麻豆约拍

Series 12

Episode 3

The rise of the ostrich investment mania of the 1990s - and why it all went so badly wrong

• 30 mins

Series 12

The Humber Bridge

Chris Ledgard explores the political background to the building of the Humber Bridge.

• 30 mins

Series 13

Episode 1

Chris Ledgard tells the story of Brighton's naturist beach, which opened in 1980.

• 30 mins

Series 13

Episode 2

Chris Ledgard visits New York to explore the origins of zero tolerance policing.

• 30 mins

Series 13

Episode 3

Jolyon Jenkins reports on the "Death of a Princess" film which angered the Saudis in 1980.

• 30 mins

Series 13

Episode 4

First-hand accounts of the Woolworths fire in Manchester in May '79 that killed ten people

• 30 mins

Series 14

Episode 1

New history documentary on the 1961 evacuation of the loneliest island, Tristan da Cunha.

• 30 mins

Series 14

Episode 2

The mystery of the Thetford Treasure, one of the most important finds from Roman Britain.

• 30 mins

Series 14

Episode 3

Chris Ledgard revisits the scandal surrounding the notorious play The Romans in Britain.

• 30 mins

Series 14

Episode 4

History documentary on the Portsmouth Sinfonia, 'the world's worst orchestra'.

• 28 mins

Series 15

Ramstein

Chris Ledgard tells the story of the air show disaster at Ramstein, Germany, in 1988.

• 28 mins

Series 15

Gentlemen and Players

Chris Ledgard revisits the final Gentlemen and Players cricket match in September 1962.

• 28 mins

Series 15

Kung Fu

Jolyon Jenkins charts the rise of the 1970s kung fu craze in the wake of Enter the Dragon.

• 28 mins

Series 9

Episode 1

Jolyon Jenkins investigates how Dutch Elm Disease swept through England in the mid-1960s.

• 30 mins

Series 9

The New Volunteers

Chris Ledgard tells the story of the Voluntary Service Overseas organisation.

• 30 mins

Series 9

Episode 3

The controversy surrounding the 1976 sculpture which came to be known as the Tate Bricks.

• 30 mins

Series 9

Episode 4

Examines the short-lived and much maligned Sinclair C5 three-wheeler.

• 30 mins

Series 16

Episode 1

Jolyon Jenkins looks at Sealand, the real-life "Passport to Pimlico".

• 28 mins

Series 16

Episode 2

History documentary on the American 'ghost ships' sent to be scrapped in Britain in 2003.

• 28 mins

Series 16

Co-education

Chris Ledgard with 1960s school stories of the switch from single sex to co-education.

• 28 mins

Series 16

Episode 4

Chris Ledgard examines how the introduction of the breathalyser changed our behaviour.

• 28 mins

Series 17

Episode 1

The rise and fall of Lymeswold cheese - the first new British cheese in 200 years.

• 28 mins

Series 17

Episode 2

How South African secret police bombed the London HQ of the African National Congress.

• 28 mins

Series 17

Episode 3

Chris Ledgard meets the men who set up LIFFE, the futures market which shook up the City.

• 28 mins

Series 17

Jaws

Chris Ledgard explores the cinematic and zoological legacy of the Spielberg classic, Jaws.

• 28 mins