Dr Adam Smith on the dividing lines of the American Civil War
The American Civil War: Dividing Lines. Historian Adam Smith visits contemporary America to trace how the dividing lines of the Civil War are still visible beneath US politics 150 years on.
26 Jul 201243min
Dr Adam Smith on the War of the North in America
The American Civil War: The War of the North. Dr Adam Smith travels from Lincoln's home town to Washington DC and the battlefields of Virginia as he asks why the North fought and what it won.
25 Jul 201243min
Dr Adam Smith on the War of the South in America
The American Civil War: The War of the South. Dr Adam Smith travels to Richmond, the heart of the Southern Confederacy, to uncover the dramatic contradictions at the South's heart and the war it wage...
25 Jul 201244min
Historian Tristram Hunt on anti-imperialism.
Great British Ideas:J.A. Hobson, Lenin and Anti-Imperialism. Historian Tristram Hunt traces how an anti-imperialist book by a liberal English journalist had a surprising impact on Lenin - in exile, a...
20 Jul 201243min
Historian Tristram Hunt on England and Ireland in the 1840’s.
Great British Ideas: Young England and Young Ireland. Tristram Hunt traces the curious influence of the romantic 'Young England' movement, led by Benjamin Disraeli in the 1840s, on 'Young Ireland', wh...
20 Jul 201243min
Tristram Hunt on economist Robert Malthus
Great British Ideas: Robert Malthus. Historian Tristram Hunt traces how the ideas of the 18th century British economist Robert Malthus wreaked havoc in 19th century India, yet were later adopted by In...
20 Jul 201244min
George Reynolds - writer and contemporary of Dickens
Sunday Feature: The Other Dickens. Laurence Scott explores the work and the life of Victorian bad boy writer and contemporary of Dickens, George WM Reynolds, whose novels painted Victorian London's se...
1 Jul 201243min
Geneticist Steve Jones investigates the science of crowds
Sunday Feature: Crowd Psychology. From the summer riots last year to the Olympics 2012, geneticist Steve Jones investigates crowd behaviour and finds that modern science disputes myths of mad mobs ou...
24 Jun 201244min
