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Past Forward: A Century of Sound

Greg Jenner takes a deep dive into the BBC archive to explore what it can tell us about who we are now.

Radio 4,24 episodes

Episodes

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Omnibus 4
Greg Jenner dives into the BBC archive to explore changes over the past century.
16 Dec 2022,57 mins
Omnibus 3
Greg Jenner dives into the BBC archive to explore changes over the past century.
09 Dec 2022,57 mins
Omnibus 2
Greg Jenner dives into the BBC archive to explore changes over the past century.
02 Dec 2022,57 mins
Omnibus 1 - from Lambeth Walk to Porton Down
Greg Jenner dives into the BBC archive to explore changes over the past century.
25 Nov 2022,57 mins
Save our Steelworks
Greg hears a piece of 1970s archive from Wales.
01 Apr 2022,14 mins
Life on the Canals
Greg Jenner explores a fragment of archive revealing life on narrowboats in the 1960s.
31 Mar 2022,14 mins
The Corncrake and the Croft
Greg Jenner watches a clip from a 1977 film about life on Uist in the Outer Hebrides
30 Mar 2022,14 mins
Rebuilding Britain
A 1963 clip prompts Greg to explore the rapid rebuilding of UK town centres in that decade
29 Mar 2022,14 mins
Listen with Mother
Greg Jenner hears clips from the BBC archive and asks what they mean in 2022.
28 Mar 2022,14 mins
Louie Hooper sings Lord Rendall
Greg Jenner hears a folk ballad recorded in Somerset in 1942.
25 Mar 2022,14 mins
The Teen Age
Greg Jenner examines parent-teenager conflict through the lens of a 1961 sitcom.
24 Mar 2022,14 mins
Talking Technology
Greg Jenner looks at the evolution of digital voices and their role in accessibility.
23 Mar 2022,14 mins
Get Out of My Pub
Greg Jenner explores the evolution of the pub across the last half century.
22 Mar 2022,14 mins
Dinner Is Served
Greg Jenner dives into the BBC archive to explore the changes between then and now.
18 Mar 2022,14 mins
England v Argentina 1998
Greg Jenner hears a clip from 1998 about a forthcoming football match.
14 Jan 2022,14 mins
Traffic
Greg Jenner reflects on the history, present and future of motoring in Britain.
13 Jan 2022,14 mins
If People Can't Let Slip...
Historian Greg Jenner digs into the BBC archive.
12 Jan 2022,14 mins
Kitty Hart-Moxon
Greg Jenner speaks to the veteran Holocaust survivor Kitty Hart-Moxon.
11 Jan 2022,14 mins
Match Point
Greg Jenner hears a clip from 1935 featuring Fred Perry.
10 Jan 2022,14 mins
Porton Down
Public Historian Greg Jenner digs into the BBC Archive.
07 Jan 2022,14 mins
Mary Whitehouse
Greg Jenner explores the history of privacy and intimacy on screen, at home and online.
06 Jan 2022,14 mins
Christmas 1945
Greg Jenner dives into the BBC archive to explore what it says about who we are now.
05 Jan 2022,14 mins
1984 - Comrade Dad
Greg Jenner explores fictional dystopias past and present.
04 Jan 2022,14 mins
The Lambeth Walk
Greg Jenner dives into the BBC archive to explore what it says about who we are now.
03 Jan 2022,14 mins