91Èȱ¬

The Tokens and the Foundlings

The story of the UK's first children's charity, The Foundling Hospital.

• 60 mins

The War Game Files

Whitehall files expose how the 91Èȱ¬ and government connived to ban 1965 film The War Game.

• 58 mins

Morning Everyone

Rory Bremner celebrates the life of cricketer and commentator Richie Benaud.

• 60 mins

Bring Your Darlings Back To Life

What if the best anecdotes and stories had a programme to themselves?

• 60 mins

A Brief History of Shame

American satirist Joe Queenan explores Shame.

• 60 mins

Tomorrow's World, Today

Tomorrow's World presenter James Burke looks at the future the TV programme predicted.

• 60 mins

Destroyer of Worlds

How Britain developed the world's first atomic bomb only to lose it to the Americans.

• 57 mins

How to Make an Archive on 4

Alan Dein enters the strange world of instructional records.

• 60 mins

Shhhhhhh

Lucy Powell offers a quiet celebration of the rich and various virtues of silence.

• 58 mins

Cradle to Grave

The history of the NHS told through one hospital - the QEII in Welwyn Garden City.

• 58 mins

Misunderstanding Japan

What impact have western media representations had on our view of Japan and its people?

• 60 mins

Stadium Rock at 50

50 years after the Beatles played Shea Stadium, Kate Mossman plots a history of Arena rock

• 58 mins

Dickie Attenborough: A Life in Film

Susan Marling celebrates Richard Attenborough’s legacy a year on from his death.

• 60 mins

New Orleans: The Crescent and the Shadow

Harry Shearer lives in New Orleans. He looks back at the last ten years in the city.

• 58 mins

The Power of Political Forgetting

What happens when a major past crisis slips from public memory? With David Aaronovitch.

• 58 mins

MP for Penrith and the Border

Programme following a year in the life of Rory Stewart - an MP with an unusual profile.

• 58 mins

From the Self to the Selfie

Lauren Laverne on the origins and effects of the obsession with selfies.

• 58 mins

Kindertransport

How 10,000 unaccompanied children, mostly Jewish, escaped from Nazi Europe to Britain.

• 60 mins

John Lennon: Verbatim

John Lennon's extraordinary life and career told in his own words.

• 57 mins

Bernstein, My Mentor

Acclaimed conductor Marin Alsop remembers her mentor, the great Leonard Bernstein.

• 58 mins

Attention Must Be Paid - Arthur Miller's Centenary

Christopher Bigsby traces the life and work of Arthur Miller, mostly in Miller's own words

• 58 mins

The Future of the 91Èȱ¬: A History

Steve Hewlett explores the troubled past behind today's debates on the future of the 91Èȱ¬.

• 58 mins

The Time Machine

Comedian Doc Brown activates the flux capacitor back to the world of 21 January 1981.

• 57 mins

07/11/2015

Fifty years after abolition, John Tusa reviews the history of the death penalty debate.

• 58 mins

A Sympathetic Eye

Simon Farquhar examines how Man Alive reflected changing TV and social values in the 1960s

• 58 mins

Lives in a Landscape

Alan Dein tells the story of ten years of Radio 4's observational documentary series.

• 60 mins

Racial Equality Enshrined

Ritula Shah explores Britain's first Race Relations Act, fifty years on.

• 58 mins

When Britain Had the Right Stuff

Richard Hollingham uncovers the forgotten history of Britons in space.

• 58 mins

The Selling of Sinatra

Jazz singer Kurt Elling doffs his trilby as he explores the life of Frank Sinatra.

• 60 mins

Jay Rayner Pigs Out

Jay Rayner, self-confessed greedy pig, gets serious about porkers.

• 58 mins