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The Women Who Changed Modern Scotland
Ep2 - Having It Al
- Broadcast
- 2023 (58 mins)
In this episode Kirsty Wark explores the 1980s and 90s - a time of contrasts and contradictions for Scotland’s women. During these decades legislative leaps enshrined new rights, many glass ceilings were...
Once Upon A Time In Northern Ireland
Episode 1 - It Wasn’t Like A Movie Anymore
- Broadcast
- 2023 (75 mins)
A time of relative peace in Northern Ireland escalates to full-blown conflict. With the situation compounded by tactical mistakes, soldiers quickly find themselves caught up in violent clashes - leading to...
Once Upon A Time In Northern Ireland
Episode 2 - Do Paramilitaries Lie Awake at Night?
- Broadcast
- 2023 (62 mins)
It’s 1972, and community divisions have deepened and intensified. Many working-class Catholic and Protestant communities are in the grip of paramilitary organisations. This episode charts a deteriorating...
Once Upon A Time In Northern Ireland
Episode 3 - So Many Broken Hearts
- Broadcast
- 2023 (60 mins)
The devastating impact of the conflict is explored through the stories of three women as IRA prisoners begin their hunger strike in protest against Margaret Thatcher’s policies. Tit-for-tat killings, car...
Once Upon A Time In Northern Ireland
Episode 4 - Loose Talk Costs Lives
- Broadcast
- 2023 (62 mins)
By the late 1980s, the news in Northern Ireland is a daily list of the dead. But 14 bloody days in March 1988 mark a new level of harrowing savagery. When a car reverses at speed into an IRA funeral cortege,...
Once Upon A Time In Northern Ireland
Episode 5 - Who Wants to Live Like That?
- Broadcast
- 2023 (66 mins)
There have been many false dawns in the conflict, but finally the desire for change propels the possibility of peace for the next generation. At times, it seems that violence might escalate further as...
Exploring India with Bettany Hughes
The North
- Broadcast
- 2023 (49 mins)
India is home to cultures, traditions and sites as old as the ancient Egyptians, Mesopotamians and Chinese dynasties. This vast country with a population of 1.32 billion people has one of the fastest growing...
Exploring India with Bettany Hughes
The South
- Broadcast
- 2023 (50 mins)
India is home to cultures, traditions and sites as old as the ancient Egyptians, Mesopotamians and Chinese dynasties. This vast country with a population of 1.32 billion people has one of the fastest growing...
Union With David Olusoga
Episode 1 - The Making of Britain
- Broadcast
- 2023 (60 mins)
Historian David Olusoga starts the story of Union in the 17th Century, an era of defined by deep religious divisions between Protestant and Catholic. In 1603 King James VI of Scotland became King James I of...
Union With David Olusoga
Episode 2 - Creating Britishness
- Broadcast
- 2023 (59 mins)
In the second episode in the series, historian David Olusoga reveals how in the Eighteenth Century a new British identity was forged in the face of multiple threats and almost constant war with France. After...