Eyewitness 1900-1949

Introduction (Vox Pops From 'Fifty Years Ago In The West Of England Part 2' - Home Service, 2nd January 1951)

The Beginning Of The Boer War

Ireland And The Boer War (Soldiers Of The Queen - BBC Radio 4, 3rd August 1979)

Dissenting Voices (More Memories Of A Journalist Artist - Home Service, 13th September 1961)

The Seige Of Ladysmith (Welsh Home Service - 16th January 1949)

The Siege Of Kimerley (Soldiers Of The Queen - BBC Radio 4, 3rd August 1979)

The Relief Of Ladysmith (Welsh Home Service - 16th January 1949)

The Siege Of Mafeking (I Was There - Mafeking - National Programme, 5th October 1937)

The Relief Of Mafeking (May 1955)

Guerrilla Tactics (The Day Queen Victoria Died - BBC Radio 4, 19th January 1971)

Atrocity At Christmas (Sounds Eventful, Sounds Surprising - Home Service, 30th July 1965)

The Blockhouse System; The Burning Of Boer Farms; Concentration Camps (Soldiers Of The Queen - BBC Radio 4, 3rd August 1979)

Peace And The Treaty Of Vereeniging (Soldiers Of The Queen - BBC Radio 4, 3rd August 1979)

Funeral Procession On The Solent (Scrapbook For 1901 - National Programme, 24th September 1936)

Funeral Procession In London (The Day Queen Victoria Died - BBC Radio 4, 19th January 1971)

Introduction (Reminiscences: Edwardian London - 21st October 1960)

Science And Superstition (Vox Pops From 'Fifty Years Ago In The West Of England Part 1' - Home Service, 31st December 1950)

The First Transatlantic Wireless Message (Scrapbook 1901 - National Programme, 24th September 1936)

Protective Tariffs (Coronation Year 1902 - Third Programme, 31st May 1953)

New Liberalism

Poverty And State Intervention (Coronation Year 1902 - Third Programme, 31st May 1953)

Boy Scouts (I Saw The Start: The Boy Scout Movement - National Programme, 14th September 1937)

Education In A Slum School (Woman's Hour - BBC Radio 4, 19th October 1974)

Women At University (Home This Afternoon - Home Service, 27th July 1966)

A Militant Suffragette (Reminiscences Of A Suffragette - 30th December 1946)

Forcible Feeding (Two Of A Kind - Youth And Age - Home Service, 23rd April 1961)

Suffragettes And Suffragists - The Actresses' Franchise League (Home This Afternoon - Home Service, 15th May 1964)

The Pageant Of Great Women (Home This Afternoon - Home Service, 15th May 1964)

Introduction (Reminiscences: Edwardian London - 21st October 1960)

Clothes And Respectability (Vox Pops From 'Fifty Years Ago In The West Of England' Parts 1 & 2 - Home Service, 31st December 1950 & 2nd January 1951)

Punishment (Vox Pops From 'Fifty Years Ago In The West Of England' Parts 1 & 2 - Home Service, 31st December 1950 & 2nd January 1951)

The Moral Code (Vox Pops From 'Fifty Years Ago In The West Of England' Parts 1 & 2 - Home Service, 31st December 1950 & 2nd January 1951)

Religious Influence (Vox Pops From 'Fifty Years Ago In The West Of England' Parts 1 & 2 - Home Service, 31st December 1950 & 2nd January 1951)

Temperance (Vox Pops From 'Fifty Years Ago In The West Of England' Parts 1 & 2 - Home Service, 31st December 1950 & 2nd January 1951)

Social Classes And Spiritual Dictators (Vox Pops From 'Fifty Years Ago In The West Of England' Parts 1 & 2 - Home Service, 31st December 1950 & 2nd January 1951)

Parish As The Hub Of Social Life (Vox Pops From 'Fifty Years Ago In The West Of England' Parts 1 & 2 - Home Service, 31st December 1950 & 2nd January 1951)

Olympic Games 1908 - The Marathon And Dorano Pietri (Scrapbook For 1908 - National Programme, 5th November 1936)

Amateur Concerts (Vox Pops From 'Fifty Years Ago In The West Of England' Parts 1 & 2 - Home Service, 31st December 1950 & 2nd January 1951)

Bicycles And Fairs (Vox Pops From 'Fifty Years Ago In The West Of England' Parts 1 & 2 - Home Service, 31st December 1950 & 2nd January 1951)

Cornish Tin-Miner (Vox Pops From 'Fifty Years Ago In The West Of England' Parts 1 & 2 - Home Service, 31st December 1950 & 2nd January 1951)

Alcohol (Vox Pops From 'Fifty Years Ago In The West Of England' Parts 1 & 2 - Home Service, 31st December 1950 & 2nd January 1951)

Domestic Service (Vox Pops From 'Fifty Years Ago In The West Of England' Parts 1 & 2 - Home Service, 31st December 1950 & 2nd January 1951)

Theatre In Rural Areas And Small Towns (Vox Pops From 'Fifty Years Ago In The West Of England' Parts 1 & 2 - Home Service, 31st December 1950 & 2nd January 1951)

The Motor Car (Vox Pops From 'Fifty Years Ago In The West Of England' Parts 1 & 2 - Home Service, 31st December 1950 & 2nd January 1951)

Powered Flight And Science Fiction

Revolution In Politics 1909 (Budget Speech - 1909)

Death Of The King

The Coronation Of George V (National Programme - 11th May 1937)

The Post-Impressionist Exhibition Of 1910 (Third Programme - 6th December 1946)

A Golden Age (Scrapbook For 1910 - Home Service, 15th May 1960)

Destitution And Philanthropy (1953)

The Settlement Movement (Fifty Years In Stepney - Home Service, 17th January 1966)

The Trade Union Movement

The Labour Party (Scrapbook For 1910)

The Siege Of Sydney Street (10th January 1966)

The Siege Of Sydney Street (10th January 1966)

The National Insurance Act Of 1911 (Scrapbook For 1911 - Home Service, 21st April 1957)

Captain Robert Scott's Antarctic Expedition

The Death Of Scott (24th September 1962)

Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Atlantic Expedition (October 1965)

Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Atlantic Expedition (October 1965)

The Great War: 30th July-4th August 1914, The Last Days Of Peace (Scrapbook For 1914 - Home Service, 28th December 1954)

The Declaration Of War

The Declaration Of War

Enlistment - 1914 (Forty Years After - Home Service, 4th August 1954)

A Child's Experience (The Great War - 25th September 1963)

Pacifism (Then And Now - General Overseas Service, 13th January 1955)

Spy Mania (Memories Of The Peace Movement - Home Service, 2nd October 1955)

Arrival In France (Forty Years After - Home Service, 4th August 1954)

Mons And The Battle For Nimy Railway Bridge (Forty Years After - Home Service, 4th August 1954)

Retreat To The Marne And The 'Angel Of Mons' (Forty Years After - Home Service, 4th August 1954)

The Myth Of Langemarck (Ypres 1914 - Home Service, 12th November 1964)

The Christmas Day Truce (Forty Years After - Home Service, 4th August 1954)

Gas Attack (4th October 1963)

The Death Of Rupert Brooke (Home For The Day - Home Service, 23rd April 1961)

Gallipoli (Return To Gallipoli - Home Service, 30th September 1965)

Gallipoli (Return To Gallipoli - Home Service, 30th September 1965)

The Sinking Of The Lusitania (I Was There - Home Service, 15th October 1950)

The Bryce Report (A Summer Day On The Somme - BBC Radio 4, 17th June 1967)

Anti-German Riots In Salford (The Great War - 27th September 1963)

The Death Of Edith Cavell (West Of England - Home Service, 23rd October 1962)

The Battle Of Jutland (November 1963)

The Battle Of The Somme - Bombardment (A Summer Day On The Somme - BBC Radio 4, 26th July 1976)

The Battle In The Air (The Somme - Home Service, 16th August 1956)

Conscription And Conscientious Objectors (Yesterday's Witness - BBC2, 19th May 1969)

A Reflection On The Years 1914-1916 (Twenty-Three Years Ago - National Programme, 6th December 1939)

Passchendaele (Passchendaele 1917 - BBC Radio 4, 6th December 1967)

Cavalry Charge In 1918 (Home Service - 23rd March 1958)

Khaki Fever

The Treaty Of Versailles (Scrapbook For 1919 - Home Service, 30th September 1959)

Defense Of Militant Suffragettes By George Lansbury

Increase In Suffragette Militancy

The Rokeby Venus (Votes For Women - Home Service, 23rd April 1961)

Women In Parliament (Home For The Day - Light Programme, 7th October 1956)

The Countess Markiewicz

The Irish Volunteers (The Easter Rising - Third Programme, 21st April 1966)

Rebel Training And A Lack Of Weapons (The Easter Rising - Third Programme, 21st April 1966)

Easter Monday 1916 - The Republican Side (The Easter Rising - Third Programme, 21st April 1966)

Easter Monday 1916 - The British Side (The Easter Rising - Third Programme, 21st April 1966)

The Rebels Executed (The Easter Rising - Third Programme, 21st April 1966)

Conscription In Ireland And Its Consequences

A Soldier's Return (The Lost Peace - BBC TV, 2nd October 1966)

Rejection And Humiliation (The Lost Peace - BBC TV, 2nd October 1966)

John Reith Joins The BBC (Lord Reith Looks Back - BBC TV, 4th January 1968)

King And Empire (National Programme - 24th May 1924)

R-38 Disaster (Scrapbook For 1922 - National Programme, 12th February 1935)

Flight From England To Australia (25th February 1953)

Early Passenger Aircraft (In Our Time - BBC Radio 4, 4th February 1975)

1924 Everest Expedition (Yesterday's Witness - BBC1, 6th October 1970)

The Silent Revolution (Looking Back On The Twenties - Home Service, 27th March 1955)

The Flapper (A Voice In The Crowd - Radio Manchester, 13th January 1973)

The Flapper Vote

'The Waste Land' And 'The Vortex' (Omnibus - BBC1, 17th December 1969)

James Joyce And 'Ulysses' (Portrait Of James Joyce - Third Programme, 13th February 1950)

D. H. Lawrence (Sons And Lovers - Third Programme, 8th May 1955)

Sybil Thorndike And 'Saint Joan' (The Time Of My Life - Home Service, 21st August 1966)

Film-Making In The 1920s (The Time Of My Life - Home Service, 28th August 1966)

Sean O'Casey And 'The Plough And The Stars' (September 1961)

The Irish War Of Independence (Books And Writers - World Service, 18th March 1978)

Terror And Reprisal (Woman's Hour - BBC Radio 4, 29th July 1986)

Irish Free State Civil War (Scrapbook For 1921 - Home Service, 2nd October 1961)

End Of The Civil War (Books And Writers - World Service, 18th March 1978)

Economic Collapse And Poverty In Glasgow (The Lost Peace - BBC TV, 2nd October 1966)

Poverty And Survival In Glasgow

Infant Mortality In Glasgow (The Lost Peace - BBC TV, 2nd October 1966)

Family Planning Clinic In Salford (In Our Time - BBC Radio 4, 11th February 1975)

Marie Stopes (In Our Time - BBC Radio 4, 11th February 1975)

Diversions And Distractions

Lobby Lud (Lobby Lud - Home Service, 15th August 1967)

Liverpool Social Conditions (Memories Of Liverpool In The Twenties - 7th October 1957)

London Borough Of Poplar Rates Rebellion (In Our Time - BBC Radio 4, 21st August 1975)

Unemployment (Looking Back On The Twenties - Home Service, 27th March 1955)

Hoxton Unemployment Demonstration (In The South East - Home Service, 27th October 1958)

The Mayors Of London March (The Lost Peace - BBC TV, 2nd October 1966)

The First Labour Government (In Our Time - Home Service, 4th February 1975)

The Zinoviev Letter (12th December 1966)

Labour Defeated (In Our Time - BBC Radio 4, 11th February 1975)

TUC Support For The Miners (The Lost Peace - BBC TV, 2nd October 1966)

The Samuel Report

The General Strike Begins (The General Strike - Home Service, 24th February 1960)

Undercover Work (The General Strike - Home Service, 24th February 1960)

Strike Breaking (The General Strike - Home Service, 24th February 1960)

Sabotage (The General Strike And In Our Time - BBC Radio 4, 18th February 1975)

The General Strike Collapses (The General Strike - Home Service, 24th February 1960)

Conclusions (The General Strike - Home Service, 24th February 1960)

England Asleep (In Our Time - BBC Radio 4, 25th February 1975)

First Female Cabinet Minister (Scrapbook For 1929 - National Programme, 2nd May 1939)

Lost Opportunities (The Lost Peace - BBC TV, 2nd October 1966)

Balancing The Budget

Labour Defeat And Formation Of The National Government (National Programme - 24th October 1931)

Uneployment During The Recession (The Hungry Years - Home Service, 8th February 1957)

Labour Camps (The Hungry Years - Home Service, 8th February 1957)

The Invergordon Mutiny, September 1931 (In Our Time - BBC Radio 4, 11th March 1975)

The NUWM And Hunger Marches (The Hungry Years - Home Service, 8th February 1957)

Jarrow And Ellen Wilkinson (Anonymous Voices From The Last Crusade - BBC Radio 4, 8th October 1986 And The Jarrow March - BBC Radio 3, 5th November 1976)

The Jarrow March (The Last Crusade - BBC Radio 4, 8th October 1986)

Parliament's Response To The Petition (Anonymous Voices From The Last Crusade - BBC Radio 4, 8th October 1986 And The Jarrow March - BBC Radio 3, 5th November 1976)

Gandhi In London (In Our Time - BBC Radio 4, 11th March 1975)

Spinsters' Pensions (Spinsters On The March - BBC Radio 4, 22nd August 1990)

The Gresford Colliery Disaster (1934)

Aftermath Of Disaster And The King's Visit To Wales (In Our Time - BBC Radio 4, 1st April 1975)

Constitutional Crisis (In Our Time - BBC Radio 4, 1st April 1975)

Fascism In Britain (Britain In The Thirties: Mosley Right And Wrong - BBC Radio 4, 16th June 1983)

BUF Rally At Olympia, 1934 (Olympia, 1934 - BBC Radio 4, 6th October 1972)

Cable Street And The Public Order Act (Olympia, 1934 - BBC Radio 4, 6th October 1972)

The Spanish Civil War (Radio Manchester - 21st November 1974)

British Pro-Fascist Volunteers (The Spanish Civil War - BBC Radio 4, 7th July 1986)

Ireland's Pro-Fascist 'Blueshirts' And Anti-Fascist Volunteers (The Thirties In Britain: The Left - Third Programme, 8th December 1965)

Sacrifices (In Our Time - BBC Radio 4, 8th April 1975)

A Student's Commitment (Coronation Year - Third Programme, 5th June 1953)

George Orwell On The Aragon Front (1960)

Orwell And Disillusionment (The Thirties In Britain: The Left - Third Programme, 8th December 1965)

Mass Observation (Mass Observation - Home Service, 11th October 1960)

Surrealist Exhibition, 1936 (In Our Time - BBC Radio 4, 1st April 1975)

Popular Cinema: Sir Alexander Korda (Dilys Powell's History Of British Cinema - BBC Radio 4, 24th January 1987)

Korda's Legacy (Dilys Powell's History Of British Cinema - BBC Radio 4, 24th January 1987)

T.E. Lawrence At Clouds Hill (National Programme - 25th August 1938)

W.B. Yeats On Rhythm - W.B. Yeats Reads His Poem 'The Lake Isle Of Innisfree' (National Programme - 10th April 1932)

Theatre In The 1930s (The Thirties In Britain: Theatre - Third Programme, 18th November 1965)

The 'Bodyline' Cricket Series (From 'The Golden Age' - BBC Radio Collection)

Fred Perry Wins Men's Singles Title, Wimbledon 1934 (In Our Time - BBC Radio 4, 25th March 1975)

The Green Belt (National Programme - 22nd January 1935)

Nudism (Carry On Up The Shrubbery - BBC Radio 4, 4th January 1985)

Sexual Attitudes In A Lancashire Mill-Town (Woman's Hour - BBC Radio 4, 24th March 1982)

The Chelsea Arts Ball, New Year's Eve 1936 (In Our Time - BBC Radio 4, 8th April 1975)

The Peace Movement (Everyman And The Crisis - National Programme, 17th October 1938)

The Oxford Union Debate, 1933 (King And Country - BBC Radio 4, 6th February 1978)

Aftermath Of The Debate (King And Country - BBC Radio 4, 6th February 1978)

On Meeting Hitler (In Our Time - BBC Radio 4, 11th March 1975)

Splitting The Atom (Scrapbook For 1932 - Home Service, 24th January 1960)

The War In Abyssinia (National Programme - 11th September 1935)

The Sudeten Dispute (15th And 16th September 1938)

A Quarrel In A Far-Away Country (27th September 1938)

The Hand That Signed The Paper (The Modern Muse - National Programme, 18th October 1938)

Preparations For War - Gas Attack Warnings (In Our Time - BBC Radio 4, 15th April 1975)

3rd September 1939

A Lovely Summer's Day (Voices From 'The Day War Broke Out' - BBC Radio 4, 3rd September 1998)

Immediate Consequences (Voices From 'In Our Time' And 'The Day The War Broke Out')

The First Night At War (Voices From 'The Day War Broke Out')

'No Confidence' Debate (8th May 1940)

Fifth Columnists (22nd May 1940)

The Blackout (Voices From 'We Can Take It' - BBC Radio 4, 21st March 1983)

Local Defence Volunteers (Appeal Broadcast On 14th May 1940)

Women's Wartime Service (Women's Hour - BBC Radio 4, 16th June 1989)

Invasion Fears (The Night The Germans Didn't Come - BBC Radio 4, 7th September 1971)

Capturing A German Parachutist (Women In Green - Home Service, 15th July 1948)

An Englishwoman In Germany (Women In Wartime - BBC Radio 4, 19th October 1969)

The Bombing Of Coventry (In The Midlands TV - 14th November 1980)

V1s And V2s (The Summer Of The Doodlebugs - BBC Radio 4, 13th June 1972)

The Beveridge Report (2nd December 1942)

Lunchtime Recitals And ENSA Shows (23rd November 1976)

Tommy Handley And ITMA (Carry On Up The Zeitgeist: Hanging The Silk Hat On The Siren - BBC Radio 4, 20th March 1992)

The Far East (Voices From 'Not All Blood And Bandages' - BBC Radio 4, 11th September 1986)

The Burma-Siam Railway (4th November 1945)

Prisoners Of The Japanese (Voices From 'Shadows Of The Rising Sun' - Radio Cambridgeshire, 24th February 1989)

The Battle Of The Bulge (The Ardennes Offensive) (25th December 1944)

Hugh Copnall (Conchies - BBC Radio 4, 12th January 1986)

Belsen (19th April 1945)

Germany Surrenders - VE Day Actuality (8th May 1945)

1945 Election Campaign (When The Votes Came In - BBC Radio 4, 24th July 1995)

Harry Browne (Conchies - BBC Radio 4, 12th January 1986)

VJ Day Actuality: Wynford Vaughan Thomas In Piccadilly (15th August 1945)

Housing Shortage And Demobilisation (Voices From 'In Our Time' - Bbc Radio 4, 30th September And 2nd September 1976)

'Disturbance' At Shaikpura - Wynford Vaughan Thomas Reporting On 27th August 1947

The Assassination Of Mahatma Gandhi (30th January 1948)

Palestine (13th March 1948 And 14th May 1948)

Founding Of The Edinburgh Festival (In Our Time - BBC Radio 4, 16th September 1976)

Housing: New Towns And Pre-Fabs (In Our Time - BBC Radio 4, 30th September 1976)

The National Health Service (In Our Time - BBC Radio 4, 23rd September 1976)

1948 Olympic Games In London (29th July 1948)

MV Empire Windrush (Speaking On The 40th Anniversary Of The Windrush - BBC Radio 4, 22nd June 1988)

An Iron Curtain Has Descended (5th March 1946)

British Nuclear Deterrent (A Bloody Union Jack On Top Of It - BBC Radio 4, 5th May 1988)

The Yangtze Incident (In Our Time - BBC Radio 4, 20th September 1976)