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In a week of programmes for the Â鶹ԼÅÄ centenary, historian Robert Seatter selects three objects from the Â鶹ԼÅÄ’s archive store and tells the stories behind their creation - what they tell us about the changing history of the organisation, about expansion of the media and the nation at large. Robert’s choices are unexpected, revelatory and sometimes, with the cruel benefit of hindsight, funny. In today's programme Robert unpacks three iconic items of clothing, created for both the fictional and the real world.

1) The linen shirt
2) A flak jacket
3) The baker boy cap

The white linen shirt worn by Colin Firth as Mr Darcy in the famous lake scene in the 1995 Andrew Davies production of ‘Pride and Prejudice’; a Flak jacket, designed to protect the wearer from high explosive weaponry especially shrapnel and worn by John Simpson, World Affairs Editor, when accompanying a convoy of US Special forces and Kurdish fighters in Northern Iraq in April 2003; and the Baker Boy or Newsboy cap worn by the character Tommy Shelby played by Cillian Murphy in 'Peaky Blinders'.

Sharing her insights into the designs and the role of the Â鶹ԼÅÄ as trendsetter and social influencer is fashion designer and The Great British Sewing Bee judge, Esme Young.

Producer: Mohini Patel