Season 8 (2008)

How to Be a Good President
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September 14, 2008 • 1h

Helped by contributors including Shirley Williams, Douglas Hurd and Simon Hoggart, journalist Jonathan Freedland attempts to defin...Read more

Between the Lines - Railways in Fiction and Film
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October 9, 2008 • 1h

Novelist Andrew Martin presents a documentary examining how the train came to shape the work of writers and film-makers, from Word...Read more

Last Days of Steam
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October 16, 2008 • 1h

Documentary that tells the surprising story of how Britain entered a new age of steam railways after the Second World War and why ...Read more

How to Write a Mills and Boon
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November 2, 2008 • 1h

To mark 100 years of romance publishers Mills and Boon, literary novelist Stella Duffy takes on the challenge of writing for them,...Read more

How to Solve a Cryptic Crossword
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November 10, 2008 • 1h

Don Manley reveals the tricks that compilers use to bamboozle and entertain cryptic crossword solvers, while fans including Prunel...Read more

The Comic Songbook
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December 22, 2008 • 1h

Documentary which celebrates Britain's tradition of comic songs, from Noel Coward's Mad Dogs and Englishmen to Benny Hill's Ernie,...Read more

Fashion versus the BBC
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January 22, 2009 • 1h

A team of fashion writers and commentators including Peter York, Colin McDowell, Ted Polhemus and Hilary Alexander looks at the re...Read more

The North-South Divide
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April 2, 2009 • 1h

Journalist John Harris travels around England to find out why the north-south divide is still an economic reality following the de...Read more