The Reunion (radio series)

The Reunion is a radio discussion series presented by Kirsty Wark which reunites a group of people involved in a moment of modern history.[3][4] It has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 since July 2003, with 163 episodes presented by the first presenter, Sue MacGregor.[5]

The Reunion
GenreFactual
Running time28 minutes
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Language(s)English
Home stationBBC Radio 4
Hosted byKirsty Wark
Sue MacGregor (former)
Produced byDavid Prest
Original release27 July 2003[1] – present
Opening themeFranz Liszt - "Canzonetta del Salvator Rosa" from Années de pèlerinage[2]
WebsiteThe Reunion

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.[1] Other examples include Robben Island prisoners in Cape Town, representatives from Labour and BBC to discuss the Hutton Inquiry,[6] perpetrators and victims of the Brighton hotel bombing, and Maids of Honour from the 1953 Coronation.[5] 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.[5] 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 broadcast on 16 August 2020.[4]

Programmes
NoBroadcast date
Title [7]
1 27 July 2003 Louise Brown[1]
2 3 August 2003 Chariots of Fire[8]
3 10 August 2003 Concorde[9]
4 17 August 2003 Iranian Revolution[10]
5 24 August 2003 Festival of Britain[11]
6 31 August 2003 Margaret Thatcher's 1979 election campaign[12]
7 12 September 2003 Ford Dagenham equal pay strike[13]
8 19 September 2003 Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior[14]
9 8 August 2004 Britain's hydrogen bomb tests[15]
10 15 August 2004 First women vicars in the Church of England[16]
11 22 August 2004 Everyman Theatre, Liverpool[17]
12 29 August 2004 Raising the Mary Rose[18]
13 5 September 2004 1975 United Kingdom European Communities membership referendum[19]
14 12 September 2004 Terrence Higgins Trust[20]
15 26 December 2004 1960s supermodels[21]
16 24 July 2005 Great Britain at the 1980 Summer Olympics[22]
17 31 July 2005 Not the Nine O'Clock News[23]
18 7 August 2005 Abortion Act 1967 campaigners[24]
19 14 August 2005 Prisoners of war in the Far East[25]
20 21 August 2005 Today newspaper[26]
21 28 August 2005 Siege of Sarajevo[27]
22 4 September 2005 Twyford Down protest[28]
23 11 September 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe[29]
24 2 April 2006 Gulf War[30]
25 9 April 2006 Serious Fraud Office[31]
26 16 April 2006 The Family[32]
27 23 April 2006 England at the 1966 FIFA World Cup[33]
28 30 April 2006 Wedding of Charles and Diana[34]
29 3 September 2006 Rail Privatisation[35]
30 10 September 2006 Robben Island[35]
31 17 September 2006 TV-am
32 24 September 2006 The Marchioness
33 8 April 2007 Last Debutantes, 1958
34 15 April 2007 EastEnders
35 22 April 2007 Milton Keynes
36 29 April 2007 British Antarctic Survey hole in the ozone layer
37 6 May 2007 Brighton hotel bombing
38 26 August 2007 Royal Opera House
39 2 September 2007 1976 Race Relations Act
40 9 September 2007 British veterans of the Korean War
41 16 September 2007 NME Writers
42 23 September 2007 Bhagwan Rajnees
43 6 April 2008 Bletchley Park code-breakers.
44 13 April 2008 National Lottery
45 20 April 2008 Cartoon strip characters for popular children's comics.
46 27 April 2008 Strangeways Prison riots of 1990
47 4 May 2008 BFI Southbank
48 24 August 2008 North and South Poles expedition
49 7 September 2008 Hitler Diaries
50 14 September 2008 Windsor Castle fire 1992
51 21 September 2008 Construction of the Channel Tunnel
52 21 September 2008 The Navy Lark
53 5 April 2009 National Theatre
54 12 April 2009 Hillsborough disaster
55 19 April 2009 Brit Art
56 26 April 2009 Thalidomide scandal
57 3 May 2009 Lebanon hostage crisis
58 23 August 2009 Kerry Packer and the World Series Cricket 1977
59 30 August 2009 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia
60 6 September 2009 Iranian Embassy Siege
61 13 September 2009 Nelson Mandela Release
62 20 September 2009 Stonewall riots
63 4 April 2010 London Marathon
64 11 April 2010 Brideshead Revisited
65 18 Apr 2010 Maze Prison
66 25 April 2010 Dunblane school massacre
67 2 May 2010 The Tonight Programme
68 22 August 2010 Millennium Dome
69 29 August 2010 Hurricane Katrina
70 5 September 2010 Miss World 1970
71 12 September 2010 Kindertransport
72 19 September 2010 Play School
73 6 March 2011 UNHCR Bosnia
74 13 March 2011 Comic Relief
75 20 March 2011 Brixton Riots
76 27 March 2011 British Rock and Rollers
77 7 August 2011 Barings Bank Collapse
78 14 August 2011 Courtauld Institute
79 26 August 2011 Zeebrugge Ferry Disaster
80 28 August 2011 Boys from the Blackstuff
81 4 September 2011 Hunting Ban
82 11 September 2011 Les Miserables
83 1 April 2012 1948 Olympic Games
84 8 April 2012 Greenham Common
85 15 April 2012 HMS Sheffield
86 22 April 2012 Globe Theatre
87 29 April 2012 Hong Kong Handover
88 19 August 2012 60s Girl Singers
89 26 August 2012 Ugandan Asians
90 2 September 2012 Poll Tax
91 9 September 2012 Dolly the Sheep
92 16 September 2012 Big Brother
93 7 April 2013 Doctor Who
94 14 April 2013 King's Cross fire
95 21 April 2013 Maad a Sinig Kumba Ndoffene Famak Joof
96 28 April 2013 The Centre for Alternative Technology
97 5 May 2013 Hutton Inquiry
98 18 August 2013 Goodness Gracious Me
99 25 August 2013 Lib Lab Pact
100 1 September 2013 Assassination of John F. Kennedy
101 8 September 2013 Jersey Occupation
102 15 September 2013 Spare Rib magazine
103 25 December 2013 The Fast Show
104 6 April 2014 UK miners' strike (1984–85)
105 13 April 2014 Four Weddings and a Funeral
106 20 April 2014 Life on Earth
107 4 May 2014 Omagh Bombing
108 30 June 2014 British Antarctic Survey
109 3 August 2014 Edinburgh Fringe Founders 1960
110 17 August 2014 Berlin Airlift
111 24 August 2014 Sun Newspaper
112 31 August 2014 Independence of Zimbabwe in 1980
113 7 September 2014 James Bond
114 19 September 2014 New Labour
115 25 December 2014 Wallace and Gromit
116 5 April 2015 Spycatcher
117 12 April 2015 Fastnet Race Disaster
118 19 April 2015 Hit Factory
119 26 April 2015 Far East Prisoners of War
120 3 May 2015 Peter Brook's A Midsummer Night's Dream
121 16 August 2015 Guantanamo Bay
122 23 August 2015 Food writers (Mary Berry, Claudia Roden and Prue Leith)
123 30 August 2015 Foot-and-Mouth Disease
124 6 September 2015 Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
125 13 September 2015 Birmingham Six
126 3 April 2016 Nuclear Submarines
127 10 April 2016 Disability Campaigners
128 17 April 2016 UEFA Euro 1996
129 24 April 2016 Maastricht Treaty
130 6 May 2016 Arrest of Augusto Pinochet
131 21 August 2016 Yorkshire Ripper Investigation
132 28 August 2016 Glastonbury Festival
133 4 September 2016 Launch of Private Eye
134 11 September 2016 Contaminated Blood
135 23 September 2016 Tate Modern
136 2 April 2017 Vietnamese Boat People
137 9 April 2017 Libyan Embassy Siege
138 16 April 2017 Women of Punk
139 23 April 2017 Challenger Disaster
140 30 April 2017 Climbie Inquiry
141 13 August 2017 Round the World Yacht Crew
142 20 August 2017 Wapping Dispute
143 27 August 2017 Eighties Fashion Designers
144 3 September 2017 Solidarity
145 10 September 2017 Northern Rock crisis
146 1 April 2018 Battle for Basra
147 8 April 2018 Enfield Poltergeist
148 15 April 2018 Kyoto Protocol
149 22 April 2018 Baader-Meinhof
150 29 April 2018 The Young Ones
151 12 August 2018 The Rise and Fall of the SDP
152 19 August 2018 Auschwitz Survivors
153 26 August 2018 Murder of Georgi Markov
154 2 September 2018 Chickenshed Theatre
155 7 April 2019 French Resistance
156 14 April 2019 Parliamentary Expenses Scandal
157 21 April 2019 Gulf War Aircrew POWs
158 28 April 2019 Scottish Parliament
159 5 May 2019 Pioneering Women Newsreaders
160 18 August 2019 York Minster Fire[36]
161 25 August 2019 Death on the Rock[37]
162 1 September 2019 When Rugby Turned Pro[38]
163 8 September 2019 Alder Hey Organs Scandal[39]
164 15 September 2019 Cats - The Musical[40]
165 16 August 2020 Black Wednesday[41]
166 23 August 2020 Collapse of British Leyland[42]
167 30 August 2020 Bid for London 2012[43]
168 6 September 2020 GM Crops Debate[44]
169 13 September 2020 Virago Press[45]
170 24 December 2020 Strictly Come Dancing[46]
171 30 December 2020 The Covid-19 ward[47]

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