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The Archive Hour

A look back at programmes and recordings from the BBC archives

Radio 4 Extra,9 episodes

Episodes

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Reith at 60
Episode 1
Laurie Taylor trawls the BBC archives to explore 60 years of the Reith Lectures.
24 May 2008,60 mins
Reith at 60
Episode 2
Laurie Taylor continues his history of 60 years of the Reith Lectures.
31 May 2008,60 mins
I'm in Charge
Bruce Forsyth and Paul Jackson visit the London Palladium which opened on Boxing Day 1910.
18 Dec 2010,60 mins
Like Blackpool Went Through Rock
Sean Street recalls the groundbreaking 50s series Radio Ballads.
21 Jun 2008,60 mins
The Dream Time of Jazz
Marybeth Hamilton recalls an extraordinary 1938 interview with Jelly Roll Morton.
07 Jun 2008,60 mins
Wild Times: Attenborough at 80
Sir David Attenborough looks back through his broadcasting career.
06 May 2006,60 mins
The Story of Township Music
How a new style of music emerged and flourished under South African apartheid.
12 Jul 2003,60 mins
A Twist to Life
Professor Steve Jones tells the story of DNA and its discovery.
12 Apr 2003,60 mins
The Rivonia Trial
Marcel Berlins recalls the trial of Nelson Mandela and eight other men in 1963-4.
13 Jun 1998,58 mins