| 1 | 1901 First Performance of Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance March no. 1 | Elgar | 1:13 |
| 2 | 1909 Expedition to the South Pole / Pomp and Circumstance March no. 1 | Sir Ernest Shackleton / Elgar | 1:55 |
| 3 | Votes for Women | Christabel Pankhurst | 1:17 |
| 4 | 1909 Speech on the Budget | David Lloyd‐George | 1:16 |
| 5 | 1912 The Sinking of the ‘Titanic’ | Charles Herbert Lightoller | 1:56 |
| 6 | Gas Shell Bombardment / ‘It’s a Long Way to Tipperary’ | Royal Garrison Artillery / Judge/Williams | 1:10 |
| 7 | ‘With Our Boys at the Front’ / ‘It’s a Long Way to Tipperary’ | Sgt. Edward Dwyer / Judge/Williams | 1:16 |
| 8 | The First World War Homefront | Sir Hugh Casson | 2:00 |
| 9 | 1924 Opening of the Tomb of Tutankhamun | Dr. Howard Carter | 1:24 |
| 10 | 1926 The General Strike | Jack Gaster | 1:36 |
| 11 | 1929 Election Speech on Unemployment | Ramsay MacDonald | 1:23 |
| 12 | 1930 G.B. Shaw and Albert Einstein | George Bernard Shaw and Albert Einstein | 2:16 |
| 13 | 1930 ‘The Story of My Flight’ / ‘Amy’ | Amy Johnson / Gilbert, Nicholls, Hylton | 2:30 |
| 14 | His Spiritual Message to the World | Mahatma Gandhi | 1:30 |
| 15 | 1932 First Royal Christmas Day Broadcast | King George V | 1:25 |
| 16 | 1934 Fascists’ Rally at Olympia / Interview | Sir Oswald Mosley / Lou Kenton | 2:47 |
| 17 | ‘Tonight at 8.30’ Scene From Shadow Play, Part 1 | Coward | 2:14 |
| 18 | 1936 Abdication of Edward VIII | King Edward VIII | 2:08 |
| 19 | 1937 Hindenburg Air Disaster | Herbert Morrison | 1:26 |
| 20 | Declaration of War | Neville Chamberlain | 0:42 |
| 21 | Air Raid Siren | [no artist] | 0:15 |
| 22 | ‘This Was Their Finest Hour’ | Sir Winston Churchill | 1:34 |
| 23 | Night Raid on London | [no artist] | 0:18 |
| 24 | ‘A Broadcast Message to Children’ | Princess Elizabeth | 1:25 |
| 25 | V1 Bomb | [no artist] | 0:41 |
| 26 | ‘White Cliffs of Dover’ | Vera Lynn accompanied by Mantovani and His Orchestra | 2:05 |
| 27 | 1948 Foundation of the National Health Service | Aneurin Bevan | 2:16 |
| 28 | Jazz Club Theme | Reg Arnold, Johnny Dankworth, Ronnie Scott, Victor Feldman, Jack Fallon, Ralph Sharon, Carlo Krahmer | 1:26 |
| 29 | Shakespeare: Othello | Paul Robeson | 1:08 |
| 30 | Coming to Britain | Gilli Salvat | 2:34 |
| 31 | ‘Sweet Jamaica’ | Lord Kitchener | 1:29 |
| 32 | ‘The Wind of Change’ | Harold Macmillan | 0:45 |
| 33 | 1960 ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ Goes on Sale | [unknown reporter] | 0:53 |
| 34 | ‘The White Heat of Technology’ | Harold Wilson | 0:55 |
| 35 | 1963 Assassination of President Kennedy | Reporters From KBOX Radio, Dallas | 1:56 |
| 36 | 1966 Football World Cup Final | Brian Moore and Maurice Edelston | 0:41 |
| 37 | 1968 Roll‐Out of First UK Concorde | [unknown TV reporter] | 1:21 |
| 38 | 1969 Apollo 11 Moon Landing | Buzz Aldrin, Neil A. Armstrong, Charlie Duke | 3:03 |
| 39 | 1972 Mary Peters Wins Olympic Gold | Mary Peters | 1:40 |
| 40 | Endangered Nature | Sir David Attenborough | 1:39 |
| 41 | 1982 Argentina Invades the Falkland Islands | Margaret Thatcher | 1:33 |
| 42 | 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall | Graham Leach | 1:04 |
| 43 | 1993 The Joint Declaration on Northern Island | John Major and Albert Reynolds | 1:13 |
| 44 | Diana, Princess of Wales | Diana, Princess of Wales, and Martin Bashir | 0:53 |
| 45 | 1997 Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales | The Earl Spencer | 1:23 |
| 46 | Britain and Europe | Tony Blair and William Hague | 2:34 |
| 47 | The Next Century | Pupils from Dagenham Priory Comprehensive School | 2:17 |