The Reunion (radio series) explained

Show Name:	The Reunion
Format:	Factual
Runtime:	41 minutes
Country:	United Kingdom
Language:	English
Home Station:	BBC Radio 4
Presenter:	Kirsty Wark Sue MacGregor (former)
Producer:	David Prest
First Aired:	27 July 2003
Last Aired:	present
Opentheme:	Franz Liszt - "Canzonetta del Salvator Rosa" from Années de pèlerinage^[1]
Website:	The Reunion

The Reunion is a radio discussion series presented by Kirsty Wark which reunites a group of people involved in a moment of modern history.^{[2] [3]} It has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 since July 2003, with 163 episodes presented by the first presenter, Sue MacGregor.

The series brings together four or five participants, sometimes from opposing sides. The first episode reunited the team behind the world's first IVF baby, Louise Brown.^[4] Other examples include Robben Island prisoners in Cape Town, South Africa, representatives from Labour and BBC to discuss the Hutton Inquiry,^[5] perpetrators and victims of the Brighton hotel bombing, and maids of honour from the 1953 Coronation.^[6] The panel discussion is interspersed with archive audio and narration of the event by the presenter.

MacGregor announced that the series of 2019 would be her last.^[6] Kirsty Wark was appointed as the new presenter in May 2020, and her first episode, bringing together participants in the Black Wednesday exchange rate crash of 1992, was broadcast on 16 August 2020.^[3]

The format for The Reunion was conceived by the series producer David Prest and is owned by Whistledown Productions, who license the programme to BBC Radio 4. The programme won a gold award for the Best Speech Programme at the 2007 Sony Radio Academy Awards^[7] and was also voted radio programme of the year at the 2016 Broadcasting Press Guild Awards.^[8] In a Radio Times poll in February 2019, The Reunion was voted the 27th greatest radio programme of all time.^{[9] [10]}

The Reunion has inspired two feature films. Made in Dagenham (2010) was based on an episode broadcast in September 2003 featuring the women machinists who went on strike at the Ford factory in Dagenham in 1968. The film's producer Stephen Woolley heard the programme, and his company, Number 9 Films, optioned the script from Whistledown Productions, who became consultants to the film and were credited as Associate Producers.^[11] Misbehaviour (2020) was similarly inspired by a particularly tense 2010 edition of the programme that brought together the women's liberation protesters who disrupted the 1970 Miss World competition, with former tournament host Michael Aspel, Mecca employee Peter Jolley, and that year's Miss World, Jennifer Hosten.^[12]

Programmes

No	Broadcast date	Title	Guest	Sourch
1	27 July 2003	First "Test Tube Baby"	John Webster, obstetrician Muriel Harris, nurse Naomi Fallows, nurse Robert Edwards, former IVF pioneer Martin Johnson, research student	^[13]
2	3 August 2003	Chariots of Fire	Ben Cross, actor Nigel Havers, actor David Puttnam, actor Colin Welland, actor
3	10 August 2003	Concorde	John Cochranem, Assistant Pilot John Allen, and Chief Flight Engineer Tony Benn, former Minister for Aviation Raymond Baxter, BBC commentator Mary Goldring, journalist Mo Bolton, former Concorde nurse Chistopher Orlebar, pilot David Learmont, aviation correspondent Sir David Frost, Concorde’s most frequent flier
4	17 August 2003	Iranian Revolution	Hossein Amirsadeghi, Shah's unofficial spokesman in Tehran Parviz Radji, former Iranian Ambassador to the UK Alireza Nourizadeh, former editor of Ettela'at Abdol Majid Majidi, former Minister of Planning and Budget Mahnaz Afkhami, former Minister of special responsibilities for women’s issues. John Simpson, BBC journalist Ali M. Ansari, historian
5	24 August 2003	Festival of Britain	Terence Conran, restaurateur Leonard Manasseh, architect Robin Day, designer Lucienne Day, textile designer Jean Symons, architect Jonathan Woodham, Professor of Design History at the University of Brighton Jonathan Glancey, Architecture and Design Editor, Brian Aldiss, Guardian and science fiction writer
6	31 August 2003	Margaret Thatcher's 1979 election campaign	Adam Butler, former Parliamentary Private Secretary. Michael Dobbs, Thatcher campaigner Adam Ridley, former Director of the Conservative research unit Rob Shepherd, TV producer
7	12 September 2003	Ford Dagenham equal pay strike	Barbara Castle, Employment Secretary, Lil Grisley, trade unionist Sheila Douglas, trade unionist Violet Dawson, trade unionist Bernie Passingham, trade unionist
8	19 September 2003	Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior	Peter Willcox, skipper Steve Sawyer, leading Greenpeace campaigner Grace O’Sullivan, crew Bryn Jones, Greenpeace's UK Directors
9	8 August 2004	Britain's hydrogen bomb tests	Frank Corduroy, RAF Valiant jet pilot Nick Harden, serviceman Harry O’Sullivan, Sergeant Michael Ward, District Officer Eileen Ward, Michael's wife Peter Jones, scientist	^[14]
10	15 August 2004	First women vicars in the Church of England	Angela Berners-Wilsonn, first woman ordained a priest in the Church of England Christina Rees, member of the Movement for the Ordination of Women Barry Rogerson, former Bishop of Bristol Ann Widdecombe, Conservative MP George Carey, former Archbishop of Canterbury
11	22 August 2004	Everyman Theatre, Liverpool	Alan Dossor, artistic director Willy Russell, writer Barbara Dickson, folk singer Julie Walters, actress Matthew Kelly, Roger McGough, poet Brian Patten, poet Adrian Henri, poet
12	29 August 2004	Raising the Mary Rose	Maurice Young, diver John Adams, diver Margaret Rule, archaeologist Alex Hildred, diver Robert Hardy, actor
13	5 September 2004	1975 United Kingdom European Communities membership referendum	Tony Benn, former Labour Industry Secretary Shirley Williams, former Labour Government’s Secretary of State for Prices John Mills, the national agent for the No camp Tom Spencer, Conservative MEP John Cole, former Deputy Editor of The Guardian
14	12 September 2004	Terrence Higgins Trust	Nick Partridge, Chief Executive Rupert Whitaker, Terry Higgins' partner Janet Green, former director of the Terry Higgins Trust Norman Fowler, former Health Minister
15	26 December 2004	1960s supermodels	Celia Hammond, fashion model Jill Kennington, fashion model Edina Ronay, actress David Bailey, photographer
16	24 July 2005	1980 Summer Olympics	Duncan Goodhew, swimmer Joslyn Hoyte-Smith, athlete Colin Moynihan, rower Frank Dick, athletics coach
17	31 July 2005	Not the Nine O'Clock News	John Lloyd, comedian Rowan Atkinson, comedian Mel Smith, comedian Griff Rhys Jones, comedian Chris Langham, comedian Pamela Stephenson, comedian
18	7 August 2005	Abortion Act 1967 campaigners	Diane Munday, activist Alastair Service, activist Madeleine Simms, social campaigner David Steel, former Liberal MP
19	14 August 2005	Child Internees in Japan	Joyce Nelson, former POW Jeremy Gotch, former POW Barbara Sowerby, former POW Anne Moxley, former POW Rose Raymond, former POW	^[15]
20	21 August 2005	Today newspaper	Eddy Shah, publisher Brian MacArthur, newspaper editor. Anthony Holden, broadcaster Jane Reed, editor Mary Ann Sieghart, journalist
21	28 August 2005	Siege of Sarajevo	Ejup Ganić, former Bosnian President Alan Little, BBC Correspondent Faruk Šabanović, Sarajevan resident
22	4 September 2005	Twyford Down protest	Barbra Bryant, ex-local councillor Chris Gillham, prominent member of the Friends of Twyford Down Paul Kingsnorth, author
23	11 September 2005	Edinburgh Festival Fringe
24	2 April 2006	Gulf War	Tom King, former Defence secretary Patrick Hine, former Air Chief Marshal Patrick Cordingley, Commander of the 7th Armoured Brigade John Simpson, BBC World Affairs editor Norman Schwarzkopf, Commander in Chief of Allied Forces in the Gulf
25	9 April 2006	Serious Fraud Office	Ian Trumper, forensic accountant Andy Noad, policeman Robert Wardle, Director of the Serious Fraud Office of England and Wales Rosalind Wright, lawyer Chris Dickson, lawyer
26	16 April 2006	The Family	Paul Watson, filmmaker Philip Bonham Carter, cameraman Margaret Wilkins Heather Wilkins Marian Wilkins
27	23 April 2006	England at the 1966 FIFA World Cup	Geoff Hurst, footballer Martin Peters, footballer George Cohen, footballer Alan Leather, manager
28	30 April 2006	Wedding of Charles and Diana	Michael Shea, the Queen's Press Secretary Alan Webster, the Dean of at St Paul's Cathedral Elizabeth Emanuel, dress designer Arthur Edwards, photographer David Willcocks, musical director
29	3 September 2006	Privatisation of British Rail	John Welsby, former Chief Executive and Chairman of British Rail John MacGregor, former Transport Secretary Patrick Brown, former Permanent Secretary at the Department of Transport Roger Salmon, Director of Passenger Rail Franchising and Rail Expert Roger Ford, journalist	^[16]
30	10 September 2006	Robben Island	Patrick Lekota, anti-apartheid activist Saki Macozoma, anti-apartheid activist Khehla Shubane, anti-apartheid activist Sedick Isaacs, anti-apartheid activist Anthony Suze
31	17 September 2006	TV-am	Peter Jay, broadcaster Nick Owen, presenter Greg Dyke, journalist
32	24 September 2006	Marchioness disaster	Jonathan Pang, survivor Magda Allani, survivor Margaret Lockwood Croft, victims mother Eileen Dallaglio, survivor
33	8 April 2007	Last Debutantes, 1958	Elfrida Eden-Fallowfield, niece of the former prime Minister Anthony Eden. Fiona McCarthy, author Penny Graham, former model Maggie Chilton, counselor and a psychotherapist Diane Nutting, actor
34	15 April 2007	EastEnders	Anna Wing, actress Wendy Richard, actress Leslie Grantham, actor Jonathan McLeish, first casting director, Bill Lyons, writer
35	22 April 2007	Milton Keynes
36	29 April 2007	British Antarctic Survey
37	6 May 2007	Brighton hotel bombing	Anthony Berry, former Conservative MP (Deputy Chief Whip) Eric Taylor, former North-West Area Chairman of the Conservative Party Jeanne Shattock, wife of the Gordon Shattock, Western Area Chairman of the Conservative Party Muriel Maclean, wife of Donald Maclean, President of the Scottish Conservatives Roberta Wakeham, wife of Chief Whip John Wakeham Patrick Magee, Irish republican Jo Berry, daughter of Anthony Berry Harvey Thomas, political advisor Douglas Hurd, former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
38	26 August 2007	Royal Opera House	Jeremy Isaacs, former director of the Royal Opera House (1988–1996) Nicholas Payne, former Director of Opera between (1993- 1998) Chris Smith, Culture Secretary Jeremy Dickson, Architect Deborah Bull, dancer
39	2 September 2007	1976 Race Relations Act	Anthony Lester, barrister Dipak Nandy, academic Jocelyn Barrow, educator Usha Prashar, crossbench member of the House of Lords. Herman Ouseley, parliamentarian	^[17]
40	9 September 2007	British veterans of the Korean War
41	16 September 2007	NME Writers	Charles Shaar Murray, music journalist Paul Morley, music journalist
42	23 September 2007	Bhagwan Rajnees
43	6 April 2008	Bletchley Park code-breakers.	Sarah Baring, codebreaker Mavis Batey, codebreaker Asa Briggs, codebreaker Ruth Bourne, codebreaker John Herivel, codebreake
44	13 April 2008	National Lottery	Virginia Bottomley, former Heritage Secretary Peter Davis, director general of the regulator OFLOT Tim Holley, first chief executive of Camelot Louise O'Flynn, former Camelot's, head of Communications Raymond Snoddy, media commentator
45	20 April 2008	D.C.Thomson comics	Maurice Heggie, editor Dave Torrie, editor Bill Ritchie, cartoonist Jim Petrie, comics artist Walter Fearne, comics artist
46	27 April 2008	Strangeways Prison riots of 1990
47	4 May 2008	Withnail and I	Bruce Robinson, director Richard Grant, actor Ralph Brown, actor Paul McGann, actor Richard Griffiths, actor
48	24 August 2008	Transglobe Expedition	Oliver Shepard, medic Simon Grimes, mechanic and cook Janet Camero, London office manager Anton Bowring, marine co-ordinator Ranulph Fiennes, expedition leader
49	7 September 2008	Hitler Diaries	David Irving, amateur historian Gerd Heidemann, German Stern journalist Magnus Linklater, The Sunday Times journalist Phillip Knightley, Australian The Sunday Times journalist
50	14 September 2008	Windsor Castle fire 1992	Chris Watson, project manager for the restoration of Windsor Castle, John Thorneycroft, former head of English Heritage's Government and Royal Buildings Hayden Phillips, former Permanent secretary of the Department of National Heritage Pamela Lewis, restorationer Dickie Arbiter, former Queen's press secretary
51	21 September 2008	Construction of the Channel Tunnel	Neville Sims, former co-chairman of Anglo-French team Graham Corbett, former chief financial officer Anthony Gueterbock, civil engineer Tony Gueterbock Public Affairs Manager for Eurotunnel Helen Nattrass, senior, geotechnical engineer Graham Fagg, tunneller
52	21 September 2008	The Navy Lark	June Whitfield, actress Leslie Phillips, actor George Evans, writer Heather Chesen, actress Tenniel Evans, actor
53	5 April 2009	National Theatre	Laurence Olivier, artistic director Michael Gambon, actor Derek Jacobi, actor Maggie Smith, actress Dame Joan, actress
54	12 April 2009	Hillsborough disaster	Jenni Hicks, mother who lost her teenage daughters Sarah and Victoria Margaret Aspinall, mother of 18 year old James who died Tony Edwards, South Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service Colin Moneypenny, survivor
55	19 April 2009	Brit Art	Tracey Emin, artist Gavin Turk, artist Abigail Lane, artist Mat Collishaw, artist Gregor Muir, artist
56	26 April 2009	Thalidomide scandal	Margaret Hogg, former chair of the Thalidomide Society Louise Mehtas Mansell, campaigner and author Fred Dove, broadcaster Peter Ashmole, thalidomide distributor Distiller Claus Newman, pediatrician
57	3 May 2009	Beirut hostages	John McCarthy, hostage Brian Keenan, hostage Terry Waite, hostage Jill Morrell, campaigner
58	23 August 2009	Kerry Packer and the World Series Cricket 1977	Clive Lloyd, former West Indies captain Jeff Thomson, Australian fast bowler Tony Greig, former England captain Mike Denness, former team manager for Packer's World Series, Christopher Martin-Jenkins, commentator and writer
59	30 August 2009	1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia	Michael Buerk, reporter Claire Bertschinger, nurse Hugh Goyder, former head of Oxfam Dawit Wolde Giorgis, Ethiopian relief effort Brian Barder, UK Ambassador to the Ethiopia	^[18]
60	6 September 2009	Iranian Embassy Siege	Sim Harrs, hostage Mustapha Karkouti, hostage Max Vernon, police negotiator Kate Adie, BBC Robin Horsfall, SAS commando
61	13 September 2009	Nelson Mandela Release	Desmond Tutu, Archbishop Willie Esterhuyse, Afrikaaner academic Aziz Pahad, member of the ANC Thabo Mbeki, former President of South Africa Allister Sparks, journalist FW de Klerk, former State President of South Africa
62	20 September 2009	Stonewall	Ian McKellen, actor Matthew Parris, LGBT rights campaigner Lisa Power, LGBT rights campaigner Michael Cashman, LGBT rights campaigner Olivette Cole-Wilson, LGBT rights campaigner
63	4 April 2010	London Marathon	David Bedford, race director John Disley, Olympic steeplechase winner John Bryant, journalist and marathon historian Hugh Jones, course measurer Veronique Marot, marahon winner
64	11 April 2010	Brideshead Revisited	Jeremy Irons, narrator Anthony Andrews, actor Claire Bloom, actress Charles Sturridge, director Derek Granger, producer Diana Quick, actress
65	18 Apr 2010	Maze Prison	Raymond McCartney, former Republican prisoner Pat Sheehan, former Republican prisoners Billy McQuiston, former Loyalist prisoner Des Waterworth, prison officer Oliver Crilly, priest Chris Ryder, journalist
66	25 April 2010	Dunblane school massacre	Eileen Harrild, school teacher Mick North, victims parent Pam Ross, victims parent Marie Sinclair, social worker Jenny Shields, Sunday Times writer
67	2 May 2010	The Tonight Programme	Alasdair Milne, television producer Donald Baverstock, television producer Antony Jay, television writer Cynthia Kee, booking agent Jack Gold, television producer Julian Pettifer, television journalist Cliff Michelmore, television presenter Alan Whicker, journalist Cy Grant, musician
68	22 August 2010	Millennium Dome	Jennie Page, Dome's former Chief Executive. Mike Davies, architect Charles Falconer, Minister for the Dome Eva Jiřičná, designer Peter Higgins, creative director
69	29 August 2010	Hurricane Katrina	Doug Thornton, manager of the Superdome Ted Jackson, photojournalist Willie Walker, pastor Phyllis Montana-LeBlanc, actress	^[19]
70	5 September 2010	Miss World 1970	Jennifer Hosten, former Miss World of 1970 Peter Jolley, key organiser Sally Alexander, protester Jo Robinson, protester
71	12 September 2010	Kindertransport	Alf Dubs, former Labour Member of Parliament. Hella Pick, journalist Ruth Humphreys, Kindertransport refugees Erich Reich, Kindertransport refugees Ruth Barnett, Holocaust survivor
72	19 September 2010	Play School	Joy Whitby, television presenter Floella Benjamin, television presenter Brian Cant, television presenter Toni Arthur, director Jonathan Cohen, musical director/pianist
73	6 March 2011	UNHCR Bosnia	Tony Land, Chief of Operations for the UN refugee agency Larry Hollingworth, logistics officer with UNHCR Amira Sadicovic, UNHCR's external relations officer Kris Janowski, UNHCR field-worker Paddy Ashdown, British politician Misha Glenny BBC reporter
74	13 March 2011	Comic Relief	Richard Curtis, co-founder of Comic Relief Lenny Henry, comedian Griff Rhys Jones, comedian Helen Fielding, screenwriter Paddy Coulter, head of media at Oxfam
75	20 March 2011	Brixton Riots	Alex Wheatle, novelist Ted Knight, former the leader of Lambeth Borough Council Darcus Howe, journalist and broadcaster Brian Paddick, former policemen Peter Bleksley, former policemen
76	27 March 2011	British Rock and Rollers	Bruce Welch, musician Terry Dene, singer Vince Eager, musician Marty Wilde, singer Larry Parnes, music artist Clem Cattini, drummer
77	7 August 2011	Barings Bank Collapse	Nick Leeson, stock trader Andrea Leadsom, Conservative MP Nicholas Edwards, investment banker John Gapper, commentator of the Financial Times
78	14 August 2011	Courtauld Institute	Anita Brookner, author Neil MacGregor, historian Michael Jacobs, travel-writer Anna Somers Cocks, founder of the Art Newspaper Brian Sewell, art critic
79	26 August 2011	Zeebrugge Ferry Disaster	Simon Osborne, survivor Margaret de Rohan, victmis relative Malcolm Shakesby, rescue operator Bill Moses, Dover Counselling Centre co-founder Ian Dand, investigater	^[20]
80	28 August 2011	Boys from the Blackstuff	Julie Walters, actress Alan Bleasdale, screenwriter Tom Georgeson, actor Michael Angelis, actor Michael Wearing, television producer,
81	4 September 2011	Hunting Ban
82	11 September 2011	Les Miserables	Cameron Mackintosh, producer Claude-Michel Schonberg, composer Michael Ball, actor Herbert Kretzmer, lyricist John Caird, director
83	1 April 2012	1948 Olympic Games	Dorothy Tyler, olympic medalist Dorothy Manley, olympic medalist Tommy Godwin, olympic medalist John Parlett, olympic medalist Roger Bannister, former Assistant to the Chef de Mission for the Games
84	8 April 2012	Greenham Common	Helen John, protester Katherine Jones, protester Rebecca Johnson, peace activist Mick Marsh, base commander Mick Eathorne-Gibbons, Conservative councillor for Greenham.
85	15 April 2012	HMS Sheffield
86	22 April 2012	Globe Theatre	Patrick Spottiswoode, the first Director of Education Diana Devlin, author Jon Greenfield, architect Claire van Kampen, the first Director of Music; Zoe Wanamaker, Honorary President of Shakespeare's Globe
87	29 April 2012	Hong Kong Handover	Bryan Dutton, Head of the British garrison on in Hong Kong Hugh Davies, diplomat Emily Lau, pro-democracy campaigner David Tang, Hong Kong businessman
88	19 August 2012	60s Girl Singers	Petula Clark, child star Sandie Shaw, pop singer Helen Shapiro, pop singer Jackie Trent, singer Petula Clark, singer Scott Walker, singer Vicki Wickham, manager
89	26 August 2012	Ugandan Asians	Manzoor Moghal, businessman Tahera Aanchawan, physiotherapist Ravi Govindia, Councillor Chandrika Joshi, dentist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, journalist	^[21]
90	2 September 2012	Poll Tax	Kenneth Baker, Local Government Minister Chris Brearley, civil servant David Magor, assistant treasurer of Oxford City Council Danny Burns, co-ordinater Chris Moyers, protester
91	9 September 2012	Dolly the Sheep	Ian Wilmut, former head of the Dolly team Keith Campbell, professor Bill Ritchie, embryologist Marjorie Ritchie, surgeon John Bracken, anaesthetist
92	16 September 2012	Big Brother	Peter Bazalgette, producer Victor Lewis Smith, critic Tim Gardam, former Channel 4's Director of Programmes
93	7 April 2013	Doctor Who	Waris Hussein, director Carole Ann Ford, actor William Russell, actorn Jeremy Young, actor Peter Purves, TV presenter
94	14 April 2013	King's Cross fire	Sophie Tarrasenko, passenger Kwasi Afari Minta, survivor Steve Heather, firefighter Lindsay Taylor, reporter
95	21 April 2013	Coronation Maids of Honour
96	28 April 2013	The Centre for Alternative Technology	Mark Matthews, the Centre's first director Roderick James, architect Bob Todd, technical expert Liz Todd, Bob's wife Des Rees, builder
97	5 May 2013	Hutton Inquiry	Andrew Gilligan, reporter Geoff Hoon, former Defence Secretary Tom Kelly, Tony Blair's spokesman Greg Dyke, former Director General
98	18 August 2013	Goodness Gracious Me	Meera Syal, comedian Sanjeev Bhaskar, actor Anil Gupta, actor Jon Plowman, TV producer Richard Pinto, writer
99	25 August 2013	Lib Lab Pact	David Steel, former leader of the Liberal Party Tom McNally, James Callaghan's closest aid Michael White, sketch writer; Roy Hattersley, former Labour Cabinet minister; Alan Beith, former Liberal Party whip	^[22]
100	1 September 2013	Assassination of John F. Kennedy	Gayle Newman, closest eyewitness Hugh Aynesworth, former Dallas Morning New reporter Kenneth Salyer, medical team member at the Parkland Hospital James Leavelle, retired Dallas homicide detective
101	8 September 2013		Bob Le Sueur, insurance clerk Leo Harris, war time teenager Michael Ginns, former WWW2 POW Hazel Lakeman, former POW John Floyd, Jersey resident
102	15 September 2013	Spare Rib magazine	Marsha Rowe, editor Rosie Boycott, journalist Angela Phillips, journalist
103	25 December 2013	The Fast Show	Charlie Higson, actor Paul Whitehouse, comedian Kathy Burke, actress Harry Enfield, actor Vic Reeves, actor Bob Mortimer, comedian Matthew Norman, TV critic
104	6 April 2014	UK miners' strike (1984–85)	Kim Howells, former research officer for the South Wales NUM Mel Hepworth, labour Barbara Jackson, organiser Ken Clarke, former Health Minister Bill King, Bedfordshire Police
105	13 April 2014	Four Weddings and a Funeral	Mike Newell, film director Richard Curtis, film maker Duncan Kenworthy, television procuder Kristin Scott Thomas, actress James Fleet, actor
106	20 April 2014	Life on Earth	David Attenborough, environmentalist Richard Brock, producer Pam Jackson, producer assistant Jane Wales, producer assistant
107	4 May 2014	Omagh Bombing	Kevin Skelton, victims relative Michael Gallagher, victims relative Victor Barker, victims relative Richard Scott, former RUC police constable Mark Devenport, BBC Northern Ireland's Political Editor
108	17 August 2014	Berlin Airlift	Dick Arscott, RAF Dakota pilot Joyce Hargrave-Wright, air traffic controller Alec Chambers, flight engineer Freddie Montgomery, British military intelligence
109	24 August 2014	Sun Newspaper	Tom Petrie, news editor Harry Arnold, Royal correspondent Wendy Henry, editor of the Sun's sister paper The News of the World	^[23]
110	31 August 2014	Independence of Zimbabwe in 1980	Peter Carrington, former Conservative Foreign Secretary Dumiso Dabengwa, former head of intelligence for the military wing of ZAPU Dzingai Mutumbuka, member of the ZANU-PF delegation Dennis Norman, President of the Rhodesia National Farmers' Union Martin Meredith, historian and Africa correspondent
111	7 September 2014	James Bond	John Glen, director of the Bond franchise Richard Kiel, Bond actor Britt Ekland, Bond girl
112	19 September 2014	New Labour	Peter Mandelson, former Labour MP Anji Hunter, former Labour MP Margaret McDonagh, Regional Party organizer, Margaret Beckett, Deputy Labour Leader Peter Hyman, Labour strategy
113	25 December 2014	Wallace and Gromit	Peter Lord, Aardman founders David Sproxton, Aardman founders Carla Shelley, producer Mary Lowance, ex-manager Nick Park, and Wallace and Gromit creator
114	5 April 2015	Spycatcher	Robert Armstrong, civil servant Paul Greengrass, film director Stella Rimington, former Director General of MI5, Brian Perman, managing director of the publishers Heinemann; Richard Norton-Taylor, Guardian journalist
115	12 April 2015	Fastnet Race Disaster	Jerry Grayson, helicopter pilot Alan Green, sports commentator Nick Ward, sailor Christian Schaumloffel, helped rescue Nick Ward Stuart Quarrie, trainees
116	19 April 2015	Hit Factory	Sinitta Donovan, actor Jason Donovan, actor Pete Waterman, procuder Phil Harding, producer
117	26 April 2015	Far East Prisoners of War	Bob Morrell, former POW Bill Frankland, medical officer William Mumby, former POW Tony Lucas, former POW Sibylla Jane Flower, historian
118	3 May 2015	Peter Brook's A Midsummer Night's Dream	Peter Brook, film director Sally Jacobs, designer Ben Kingsley, actor Sara Kestelman, actress Frances de la Tour, actress Barry Stanton, actor
119	16 August 2015	Guantanamo Bay	Sami al-Hajj, Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg, Guantanamo detainee Mike Bumgarner, head of the guard force at Guantanamo Clive Stafford Smith, lawyer	^[24]
120	23 August 2015	Food writers	Mary Berry Claudia Roden Katharine Whitehorn
121	30 August 2015	Foot-and-Mouth Disease	Alex Donaldson, scientist Peter Frost-Pennington, vet Hugh Monro, brigadier Paula Wolton, farmer Peter Allen, farmer
122	6 September 2015	Alan Bennett's Talking Heads	Penelope Wilton, actress Tristram Powell, director
123	13 September 2015	Birmingham Six	Paddy Hill, victims relative Chris Mullin, journalist Brian Hambleton, victims relative
124	3 April 2016	Nuclear Submarines	Peter Hammersley David Wixon Bas Bowyer Harry Brazie Wally Whymark
125	10 April 2016	Disability Campaigners	Jane Campbell, disability rights campaigner Bert Massie, disability rights campaigner. Peter White, broadcast journalist William Hague, Conservative MP Adam Thomas, disability rights campaigner.
126	17 April 2016	UEFA Euro 1996	Darren Anderton, footballer Ted Buxton, assistant manager David Davies, press team manager Harry Harris, Daily Mail journalist Barry Davies, BBC reporter
127	24 April 2016	Maastricht Treaty	Norman Lamont, former Chancellors of the Exchequer Kenneth Clarke, Conservative MP David Davies, Conservative MP Bill Cash, and Conservative backbencher Stephen Wall, historian
128	6 May 2016	Arrest of Augusto Pinochet	Juan Garces, a former aide to Salvador Allende Jack Straw, former Home Secretary Juan Guzman, Chilean Judge
129	21 August 2016	Yorkshire Ripper Investigation	John Domaille, a senior officer at the West Yorkshire Police Andy Laptew, junior detective Elaine Benson, detective David Zackrisson, detective . Christa Ackroyd, journalist	^[25]
130	28 August 2016	Glastonbury Festival	Arthur Brown, musician Jekka McVicar, organic herb grower Melanie Brown, singer Michael Eavis, dairy farmer Chris Church, festival participant
131	4 September 2016	Launch of Private Eye	Christopher Booker, journalist Richard Ingrams, journalist Barry Fantoni, cartoonist Gerald Scarfe, cartoonist Peter Usborne, publisher
132	11 September 2016	Contaminated Blood	David Watters, director of the Haemophilia Society Colette Wintel, hepatitis B and hepatitis C patient Peter Jones, head of the Newcastle Haemophilia Centre; Janette Johnson, relative of the AIDS and hepatitis C patient
133	23 September 2016	Tate Modern	Nicholas Serota, former Director of Tate Frances Morris, former curator at the Tate Modern Dawn Austwick, former director at the Tate Modern Michael Craig-Martin, artist Anish Kapoor, artist
134	2 April 2017	Vietnamese Boat People	Graham MacQueen, Wellpark's Training Officer, Philip Huynh, former refugee Diep Quan, former refugee Dao Nguyen, former refugee James Huynh, former refugee
135	9 April 2017	Libyan Embassy Siege	Oliver Miles, former British Ambassador in Tripoli. John Murray, PC at the Metropolitan Police. Colin Reeve, Detective Superintendent at the Met Adel Mansouri, former Libyan student
136	16 April 2017		Gaye Advert, bass player Toyah Willcox, tomboy Gina Birch, punk artist Tessa Pollitt, punk artist Vivien Goldman, punk artist
137	23 April 2017	Challenger Disaster	June Scobee Rodgers, widow of the Challenger Commander Richard Scobee Steve Nesbitt, NASA Chief Commentator Norman Thagard, astronaut Allan J. McDonald, aerospace engineer Morton Thiokol, former Director of the Space Shuttle Rocket Booster Project.
138	30 April 2017	Climbie Inquiry	Herbert Laming, Chairman of the Inquiry Neil Garnham, Counsel to the Inquiry
139	13 August 2017	First all-female Round the World Yacht Crew	Tracy Edwards, skipper Howard Gibbons, skipper Mikaela Von Koskull, helms Nancy Harris, and sail-trimmer	^[26]
140	20 August 2017	Wapping Dispute	Brenda Dean, General Secretary of the SOGAT Union. Marie Alvarado, clerical worker Paul King, machine minder
141	27 August 2017	Eighties Fashion Designers	Bruce Oldfield, fashion designer Betty Jackson, fashion designer Wendy Dagworthy, former fashion designer
142	3 September 2017	Solidarity	Janusz Onyszkiewicz, Solidarity's former spokesman Ewa Kulik, Polish trade unionist Jacek Petrycki, film maker
143	10 September 2017	Northern Rock crisis	Robert Peston, BBC's Business Editor Dennis Grainger, former Northern Rock employee Alastair Balls, Chair of the Northern Rock Foundation
144	1 April 2018	Battle for Basra	Robin Brims, UK general James Dutton, British Marine Graham Binns, Major General Caroline Wyatt, BBC's former defence correspondent Rory Stewart, former Coalition deputy Governor in Southern Iraq.
145	8 April 2018	Enfield Poltergeist	Roz Morris, former BBC Radio reporter Graham Morris, former Daily Mirror editor Richard Grosse, solicitor
146	15 April 2018	Kyoto Protocol	Joanna Depledge, former UN's Climate Secretariat, John Gummer, former British Environment Minster Tony Juniper, campaigner Farhana Yamin, lawyer
147	22 April 2018	Baader-Meinhof	Peter Jurgen Boock, gang member Rainer Hofmeyer, former West German counter-terrorism chief Kurt Groenewold, radical lawyer Stephan Aust, journalist
148	29 April 2018	The Young Ones	Nigel Planer, actor Chris Ryan, actor Alexei Sayle, actor Lise Mayer, co-writer Stephen Frost, actor
149	12 August 2018	The Rise and Fall of the SDP	Shirley Williams, academic Dick Newby, SDP's former chief exec Mike Thomas, defecting Labour	^[27]
150	19 August 2018	Auschwitz Survivors	Susan Pollack, Auschwitz survivor Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, Auschwitz survivor Zigi Shipper, Auschwitz survivor Lily Ebert, Auschwitz survivor
151	26 August 2018	Murder of Georgi Markov	Peter Udell, Georgi Markov's manager Bernard Riley, doctor Rumiana Ebert, Bulgarian émigré Michael Cockerell, BBC Panorama reporter
152	2 September 2018	Chickenshed Theatre	Jo Collins, founder of the Chickenshed Mary Ward, founder of the Chickenshed Simon Callow, actor Lucia Bellini, former Chickenshed member Emma Cambridge, former Chickenshed member Jessica Wall, former Chickenshed member
153	9 September 2018	Sierra Leone Civil War	Sorious Samura, Sierra Leonean camera-man Peter Penfold, former British High Commissioner to Sierra Leone Martha Khanu, Sierra Leonean teenager Zainab Bangura, social activist
154	7 April 2019	French Resistance	Rene Marbot, soldier in de Gaulle’s Free French army John James, member of a guerrilla fighting unit; Michèle Agniel, Allied collaborator Matthew Cobb, historian
155	14 April 2019	Parliamentary Expenses Scandal	Heather Brooke, FOI campaigner Andrew Walker, head of House of Commons finances Ann Cryer, former Labour MP for Keighley
156	21 April 2019	Gulf War Aircrew POWs	John Peters, Flight Lieutenant John Nichol, airmen Robbie Stewart, Flight Lieutenant Helen Peters, John Peters wife
157	28 April 2019	Scottish Parliament	Donald Dewar, special adviser Wendy Alexander, Labour MSP Jim Wallace, leader of the Scottish Lib-Dems Roseanna Cunningham, SNP MSP David Steel, Parliament's first Presiding Officer,
158	5 May 2019	Pioneering Women Newsreaders	Angela Rippon, TV presenter Julia Somerville, ITN newscaster Jan Leeming, BBC newsreader Sue Lawley, broadcaster
159	18 August 2019	York Minster fire	John Toy, former Canon Chancellor Alan Stow, retired fire commander Bishop David Wilbourne, a chaplain in York John David, master mason Geoff Brayshaw, lead joiner	^[28]
160	25 August 2019	Death on the Rock	Roger Bolton, the programme’s researcher Alison Cahn, eyewitness Stephen Bullock, Ministry of Defence Hugh Colver, former Chief of PR Alastair Brett, legal manager for the Sunday Times
161	1 September 2019	When Rugby Turned Pro	Brian Moore, former England player Michael Lynagh, Australia captain Mick Cleary, Daily Telegraph’s Rugby Union Correspondent
162	8 September 2019	Alder Hey Organs Scandal	Jan Robinson, victims parent Jan Valentine, victims parent Mark Caswell, haematologist Kate Jackson, director of the hospital’s Serious Incident Team Clare Smith, Health and Family Correspondent for BBC North West.
163	15 September 2019	Cats - The Musical	Trevor Nunn, Cats' director John Napier, stage designer Elaine Paige, actress Wayne Sleep, ballet dancer Bonnie Langford, actress Paul Nicholas, actor
164	16 August 2020	Black Wednesday	Norman Lamont, Chancellor Kenneth Clarke, Home Secretary Alex Allan, John Major’s principle private secretary. Jim Trott, Bank of England’s chief currency dealer Jeff Randall, Sunday Times City Editor
165	23 August 2020	Collapse of British Leyland	Harold Musgrove, chief executive of the Austin Rover Group. John Power, former shop steward Chris Green, former commercial apprentice at British Leyland’s vast Longbridge plant. Alison Harper, design sculptor. Chris Goffey, journalist
166	30 August 2020	Bid for London 2012	Barbara Cassani, Chair of the bid Keith Mills, Chief Executive. Jonathan Edwards, member of the Athletes Advisory Board. Tanni Grey-Thompson, member of the Athletes Advisory Board. Richard Caborn, former Minister for Sport Craig Reedie, former member of the International Olympic Committee Sebastian Coe, member of the Bid Chair
167	6 September 2020	GM Crops Debate	Joan Ruddock, Committee for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. John Gatehouse, biochemist Tom Sanders, former member of the UK Committee on Novel Foods. Sue Mayer, founder of anti-GM organisation, GeneWatch. Alan Simpson, former Labour MP Jim Thoma, Greenpeace activist
168	13 September 2020	Virago Press	Ursula Owen, editor Alexandra Pringle, former Virago's Editorial Director Lennie Goodings, former publicist Mary Chamberlain, author Hermione Lee, biographer
169	24 December 2020	Strictly Come Dancing	John Byrnes, Dance consultant Natasha Kaplinsky, news presenter Lesley Garrett, star soprano Anton Du Beke, dancer Karen Smith, Executive producer	^[29]
170	30 December 2020	The COVID-19 ward	Hugh Montgomery, doctor Jo Eardley, senior nurse Amanda Macaskill Stewart, doctor Emma Williams, wife of Covid patient
171	4 April 2021	Finding Richard III	Philippa Langley, Richard III Society Richard Buckley, archaeologic at the University of Leicester Jo Appleby, osteologist Turi King, genologic Michael Ibsen, distance relative of Richard III David Monteith, the Dean of Leicester Thomas Penn, Historian and writer
172	11 April 2021	Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill	Mark Mazzella, BP’s control expert Thad Allen, National Incident Commander PJ Hahn, former Director of coastal zone management for Plaquemines parish, Louisiana Keith Jones, Deepwater Horizon's employees parent Bob Kaluza, BP supervisor
173	18 April 2021	Litvinenko Poisoning	Alex Goldfarb, family friend of the Litvinenko’s Ken Macdonald, former Director of Public Prosecutions of England and Wales Brent Hyatt, Scotland Yard office Yevgeny Kanevskyv, journalist at the BBC World Service’s Russian Service Marina Litvinenko, Alexander Litvinenko’s widow.
174	25 April 2021	The Romanian Orphanages	Anneka Rice, television presenter Monica McDaid, former teacher Jane Nicholson, founder of the Romanian orphanage charity FARA Mark Cook, Hope & Homes for Children, Iuliana Georgiana, Romanian orphanage Alexandra Smart, Romanian orphanage
175	2 May 2021	Madness	Mike Barson, songwriter Mark Bedford, musician Chris Foreman, musician Clive Langer, producer
176	13 August 2021	Same-Sex Marriage	Peter Tatchell, activist Lynne Featherstone, former Equalities Minister Benjamin Cohen, CEO of Pink News Malcolm Brown, Director of Mission and Public Affairs for the Church of England Nick Herbert, the Conservative MP
177	20 August 2021	The Day Today	Patrick Marber, actor David Schneider, actor Steve Coogan, actor Doon Mackichan, actor
178	27 August 2021	Tiananmen Square Protests	James Miles, BBC’s Beijing correspondent Diane Wei Liang, writer Zhou Fenghsou, student leader Wu'erkaixi, student leader
179	3 September 2021	Pioneers of Women's Football	Patricia Gregory, football player Elsie Cook, football player Margaret Rae, football player Michelle Adams, football player Rose Reilly, football player Sue Whyatt, football player
180	10 September 2021	Trial of the Mangrove Nine	Desmond Gittens, Black People’s Information Centre's director Aisha Gittens, Desmand's daughter Farrukh Dhondy, writer Gus John, writer
181	24 December 2021	Love Actually	Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Child actor Olivia Olson, child actor Lucia Moniz, pop star Duncan Kenworthy, producer
182	1 April 2022	Boxing Day Tsunami	Novia Liza, former university student living in Aceh Andy Chaggar, engineer Kontoro Mangkusbroto, Head of reconstruction and rehabilitation in Aceh
183	8 April 2022	McLibel Trial	Helen Steel, former McDonald’s employeer Dave Morris, former McDonald’s employeer Timothy Atkinson, McDonald’s legal team, Franny Armstrong, film director
184	22 April 2022	Opening Ceremony of the London Olympics	Stephen Daldry, executive producer Suttirat Larlarb, designer Evelyn Glennie, percussionist Sam Hunter, production stage manager Rex Osafo-Asare, volunteer
185	29 April 2022	Dale Farm Evictions	Candy Sheridan, member of the Gypsy Council Katharine Quarmby, journalist
186	6 May 2022	Silver Jubilee	Dickie Arbiter, veteran Royal commendator Hugo Vickers, Royal biographer Mary Pearson, daughter of the Martin Charteris who was the Queen's Private Secretary
187	19 August 2022	Grange Hill	Todd Carty, actor Lee MacDonald, actor Erkan Mustafa, actor
188	26 August 2022	London Occupy
189	2 September 2022	Deep Blue v Kasparov	Frederic Friedel, advisor to Garry Kasparov Malcolm Pein, Kasparov team member and IBM consultant Murray Campbell, co-creator of Deep Blue Joel Benjamin, IBM consultant Maurice Ashley, author and commentator Steven Levy, Editor
190	4 September 2022	Island Records	Chris Blackwell, producer Jimmy Cliff, musician Mykaell Riley, reggae act Owen Gray, musician Marcia Griffiths, musician
191	1 October 2022	Maidan Uprising	Hanna Hopko, representative of the Maidan Public Sector Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, former Head of the secret service. Arseniy Yatsenyuk, former leader of one of the opposition parties Yaroslav Hrytsak, historian Gabriel Gatehouse, a BBC Correspondent.
192	2 April 2023	British Runners of the 1980s	Steve Cram, runner Brendan Foster, runner David Moorcroft, runner Sebastian Coe, runner
193	9 April 2023	The Good Friday Agreement	Jonathan Powell, former Chief of Staff to Tony Blair Monica McWilliams, co-founded the Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition Paul Bew, historian. Mark Durkan, member of the Social Democratic and Labour Party negotiating team Mark Devenport, BBC Ireland correspondent Bertie Ahern, former Irish Taoiseach
194	16 April 2023	Sharpe	Bernard Cornwell, author Stuart Sutherland, actor Michael Cochrane, actor Diana Perez, actor
195	23 April 2023	Abu Ghraib	Sam Provance, former U.S. Army military intelligence sergeant Janis Karpinski, former Brigadier General Haj Ali Abbas, Iraqi prisoner Katherine Gallagher, Lawyer
196	5 May 2023	Eurovision Song Contest	Phil Coulter, musician Dana Coulter, musician Lulu Coulter, musician Pete Murray, musician Dean Vuletic, historian
197	18 Aug 2023		Richard Thomas, comedian Stewart Lee, comedian Loré Lixenberg, mezzo soprano David Bedella, actor Michael Brandon, actor
198	20 Aug 2023	Lockerbie Bombing	Colin Dorrance, police officer Les Gracie, firefighter Marjorie McQueen, Lockerbie resident Annie Lareau, former student at Syracuse University David Wilson, Lockerbie resident
199	27 Aug 2023	Final Years of John Major's Government	Kenneth Clarke, former Chancellor of the Exchequer John Redwood, Consertative MP Elinor Goodman, Channel 4's political editor Howell James, former Prime Minister’s Political Secretary
200	3 Sep 2023	Spitting Image	Peter Fluck, co-creator Roger Law, co-creator Jon Blair, producer John Lloyd, producer Ian Hislop, writer Nick Newman, writer Louise Gold, puppeteer Chris Barrie, voice artist Steve Nallon, voice artist Charles Denton, Central Television commissioner
201	15 Sep 2023	BLK Art Group	Marlene Smith, artist and curator Eugene Palmer, member of the BLK Art Group Tam Joseph, member of the BLK Art Group Pogus Caesar, photographer Wenda Leslie, founding member of the BLK Art Group
202	29 Dec 2023	Band Aid	Bob Geldof, singer Boy George, singer Bono, singer
203	12 April 2024	That's Life!	Esther Rantzen, TV and radio presenter George Layton, TV and radio presenter Chris Serle, TV and radio presenter Paul Heiney, TV and radio presenter Bill Buckley, radio presenter Adrian Mills, TV and radio presenter Peter Bazalgette, TV and radio presenter Jane Elsdon, director	^[30]
204	14 April 2024	1996 Mount Everest disaster	Helen Wilton, basecamp manager Makalu Gau, Leader of the Taiwanese expedition team Neil Laughton, mountaineer Alan Hinkes, mountaineer Mike Trueman, mountaineer
205	21 April 2024	Passion of Port Talbot	Di Botcher, Port Talbot actress Sarah Hemsley-Cole, director Mydd Pharo, costume designer Mercedes Kemp, Ken Tucker, critic
206	28 April 2024	Bush v Gore 2000	Elaine Kamarck and Carter Eskew, policy advisors to Al Gore Ted Olson, lead attorney to George W. Bush Benjamin Ginsberg, national council to the Bush campaign Jeffrey Toobin, journalist and author

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