麻豆约拍

Debutantes and Revolutionaries

What happened to Cuban aristocrats who chose to remain in Cuba after Castro's revolution?

• 27 mins

Kwame Nkrumah

'The most famous man in Africa'. A profile of the champion of Pan-Africanism

• 28 mins

Assassins

Political assassination, a look at how and why it happens

• 28 mins

Stimela

A profile of the South African music band Stimela

• 26 mins

Music and Madness

The story of Bangali mystic singer Paban Das Baul and his British collaborator Sam Mills

• 28 mins

Kevin's Story

The judicial aftermath of a fatal car crash

• 28 mins

A Greedy Eye

T.P. FLANAGAN PROGRAMME ON IRELAND

• 28 mins

Breath

Breath and breathing and how various cultures have interpreted it's importance to life

• 27 mins

Royal Yacht Britannia

The story of the Royal Yacht Britannia, 'symbol of a modern Elizabethan age'

• 28 mins

The Donner Party

The story of The Donner Party, a 2500 mile pioneering trek from Illinois to California

• 28 mins

The Day Apartheid Died - Soweto Uprising

People who were there recall the events of the 1976 Soweto Uprising

• 28 mins

Nien Cheng

Writer Nien Cheng talks about living through the Chinese Cultural Revolution

• 28 mins

Marriage Made in Malta

MARRIAGE MADE IN MALTA - rising divorce rates in Malta

• 28 mins

Last Flight of Amelia Earhart

A profile of the the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean

• 28 mins

Richard Mabey on Nightingales

Richard Mabey discusses nightingales and what makes their song so special

• 27 mins

Trucker's Tale

A journey with a long distance truck-driver in South Africa

• 28 mins

Thrill Seekers

A look at the variety of thrill-seeking physical challenges available around the world

• 28 mins

An Indian Pacific Journey

Crossing Australia by train on the Indian Pacific Express

• 28 mins

The Mercury Thirteen

'They had the right stuff but they were the wrong sex'. Female astronauts in 1961

• 27 mins

Partition

A look back at the Partition of India in 1947

• 27 mins

In the Wake of Colmcille

The recreation of St Colmcille's journey to Iona in a currach

• 28 mins

Make Do and Mend

Blacksmith Ron Carter talks about the philosphy of 'make do and mend'

• 28 mins

Pablo Fanque

A profile of the first non-white circus proprietor in Britain

• 28 mins

Fighters

The life of the fighter pilot and their role in air warfare

• 29 mins

The 2000 Mile Harvest

Bringing in the wheat harvest in the USA

• 27 mins

Fox Hunting

A look at the world of fox hunting in the UK as it faces being banned

• 28 mins

Lenin

A revisionist profile of the communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin

• 27 mins

Paul Robeson - A Welcome in the Hillside

How the plight of unemployed Welsh miners led to the political awakening of Paul Robeson

• 28 mins

The Last Voice

The San people of the Kalahari Desert and the fight to preserve their language

• 27 mins

Death Foretold

How common is murder in Chicago?

• 27 mins