January 9, 1985 • 50m
REAGAN'S COWBOYS: Why have successive presidents celebrated the cowboy as all-American hero? THE AGE OF CHIVALRY IS DEAD: But did...Read more
January 30, 1985 • 50m
TAFF VALE: In 1900 the railway workers of Taff Vale embarked on a strike which has political implications to this day. Timewatch e...Read more
February 6, 1985 • 50m
'Let not poor Nellie starve.' With those words Charles II, the 'Merry Monarch', died 300 years ago. Of all British sovereigns, thi...Read more
March 6, 1985 • 50m
CHURCHILL AND ROOSEVELT exchanged 2,000 letters during the Second World War. Collected for the first time, they reveal the tension...Read more
April 3, 1985 • 1h
THE UNUSED WEAPON: By 1945 the Allies and the Nazis had stockpiled five times more chemical weapons than had been used throughout ...Read more
May 8, 1985 • 55m
In April 1945, British and American troops were sweeping across Western Germany. Charles Wheeler was among them. They stopped 50 m...Read more
October 10, 1985 • 50m
This month's programme comes from the centre of Oxford where Peter France introduces three stories which have their roots deep in ...Read more
November 7, 1985 • 50m
SUMMER OF THE HANGING JUDGE: An examination of the life and times of Judge George Jeffreys 300 years after he presided over the in...Read more
December 5, 1985 • 50m
Film 1: As the world waits for Halley's Comet, a recently discovered diary written by a 17th-century merchant from Rye in Sussex r...Read more
January 1, 1970
Episode 97 of Season 4 premiered on January 1, 1970
January 1, 1970
Episode 98 of Season 4 premiered on January 1, 1970
January 1, 1970
Episode 99 of Season 4 premiered on January 1, 1970