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What if Africa was the New Hub of Global Science?
Âé¶¹Éç World Service hosts an international science festival from the heart of Africa.
Âé¶¹Éç World Service
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What If Everyone Was Disabled?
Mat Fraser imagines how different our world would be if everybody had a disability.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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What If Our Textbooks Were Black?
A series celebrating Black cultural figures who should be more central to history.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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What If We Stopped Buying Stuff and Started Making It?
Meet the crafts people behind the current revival in making and repairing belongings.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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What If...
A series of programmes about what the world of the future might be like.
Âé¶¹Éç World Service
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What In The World (Visualisation)
Helping you make sense of what's happening in your world
Âé¶¹Éç World Service TV
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What is Civil Society?
Examining the ideology behind a non-governmental society
Âé¶¹Éç World Service
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What Is IS?
David Aaronovitch untangles the ideological threads that make up the 'Islamic State'.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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What Is Quantum?
Marnie Chesterton travels to the birthplace of quantum theory armed with just one question
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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What Just Happened?
Join Robin Morgan and a panel of talent, all ready to satirise the past week
Âé¶¹Éç Radio Wales
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What Makes Us Human
Jeremy Vine explores what makes us human with leading thinkers and writers.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 2
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What On Earth? With Count Binface
Space politician Count Binface invades Radio 4 to learn about Earth and how to conquer it.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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What Planet Are We On? ...with Liz Bonnin
Offering solutions and tips to combat climate change with Liz Bonnin and guests.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 5 Live
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What Point Prison? The Debate
Stephen Sackur chairs a debate in Nottingham about the role of prison in the 21st century.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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What Really Happened in the Nineties?
Robert Carlyle takes us back to moments we missed in the '90s that shaped the world today.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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What Remains
Detective Len Harper investigates when a couple discover a body in their new flat.
Âé¶¹Éç One
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What Should We Teach Our Kids?
Robert Peston investigates the future for secondary education.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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What Syria Means for Britain
John Kampfner examines the potential consequences of Britain not intervening in Syria.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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What Thatcher Did Next
Elinor Goodman explores Margaret Thatcher's life after she ceased to be prime minister.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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What the Romans Did for Us
The innovations and inventions brought to Britain by the Romans.
Âé¶¹Éç Two
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What the Scandinavians Know About Children's Literature
Mariella Frostrup looks at Scandinavian children's literature.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4 Extra
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What the Songbird Said
Angela Saini explores the science of birdsong and its relationship to human language.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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What We Do in the Shadows
Following four vampires who have been roommates for hundreds and hundreds of years.
Âé¶¹Éç Two
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What We’ve Learnt About Grief
Cariad Lloyd reveals how science is revolutionising our understanding of grief.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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What Were They Thinking?
Mark Lawson examines how four cultural hits from 1999 have stood up to the test of time
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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What Would Bagehot Say?
What does Bagehot's The English Constitution mean today? Adrian Wooldridge investigates.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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What? Seriously??
Dara O Briain and Isy Suttie, with special guests, discover strange-but-true stories.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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What's Eating The Museum?
The battle to save museum collections from insect pests.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4 Extra
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What's Funny about Money?
Comedian Colm O'Regan reports from the Kilkenomics festival in Ireland. Davos with laughs.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4 Extra
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What's Funny About...
Peter Fincham and Jon Plowman hear the inside story of the biggest TV comedies.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4 Extra
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What's in a Game?
Alex Humphreys asks if video games should be appreciated as a form of art
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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What's in a Name?
Sangita Myska with a witty and insightful exploration of names in contemporary Britain.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4 Extra
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What's Left Of Communism?
Where and how communism has survived the collapse of the Soviet Union
Âé¶¹Éç World Service
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What's Left of Kerouac?
Looking for Jack Kerouac in his hometown on his 100th birthday.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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What's Left?
Andrew Rawnsley chairs a studio debate on the future of the Labour Party.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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What's Love Got to Do with It?
An award-winning film-maker documents her best friend's journey into an assisted marriage.
Âé¶¹Éç One
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What's News?
Young people find the news boring. How do we make current affairs matter to them?
Âé¶¹Éç World Service
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What's on Your Head?
Explore things that people wear on their head in different cultures, jobs and sports.
CBeebies
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What's That You're Eating?
The human body needs fuel to work. A look at how our body responds to food
Âé¶¹Éç World Service
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What's the Benefit?
Tom Heap aims to get behind the tabloid headlines on the UK's unemployed
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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What's the Point of...?
Quentin Letts takes a witty but thought-provoking look at some great British institutions
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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What's the Story, Ashley Storrie?
The story of Ashley, a tall comedian who loves William Shatner and hates textured fabrics.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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What's Up Docs?
Chris and Xand van Tulleken are on a mission to help us take better care of ourselves.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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What's Up, Doc?
Four identical bags get mixed up - one of which is full of top-secret documents.
Âé¶¹Éç Two
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What’s a Tory?
Lewis Goodall wonders what it means to be a Conservative in Britain today.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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What’s Eating Rotherham
Rotherham resident Joanne Keeling looks at the problem of emotional overeating in the town
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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What’s in Your Bag?
Explore the things people from different backgrounds and jobs carry in their bags and why.
CBeebies
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What’s in Your Plant Pot?
Explore the incredible plants that people in the UK grow, work with or are inspired by.
CBeebies
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Whatever Happened to Baby Jane Austen?
Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders are warring sisters in David Quantick's sparkling comedy
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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Whatever Happened to Global Governance?
Prof Ngaire Woods examines how international cooperation is evolving.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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Whatever Happened To...?
Lauren Laverne follows the lives of people who spent an intense period of time together.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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Wheel of Misfortune
Alison Spittle, Kerry Katona and listeners share their funniest embarrassing stories.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 5 Live
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When ABBA Came to Britain
The story of ABBA’s 50-year relationship with the UK in their own words.
Âé¶¹Éç Two
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When Alan Yentob Met Jenny Saville
Alan Yentob interviews leading British artist Jenny Saville.
Âé¶¹Éç Two
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When Blondie Came to Britain
The story of Britain’s long relationship with one of the world’s biggest bands – Blondie.
Âé¶¹Éç Two
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When Bob Marley Came to Britain
How Bob Marley influenced politics and culture in the UK in the turbulent 1970s.
Âé¶¹Éç Two
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When Britain Invaded Russia
The brutal war a century ago which transformed Russia's relations with the west.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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When Cassius Met The Beatles
The tale of an unexpected encounter between 20th century legends - in a Miami gym in 1964.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4 Extra
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When Greeks Flew Kites
Monthly series in which Sarah Dunant finds stories from the past to help frame the present
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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When Hollywood Met Halifax
How Jayne Mansfield shook up the northern club scene before she died.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4 Extra
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When Hoover Sneezed...
How the iconic factory shaped postwar Merthyr with laughs, drama, romance and spirit.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio Wales
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When I Met Jane Austen
Writers and thinkers tell Dr Paula Byrne how they first encountered the author Jane Austen
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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When I Was 25
Vinny takes his guests back to their mid-20s. What advice would they give themselves now?
Âé¶¹Éç Radio Ulster
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When It Hits the Fan
Who's in the news for all the wrong reasons? With David Yelland and Farzana Baduel.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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When Katty Met Carlos
From the Âé¶¹Éç and Ozy, Katty Kay and Carlos Watson share fresh perspectives on America
Âé¶¹Éç World Service
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When Louis Met...
Louis Theroux accompanies British celebrities as they go about their day-to-day business.
Âé¶¹Éç Two
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When Mary Beard Met...
Mary Beard meets fascinating figures from the worlds of art, literature and politics
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When Motown Came to Britain
How a group of dedicated music fans paved the way for the first Motown tour of Britain.
Âé¶¹Éç Two
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When Nirvana Came to Britain
A look at the special relationship between Nirvana and the UK, 30 years on from Nevermind.
Âé¶¹Éç Two
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When Nudes Are Stolen
Former glamour model Jess Davies uncovers the hidden trade in nude photographs.
Âé¶¹Éç Three
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When Parents Split
Philippa Perry explores the psychological manipulation of children during divorce.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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When Reality Breaks: Demystifying Paranoid Schizophrenia
Dr Julia Shaw on the ripple effects of paranoid schizophrenia in a family.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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When Ruby Wax Met...
Ruby Wax walks us through her famous interviews from the 90s, never repeated until now.
Âé¶¹Éç Two
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When Snooker Ruled the World
Take a look back to the golden era of snooker in the 1970s and 80s. (2002)
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When Stockhausen Came to Huddersfield
The poet Ian McMillan on what really happened when Stockhausen came to Huddersfield.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4 Extra
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When the Gods Return
Tim Malyon and John Crook witness a great monastic festival in Ladakh, north-west India
Âé¶¹Éç World Service
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When the People Say Not Sure
Peter Hennessy and guests discuss how a government is formed if there is a hung parliament
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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When The Pips Stop
The story of two sisters learning to live together without their cherished Radio 4.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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When the Rainforest is Stolen
The threats to the rainforests of Madagascar through the eyes of the Malagasy people
Âé¶¹Éç World Service
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When Tina Turner Came to Britain
The story of Tina Turner’s 50-year relationship with the UK in her own words.
Âé¶¹Éç Two
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When to Break Up the Party
Steven Fielding draws on past party splits to assess what's happening in our politics now.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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When Van Played Cyprus Avenue
Marie-Louise Muir explores the significance of Van Morrison's Belfast gigs.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4 Extra
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When Wars End
How conflict resolution professionals are dealing with a world focused on war
Âé¶¹Éç World Service
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When Washington Came to Brum
How some of the earliest American literary classics were actually written in Birmingham.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4 Extra
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When Will Theatre Come Black?
As the sector rebuilds, Bridget Minamore imagines a new future for Black British theatre.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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When Women Wore the Trousers
Laura Barton presents a brief history of trousers, from function to fashion.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4 Extra
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When Yorkshire Played New York
A legendary match leads us into the extraordinary cultural history of cricket in America.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4 Extra
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Where are all the black women in Grime?
Yomi Adegoke examines the representation of black women in the UK Grime scene.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4
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Where Are All the Working Class Writers?
Why are so few novelists from working class backgrounds?
Âé¶¹Éç Radio 4 Extra