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Postwar: 1: The Rejection | Politically
David Runciman tells the story of the 1945 election and the dawn of a new age. Why did Winston Churchill find himself so decisively r...
Postwar: E10: India and Empire | Politically
The question of self-government for India would have to be confronted when war was over.
Postwar: E11: Homes for Heroes | Politically
In the end, the election was fought and decided over two main issues: demobilisation and housing.
Postwar: E12: Art, War and Propaganda | Politically
With the formation of the Arts Council in 1945, on-going state patronage of the arts began.
Postwar: E13: From Yalta to Potsdam | Politically
Between the Yalta and Potsdam conferences, everything changed.
Postwar: E14: United Nations | Politically
Both main parties supported the United Nations, but they disagreed about what that meant.
Postwar: E15: Debt to America | Politically
In 1945, Britain was the most indebted country in the world.
Postwar: E16: The Result | Politically
The immediate result of the general election was silence: a three-week hiatus.
Postwar: E18: Churchill: Lion in Winter | Politically
What happened to Winston Churchill in the years after the 1945 general election?
Postwar: E19: Post-postwar | Politically
When did the postwar period end?
Postwar: E2: Mr Churchill and Mr Attlee | Politically
With the war in Europe at an end, Churchill and Attlee became fierce election rivals.
Postwar: E20: What if? | Politically
What would Britain have been like if Winston Churchill had won the 1945 general election?
Postwar: E3: The Beveridge Report | Politically
William Beveridge's plan was an answer to the question of what we were fighting for.
Postwar: E4: Public Opinion | Politically
How could politicians know what voters were thinking in 1945?
Postwar: E5: The Soldiers' Election | Politically
During the 1945 election, there were still almost five million servicemen and women.
Postwar: E6: Appealing to Women | Politically
How did the election reflect the dramatically changed working lives of women?
Postwar: E7: The Labour Manifesto | Politically
Uniquely in modern British history, the 1945 Labour Manifesto was a genuine bestseller.
Postwar: E8: Healthcare for All | Politically
The war changed many things, and access to healthcare was one of them.
Postwar: E9: Churchill's 'Gestapo' Broadcast | Politically
Winston Churchill's first election broadcast in 1945 might be remembered as his greatest gaffe.
S1E6: Kristallnacht | Days That Shook the World
Two days defined the fortunes of 20th-century Jews: Kristallnacht on September 9, 1938, a turning point in Nazi persecution, ...
Malala: Shot for Going to School | Panorama
One year ago, Malala Yousafzai was shot by the Taliban on her school bus. In this Panorama special, she talks exclusively to Mish...
Ambushed | Our War
The story of a group of friends from 3 Platoon, 1st Battalion Royal Anglian, who were sent to Helmand province in 2007 and filmed on a helmet camera by th...
S1E8: Black September Hijackings | Days That Shook the World
How the commercial airplane has been used as a terrorist weapon: the Black September hijacking in 1970.
17: Good Guys, Bad Guys: 1967-1978 | Cold War
Under Détente the superpowers continued their rivalry, but carefully avoided direct conflict by courting allies in the developi...
The Settlers | Louis Theroux
Fourteen years after his first visit, Louis Theroux meets some of the growing community of religious-nationalist Israelis who have settled in th...
At War: Crisis in the Middle East | Panorama
Panorama reports on the conflict between Israel and Hamas. Reporter Jane Corbin hears the human stories on both sides and asks w...
S1E8: Lockerbie | Days That Shook the World
How the commercial airplane has been used as a terrorist weapon: the Lockerbie disaster in 1988.
S2E8: Terrorism: Assassination of Abraham Lincoln | Days That Shook the World
How the commercial airplane has been used as a terrorist weapon: the Black September hijacking ...
S3E6: Battle for the Holy City: The Six-Day War | Days That Shook the World
The Six-Day War, which began on June 5, 1967, resulted in Israeli control of the Gaza Strip, Sina...
Six-Day War | Panorama
James Watson reports on the Six-Day War in Israel having visited Tel Aviv, Bethlehem and Jerusalem.
1: Clinton | Israel and the Arabs - Elusive Peace
What happened behind closed doors at the Middle East Peace Summit at Camp David in 2000 - and the reasons why the talks rea...
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Simon Sebag Montefiore begins a history of Jerusalem by exploring how it came into being and how it became s...
14: Israel and the Arab States | Twentieth Century History
Schools history programme narrated by John Tidmarsh, looking at Palestine in the 1930s and the relationship betwee...
2: Arafat | Israel and the Arabs - Elusive Peace
US Secretary of State Colin Powell tries to make peace between Israel and Palestine, but his efforts are derailed by his own...
3: Sharon | Israel and the Arabs - Elusive Peace
The war in Iraq forces President Bush to court Arab allies. He needs to push Israel's prime minister Ariel Sharon back towar...
4: Eyewitness to History: Norma Percy | Israel and the Arabs - Elusive Peace
Film-maker Norma Percy looks back on her 2005 series The Elusive Peace, sharing memories of her ...
6: 1973 Middle East | Peter and Dan Snow: 20th Century Battlefields
Peter and Dan Snow unpick the fighting that broke out in 1973. Known by some as the Yom Kippur War, it wa...
Amos Oz: The Conscience of Israel | imagine
A portrait of celebrated Israeli writer and political commentator Amos Oz, whose childhood memoir A Tale of Love and Darkness giv...
Baghdad | Panorama
Including a report by Adrian Crawley from Baghdad, Edward Ward speaking from the Hungarian Frontier, an interview by Christopher Chataway of an Australian...
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