Going through early 1990s TV listings to see how they compare to the present media environment. In Feb 1992, BBC2 broadcast a two-part documentary for the 100th anniversary of Tito's birth

Other BBC2 highlights from (the arbitrarily chosen) month of February 1992: a Peter Adair documentary about HIV, a weekly cinema show that interviewed Wim Wenders, and One In Four looking at disabled musicians (signed and subtitled) ...

Northern Irish politician Bernadette Devlin McAliskey and trans actor/activist/model Caroline Cossey appearing on the Open to Question strand, and a documentary asking if the present laws were adequate for rape and sexual assault trials ...

A series made to commemorate French cellist Paul Tortelier; a Fine Cut documentary by Les Blank; an update on the Comrades series about Soviet citizens made in 1985, looking at how the people featured were doing after the USSR collapsed ...

Plenty of children's programming and Open University slots, a live transmission of Don Giovanni from the Royal Opera House, and a film of Federico García Lorca's House of Bernarda Alba ...

An epic Indian drama series and a TV film starring and written by Meera Syal, a Horizon episode about Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg, a special report on youth homelessness, Jonathan Meades' Abroad In Britain ...

An Arena episode about rock star Dean Read's popularity in the USSR, a German film about a gay teacher, and a Fine Cut slot with a documentary by Chris Petit "of 'Radio On' fame" ...

Obviously there was a fair amount of dross/filler on BBC2 at this time as well, but compare the intellectual, cultural and political range of this single month's highlights to what BBC TV is offering now and there's really no contest

Old listings via the BBC Genome project at https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/  if anyone fancies conducting a similar experiment

That site only has BBC listings, obviously, but I wonder how Channel 4 looked in (say) February 1992 and how that compares to its present output