April 7, 1998 • 50m
Examines why Hitler abandoned plans to invade Britain in 1940 and prepared, instead, to attack the Soviet Union. NEW SEASON 1/6.
April 14, 1998 • 50m
Nine grammar school boys recall their schooldays and reflect on how that system affected their lives. With former Chancellor of th...Read more
April 21, 1998 • 50m
In 1976 the chance discovery of a mummified body inside a ghost ride in Long Beach, California, unearthed a chain of events leadin...Read more
April 28, 1998 • 50m
Roman Emperor Trajan led two great wars against the people of Dacia. No written documentation of this campaign survives, but its s...Read more
May 5, 1998 • 50m
Las Vegas, the world's gambling capital: Over 30 million people visit each year, most of them unaware that clean-living Mormons pl...Read more
May 12, 1998 • 50m
As the Aborigine people fight for their land rights, Australia's historians extract revelations from the archives. Letters and dia...Read more
September 29, 1998 • 50m
An estimated quarter-million homosexuals fought for Britain during the Second World War. At the time homosexuality was still a cri...Read more
October 6, 1998 • 50m
Eighty years ago the end of the First World War was celebrated as a triumph for democracy, yet some would later dismiss it as futi...Read more
October 13, 1998 • 50m
It is accepted in American history that the Pilgrim Fathers were a group of religious separatists who founded the first permanent ...Read more
October 20, 1998 • 50m
Swiss banks stand accused of collaborating with the Nazis before and during the Second World War. But 60 years ago, when US Secret...Read more
October 27, 1998 • 50m
Tonight's programme follows historian Andrew Roberts across the Indian subcontinent as he argues that Britain should take pride in...Read more
November 3, 1998 • 50m
In October 1993 elite units of the US army were pinned down on the streets of Mogadishu in Somalia by forces of Mohammed Farah Aid...Read more
November 10, 1998
Episode 13 of Season 17 premiered on November 10, 1998