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What Really Happened in the Nineties?

Cancel culture, Brexit, identity politics. How did we get here? Did we miss something? Robert Carlyle is here to show us that we did. And it happened in the '90s.

Radio 4,12 episodes

Episodes

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10. No Frills Air Travel
Robert Carlyle takes us back to moments we missed in the 90s that shaped the world today.
13 May 2022,14 mins
9. The Iraq War
Robert Carlyle takes us back to moments we missed in the 90s that shaped the world today.
12 May 2022,14 mins
8. Race Relations
Why Britannia wasn't cool for everybody in the 90s.
11 May 2022,14 mins
7. Hong Kong
Robert Carlyle takes us back to moments we missed in the 90s that shaped the world today.
10 May 2022,15 mins
The Maastricht Treaty
Robert Carlyle takes us back to moments we missed in the 90s that shaped the world today.
09 May 2022,14 mins
Omnibus 1
Robert Carlyle takes us back to moments we missed in the '90s that shaped the world today
06 May 2022,1 min
5. Tech
The fight for online privacy
06 May 2022,14 mins
4. Internet
The internet: from Utopian ideal to every parent's nightmare.
05 May 2022,13 mins
3. Gender
Lads, ladettes and David Beckham in a sarong
04 May 2022,14 mins
2. Russia
Was Gorbachev really promised that Nato wouldn't move one inch further east?
03 May 2022,15 mins
Cool Britannia
Robert Carlyle takes us back to moments we missed in the 90s that shaped the world today.
02 May 2022,13 mins
Welcome to What Really Happened in the Nineties?
Cancel culture, Brexit, identity politics. How did we get here? Did we miss something?
28 Apr 2022,1 min