A look back at programmes and recordings from the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ archives
Radio 4 Extra,Β·9 episodes
Episode 1
Laurie Taylor trawls the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ archives to explore 60 years of the Reith Lectures.
Episode 2
Laurie Taylor continues his history of 60 years of the Reith Lectures.
Bruce Forsyth and Paul Jackson visit the London Palladium which opened on Boxing Day 1910.
Sean Street recalls the groundbreaking 50s series Radio Ballads.
Marybeth Hamilton recalls an extraordinary 1938 interview with Jelly Roll Morton.
Sir David Attenborough looks back through his broadcasting career.
How a new style of music emerged and flourished under South African apartheid.
Professor Steve Jones tells the story of DNA and its discovery.
Marcel Berlins recalls the trial of Nelson Mandela and eight other men in 1963-4.
