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Rare Earth
Episode 5 - Can Politicians Save the Planet?
- Broadcast
- 2024 (52 mins)
Why do politicians have such trouble sticking to their environmental promises? Why are they happy to hug a husky one minute, desperate to ditch the ‘green crap’ the next? As Labour ditch their £28bn...
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...
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...
Union With David Olusoga
Episode 3 - The Two Nations
- Broadcast
- 2023 (59 mins)
In the Nineteenth Century the union of Great Britain and Ireland appeared to be secure and powerful. Yet beneath the surface were deep divisions between rich and poor, and social class began to define...
Union With David Olusoga
Episode 4 - Union and Disunion
- Broadcast
- 2023 (60 mins)
On the 13th July 1911 the investiture of the Prince of Wales, heir to the throne, was held at Caernarfon Castle. David explores how this centuries old ceremony - by some seen as a symbol of Welsh subjugation...