S2E4: The Great Train Robbery | Days That Shook the World

5: New Britannia | Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain

In the final part of Andrew Marr's national saga, Britain enters the post-Thatcher era. Many have done well during...

4: Revolution | Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain

Andrew Marr revisits the Britain of Margaret Thatcher and comes to some surprising conclusions about the British nati...

2: Under Pressure | The 80s with Dominic Sandbrook

Dominic Sandbrook looks at a dynamic decade. By the mid-80s, Britain felt like an embattled nation, struggling to establis...

1: The Sound of the Crowd | The 80s with Dominic Sandbrook

Dominic Sandbrook takes a look at a dynamic decade. This episode looks at how the early 80s saw new forces of choi...

2: Power | Thatcher: A Very British Revolution

Mrs Thatcher struggles to cling to power as the economy collapses, riots break out and she is subverted by members of her own ...

3: Enemies | Thatcher: A Very British Revolution

Mrs Thatcher confronts her enemies, leading the country to war, taking the economic fight to her opponents in the trade unio...

1: Building a New Society | New Elizabethans with Andrew Marr

Andrew Marr examines the way in which Britain went from a rigid, class-obsessed society in the 1950s toward a m...

Miners' Strike: A Frontline Story

Featuring compelling testimony, this is the story of 15 men and women and one life-changing year on the front line of the most divisive con...

1: Making Margaret | Thatcher: A Very British Revolution

Margaret Thatcher's inner circle reveals how she managed to overcome her outsider status to become a prominent polit...

2: Distant War | The World at War

An uneasy calm settles on Britain as Churchill replaces Chamberlain as prime minister.

4: The Winner Takes It All 77-79 | The 70s

Dominic Sandbrook looks at the final years of the decade, marked by concerns that appear startlingly current.

5: Downfall | Thatcher: A Very British Revolution

Mrs Thatcher's leadership style and judgement on Europe and the poll tax create splits in her cabinet and public anger, lea...

17: 1959: Endangered Planet | People's Century

Rising consumption patterns extract a huge toll on nature. Toxic contamination in Minamata and Love Canal and the Torrey Canyo...

2: Churchill | Secrets of Leadership

Andrew Roberts reveals many of Churchill's weaknesses as a subordinate in charge of the Royal Navy, and the great strengths they became ...

2: Doomwatch 73-74 | The 70s

Dominic Sandbrook looks at the impact of a fast-changing world on British life and the effects of the oil price hike of the 70s.

Episode 2 | The Major Years

Tonight looks at Black Wednesday and the damage it did to Major's leadership. Both Major and Norman Lamont speak very frankly about their roles i...

Episode 3 | The Major Years

In November 1994, John Major ordered the whip to be withdrawn from eight rebel backbenchers. By the following summer the cabinet itself was divid...

Liverpool in the sixties | A House Through Time

David Olusoga explores the boom in art, music and culture in Liverpool during the swinging sixties.

2: A Brave New World | New Elizabethans with Andrew Marr

Andrew Marr explores how Britain since 1952 has coped with the loss of empire, America's cultural and political hege...

21: 1968: New Release | People's Century

The baby boom produced a cohort of children in the affluent and secure post-war world who for the first time would question establis...