The BBC has broadcast to over two hundred countries and in more than forty languages. With special access to the BBC’s archives, historian David Hendy presents a dazzling portrait of a unique institution whose cultural influence is greater than any other media organization.

Mixing politics, espionage, the arts, social change, and everyday life, The BBC: A Century on Air, is a vivid social history of the organization that has provided both background commentary and screen-grabbing headlines. Join us as David Hendy examines how topics woven so deeply into the culture and politics of the past century have touched so many, on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large.