney Pine, Chris Barber
produced by Toby Field 		56:14, 52723, S
27-Jun-2009 26 An Unofficial Iris -
the life and work of novelist Iris Murdoch 		Bidisha
produced by Robin Reid 		56:49, 53282, S
04-Jul-2009 27 I Did Not Interview the Dead Alan Dein
produced by Mark Berman		 56:53, 53343, S
11-Jul-2009 28 Walking on the Moon Buzz Aldrin
produced by Mark Richards		 56:57, 53398, S
18-Jul-2009 29 Soho Suggs
produced by Justine Willett		 56:48, 53261, S
25-Jul-2009 30 On Northern Men Kay Mellor
produced by 		56:45, 53215, S
01-Aug-2009 31 George Blake - The Confession Tom Bower
produced by Mark Savage 		56:58, 53421, S
08-Aug-2009 32 Under the Red Duster John Prescott
produced by Malcolm BIllings and
Brigit O'Hara		 56:53, 53341, S
15-Aug-2009
22-Aug-2009
29-Aug-2009 		33
34
35		 Meeting Myself Coming Back
  1. Rev Jesse Jackson
  2. Michael Grade
  3. Clare Short
 John Wilson
produced by Emma Kingsley, Sarah
Jane Hall, Eleanor Garland		 56:30, 52977, S
56:42, 53157, S
56:45, 53205, S
05-Sep-2009 36 Five and the Fascists Robert Giddings
produced by Sara Davies		 56:52, 53324, S
12-Sep-2009 37 Agatha Christie's Life in Her Words Val McDermid
produced by Robin Reid		 56:56, 53380, S
19-Sep-2009 38 Scott of Slimbridge Frank Gardner
produced by Marilyn Harris		 56:55, 53366, S
26-Sep-2009 39 Self on Ballard Will Self
produced by Mark Berman		 56:54, 53352, S
03-Oct-2009 40 In the Beginning Was the Nerd Stephen Fry
Produced by Nick Baker		 56:20, 52814, S
10-Oct-2009 41 When Bailey Met Warhol Jerry Hall and David Bailey
produced by Simon Hollis		 56:47, 53243, S
17-Oct-2009 42 The Anniversary Anniversary Dominic Sandbrook
produced by Tom Alban and Jane Lewis		 56:50, 53294, S
24-Oct-2009
repeat of
23-Aug-2009		 43 With God on Our Side Richard Holloway
produced by Lucy Holland 		56:54, 53347, S
31-Oct-2009 44 Capering With Ken Campbell Ian McMillan
produced by Robin Reid		 56:54, 53354, S
07-Nov-2009 45 This is the Army Mr Jones John Barrowman
produced by Tom Alban and Jane Lewis		 55:56, 52441, S
14-Nov-2009 46 Radio Hollywood Jeffrey Richards
produced by Stephen Hughes 		57:03, 53493, S
21-Nov-2009 47 Politics Between the Covers Mark Lawson
produced by Mark RIchards		 56:53, 53332, S
28-Nov-2009 48 Lord Clark - Seeing Through The Tweed Richard Weight
produced by Simon Coates		 56:57, 53406, S
05-Dec-2009 49 The Turner Prize Turnaround Waldemar Januszczak
produced by Susie Matthews 		56:45, 53205, S
12-Dec-2009
repeat of
 		 50 The My Lai Tapes Robert Hodierne
produced by Rosie Goldsmith 		56:41, 53143, S
19-Dec-2009 51 A Dog's Life Peter White
produced by Elizabeth Foster		 56:57, 53398, S
26-Dec-2009 52 Doctor Who - The Lost Episodes Shaun Ley
produced by Chris Ledyard		 57:05, 53525, S
2010
Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
02-Jan-2010
repeat of
12-Jul-2002		 1 The New York '77 Blackout    
09-Jan-2010 2 Mods! Phil Daniels
produced by Simon Hollis 		56:07, 52612, S
16-Jan-2010 3 The ITV Story --
The history of independent television in the UK 		Mark Lawson
produced by Helen Lee		 56:29, 52960, S
23-Jan-2010 4 So Much Older Then Katharine Whitehorn
produced by Peter Everett 		57:03, 53500, S
30-Jan-2010 5 Flexible Friend or Foe Max Flint
produced by Terry Lewis		 56:17, 52776, S
06-Feb-2010 6 Open Sesame Konnie Huq
produced by Eleanor MacDowell		 56:42, 53158, S
13-Feb-2010 7 AJP at the BBC Joe Queenan
produced by Jeff Byrd		 57:01, 53464, S
20-Feb-2010 8 Please Give Generously Fergal Keane
produced by Helen Surtees		 56:33, 53019, S
27-Feb-2010 9 Hurry Up Please, It's Time Robert Hanks
produced by Tim Dee		 56:51, 53307, S
06-Mar-2010 10 Hate Against Hope Alan Dein
produced by Mark Berman		 56:49, 53271, S
13-Mar-2010 11 Leaders Under The Lights Reeta Chakrabarti
produced by John Beasley		 56:37, 53087, S
20-Mar-2010 12 Soccer, Springboks and Segregation Allan Little
produced by Julian May		 56:48, 53257, S
27-Mar-2010 13 Sculptress of Sound:
The Lost Works of Delia Derbyshire 		Matthew Sweet
Producer: Phil Collinge 		56:34, 53036, S
03-Apr-2010   no programme    
10-Apr-2010 14 Ask the Fellows That Cut the Hay Alan Dein
produced by Judith Kaempner		 56:30, 52982, S
17-Apr-2010 15 A Night to Remember Anthony Howard
produced by Ashley Byrne		 56:41, 53153, S
24-Apr-2010 16 The Split Up (and the Almost Inevitable Reunion) Richard Coles
produced by Emma Kingsley 		56:50, 53292, S
01-May-2010 17 The Bradford Fire:
A Day That Will Live With Me Forever 		Gabby Logan
Produced by Ashley Byrne 		56:30, 52970, S
04-May-2010
BBC R4X
03-Jan-2015
 repeat?
 Morecambe and Wise: The Garage Tapes
 Jon Culshaw
producerd by David Prest and
Stewart Henderson
 41:47, 48935, S
08-May-2010 18 Satire: The Great British Tradition Roger Law
produced by Mark Richards 		56:38, 53100, S
15-May-2010 19 Unsung Heroes Sarah Lenton
Producer: Philippa Ritchie 		56:47, 53246, S
22-May-2010 20 Priestley's Postscripts Presented by Martin Wainwright
Producers: Catherine Plane and Phil Pegum		 57:35, 53990, S
29-May-2010 21 England Expects David Goldblatt
Producer: Carol Purcell 		57:03, 53493, S
05-Jun-2010 22 The Mary Whitehouse Effect Joan Bakewell
Producer: Jo Wheeler 		56:47, 53245, S
12-Jun-2010 23 Monsieur Non Julian Jackson
Producer: Simon Elmes 		56:38, 53107, S
19-Jun-2010 24 The Character Crunch Rory Bremner
Producer: Simon Jacobs 		57:06, 53536, S
26-Jun-2010 25 100 Years After Jack Johnson:
Boxing and Black Male Identity 		Gary Younge
Producer: Peggy Sutton 		57:20, 53751, S
03-Jul-2010 26 The Summer That Changed London Kirsten Lass
produced by Smita Patel 		56:54, 53352, S
10-Jul-2010 27 I'm On The Train Ian Marchant
Producer: Mark Smalley 		56:57, 53393, S
17-Jul-2010 28 Dramatising New Labour Steven Fielding
producer is Jane Ashley 		57:01, 53459, S
24-Jul-2010 29 Sellers in the Attic Glenn Mitchell
produced by Stephen Garner 		56:48, 53262, S
31-Jul-2010 30 Redcar: Made of Steel Felicity Finch
produced by Lidsey Leonard 		56:51, 53303, S
07-Aug-2010 31 The People's Republic of Hulme Mark Kermode
produced by Bo Dickinson 		56:37, 53093, S
14-Aug-2010
21-Aug-2010
28-Aug-2010		 32
33
34		 Meeting Myself Coming Back, Series 2
  1. Peter Mandelson
  2. Sir Jonathan Miller
  3. Janet Street-Porter
 John Wilson
Producer: Emma Kingsley 		56:37, 53082, S
56:47, 53245, S
56:37, 53093, S
04-Sep-2010 35 Barbara -- Barbara Castle - the Red Queen Anne Perkins
Producer Lindsay Leonard 		56:41, 53151, S
11-Sep-2010 36 Alexei at the Seaside with the Unions Alexei Sayle
Producer: Julian May 		56:24, 52882, S
18-Sep-2010 37 The Feynman Variations Brian Cox
Producer: Rami Tzabar 		56:59, 53425, S
25-Sep-2010 38 Open that Door: Gay Comedy in the Last 30 Years Simon Fanshawe
Producer: Mike Greenwood 		56:31, 52996, S
02-Oct-2010 39 A Working-Class Tory Is Something To Be David Davis
Producer: Phil Tinline 		57:07, 53556, S
09-Oct-2010 40 The Death of the Battleaxe Jude Kelly
Producer: Peter Everett 		56:54, 53353, S
16-Oct-2010 41 The Man Behind the Mountains Eric Robson
Producer: Barney Rowntree
 		56:35, 53048, S
23-Oct-2010 42 Playing the Dane Michael Sheen
Produced by Emma Harding 		56:51, 53300, S
30-Oct-2010 43 El Tren Fantasma Narrator Chris Watson
Producer Sarah Blunt		 56:50, 53283, S
06-Nov-2010 44 Our Obsession With Weather Iain Sinclair
Producer: Barney Rowntree
 		57:00, 53439, S
13-Nov-2010 45 Priestley's Postscripts --
The Wartime Broadcasts of J B Priestley		 Presented by Martin Wainwright
Producers: Catherine Plane and Phil Pegum		 56:55, 53360, S
20-Nov-2010 46 Sport on Film Colin Shindler
Producer: Tom Alban 		56:55, 53367, S
27-Nov-2010 47 Self on Ballard Will Self
Producer: Mark Burman 		56:52, 53317, S
04-Dec-2010 48 Political Patriarchs Anne McElvoy
Producer: Rebecca Stratford 		56:37, 53094, S
11-Dec-2010 49 Blair versus Hitchens: The Religion Debate
Also appeared on the CBC Programme Ideas 		Tony Blair and Christopher Hitchens
chaired by Rudyard Griffiths 		56:38, 53111, S
18-Dec-2010 50 I'm in Charge Bruce Forsyth, Paul Jackson
Producer: Paul Kobrak 		56:42, 53163, S
25-Dec-2010 51 Fitzroy MacLean: To Russia with Love Brian Wilson
produced by David Stenhouse 		56:46, 53225, S
2011
Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
01-Jan-2011 11-01 Sex in the Classroom Mariella Frostrup
Producers Sara Conkey and Rachael Howorth 		57:36, 54003, S
08-Jan-2011 11-02 Breaking the Mould Shaun Ley
Producer: Rob Shepherd 		57:00, 53439, S
15-Jan-2011
22-Jan-2011 		11-03
11-04 		Going to the Flicks Barry Norman
Producer: Beaty Rubens 		56:23, 52869, S
56:44, 53189, S
29-Jan-2011   no programme    
05-Feb-2011 11-05 Decimal Day -
What's That in Old Money? 		Peter Day
Producer: Simon Jacobs and Phil Smith 		56:57, 53394, S
12-Feb-2011 11-06 A Mystery in the Village Simon Garfield
Producer: Marya Burgess 		57:00, 53444, S
19-Feb-2011 11-07 Freeman's World Sue MacGregor
Producer: Chris Ledgard 		57:37, 54020, S
26-Feb-2011 11-08 The Last of the International Brigaders Presenter: D J Taylor
Interviewees: Richard Baxell, Professor Paul
Preston, Jack Edwards, Paddy Cochrane
and Thomas Watters
Produced by: Angela Sherwin		 56:38, 53108, S
05-Mar-2011 11-09 Murdoch at 80 Steve Hewlett
Producer: Colin McNulty 		56:35, 53048, S
12-Mar-2011 11-10 Divorce - British Style Rosie Boycott
Producer: Daniel Tetlow 		56:32, 53066, S
21-Mar-2011
repeat of
18-Sep-2010		 11-11 The Feynman Variations Brian Cox
Producer: Rami Tzabar 		pre-empted on
19-Mar-2011
26-Mar-2011 11-12 Walls of Sound Sean Street
Producer: Julian May 		56:53, 53332, S
02-Apr-2011 11-13 The Referendum Question Shaun Ley
Producer: Jane Ashley 		56:55, 53368, S
09-Apr-2011 11-14 How to Archive Yourself Toby Amies
Producer: Sara Jane Hall 		56:30, 52983, S
16-Apr-2011 11-15 Spilling the News Steve Hewlett
Producer: Chris Ledgard 		55:50, 52345, S
23-Apr-2011
 		11-16 Carl Sagan - A Personal Voyage Brian Cox
Produced by Alexandra Feacham 		repeat
30-Apr-2011 11-17 The Sound of Sport Dennis Baxter
Producer: Peregrine Andrews 		56:53, 53332, S
07-May-2011 11-18 Julian Huxley and the Invention of
the Public Scientist 		Jim Al-Khalili
Producer Tim Dee 		56:36, 53078, S
14-May-2011 11-19 Domesday Reloaded Michael Wood
Produced by Geraldine Fitzgerald 		56:51, 53298, S
21-May-2001 11-20 Bob Dylan and Me Producers: David Prest and Caroline Hughes 56:55, 53373, S
28-May-2011
04-Jun-2011
11-Jun-2011		 11-21
11-22
11-23		 A Life Less Ordinary
  1. John Mosey and the Lockerbie disaster
  2. Kim Cotton and surrogate motherhood
  3. Alison Halford and a sex
    discrimination tribunal
  1. Rev. John Mosey
  2. Kim Cotton
  3. Alison Halford
produced by Jeff Byrd,  Bernadeete McConnell 		56:55, 53374, S
56:55, 53360, S
56:49, 53272, S
18-Jun-2011 11-24 the rise and mysterious fall of light
orchestral music 		Paul Morley
produced by Nick Holmes 		56:46, 53232, S
25-Jun-2011 11-25 Schumacher's Big Society Jonathon Porritt
Producer: Chris Eldon Lee 		56:55, 53367, S
02-Jul-2011
09-Jul-2011
16-Jul-2011		 11-26
11-27
11-28		 Meeting Myself Coming Back Series 3
1 Bob Geldof
2 Michael Heseltine
3 Germaine Greer 		1 Bob Geldof
2 Michael Heseltine
3 Germaine Greer
John Wilson
Producer: Emma Kingsley 		56:42, 52166, S
56:39, 53006, S
56:29, 52842, S
23-Jul-2011 11-29 The 1981 Ashes Series Mike Brearley
produced by Martin Smith 		57:04, 53389, S
30-Jul-2011 11-30 Getting to Know My Father Justin Webb
Producer: Gemma Newby 		56:43, 53066, S
06-Aug-2011 11-31 RP RIP Melvyn Bragg
Producer: Kate Bland 		56:36, 52963, S
13-Aug-2011 11-32 Raise Your Glasses -
A History of the After-Dinner Speech 		Arthur Smith
produced by Sian Price 		56:45, 53100, S
20-Aug-2011 11-33 A Tribute to Robert Robinson
 		Laurie Taylor
produced by Helen Lee		 51:41, 48360, S
22-Aug-2011 11-33a Stephen Fry Does the Knowledge Stephen Fry
Producer: Nick Baker 		41:40, 38984, S
27-Aug-2011 11-34 When the Eyes of the World Were
on the Clyde 		John Lloyd
produced by Mark Ricard 		56:34, 52929, S
03-Sep-2011 11-35 JFK, Bobby and Dad Helen O'Donnell
Producer: Isobel Williams 		56:43, 53062, S
10-Sep-2011 11-36 The Day Before 9/11 Presented by Paddy O'Connell
Producers: Simon Hollis and Simon Finch 		56:31, 52875, S
17-Sep-2011 11-37 The Life and Fate of Vasily Grossman Jim Riordan
Producer: Mark Burman 		42:49, 40058, S
24-Sep-2011 11-38 The Christiania Effect David Goldblatt
produced by James Crawford 		56:24, 52763, S
01-Oct-2011 11-39 The Oldest Music Hall Paul Merton
produced by Janet Wilson 		56:36, 52955, S
08-Oct-2011 11-40 The Parting Glass:
The Story of Irish Migration 		Fintan O'Toole
Produced by Martin McNamara 		56:15, 52634, S
15-Oct-2011 11-41 The Red Bits Are British David Cannadine
Producer: Hannah Rosenfelder 		56:44, 53080, S
22-Oct-2011 11-42 Mind Your PMQs Dominic Sandbrook
Produced by Barney Rowntree 		56:13, 52601, S
29-Oct-2011 11-43 After the Dictator Owen Bennett-Jones
Producer: Simon Watts 		56:26, 52796, S
05-Nov-2011 11-44 The Rise and Fall of Robert Maxwell Steve Hewlett
Producer: Colin McNulty 		56:38, 52990, S
12-Nov-2011 11-45 Remembrance Denys Blakeway
Producer: Melissa FitzGerald 		56:43, 53071, S
19-Nov-2011
 		11-46 Stephen Fry Does the Knowledge Stephen Fry
Producer: Nick Baker 		repeat
26-Nov-2011 11-47 Rebuilding Britain for the Baby Boomers Maxwell Hutchinson
produced by Lindsey Leonard 		56:51, 53194, S
03-Dec-2011 11-48 When Reporters Cross the Line Stewart Purvis
producer Helen Grady 		56:51, 53194, S
10-Dec-2011 11-49 Ted Hughes: Memorial Tones Melvyn Bragg
Producer: James Cook 		56:31, 52874, S
17-Dec-2011 11-50 The European Dream John Tusa
Producer: Phil Tinline 		56:43, 53070, S
24-Dec-2011
31-Dec-2011		   no programme    
2012
Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
07-Jan-2012 12-01 John Arlott: Cricket's Radical Voice Written and presented by Mark Whitaker 56:42, 53050, S
14-Jan-2012 12-02 Bertrand Russell - the First Media Academic? Robin Ince
Producer: Alexandra Feachem 		56:42, 53051, S
21-Jan-2012 12-03 Freud vs Jung Lisa Appignanesi
produced by David Stenhouse 		56:52, 53208, S
28-Jan-2012 12-04 Castaway: 70 Years of Desert Island Discs Kirsty Young
Producer: Isabel Sargent 		56:32, 52892, S
04-Feb-2012 12-05 Satire: The Great British Tradition Roger Law
produced by Mark Rickards 		56:17, 52658, S
11-Feb-2012 12-06 The Lost World of the Suffragettes Dan Snow
Producer: Ashley Byrne 		56:28, 52837, S
18-Feb-2012 12-07 Attention All Shipping Peter Jefferson
Producer: Simon Elmes 		56:37, 52977, S
25-Feb-2012 12-08 The Politics of Art Tim Marlow
Producer: Simon Coates 		56:37, 52972, S
03-Mar-2012 12-09 Playing Doctors and Nurses Mark Lawson
Producer: Robyn Read 		56:42, 53042, S
10-Mar-2012 12-10 Government Is Not the Solution Jonathan Freedland
Producer: Phil Tinline 		56:40, 53082, S
17-Mar-2012 12-11 The Licence to Kill Gordon Corera
Producer: Mark Savage 		56:37, 52966, S
24-Mar-2012 12-12 More Than Just Whale Music Christine Finn
produced by Marya Burgess 		56:27, 52822, S
31-Mar-2012 12-13 Greece: An Unquiet History Maria Margaronis
Producer: Mark Burman 		56:41, 53039, S
07-Apr-2012 12-14 From Our Rome Correspondent David Willey
Producer: Tom Alban 		56:32, 52901, S
14-Apr-2012 12-15 Hobsbawm: A Life in History Simon Schama
Producer: Jessica Treen 		56:47, 53127, S
21-Apr-2012 12-16 Walls of Sound Sean Street
Producer: Julian May 		repeat
28-Apr-2012 12-17 Lunch Is for Wimps Matthew Sweet
Producer: Hannah Marshall 		56:48, 53140, S
05-May-2012 12-18 One Way Ticket - The Beeching Cuts Revisited! Michael Portillo
Produced by: Ashley Byrne 		56:38, 52990, S
12-May-2012 12-19 The Great Listener Alan Dein
Producer: Martin Williams 		56:48, 53144, S
19-May-2012 12-20 A History of the Stiff Upper Lip Louisa Foxe
Producer: David Coomes 		56:12, 52590, S
26-May-2012 12-21 Houses v Fields Anne McElvoy
Producer: Phil Tinline 		56:44, 53088, S
02-Jun-2012 12-22 Bards of the Back Straight - Race Commentators Paul Farley
produced by Jeff Bird		 56:47, 53126, S
09-Jun-2012 12-23 Meeting Myself Coming Back: Series 4, Sir Richard Branson John Wilson
Producer: Emma Kingsley 		56:30, 52861, S
16-Jun-2012   no programme, pre-empted    
23-Jun-2012 12-24 Meeting Myself Coming Back: Series 4, Clive James John Wilson
Producer: Emma Kingsley 		56:38, 52985, S
30-Jun-2012 12-25 Meeting Myself Coming Back: Series 4, Paddy Ashdown John Wilson
Producer: Emma Kingsley 		56:30, 52861, S
07-Jul-2012 12-26 The Night of the Long Knives, 1962 Peter Oborne
Producer: Kati Whitaker 		56:44, 53077, S
14-Jul-2012 12-27 Woody at 100 Joe Klein
produced by Peter Everett 		56:23, 52757, S
21-Jul-2012 12-28 The Paperback Poets Paul Farley
Producer: Tim Dee 		56:32, 52891, S
28-Jul-2012 12-29 The Smart Dumb Blonde Maureen Dowd
Producer: Isabel Sutton 		56:50, 53182, S
04-Aug-2012 12-30 How to Archive Yourself Toby Amies
Producer: Sara Jane Hall 		56:24, 52762, S
11-Aug-2012 12-31 Inner Voices - The Burton Diaries Melvyn Bragg
produced by Jeremy Grange 		56:30, 52869, S
18-Aug-2012 12-32 Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Archive Paul Morley
produced by Nick Homes 		56:40, 53015, S
25-Aug-2012 12-33 Your Starter for Ten: 50 Years of University Challenge Mark Damazer
Produced by: Jo Meek 		56:59, 53318, S
01-Sep-2012 12-34 John Cage - Composing Controversy Gavin Bryars
Produced by: Phil Smith 		56:48, 53139, S
08-Sep-2012 12-35 A Brief History of Blame Joe Queenan
produced by Miles Warde 		57:24, 53708, S
15-Sep-2012 12-36 The House of Assad Owen Bennett Jones
produced by John Murphy and Damian Quinn 		56:30, 52862, S
22-Sep-2012 12-37 The Debate of Our Times Giles Dilnot
Producer: Kirsten Lass 		56:37, 52967, S
29-Sep-2012 12-38 Dear Adolf - Letters to the Fuhrer Christopher Cook
Producer: Mark Burman 		56:52, 53209, S
06-Oct-2012
13-Oct-2012
20-Oct-2012		 12-39
12-40
12-41		 A Life Less Ordinary
  1. Sandra Gregory
  2. Alex Currie
  3. Lisa Potts
  1. Sandra Gregory
  2. Alex Currie
  3. Lisa Potts
produced by Geoff Bird 		57:05, 53409, S
56:47, 53122, S
56:47, 53131, S
27-Oct-2012 12-42 Time Travel: The Politics of Time Sean Street
Producer: Andy Cartwright 		56:21, 52717, S
03-Nov-2012 12-43 Tuning In Dominic Sandbrook
Producer: Simon Elmes 		56:37, 52973, S
10-Nov-2012 12-44 Who's Reithian Now? Roger Bolton
Producer: Karen Pirie 		56:36, 52964, S
17-Nov-2012 12-45 Regulating the Press Steve Hewlett
Producer: Phil Tinline 		56:40, 53016, S
24-Nov-2012 12-46 From Easy to Cryptic - 100 Years of the Crossword Lynne Truss
produced by Erika Wright 		56:30, 52861, S
01-Dec-2012 12-47 Great Spy Books: Fact or Fiction? Peter Hennessy
Producer: Rob Shepherd 		56:48, 53147, S
08-Dec-2012 12-48 Lawrence of Arabia: The Man and the Myth Allan Little
Producer: Susan Marling 		56:49, 53161, S
15-Dec-2012 12-49 Nixon at 100 David Frost
Producer: Neil Rosser 		56:36, 52956, S
22-Dec-2012 12-50 What Big Teeth You Have... Anthony McGowan
Archive Compiled by Elizabeth Ann Duffy
Produced by Liza Grieg and Mark Rickards 		56:31, 52884, S
29-Dec-2012 12-51 Blithe Margaret Stephen Fry
Producer: Tamsin Hughes 		56:30, 52855, S
2013
Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
05-Jan-2013 13-1 40 Years in Europe: How Was It for You? John Sergeant
Produced by Ashley Byrne 		56:36, 52978, S
12-Jan-2013 13-2 Rural Rides Mark Steel
Produced by Peter Everett 		56:32, 52888, S
19-Jan-2013 13-3 Rugby's Greatest Try Cerys Matthews
Hugh Meredith Roberts 		57:25, 53846, S
26-Jan-2013 13-4 Rebuilding Britain for the Baby Boomers Maxwell Hutchinson
produced by Lindsey Leonard 		repeat
02-Feb-2013 13-5 Spoken Like a Woman Anne Karpf
Producer Simon Elmes		 56:40, 53019, S
09-Feb-2013
pre-empted by The Road to Nineteen Eighty-Four

16-Feb-2013 13-6 Embracing Idleness Oliver Burkeman
Producer: Sarah Langan		 56:38, 53103, S
23-Feb-2013 13-7 The Devil's Horn Soweto Kinch, Courtney Pine
produced by James Hale		 56:47, 53126, S
02-Mar-2013 13-8 Lunch Is for Wimps Matthew Sweet
Producer: Hannah Marshall		 repeat
09-Mar-2013 13-9 Iraq Tales: What the Army Learned Chris Parry
Producer: Giles Edwards		 56:42, 53049, S
16-Mar-2013 13-10 Wheeler and the Final Word -- Nixon and Vietnam Charles Wheeler
Producer: David Prest		 56:42, 53067, S
23-Mar-2013 13-11 DNA 60 Years On Robert Winston
Producer: Richard Bannerman		 56:44, 53106, S
30-Mar-2013 13-12 In Event of Moon Disaster Daniel Finkelstein, Jon Culshaw
Producer Caitlin Smith		 56:34, 52949, S
06-Apr-2013 13-13 Riding into Town Samira Ahmed
Producer: Kevin Dawson		 56:35, 52976, S
13-Apr-2013
 13-14
 Radiolab Producer: Judith Kampfner 56:35, 52970, S
20-Apr-2013
 13-15
 Dr K
 Mark Malloch Brown
Producer Simon Coates
 56:39, 53022, S
27-Apr-2013
 13-16
 Collar the Lot Tom Conti
Produced by Jo Wheeler
 56:53, 53277, S
04-May-2013
 13-17
 From Donald Winnicott to the Naughty Step Anne Karpf
produced by Moini Patel
 56:25, 52813, S
11-May-2013
 13-18
 Heroes and Hacks Eamonn O'Neill
Producer: Colin McNulty
 56:39, 53032, S
18-May-2013
 13-19
 Lives and Politics Presenter: Matthew Parris
Producer: Mike Greenwood		 56:47, 53143, S
25-May-2013
 13-20
 Profumo Confidential Tom Mangold
Producer: Adam Fowler
 56:38, 53946, S
01-Jun-2013
 13-21
 The Longest Suicide Note in History Denys Blakeway
Produced by Melissa FitzGerald
 56:42, 53096, S
08-Jun-2013
 13-22
 Houses v Fields Anne McElvoy
Producer: Phil Tinline		 repeat
15-Jun-2013 13-23 Very British Dystopias Steven Fielding
produced by Jane Ashley		 56:44, 53078, S
22-Jun-2013 13-24 Writers and Radio Susannah Clapp
Producer: Tim Dee		 57:11, 53496, S
29-Jun-2013 13-25 Dial-a-Poem Brian Patten
Producer: Llinos Jones		 57:08, 53459, S
06-Jul-2013 13-26 Churchill's Secret Cabinet Andrew Roberts
Producer: Kati Whitaker		 56:45, 53101, S
13-Jul-2013
 13-27
 The Crime of the Century Jake Arnott
Producer: Colin McNulty
 56:25, 52786, S
20-Jul-2013
27-Jul-2013
03-Aug-2013
 13-28
13-29
13-30
 Meeting Myself Coming Back, Series 5
  1. Martin Amis
  2. Esther Rantzen
  3. David Trimble
  1. Martin Amis, John Wilson
  2. Esther Rantzen, John Wilson
  3. David Trimble, John Wilson
Producer: Emma Kingsley
 56:35, 52937, S
56:45, 53092, S
56:32, 52889, S
10-Aug-2013
 13-31
 Ivor Cutler at 90 David Bramwell
Producer: Sara Jane Hall
 56:30, 52914, S
17-Aug-2013
 13-32
 Scrambled
 Presented by Allegra McEvedy
produced by Kevin Mosely
 56:40, 53011, S
24-Aug-2013
 13-33
 This Train Rides Again
 Kwame Kwei-Armah
Producer: Kati Whitaker
 56:42, 53053, S
31-Aug-2013
 13-34
 British New Wave, Beyond the Kitchen Sink
 Paul Allen
Producer: Julian May
 56:31, 52884, S
07-Sep-2013
 13-35
 Nixon at 100
(rebroadcast as Frost on Nixon)
 David Frost
Producer: Neil Rosser		 repeat
14-Sep-2013
 13-36
 Bombing Berlin
 Stephen Evans
Producer: Martin Williams
 56:43, 53060, S
21-Sep-2013
 13-37
 How to Be, or Not to Be, a Politician
 Anne McElvoy
Producers: Catherine Donegan, Jane Ashley
 56:50, 53179, S
28-Sep-2013
 13-38
 A Brief History of Irony
 Joe Queenan
produced by Miles Warde
 56:48, 53149, S
05-Oct-2013
 13-39
 Yeats and Heaney: A Terrible Beauty
 Fintan O'Toole
Producer Mark Rickards
 56:29, 52847, S
12-Oct-2013
 13-40
 The World Turned Upside Down
 Peter Day
Producer: Arlene Gregorius
 56:35, 52945, S
19-Oct-2013
 13-41
 Not Enough Hours in the Day Claudia Hammond
produced by Geraldine Fitzgerald
 56:35, 52944, S
26-Oct-2013
 13-42
 Orson Welles and The War of the Worlds:
Myth or Legend?
 Presented by Christopher Frayling
Producer: Nick Freand Jones
 56:32, 52892, S
02-Nov-2013
 13-43
 Gloria and Me
 Glenn Patterson
Produced by Rachel Hooper
 56:50, 53178, S
09-Nov-2013
 13-44
 Presenting the Past -
How the Media Changes History
 Juliet Gardiner
produced by Simon Coates
 56:37, 52978, S
16-Nov-2013
 13-45
 The Kennedy Book Depository
 Mark Lawson
produced by Simon Elmes
 56:10, 52544, S
23-Nov-2013 13-46 A History of the Stiff Upper Lip Louisa Foxe
Producer: David Coomes 		repeat
30-Nov-2013
 13-47
 Monkey Planet
 Will Self
Volker Sommer, Janet Browne, Kim Bard,
Charlotte Macdonald and Frans de Waal
Producer: Caitlin Smith
 56:30, 52861, S
07-Dec-2013
 13-48
 Making Mandela
 Laurie Taylor
Producer: Tony Phillips
 56:12, 52576, S
14-Dec-2013
 13-49
 Prisoners of Conscience Revisited
 Rex Bloomstein
Producers: Simon Jacobs and Rex Bloomstein
 56:46, 53106, S
21-Dec-2013
 13-50
 When Comedy and Politics Collide
 Matthew Flinders
Producer: Jonathan Brunert
 56:51, 53198, S
28-Dec-2013
 13-51
 The Three Day Week
 Michael White
Producer: Jim Frank
 56:47, 53135, S
2014
Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
04-Jan-2014
 1
 The Long, Long Trail
 Roy Hudd
Producer: Amber Barnfather
 56:42, 53055, S
11-Jan-2014
18-Jan-2014
25-Nov-2014
 2
3
4
 A Life Less Ordinary
  1. Christopher Jefferies
  2. Marci Shakespeare
  3. Reality TV
 produced by Geoff Bird
 56:41, 53030, S
56:30, 52863. S
56:10, 52550, S
01-Feb-2014
 5
 The Haunted Apparatus
 Ian McMillan
Producer: Faith Lawrence
Sound Design: Scanner
Studio Manager: Paul Cargill
Archive research: Christopher Wilson
 56:41, 53036, S
08-Feb-2014
 6
 John Tavener
 Sir Nicholas Kenyon
Producer Marya Burgess
 56:47, 53122, S
15-Feb-2014
 7
 Burroughs at 100
 Iggy Pop
Producer: Colin McNulty
 56:37, 52976, S
22-Feb-2014
 8
 The Death of the Spiv
 Paul Henry
Producer: Sarah Langan
 56:50, 53176, S
01-Mar-2014
 9
 The First Generation X
 Alan Dein, Jon Savage and Melanie Tebbutt
Producer: Sara Jane Hall
 56:26, 52806, S
08-Mar-2014
no programme

15-Mar-2014
 10
 The Interviewer Stole the Show
 Lynn Barber
Producers: Kate Bland and Beth Clayton
 56:44, 53074, S
22-Mar-2014
 11
 Captive Media: The Story of Patty Hearst
 Benjamin Ramm
Produced by Rebecca Maxted
 56:39, 52996, S
29-Mar-2014
 12
 Portraying Real Lives
 Maxine Peake
Producer: Elizabeth Foster
 56:27, 52810, S
05-Apr-2014
 13
 Listen without Mother
 Fi Glover
Produced by Sarah Cuddon
 56:27, 52818, S
12-Apr-2014
 14
 Dark Horse: An Alec Guinness Archive
 Alistair McGowan
Producer: Frank Stirling
 56:52, 53208, S
19-Apr-2014
 15
 Atlantic Crossing
 Christine Finn
Producer: Marya Burgess
 56:51, 53196, S
26-Apr-2014
 16
 The Siege of Dien Bien Phu
 Julian Jackson
Produced by Keith Wheatley
 56:29, 52841, S
03-May-2014
 17
 Ray Gosling: Sum Total
 Mark Hodkinson
produced by Bob Dickinson
 56:56, 53273, S
10-May-2014
 18
 Pulped Fiction
 DJ Taylor
produced by Nicholas Sordes
 56:35, 52939, S
17-May-2014
 19
 Rebel Rebel
 Jonathan Agnew
Producer: Mark Sharman
 56:53, 53226, S
24-May-2014
 20
 The Benjamin Broadcasts Michael Rosen, Henry Goodman
Producer: Kate Schneider
 56:23, 52757, S
31-May-2014
 21
 Sentimental Journey
 Gyles Brandreth
Producer: Peter Everett
 56:49, 53158, S
07-Jun-2014
 22
 Imagining the Audience
 Matthew Sweet
Produced by Hannah Marshall
Executive Producer: Elizabeth Burke
 56:37, 52980, S
14-Jun-2014
 23
 No Destination
 Presented by Satish Kumar
Book Extracts read by Lemn Sissay
Produced by Shelley Williams
 57:08, 53459, S
21-Jun-2014
 24
 A History of the N-Word
 Ellah Allfrey
produced by Colin Grant
 56:27, 52812, S
28-Jun-2014
 25
 The Stranger in the Mirror
 Michael Blastland
Producer: Arlene Gregorius
 56:40, 53018, S
05-Jul-2014
12-Jul-2014
19-Jul-2014
 26
27
28
 Meeting Myself Coming Back, Series 6
  1. David Puttnam
  2. Mary Warnock
  3. Michael Howard
 John Wilson
Producer: Emma Kingsley, Marya Burgess,
Sarah Jane Hall
 56:41, 53032, S
56:45, 53105, S
56:25, 52777, S
26-Jul-2014
 29
 How Britain Went to War
 Peter Hennessy
Producer: Rob Shepherd
 56:49, 53156, S
02-Aug-2014
 30
 Wars, Lies and Audiotape
 D D Guttenplan
Producer: Peggy Sutton
 56:33, 52912, S
09-Aug-2014
 31
 Riding into Town
 Samira Ahmed
Producer: Kevin Dawson
 56:37, 52970, S
16-Aug-2014
 32
 You Are Feeling Sleepy
 Louise Fox
Producer: David Coomes
 56:27, 52813, S
23-Aug-2014
 33
 Vietnam and the Presidents
 David Taylor
Producers: David Taylor and Colin McNulty
 56:42, 53050, S
30-Aug-2014
 34
 The Eccentric Entrepreneur
 Dominic Sandbrook
Producer Simon Elmes
 56:38, 52988, S
06-Sep-2014
 35
 No More Heroes
 Presenter: Angie Hobbs
Producer: Jessica Treen
 57:05, 53400, S
13-Sep-2014
 36
 Media and the Middle East
 John Lloyd
Producer: Tim Mansel
 56:42, 53055, S
20-Sep-2014
 37
 Four Women Poets Today
 Peggy Reynolds
Producer Beaty Rubens
 56:29, 52839, S
27-Sep-2014
 38
 Joan Littlewood and the People's Theatre
 Richard Ayre
Produced by Isabel Sutton
 56:50, 53179, S
04-Oct-2014
 39
 From Inside: The Guildford Four
 Martin McNamara
Reader...Jonjo O'Neill
Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery
 57:00, 53322, S
11-Oct-2014
 40
 1964 - The Revolution That Nearly Wasn't
 Elinor Goodman
Producer Simon Elmes
 56:47, 53133, S
18-Oct-2014
 41
 Speaking as a Member of the Public
 Danny Wallace
Produced by Colin McNulty
 56:37, 52964, S
25-Oct-2014
 42
 Cerys Goes Under Milk Wood
 Cerys Matthews
Produced by Sarah Cuddon
 56:28, 52837, S
01-Nov-2014
 43
 Tears of a Clown
 Robin Ince
produced by Alex Mansfield
 56:51, 53193, S
08-Nov-2014
 44
 The Mersey Militants
 Liam Fogarty
Producer: Helen Grady
 56:50, 79828, S
15-Nov-2014
 45
 A Girl's Own Story
 Ruby Tandoh
produced by Geoff Bird
 56:48, 66516, S
22-Nov-2014
 46
 Art School, Smart School
 Brian Eno
Produced by Isabel Sutton
 56:45, 53096, S
29-Nov-2014
 47
 Singing Together
 Jarvis Cocker
Producer: Ruth Evans
 56:43, 53063, S
06-Dec-2014
 48
 Malcolm X in Oxford
 Stephen Tuck
Produced by Adam Fowler
 56:34, 66158, S
13-Dec-2014
 49
 Gone with the Wind: A Legacy Diane Roberts
Produced by Ashley Byrne
 56:43, 66426, S
20-Dec-2014
 50
 Peter and the Wolf
 Christopher Frayling
Produced by Barney Rowntree and Nick Jones
 56:45, 53101, S
2015
Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
03-Jan-2015
 1
 The Art of Filibustering Presenter: Ann Treneman
Producer: Richard McIlroy
 56:42, 66396, S
10-Jan-2015
 2
 A Brief History of Irony
 Joe Queenan
Produced by Miles Warde
 56:48, 66528, S
17-Jan-2015
 3
 Mustn't Grumble: The Noble British Art
of Complaining
 Bidisha
produced by Jeff Bird
 56:53, 66613, S
24-Jan-2015
repeat of
29-Jan-2005
 4
 Farewell to Winston

31-Jan-2015
 5
 Alan Lomax - Songs of Freedom
 Presenter: Billy Bragg
Producer: Max O'Brien
 56:49, 66539, S
07-Feb-2015
 6
 Four Coups and Coalitions --
The Two Elections of 1974
 Steve Richards
Producer: Phil Tinline		 56:44, 66442, S
14-Feb-2015
 7
 Read My Lips -- Why Politicians Speak the
Way They Do
 Jonathan Powell
produced by David Stenouse
 56:40, 66386, S
21-Feb-2015
 8
 Malled -- 60 Years of Undercover Shopping
 Will Self
produced by Victoria Macarthur
 56:43, 66475, S
28-Feb-2015
 9
 The Petticoat Vote
 Jo Fidgen
Producers: Jo Fidgen and Kate Taylor
 56:45, 53092, S
07-Mar-2015
 10
 A Brief History of Anger
 Joe Queenan
produced by Miles Warde
 56:48, 66515, S
14-Mar-2015
no program

21-Mar-2015
 11
 Remembering Sue Townsend, Aged 68 3/4
 Pearce Quigley
Producer: Paul Kobrak
 56:36, 52959, S
28-Mar-2015
 12
 Lern Yerself Scouse
 Paul Farley
Produced by Emma Harding
 56:43, 53069, S
04-Apr-2015
 13
 Epic Fail
 Grace Dent
produced by Stephen Radjar
 56:37, 66316, S
11-Apr-2015
 14
 The Meaning of Life According to AJ Ayer
 AC Grayling
Producer: Dom Byrne
 56:44, 66451, S
18-Apr-2015
 15
 Who's Your Father, Referee?
 Clive Anderson
produced by Brian King
 56:35, 66272, S
25-Apr-2015
 16
 Black Aquarius
 Matthew Sweet
Producer: Simon Hollis
 56:57, 66702, S
02-May-2015
 17
 The Language of Pain
 Joanna Bourke
Producer: Isabel Sutton
 56:48, 66517, S
09-May-2015
 18
 The Entomology of Gregor Samsa
 David Baddiel
produced by David Stenhouse
 56:44, 66437, S
16-May-2015
 19
 The Choke
 Matthew Syed
produced by Kevin Mosely
 56:33, 66233, S
23-May-2015
 20
 Adventures in Alienation
 Amit Chaudhuri
Produced by Rachel Hooper
 56:29, 66144, S
30-May-2015
 21
 The Tokens and the Foundlings
 Caro Howell
Producer Sarah Blunt
 56:29, 66155, S
06-Jun-2015
 22
 The War Game Files
 Michael Apted
Producer: David Morley
 56:50, 66567, S
13-Jun-2015
 23
 Morning Everyone
 Rory Bremner
Produced by Will Yates and David Prest
 56:41, 66393, S
20-Jun-2015
 24
 Bring Your Darlings Back to Life
 Producer: Barney Rowntree
 56:22, 66011, S
27-Jun-2015
 25
 A Brief History of Shame
 Joe Queenan
produced by Miles Warde
 56:41, 66390, S
04-Jul-2015
 26
 Tomorrow's World, Today
 James Burke
Producer: Polly Weston
 56:41, 79600, S
11-Jul-2015
 27
 Destroyer of Worlds
 Frank Close
Produced by Kati Whitaker
 56:30, 79342, S
18-Jul-2015
 28
 How to Make an Archive on 4
 Alan Dein
Producer: Laurence Grissell
 56:38, 79534, S
25-Jul-2015
 29
 Shhhhhhh
 Lucy Powell
Producer: Geoff Bird
 56:54, 79924, S
01-Aug-2015
 30
 Cradle to Grave
 Produced by Sara Parker
 56:39, 79575, S
08-Aug-2015
 31
 Misunderstanding Japan
 Christopher Harding
Producer: Keith Moore
 56:41, 79619, S
15-Aug-2015
 32
 Stadium Rock at 50
 Kate Mossman
Producers: Melanie Brown & Paul Kobrak
 56:38, 81371, S
22-Aug-2015
 33
 Dickie Attenborough: A Life in Film
 Susan Marling
Produced by Isabel Sutton
 56:58, 53300, S
29-Aug-2015
 34
 New Orleans: The Crescent and the Shadow
 Harry Shearer
produced by Marc Ricards		 56:37, 66299, S
05-Sep-2015
 35
 The Power of Political Forgetting
 David Aaronovitch
Producer Phil Tinline
 56:39, 53010, S
12-Sep-2015
 36
 MP for Penrith and the Border
 Produced by Isabel Sutton
 56:48, 53138, S
19-Sep-2015
 37
 From the Self to the Selfie
 Lauren Laverne
Produced by Susan Marling and Victoria Ferran
 56:51, 53183, S
26-Sep-2015
repeat of
21-Aug-1999
 38
 Kindertransport
 David Cesarani
Producer: Hugh Levinson
 56:42, 53046, S
03-Oct-2015
 39
 John Lennon: Verbatim
 Produced by Des Shaw
 56:50, 53177, S
10-Oct-2015
 40
 Bernstein, My Mentor
 Presented by Marin Alsop
Produced by Isabel Sutton
 56:47, 53126, S
17-Oct-2015
 41
 Attention Must Be Paid - Arthur Miller's Centenary
 Christopher Bigsby
Produced by Julian May		 56:45, 53098, S
24-Oct-2015
 42
 The Future of the BBC: A History
 Steve Hewlett
Producer: Phil Tinline
 56:40, 79575, S
31-Oct-2015
 43
 The Time Machine
 Doc Brown
Producer Clare Walker
 56:41, 79730, S
07-Nov-2015
 44
 The End of the Rope
 John Tusa
Producer: John Forsyth
 56:47, 53113, S
14-Nov-2015
 45
 A Sympathetic Eye
 Simon Farquhar
Producer: Adam Bowen
 56:51, 53188, S
21-Nov-2015
 46
 Meeting Myself Coming Back, Series 7-1
Kate Adie		 John Wilson
Producer: Ella-mai Robey		 56:28, 52826, S
28-Nov-2015
 47
 Lives in a Landscape
 Alan Dein
Producer: Simon Elmes
 56:35, 79462, S
05-Dec-2015
 48
 Racial Equality Enshrined
 Ritula Shah
 56:30, 52866, S
12-Dec-2015
 49
 When Britain Had the Right Stuff
 Presenter: Richard Hollingham
Producer: John Watkins
 56:18, 52669, S
19-Dec-2015
 50
 The Selling of Sinatra
 Kurt Elling
Producer: Colin McNulty
 56:37, 52964, S
26-Dec-2015
 51
 Jay Rayner Pigs Out
 Jay Rayner
Produced by Sarah Cuddon
 56:42, 53045, S
2016
Date Episode Title Cast Parameters
02-Jan-2016
 1
 Work Is a Four Letter Word
 Andrew Hussey
produced by Jack Bird
 56:52, 53191, S
09-Jan-2016
repeat of
07-Jun-2014
 --
 Imagining the Audience Matthew Sweet
Produced by Hannah Marshall
Executive Producer: Elizabeth Burke		 repeat
16-Jan-2016
 2
 The Stranger in the Mirror
 Michael Blastland
Producer: Arlene Gregorius
 56:35, 52930, S
23-Jan-2016
 3
 Utopias
 Michael Symmons Roberts

 56:42, 53105, S
30-Jan-2016
 4
 David Bowie: Verbatim
 Producer: Des Shaw
 56:50, 52172, S
06-Feb-2016
 5
 Embarrassment
 Lynne Truss
Produced by Kevin Moseley
 56:40, 53012, S
13-Feb-2016
 6
 The Art of the Obit
 Matthew Bannister
Producer: Neil George
 56:39, 53000, S
20-Feb-2016
 7
 In the Bluff
 Paul Farley
 56:46, 53103, S
27-Feb-2016
 8
 SKILL, STAMINA and LUCK
 Naomi Alderman
Producer Alex Mansfield
 56:41, 53031, S
05-Mar-2016
 9
 A Brief History of Disobedience
 Joe Queenan
producer Miles Warde
 56:19, 52691, S
12-Mar-2016
 10
 The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band: Anarchy
Must Be Organised
 Neil Innes
 56:49, 53164, S
19-Mar-2016
 11
 How to Go Straight
 Producer: Shabnam Grewal
 56:41, 53029, S
26-Mar-2016
 12
 The Art of the Lyricist
 Clarke Peters
Producer: Emma Kingsley
 56:27, 52801, S
02-Apr-2016
 13
 Optimism - Our Enemy
 Bryan Appleyard
Producer: Paul Smith
 56:56, 53261, S
09-Apr-2016
 14
 The Unabomber
 Benjamin Ramm
Produced by Rebecca Maxted
 56:39, 52992, S
16-Apr-2016
 15
 Working Class Heroes and Poverty Porn
 Stuart Maconie
Producer: Nick Baker
 56:22, 52739, S
23-Apr-2016
 16
 Rising Voices
 Fergal Keane
produced by Connor McKay
 56:41, 53033, S
30-Apr-2016
 17
 Tennant Looks Back at Osborne
 David Tennant
Producer: Jo Wheeler
Executive Producer: David Morley
 56:44, 52081, S
07-May-2016
 18
 Return to Subtopia
 Gillian Darley
Producer: Beaty Rubens
 56:22, 52739, S
14-May-2016
repeat of
06-Sep-2014
 --
 No More Heroes
 Presenter: Angie Hobbs
Producer: Jessica Treen
 repeat
21-May-2016
 19
 The Camera Never Lies
 Presenter: Molly Dineen
Producer: Jessica Treen
 56:40, 53022, S
28-May-2016
repeat of
01-Nov-2014
 --
 Tears of a Clown
 Robin Ince
produced by Alex Mansfield		 repeat
04-Jun-2016
 20
 A Guide to the Modern Snob
 DJ Taylor
Produced by Hannah Marshall
 56:37, 52968, S
11-Jun-2016
 21
 The Bomb That Made Manchester?
 Michael Symmons Roberts
produced by Jeff Bird		 56:26, 52793, S
18-Jun-2015
 22
 Gillian Reynolds - Audiophile
 Gillian Reynolds
Producer: Simon Elmes
 56:47, 53120, S
25-Jun-2016
 23
 Pevsner: Through Outsider's Eyes
 Tom Dyckhoff
Producer: Martin Williams
 56:50, 53172, S
02-Jul-2016
 24
 Roald Dahl: In His Own Words
 Sophie Dahl
Producer: Dixi Stewart
 56:39, 52996, S
09-Jul-2016
 25
 The Heath Enigma
 Shaun Ley
Producer: Rob Shepherd
 56:51, 53184, S
16-Jul-2016
 26
 The League of Extraordinary Housewives
 Jo Fidgen
Producer: Rosamund Jones
 56:41, 53026, S
23-Jul-2016
 27
 The Norma Percy Tapes
 Norma Percy
Producer: Simon Hollis
 57:02, 53358, S
30-Jul-2016
 28
 Lenny Bruce - In His Own, Unheard, Words
 Presenter: Mark Steel
Producer: Philip Reevell
 56:41, 53038, S
06-Aug-2016
 29
 Tolkien: The Lost Recordings
 Joss Ackland, Stuart Lee
Producers: Anna Scott-Brown and Adam Fowler
 56:47, 53124, S
13-Aug-2016
 30
 Dimbleby on Dimbleby
 Jonathan Dimbleby
Produced by Andrew Green
 56:37, 52981, S
20-Aug-2016
repeat of
16-Aug-2014		 --
 You Are Feeling Sleepy Louise Fox
Producer: David Coomes		 repeat
27-Aug-2014
repeat of
29-Nov-2014
 --
 Singing Together
 Jarvis Cocker
Producer: Ruth Evans		 repeat
03-Sep-2016
 31
 Star Trek - The Undiscovered Future
 Kevin Fong
Producers: Andrew Luck-Baker and Jennifer Whyntie
 56:23, 52549, S
10-Sep-2016
 32
 Period Drama Politics
 Steven Fielding
produced by Nick Holmes
 56:50, 53170, S
17-Sep-2016
 33
 Don't Be Rude on the Road
 Alan Dein
Producer Neil McCarthy
 56:39, 52999, S
24-Sep-2016
 34
 The Villain in 6 Chapters
 Toby Jones
Produced by Stephen Garner
 56:45, 53091, S
01-Oct-2016
 35
 Radio Dada
 Presenter: Alexei Sayle
Producer: Chris Elcombe
 56:41, 53029, S
08-Oct-2016
 36
 The Black Panthers
 Presenter: Dorian Warren
Producer: Simon Hollis
 57:01, 53337, S
15-Oct-2016
 37
 Song of the Singer Sewing Machine
 Maria Margaronis
Producer: Mark Burman
 56:43, 53064, S
22-Oct-2016
 38
 A Natural History of the Banker
 Andrew Ross Sorkin
Produced by Alice Bloch and Victoria Shepherd
 56:20, 52705, S
29-Oct-2016
 --
 no programme

05-Nov-2016
 39
 Speaking in Public: Archive on 4 Goes Live!
 David Bramwell
Producer: Sara Jane Hall
 56:54, 53234, S
12-Nov-2016
 40
 No Platform
 Andrew Hussey
 59:58, 56104, S
19-Nov-2016
 41
 Being Bored: The Importance of Doing
Nothing
 Phill Jupitus
 56:48, 53139, S
26-Nov-2016
 42
 Logan's Run and Intergenerational War
 Ed Howker
Producer Mark Rickards
 59:29, 55649, S
03-Dec-2016
 43
 Lloyd George's Revolution
 Peter Hennessy
Producer: Rob Shepherd
 56:43, 53060, S
10-Dec-2016
repeat of
07-Mar-2015
 -- A Brief History of Anger

17-Dec-2016
 44
 Instant History
 Andrew Green
Produced by Andrew Green
 56:36, 52954, S
24-Dec-2016
 45
 The Many Faces of Ebenezer Scrooge
 Christopher Frayling
Producer: Jane Long
 56:54, 53230, S
31-Dec-2016
 46
 Bathrooms Are Coming: An Internal History
of Corporate Comms
 Vincent Franklin
Producer: Emma Kingsley
 56:26, 52792, S
2017 
Date
 Episode
 Title
 Cast
 Parameters
07-Jan-2017
 1
 Asa Briggs: The Last Victorian Improver
 Tristram Hunt
Produced by Phil Tinline
 56:45, 53096, S
14-Jan-2017
 2
 The Politician and the Judge
 Geoffrey Robertson
Producer: Alasdair Cross
 56:35, 52941, S
21-Jan-2017
 3
 How Marx Made the Right
 Tim Stanley
produced by Kati Whitaker
 56:39, 52997, S
28-Jan-2017
repeat of
25-Feb-2012
 -- The Politics of Art
 Tim Marlow
Producer: Simon Coates		 repeat
04-Feb-2017
 4
 Ovid in Changing Times
 Tom Holland
Producer Mark Rickards
 56:42, 53044, S
11-Feb-2017
 5
 A Brief History of Failure
 Joe Queenan
produced by Miles Warde
 56:19, 52687, S
18-Feb-2017
 6
 A Brief History of Lust
 Joe Queenan
produced by Miles Warde		 56:31, 52870, S
25-Feb-2015
 7
 1917: Eyewitness in Petrograd
 Emily Dicks, Helen Rappaport, Stephen Lovell
Producer: Phil Tinline
 56:37, 52977, S
04-Mar-2017
 8
 The Shape of Things That Came
 Sean Street
Reader: Jenny Lane
Producer: Andy Cartwright
 56:51, 53183, S
11-Mar-2017
 9
 The Mind in the Media
 Nathan Filer
producer: Polly Weston
 56:17, 52650, S
18-Mar-2017
 10
 Torrey Canyon and the Toxic Tides
 Producer and Presenter: Julian May.
 56:30, 52861, S
25-Mar-2017
 11
 Seventy Years in the Planning
 Will Self
Producer: Andrew Carter
 56:33, 52912, S
01-Apr-2017
 12
 Reporting Terror:
50 Years Behind the Headlines
 Peter Taylor
Producer: Joe Kent
 56:53, 53223, S
08-Apr-2017
 13
 Long Road to Change
 Zoe Williams
Produced by Anishka Sharma
 56:43, 53068, S
15-Apr-2017
 14
 Archive Fever
 Matthew Sweet
Producer: Martin Williams
 56:39, 53001, S
22-Apr-2017
 15
 The 90s: A Holiday from History
 Jonathan Freedland
Producer: Laurence Grissell
 56:12, 52579, S
29-Apr-2017
 16
 A New Life in Europe Revisited
 Manveen Rana
Producer: Dixi Stewart
 56:32, 52898, S
06-May-2017
 17
 Roots and Holocaust: When TV Taught
Us a History Lesson
 Gary Younge, Jonathan Freedland
Producer: Sarah Peters
 56:14, 52609, S
13-May-2017
 18
 Blinded by War
 Written and Presented by Adam Scourfield
Producers: Adam Scourfield and Phil Tinline
 56:25, 52780, S
20-May-2017
repeat of
26-Mar-2016
 --
 The Art of the Lyricist Clarke Peters
Producer: Emma Kingsley		 repeat
27-May-2017
 19
 Femmes Fatales
 Kathleen Turner
Producer: Victoria Ferran
 56:40, 53015, S
03-Jun-2017
repeat of
18-Jul-2015
 --
 How to Make an Archive on 4 Alan Dein
Producer: Laurence Grissell		 repeat
10-Jun-2017
 20
 Dictators on the Couch
 Daniel Pick
 56:42, 53045, S
17-Jun-2017
 21
 Father's Day
 Mark Thomas
Produced by Sarah Cuddon
 56:40, 53015, S
24-Jun-2017
 22
 999 - Which Service Do You Require?
 Ian Sansom
Producer: Conor Garrett
 56:10, 52671, S
01-Jul-2017
 23
 The Thirty Year Itch
 Phil Tinline
 56:37, 52967, S
08-Jul-2017
 24
 Apocalypse Nigh
 Robin Ince
Producer: Harry Kretchmer
 56:39, 52999, S
15-Jul-2017
 25
 The Real Summer of Love
 Dominic Sandbrook
Producer: Sara Parker
 56:10, 52548, S
22-Jul-2017
 26
 A Brief History of the Truth
 Joe Queenan
produced by Miles Warde		 56:34, 52923, S
29-Jul-2017
 27
 Roy Jenkins -
Father of the Permissive Society?
 Richard Weight
Producer: Rob Shepherd
 56:48, 53139, S
05-Aug-2017
 28
 The Myth of Homosexual Decriminalisation
 Presenter: Peter Tatchell
Producer: Tim Mansel
 56:19, 52687, S
12-Aug-2017
 29
 Grayson Perry: En Garde
 Grayson Perry
Producer: Martin Williams
 56:40, 53014, S
19-Aug-2017
 30
 Inquiries - Facing Our Failures
 Chris Bowlby
Producer Smita Patel
Editor Emma Rippon
 56:17, 52659, S
26-Aug-2017
 31
 Diana: A Life Backwards
 Produced by Steven Rajam and James Roberts
 56:35, 52036, S
02-Sep-2017
repeat of
18-Dec-2010
 --
 I'm in Charge Bruce Forsyth, Paul Jackson
Producer: Paul Kobrak		 repeat
09-Sep-2017
 32
 Uses of Literacy Now
 DJ Taylor, Lynsey Hanley, David Kynaston, David
Lodge, Alan Bennett
Producer: Nicola Swords
 56:43, 53059, S
16-Sep-2017
 33
 As the Statues Fall
 Lawrence Pollard
Producer: Viv Jones
 56:28, 52828, S
23-Sep-2017
 34
 The Mysteries of Punt PI
 Steve Punt
Producer: Georgia Catt
 56:28, 52950, S
30-Sep-2017
 --
 no programme

07-Oct-2017
 35
 Who's Looking At You?
 Nick Harkaway

56:22, 52736, S
14-Oct-2017
 36
 Travels in North Korea
 Sara Jane Hall
 56:40, 53022, S
21-Oct-2017
 37
 Driven
 Peter Curran
 56:29, 52847, S
28-Oct-2017
 38
 Close to the Edit
 Mike Figgis
Producer: Martin Williams
 56:41, 53034, S
04-Nov-2017
 39
 Missing Isaiah Berlin
 Jonathan Wolff
Producer: Dom Byrne
 56:36, 52948, S
11-Nov-2017
 40
 The Pound in Your Pocket
 Frances Cairncross
Producer: Simon Elmes
 56:30, 52854, S
18-Nov-2017
repeat of
04-Jun-2016
 --
 A Guide to the Modern Snob DJ Taylor
Produced by Hannah Marshall		 repeat
25-Nov-2017
repeat of
23-May-2015
 --
 Adventures in Alienation Amit Chaudhuri
Produced by Rachel Hooper		 repeat
02-Dec-2017
 41
 The Scandal Machine
 Chris Greer
56:26, 52798, S
09-Dec-2017
 42
 British Jews, Right and Left
 Jo Coburn
Producer: Simon Coates
 56:30, 52859, S
16-Dec-2017
 43
 Return of the Anglosphere
 Jonathan Powell
Producer: David Stenhouse
 56:53, 53219, S
23-Dec-2017
 44
 Lenny Henry on Richard Pryor:
The Making of a Satirist
 Lenny Henry
Producer: Victoria Ferran
 MISSED
30-Dec-2017
 45
 UK Confidential 1992
 Martha Kearney
Producer: Robert Nicholson
 56:34, 52969, S