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    Episode 5The Darkest Hour

    5/5 Actor Juliet Stevenson on why a creative life often means a life in want of sleep.

    Episode 4The Darkest Hour

    4/5 Poet Michael Symmons Roberts examines why he has been so fascinated by insomnia.

    Episode 3The Darkest Hour

    3/5 Author AL Kennedy explores why she has always found the nights too thrilling to sleep.

    Episode 2The Darkest Hour

    2/5 Literary critic and author John Sutherland explores the history of insomnia in literature.

    Margaret DrabbleThe Darkest Hour

    1/5 Author Margaret Drabble explores how insomnia has become something of an old friend.

    Episode 5The Other Empire

    5/5 Julian Jackson focuses on the Algerian War, France's last great colonial crisis.

    Episode 4The Other Empire

    4/5 Julian Jackson focuses on France's involvement in Indo-China - Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.

    Episode 3The Other Empire

    3/5 Julian Jackson discusses the imperial troops who fought for France in two world wars.

    Episode 2The Other Empire

    2/5 Julian Jackson tells the story of France's involvement in sub-Saharan Africa.

    Episode 1The Other Empire

    1/5 Julian Jackson explores France's first war of decolonisation: a slave rebellion in Haiti.

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