Last updated: 2 January 2013
Hear celebrity speakers explore the social, economic and historical aspects and influences of the British Army.
12 September 2013
7.00pm
Employing the latest ideas and scholarship, author Saul David will explore the history of the First World War from a new angle and will reveal the key part played by non-British and non-white...
19 September 2013
7.00pm
In August 1814 the United States’ army is defeated in battle by an invading force just outside Washington DC. The US president and his wife have just enough time to pack their belongings and...
2 October 2013
7.00pm
When the First World War broke out and a generation of men went off to fight, women emerged from the shadows of their domestic lives. Join Kate Adie as she charts this seismic move towards equal...
16 October 2013
7.30pm
1914 was the year that Europe violently shifted from the glories and glamour of the Edwardian era to the tragedy of war. Max Hastings examines the formative sacrifices, follies and misfortunes...