Don't Look Back in Anger

This archive news documentary revisits the headline stories that have shaped the past 21 years. In the current episode the focus is on the events of 2018. It assembles archived footage and reports to give a comprehensive overview of the most significant news developments over more than two decades.

The programme is an archive‑based news documentary that revisits the most talked‑about headlines from the previous twenty‑one years. It presents a chronological look back at recent history, using material drawn from the news archives to give viewers a clear picture of how events unfolded over that period. In the edition that airs this week, the focus turns to the year 2018. The episode compiles the major stories that dominated the news cycle during that twelve‑month span, offering a concise roundup of the events that captured public attention at the time. The documentary relies on existing footage and reports from the archive, stitching them together to form a coherent narrative of 2018’s headline moments. By concentrating on a single year, it follows the series’ pattern of breaking the broader twenty‑one‑year review into manageable, week‑long segments. This approach lets the audience step back from the immediacy of daily news and see how the stories from 2018 fit into the larger tapestry of recent history. Each weekly focus, such as the one on 2018, contributes to the overall aim of the series: to provide a structured, retrospective look at the headlines that have shaped the past two decades.