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Past Forward: A Century of SoundEpisodes

  1. Omnibus 4

    Greg Jenner dives into the BBC archive to explore changes over the past century.

  2. Omnibus 3

    Greg Jenner dives into the BBC archive to explore changes over the past century.

  3. Omnibus 2

    Greg Jenner dives into the BBC archive to explore changes over the past century.

  4. Omnibus 1 - from Lambeth Walk to Porton Down

    Greg Jenner dives into the BBC archive to explore changes over the past century.

  5. Save our Steelworks

    Greg hears a piece of 1970s archive from Wales.

  6. Life on the Canals

    Greg Jenner explores a fragment of archive revealing life on narrowboats in the 1960s.

  7. The Corncrake and the Croft

    Greg Jenner watches a clip from a 1977 film about life on Uist in the Outer Hebrides

  8. Rebuilding Britain

    A 1963 clip prompts Greg to explore the rapid rebuilding of UK town centres in that decade

  9. Listen with Mother

    Greg Jenner hears clips from the BBC archive and asks what they mean in 2022.

  10. Louie Hooper sings Lord Rendall

    Greg Jenner hears a folk ballad recorded in Somerset in 1942.

  11. The Teen Age

    Greg Jenner examines parent-teenager conflict through the lens of a 1961 sitcom.

  12. Talking Technology

    Greg Jenner looks at the evolution of digital voices and their role in accessibility.

  13. Get Out of My Pub

    Greg Jenner explores the evolution of the pub across the last half century.

  14. Dinner Is Served

    Greg Jenner dives into the BBC archive to explore the changes between then and now.

  15. England v Argentina 1998

    Greg Jenner hears a clip from 1998 about a forthcoming football match.

  16. Traffic

    Greg Jenner reflects on the history, present and future of motoring in Britain.

  17. If People Can't Let Slip...

    Historian Greg Jenner digs into the BBC archive.

  18. Kitty Hart-Moxon

    Greg Jenner speaks to the veteran Holocaust survivor Kitty Hart-Moxon.

  19. Match Point

    Greg Jenner hears a clip from 1935 featuring Fred Perry.

  20. Porton Down

    Public Historian Greg Jenner digs into the BBC Archive.

  21. Mary Whitehouse

    Greg Jenner explores the history of privacy and intimacy on screen, at home and online.

  22. Christmas 1945

    Greg Jenner dives into the BBC archive to explore what it says about who we are now.

  23. 1984 - Comrade Dad

    Greg Jenner explores fictional dystopias past and present.

  24. The Lambeth Walk

    Greg Jenner dives into the BBC archive to explore what it says about who we are now.