Niki Lauda

Chris Warburton talks to Niki Lauda, 39 years since he crashed his Ferrari at the Nürburgring Grand Prix in Germany. Former F1 drivers Mario Andretti and John Watson, who both also raced that year, share their memories of the crash and that famous season.

Niki Lauda speaks in 2015

Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again.  Anna speaks to the actor PHILIP MICHAEL, dancer LYDIA LOUISA and Assistant Director CHRIS NEWMAN who all helped to make the original Mamma Mia! a success.

Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again

Chris Warburton is celebrates the 70th Anniversary of the BBC's Sports Report.

Sports Report at 70

Steve Lillywhite, who produced the song, speaks to Adrian.

Fairytale of New York

Members of the legendary Jamaican bobsleigh team – whose heroic endeavours at the Calgary Winter Olympics of 1988 became a hit Hollywood film – join Adrian Chiles to remember how they ended up competing at the games.

Cool Runnings

Two squatters from the legendary London 1970s squatting community Frestonia tell Adrian Chiles how it all started, what it was like - and how it ended.

Frestonia

Three people who were caught up in the devastating fire on the London Underground – a passenger, a firefighter and a news reporter – tell Adrian Chiles about their memories of the disaster, which killed 31 people.

King’s Cross disaster

Arsenal’s Lee Dixon, Liverpool’s John Aldridge and TV analyser David Pleat join Adrian Chiles as they remember the famous title-deciding clash which saw Arsenal snatch the title from Liverpool with a stunning 2-0 win, including Michael Thomas’s last-minute goal.

Arsenal-Liverpool 1989

The writer, director and one of the producers join Adrian Chiles to discuss the controversial BBC programme, that aired on Halloween 1992.

Ghostwatch

In 2007, Bryn and Emma Parry visited a military hospital.  They saw a need to help British servicemen and woman with their injuries.  They tell Adrian Chiles about setting up the charity, and what the early days were like.

Help for Heroes

Historic moments from history told by those who lived through them.

I Was There

We go back to 1995 and talk to those caught up in the collapse of Barings Bank, including Nick Leeson himself, the man whose £800m gamble went wrong.

Barings Bank collapse

We retell the extraordinary events of 1983, and one of Britain’s biggest-ever robberies.

Brink’s-Mat robbery

We go back a quarter of a century to the longest siege in modern history

The Siege of Sarajevo

In January 2000, two women became the first female Brits to reach the South Pole on foot.  Adrian Chiles talks to them and their companions.

South Pole

We go back to 1985 and speak to the underwater investigators - including Robert Ballard himself - who stunned the world by finding the wreck of the Titanic.

Finding the Titanic

We revisit the tragic events of 1980, when John Lennon was shot dead, by talking to those who were there that night.

Shooting of John Lennon

Thrust SSC project director Richard Nobel and pilot Andy Green tell Adrian Chiles about setting the new land speed record of 763mph in 1997.

Land Speed record

Choose life.  Choose to listen to what it was like making Trainspotting in 1996, with guests from the crew and Rick Smith from Underworld.

Trainspotting

The BBC's Technology correspondent, Rory Cellan Jones, and Jeff Jarvis, author of 'What Would Google Do?', join Adrian Chiles to talk about the foundation of tech giant Google.

The launch of Google

We revisit the famous chart battle of 1995, when Blur’s Country House went up against Oasis’s Roll With It.

Blur v Oasis

We revisit 2000, when Concorde crashed near Paris killing 113 people, and talk to those involved at the time – include a British tourist in the hotel which the plane crashed into.

Concorde crash

We go back to 1995 and tell the behind-the-scenes story of Princess Diana’s famous 1995 Panorama interview – with those who were there at the time.

Diana’s Panorama interview

Back to the heady days of 1975, and the legendary boxing match between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, told through the eyes of some of those who were there at the time.

Thrilla in Manilla

Three gay men tell Adrian Chiles how the 1967 decriminalisation affected them in different ways – including a 94-year-old man, who hid his double life until his 80s.

Decriminalisation of homosexuality

Broadcasters and journalists – including Nik Gowing, who was on air on BBC 2 and was the first to break the news – recall how they announced the news of Diana’s death to the nation on 31 August 1997.

The death of Diana

Stars from ITV and the BBC tell Adrian Chiles about the heady days of 1983 when Breakfast TV first started broadcasting on British TV.

The start of Breakfast TV

Those caught up in the 2007 train crash, including the driver and the son of the woman who died, tell Adrian Chiles about what happened, and what the effects were.

Grayrigg train crash

It’s not often celebrated, but Adrian Chiles talks to some of the first Open University students to get their degrees in 1973.

Open University

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