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Faith in Music
Composer Sir James MacMillan considers the faith lives of composers over the centuries.
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The Power of Three
A deeply personal documentary series, as triplets face living apart for the first time.
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Generation Covid
How has the mental health of young people been affected by the pandemic and lockdown?
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Defending Digga D
Following rapper Digga D as he is released from a 15-month stint in prison.
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Poems at Dusk
Poet Theresa Lola explores the relationship between poetry, old age and mortality.
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Africa United in Manchester
Documentary about the 5th Pan African Congress, held in Manchester 75 years ago.
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Inside the Brain of Jeff Bezos
The ideas making Jeff Bezos the richest man on earth and Amazon 2020's business success.
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Living with the Dragon
Nick Robinson examines the recent history of the UK's relationship with China.
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The Raising of Coventry
Telling the story of the bombing of Coventry 80 years ago on November 14th, 1940.
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How to Vaccinate the World
Tim Harford reports on the global race to create a vaccine to end the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Assume Nothing
The teams assume nothing as they examine events through fresh eyes.
Âé¶¹Éç Radio Ulster
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Can I Still Read Harry Potter?
A fan of the boy wizard explores what it means to stop reading a beloved book.
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Britain in Ten Operas
Roderick Williams investigates what our opera history tells us about British identity.
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East Meets West
The UK has a north and south divide but how about east and west? Chris Mason investigates.
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Cornwall with Simon Reeve
Simon Reeve travels through glorious Cornwall as the county emerges from lockdown.
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Is This Coercive Control?
A group of people come together to try to understand what constitutes coercive control.
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The Most Successful Assassination in History
The night Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin was gunned down - changing the Middle East forever.
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Dark Land: Hunting the Killers
Reinvestigating some of Wales's most shocking unsolved murders.
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Race and the American Vote
Monica Campbell explores how race and identity are shaping the American election.
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The Year the Music Stopped
Arlo Parks reflects on a year without live music with artists including Yannis from Foals.
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Back to Uni
Anoushka follows new students coping with starting at her university as Covid cases rise.
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The Wedding Detectives
The Wedding Detectives uncover the often dramatic stories behind lost wedding photographs.
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Michael Morpurgo's Folk Journeys
Michael Morpurgo travels to the heart of some of the greatest songs ever composed.
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Reading the Water
Writer Chris Yates explores the spirit of carp fishing at a Wiltshire lake in midsummer.
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Being British East Asian: Sex, Beauty & Bodies
Elaine Chong reveals how many British East Asians feel between cultures of West and East.
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Under the Cloud
It's the key metaphor of the internet, ethereal and fluffy - but what is the cloud hiding?
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Doon the Watta
Nicholas Parsons revisits the Clyde where he was an apprentice in the 1940s.
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The Straight Man
Nicholas Parsons presents a potted history of the 'straight man' in comedy double-acts.
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Nicholas Parsons: A Man of Many Parts
Paul Jackson celebrates the many showbiz lives of the irrepressible Nicholas Parsons.
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The New Deal - A Story For Our Times
Marybeth Hamilton explores how America responded to the Great Depression with The New Deal
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Black Star Line: The Story of Marcus Garvey
A look at the life of black activist Marcus Garvey.
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Surviving Unemployment
Three newly jobless young people learn from survivors of the 1980s unemployment crisis.
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Anatomy of Touch
How important is touch to us? Claudia Hammond reveals the Âé¶¹Éç Touch Test results.
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Long Covid
Adam Rutherford explores the science behind why recovery from covid can be so protracted.
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Back to School
Radio 4 goes Back to School to explore the new world of socially distanced education.
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Packing Up The Family Home
Geoff Bird and his siblings clear fifty years’ worth of stuff from their old family home.
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Cannadine on Class
Professor David Cannadine argues historians and politicians have overplayed the class card
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Hip-hop’s Laughing Stock
Joe Jacobs is a failing rapper trying to make a career as a stand-up comedian.
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Two Minutes Past Nine
25 years on, journalist Leah Sottile investigates the legacy of the Oklahoma City Bombing.
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The Green Lady in the Toilets
Emmy the Great seeks musical inspiration from the ghosts of the school toilets.
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Blood Lands
A true story of a murder investigation which takes us to the heart of modern South Africa.
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Vaccines, Money and Politics
What will it really take to vaccinate the world against Covid 19?
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Extinction: The Facts
Sir David Attenborough investigates the loss of biodiversity happening around us.
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The Austerity Audit
Paul Johnson offers an in-depth analysis of the UK's decade of austerity.
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