Frances Glessner Lee revolutionised the study of crime investigation, founding the first centre for the study of forensic pathology at Harvard University.
Glessner Lee built a series of Dolls Houses in the 1940's with a carpenter, in which she con
Nicholas Parsons asks how and why aging impacts so heavily on our minds and memories. He meets scientists at the forefront of research to find out why our memories diminish and speaks to others trying desperately to stop theirs from fading away. U
Home Front is a ground-breaking new Radio Four radio drama - its biggest ever at around 600 episodes - set in Britain during the Great War, playing a central role in the BBC's comprehensive World War One offering.
A tour led by Jackie Kennedy of her home in Washington....
I found this on archive.org a few years ago and thought it was interesting because of the tour led by the first lady herself. The picture quality ok co
Martin Wainwright examines the reasons why the series of radio broadcasts made by Yorkshire author JB Priestley during World War Two were brought to an end, despite having attracted a large audience. The documentary uses archive clips and intervie
Professor Christopher Clark unpicks the complex sequence of events during the July Crisis, leading to outbreak of the First World War, from the perspective of the key centres of decision-making - in Berlin, Paris,
The Divine Detective First broadcast 20080121. Tom Mangold visits Newark, New Jersey, where he meets a presbyterian minister and self-ordained seeker of justice.
Jim McCloskey gave up a successful business career at the age of 37 to enter a seminary,
Elementary, my Dear Corpse! by James W. Booth read by Roy Worley 192K
Here is a fascinating factual story featuring Sherlock Holmes’ creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, called “Elementary, my Dear Corpse!” It is by James W. Booth. I found it in a ve