Pages tagged '20th century'

Flu and a last gasp of fighting claimed lives even as the First World War was coming to a close. Michael Palin spoke to two...

1968 was a year of revolutions, but Mark Banks suggests that work isn't the new freedom for all.

More than one charlatan in academia? Qian Zhongshu takes on pseudo-intellectualism in the era after the Sino-Japanese War.

Set against the Eisenhower Presidency, Revolutionary Road captures 1950s America - and preshadows what would come next.

Doris Lessing's debut novel drew deep on her experiences in 1950s Rhodesia.

It was an offer too good to be true: a new life in Australia for a tenner. Did the Ten Pound Poms get a bargain?

Timewatch recalled the time when Australia was so keen to attract immigrants, the state paid for their passage

Does the Bengal Famine shape the way Indians view the British?

Laurie Taylor interviews Brian Ladd about Berlin, the haunted city. This is an extended version of the interview broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed.