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Open Sesame

Konnie Huq looks back at 40 years of Sesame Street, the experimental children's TV show.

• 60 mins

Leaders Under the Lights

Reeta Chakrabarti unearths some memorable moments in presidential TV debates.

• 58 mins

Sculptress of Sound: The Lost Works of Delia Derbyshire

Matthew Sweet celebrates the life and work of composer Delia Derbyshire.

• 60 mins

Ask the Fellows That Cut the Hay

Alan Dein celebrates the centenary of George Ewart Evans and his tales of Suffolk.

• 60 mins

Priestley's Postscripts

An exploration of the hugely popular Second World War radio broadcasts of JB Priestley

• 60 mins

Monsieur Non

Julian Jackson on the inscrutable General de Gaulle and his fraught relations with Britain

• 60 mins

Sellers in the Attic

Glenn Mitchell examines exclusive and lesser-known recordings of Peter Sellers.

• 60 mins

Barbara

An appraisal of Barbara Castle in the centenary of her birth

• 60 mins

Our Obsession With Weather

Iain Sinclair finds out why the weather forecast has always been a national obsession.

• 60 mins

Playing the Dane

In anticipation of his own Hamlet in 2011, Michael Sheen explores every actor's dream role

• 60 mins

Sport on Film

Colin Shindler looks back at what's been won and lost when sport hits the big screen.

• 60 mins

Murdoch at 80

As Rupert Murdoch turns 80, Steve Hewlett assesses his impact.

• 60 mins

Walls of Sound

Sean Street on how our sound archive is being saved and opened up by the British Library.

• 57 mins

Bob Dylan and Me

A cast of musicians, writers and poets reflect as Bob Dylan turns 70.

• 60 mins

The Light Music Festival

Paul Morley explores the rise and mysterious fall of light orchestral music.

• 60 mins

Schumacher's Big Society

Did EF Schumacher's landmark book Small is Beautiful inspire David Cameron's big idea?

• 60 mins

The 1981 Ashes

Mike Brearley tells the story of one of the most remarkable summers of cricket ever seen.

• 60 mins

RP RIP?

Melvyn Bragg observes the decline of RP alongside an increasing pride in regional accents.

• 60 mins

Raise Your Glasses

Arthur Smith searches for the best and worst after-dinner speeches in history.

• 60 mins

Robert Robinson

Laurie Taylor takes a look at the life and work of one of Britain's broadcasting legends.

• 50 mins

When the Eyes of the World Were on the Clyde

Journalist John Lloyd looks back at the Clydeside work-in of 1971.

• 60 mins

The Life and Fate of Vasily Grossman

Jim Riordan uncovers the life and fate of Soviet writer Vasily Grossman, hero and heretic.

• 43 mins

The Red Bits Are British

David Cannadine explores the teaching of history in English schools over the past century.

• 60 mins

Mind Your PMQs

Dominic Sandbrook questions the political importance of Prime Minister's Questions.

• 58 mins

Remembrance

Denys Blakeway tells the story of the Act of Remembrance.

• 58 mins

Rebuilding Britain for the Baby Boomers

Maxwell Hutchinson on the architects who rebuilt Britain after the Second World War.

• 58 mins

John Arlott: Cricket's Radical Voice

Mark Whitaker investigates the life of the cricket commentator and political campaigner.

• 60 mins

Bertrand Russell: The First Media Academic?

Robin Ince listens back to some of the 麻豆约拍 archive of philosopher Bertrand Russell.

• 60 mins

Freud vs Jung

Lisa Appignanesi explores the intense relationship between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung.

• 58 mins

Castaway: 70 Years of Desert Island Discs

Kirsty Young tells the story of the long-running radio programme.

• 58 mins