The Long View
Jonathan Freedland presents the series that looks for the past behind the present.
The Long View - 02/03/2010
Comparing the way the football authorities are dealing with the call for camera technology to help referees today with their response in 1890 when the goal net was a new invention.
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The Long View - 02/12/2008
Jonathan Freedland explores the parallels and differences between current attitudes to airport expansion and the controversy surrounding railway expansion in the mid-19th century.
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The Long View - 03/03/2009
Jonathan Freedland presents the series that looks for the past behind the present. He is joined by Billy Bragg to consider House of Lords reform now and in the 17th Century.
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The Long View - 04/08/2009
Jonathan Freedland examines the railways at a time of recession, asking what lessons can be learnt in our own time from the experience of the Great Western Railway in the 1860s.
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The Long View - 06/02/2007
Are concerns voiced by current military commanders matched by the difficulties encountered by Lord Wellington two centuries ago in the Peninsular Wars? With Jonathan Freedland.
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The Long View - 07/07/2009
Jonathan and his guests ask how governments can best help the unemployed and visit the site of a 1930s labour camp set up to prepare unemployed men for a return to work.
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The Long View - 09/03/2010
In the light of events in Wootton Bassett, Jonathan Freedland travels to Towton in Yorkshire to examine the changing culture and politics behind the commemoration of the fallen.
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The Long View - 09/10/2007
Jonathan Freedland presents the series that looks for the past behind the present. The late 18th century reveals the origins of the overcrowding crisis in UK prisons.
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The Long View - 09/12/2008
Jonathan Freedland presents the series that looks for the past behind the present. What shops today can learn from the bleak festive season of 1930.
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The Long View - 10/02/2009
Jonathan Freedland explores the creation of the Bank of England in 1694 and the economic turmoil which led to it.
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The Long View - 12/10/2010
Jonathan Freedland compares the present public spending review with the 'Geddes Axe' of 1921-22. Guests debate the means of achieving savings and accompanying political debate.
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The Long View - 14/07/2009
Jonathan Freedland and guests discuss the art of politics through an examination of the careers of Lord Mandelson today and Cardinal Richelieu in 17th-century France.
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The Long View - 16/10/2007
Jonathan Freedland's series that looks for the past behind the present. He recalls Harold Wilson's 1975 referendum on the UK's membership of Europe.
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The Long View - 16/12/2008
Jonathan Freedland examines the parallels between celebrity chefs with social agendas and the 19th century chef Alexis Soyer, who captured the public imagination with his cooking.
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The Long View - 17/02/2009
Jonathan Freedland examines the parallels between the relationship between football and business today and the story of the short-lived Victorian club New Brighton Tower.
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The Long View - 19/10/2010
Jonathan Freedland looks at the uneasy relationship between sport and gambling as manifest in 18th century prize fighting and cricket's recent spot fixing allegations.
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The Long View - 23/02/2010
Niall Ferguson, Will Hutton and Stephanie Flanders join Jonathan Freedland to take the long view of national debt, from the battlefield of Waterloo to today's financial crisis.
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The Long View - 23/10/2007
Jonathan Freedland presents the series that looks for the past behind the present.
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The Long View - 24/02/2009
Jonathan Freedland examines the parallels between the murder of Liverpool youngster Rhys Jones in 2007 and another murder of a child in the same city in 1883.
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The Long View - 25/11/2008
Jonathan Freedland examines President Roosevelt's first 100 days in office and considers what Barack Obama might learn from them as he faces up to similar economic problems.
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The Long View - 26/10/2010
Recent leaks on Afghanistan questioned the way the military operates. Jonathan Freedland looks at the case of a 19th century officer who challenged British strategy in India.
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The Long View - 27/11/2007
Jonathan Freedland recalls the establishment of the first Pioneer Health Centre in 1935, which offered an educational and preventative approach to public health.
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The Long View - 28/07/2009
Jonathan examines the policing of demonstrations, and asks what lessons can be learned in our own time from the 1855 Hyde Park disturbances.
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The Long View - 30/10/2007
Jonathan Freedland presents the series that looks for the past behind the present.
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The Long View - British brands, American takeovers: Boots and Cadbury
Jonathan Freedland compares the recent purchase of Cadbury by Kraft with the takeover of Boots the Chemist by an American company in 1920.
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The Long View - US Mid-term Elections
Jonathan Freedland is in Washington DC to compare the 2010 midterm elections with those of 1982, a year when President Reagan's popularity slumped and the economy was on the ropes.
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