For millions of listeners to BBC Radio 4 Eddie Mair has been the trusted guide to the world every we..

On 17 August 1860 wealthy widow Mary Emsley was found dead at home killed by a blow to the head. Wha..

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To many Queen Victoria is a ruler shrouded in myth and mystique portrayed as an ageing stiff widow. ..

It's 1950 and when Laura and Billy Hopkins return to Manchester from their honeymoon they're in seve..

I used to love the rattle and whoosh of my grandma’s buttons as they scattered from their Quality ..

In June 1940 ten-year-old Pam Hobbs took the long journey from her council home in Leigh-on-Sea to f..

It's September 1945 and Billy Hopkins is off to London to train as a teacher with only ten bob in hi..

He is a sergeant-major in the SAS. His task is to snatch a defecting Russian star-wars scientist fro..

The wonderfully evocative memoir of life in an all-girls boarding school in Suffolk in the early 196..

As one of Britain's best known TV and radio personalities Gloria Hunniford requires little introduct..

For over a decade Stephanie Green was a doctor on-call for one of the world's busiest airports confr..

It is 1945 and victory marches fill the streets of London. Brenda and her friends happy that at long..

Called up in 1940 Reg expected to be fighting Germans. Instead he found himself caught up in the fal..

In his first book David Jason told us about himself from his early years training as an electrician ..