Ryan Tubridy celebrates the revolutionary Riverdance.

Tiger Feet (BBC Radio 2)

How the Space Race inspired some unforgettable music.

Moonbathing (BBC Radio 2)

In the early 1950s, musicologist Alan Lomax travelled throughout Ireland recording the songs of local communities.

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Steve Van Zandt explores how Louis Louis scandalised America.

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From presenting schools programmes to appearing on Desert Island Discs, Seamus Heaney was an unforgettable voice on the airwaves.

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Ellen Murray on the realities of being trans.

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The Mass Observation project collected the experiences of people throughout the UK during the Second World War.

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Michael Sheen on how Irving Berlin’s Christmas song became a secular hymn.

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John Hurt tells the story of the Christmas Truce on the Western Front in 1914.

All Is Calm (BBC Radio 2)

Based in Dromore, County Antrim, the Recovery Café has helped addicts through the power of music.

The Recovery Café (BBC Radio Ulster)

John Lennon’s interview with Maureen Cleave in 1966 provoked angry protests throughout the United States.

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