Britain

• The Spirit of ’45
• What did Lenin do for us? The welfare state, that’s what,
• The Monarch of the Sea 
• Enoch knocking on England’s door
• Little Sir Hugh – Old England’s Jewish Question
• When Harald Went A Viking
• Roman Wall Blues  
• Arguments of Monumental Proportions
• Beyond Wolf Hall (1) – Revolution Road
• Beyond Wolf Hall (2) – Icarus ascending
• Bad company – how Britain conquered India 
• The Crown – the view from Down Under 
• Song of the Road – my hitchhiking days
• One ring to rule us all – does Tolkien matter?
• Ciao Pollo di Soho – memories a classic café 
• Better Read Than Dead – the joy of public libraries
• Johnny Clegg’s Impi – the Washing of the Spears
• Rider Haggard and the book that launched a genre
• A Son Goes To War – the grief of Rudyard Kipling 
• Journey to a war – Wystan and Christopher’s excellent adventure
• 1922 – the year that changed literature
• I am the enemy you killed – Wilfred Owen’s solemn testament
• Bringing it all back home – the missing mosaic and other ‘stolen’ stuff 
• The Rite Stuff – the coronation’s pomp and circumstance  
• Farewell to Old England forever … reappraising The Fatal Shore
• Blue remembered hills – a land of lost contentment 
• This Town … living in the love of the common people
• Go ask Alice. I think she’ll know
• The Wild Wood and the Wide World
• Answering the call – national service in Britain 1945-63

Ireland

•  Mo Ghile Mear – Irish myth and melody
• The Boys of Wexford – memory and memoir 
• O’Donnell Abú – the Red Earl and history in a song 
• Over the sea to Skye 
• Free Derry and the battle of the Bogside
• Outlander – if I didna hae bad luck, I’d hae no luck at all …