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Past Forward: A Century of Sound Episodes

    Omnibus 4

    Greg Jenner dives into the BBC archive to explore changes over the past century.

    Omnibus 3

    Greg Jenner dives into the BBC archive to explore changes over the past century.

    Omnibus 2

    Greg Jenner dives into the BBC archive to explore changes over the past century.

    Omnibus 1 - from Lambeth Walk to Porton Down

    Greg Jenner dives into the BBC archive to explore changes over the past century.

    Save our Steelworks

    Greg hears a piece of 1970s archive from Wales.

    Life on the Canals

    Greg Jenner explores a fragment of archive revealing life on narrowboats in the 1960s.

    The Corncrake and the Croft

    Greg Jenner watches a clip from a 1977 film about life on Uist in the Outer Hebrides

    Rebuilding Britain

    A 1963 clip prompts Greg to explore the rapid rebuilding of UK town centres in that decade

    Listen with Mother

    Greg Jenner hears clips from the BBC archive and asks what they mean in 2022.

    Louie Hooper sings Lord Rendall

    Greg Jenner hears a folk ballad recorded in Somerset in 1942.

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