Backwards Brexit

This week's Archive on 4 goes backwards in time to find the roots and routes of Brexit.

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Desert Island Myths: Three Centuries Of Robinson Crusoe

Christopher Frayling explores the creation and legacy of Defoe's controversial novel.

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Build the Wall!

30 years after the Berlin Wall fell, Katy Long examines the history of border walls.

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Pandora's Ballot Box

Philip Cowley explores how technology influenced elections long before the digital age.

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High Crimes and Misdemeanours: US Presidential Impeachment

Michael Goldfarb looks back at how impeachment became a tool of US partisan politics.

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Altamont: The Death of the Hippie Dream

Mick Jagger's personal assistant returns to the scene of the Rolling Stones' 1969 concert.

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Joe v Max

The story of the fight that gripped the world in 1938 between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling.

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Peak Hype

Murray Lachlan Young traces the rise of hyperbole and asks: Have we reached Peak Hype?

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The Problem of Leisure

The history of a phantom fear: that automation will end work and leave us nothing to do.

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Divided Nation

Timandra Harkness asks if the nation is more divided now than it has been for fifty years

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Sontag's Radical Will

Novelist Deborah Levy assesses the life and work of American writer Susan Sontag.

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Mad Monks

James Naughtie probes the chequered history and impact of prime ministers' top advisers.

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Virtues of Vulnerability with Ed Balls

Ed Balls and guests reflect on the impact of showing one’s vulnerable side.

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Questioning the Political Interview

How can the political interview adapt to a changing political and media landscape?

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Call Jane at 643-3844

A look back at Chicago's underground feminist abortion service.

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The Science of Evil

How the Holocaust created a new field of science - social psychology

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I Think I’ve Been Here Before

Repetition is everywhere. Repetition is persuasive. Has Ross Sutherland been here before?

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Andrea Levy: In Her Own Words

Andrea Levy speaks candidly about her writing life and her impending death. From 2020.

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Everyone's A Star

Chris Stokel-Walker assesses how YouTube has shaped and changed the society we live in.

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The Decade of Distrust

Laura Kuenssberg explores the foundations of the scandals that shook faith in elites.

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Call Up: The Story of National Service

Sixty years after the call-up ended, Richard Vinen looks back at National Service.

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After The Fallout

The human fall out from the Pacific Nuclear tests - dramatically revisited.

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Lights, Camera, Inaction: An Existential Guide to the Movies

Matthew Sweet looks at why mainstream cinema and existentialism seem so fond of each other

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The End of the Thirty Year Itch

Phil Tinline explores whether we are seeing the emergence of a new political orthodoxy.

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Riot Remembered

The St Paul's Riots in Bristol in 1980 remembered by those who took part.

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I'm Terry Gross and this is Fresh Air

Dolly Alderton turns the tables on the master of the radio interview, Terry Gross.

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The Hubble Legacy

Astronaut Nicole Stott celebrates the cultural legacy of the Hubble Space Telescope.

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The Phoney War

The story of the BBC in the strange period of 1939-1940 and the echoes of Covid-19 today

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Malcolm McLaren: Spectacular Failure

Paul Gorman assesses the exceptional achievement of Malcolm McLaren who died 10 years ago.

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Four Dead in Ohio

Michael Goldfarb explores America at the time of the Kent State massacre, 50 years ago.

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