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Document

Historical investigation programme, taking a document as a starting point from which to shed new light on past events

Radio 4,57 episodes

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The Gibraltar Diary of Squadron Leader Mallory
A document in French leads Nick Rankin to the exploits of an SOE operative in Gibraltar.
28 mins04 Dec 2017
Scotland's Lord Haw Haw
Jo Fox discovers the transcripts of a Nazi secret radio station broadcasting to Scotland.
28 mins27 Nov 2017
MI6's Secret Slush Fund
Gordon Corera investigates a secret fund belonging to the MI6 chief in the 1950s.
28 mins20 Nov 2017
Fu Bingchang's Diaries
The diaries of Fu Bingchang, Chinese Ambassador to the Soviet Union as the Cold War began.
28 mins19 Jul 2016
Knowing Jurgen Kuczynski
Anne McElvoy explores the documents telling the story of the emigre agent Jurgen Kuczynski
28 mins12 Jul 2016
The Albania Operation
For Radio 4's Cold War season, Gordon Corera examines CIA attempts to subvert Albania.
28 mins05 Jul 2016
The Crypto Agreement
Gordon Corera reveals evidence of a secret deal between a code-machine company and the NSA
28 mins28 Jul 2015
The Strange Voyage of the Blonde Angel
Dominic Streatfeild investigates the case of Argentine POW Alfredo Astiz in 1982.
28 mins21 Jul 2015
14/07/2015
Sanchia Berg rediscovers the lost trail of the MI5 spy who was left out in the cold.
28 mins14 Jul 2015
The Hague Warning
Heather Jones explores a lost intelligence report warning of Germany's invasion of Poland.
28 mins11 Aug 2014
The Saur Death List of Afghanistan
David Loyn investigates how a lost record is helping Afghanistan address its painful past.
28 mins04 Aug 2014
The Palme Assassination
Gordon Corera travels to Stockholm to investigate the assassination of a prime minister.
28 mins28 Jul 2014
The Hyderabad Massacre
Using new documents, Mike Thomson investigates a largely forgotten massacre in India.
28 mins24 Sep 2013
17/09/2013
Mike Thomson explores a document pointing at American treachery prior to Pearl Harbour.
28 mins17 Sep 2013
10/09/2013
Mike Thomson examines documents revealing British brutality in Kenya in the 1950s.
28 mins10 Sep 2013
Votes for Victorian Women
Sarah Richardson discovers a document which shows that women in Lichfield voted in 1843.
28 mins18 Mar 2013
11/03/2013
Did the 1916 Dublin Rising catch the cabinet by surprise? Author Nick Rankin investigates.
28 mins11 Mar 2013
MI6 and the Media
Jeremy Duns examines links between MI6 and the British media during the Cold War.
28 mins04 Mar 2013
The 91�ȱ� and the Hungarian Holocaust
Mike Thomson investigates the role of the 91�ȱ� Hungarian Service in World War II.
28 mins12 Nov 2012
GCHQ: Keeping the Last Great Secret
Mike Thomson discovers how close Britain's greatest cold war secret was to being exposed.
28 mins05 Nov 2012
The British Gunner and the Irish Civil War
Mike Thomson returns with the investigative history series, starting in Dublin in 1922.
28 mins29 Oct 2012
A Laudable Invasion?
Series using documentary evidence to throw new light on past events.
30 mins
19/03/2012
Why were the British Chiefs of Staff in secret contact with enemy Vichy France in 1942?
30 mins19 Mar 2012
12/03/2012
Mike Thomson unearths the motives behind the 1949 murder of a British colonial governor.
30 mins12 Mar 2012
05/03/2012
Mike Thomson investigates the role the French government played in the 1982 Falklands War.
30 mins05 Mar 2012
The Ghosts of Greenham
How Greenham Common was classed as one of the most dangerous missile sites of all.
30 mins
The Gift of Democracy?
Mike Thomson asks whether the British tried to rig Nigeria's first democratic elections.
30 mins
The White House Coup, 1933
During the 1930s, some of Wall Street's most famous names plotted to overthrow Roosevelt.
30 mins
The collapse of the 'special relationship', 1973
Mike Thomson investigates the collapse of the US UK special relationship in 1973.
30 mins15 Aug 2011
08/08/2011
Mike Thomson investigates the secret baptism of Jews in Vienna's Anglican church, in 1938.
30 mins08 Aug 2011