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  1. A Century of Hope

    Greg Proops looks back at the life of Bob Hope, whose career spanned the 20th century.

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    Care, Work, Sleep, Repeat

    Dave Howard finds out what it is like to be a young adult carer.

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    How to Dig a Grave

    Hand-digging a grave is a dying art. Cathy FitzGerald takes lessons.

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  4. Human Universe

    Prof Brian Cox explores the most precious, most wonderful thing in the universe, us.

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  5. In Praise of Limestone

    Ian McMillan searches for the limestone landscape that inspired the poet WH Auden.

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  6. An Eye for Pattern: The Letters of Dorothy Hodgkin

    A portrait of Dorothy Hodgkin, the only female British scientist to win a Nobel Prize.

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  7. 21st Century Mythologies

    Peter Conrad dissects the popular culture of his era, as Roland Barthes did 60 years ago.

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  8. The Year of the Drone

    Will Robson assesses the controversial use of drones by Britain's armed forces.

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  9. Sacred Rivers with Simon Reeve

    Simon Reeve explores the influence three rivers have on the countries they flow through.

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  10. Seven Round a Cauldron

    Peter White meets some of the youngsters who played a key role in the 2012 Olympics.

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    One Day In... Leeds West Indian Carnival

    Dancers, designers, police and parade-goers experience the Leeds West Indian Carnival.

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    Inside the Ebola Lock-Down

    Tim Mansel on Sierra Leone's 5.8m asked to stay home for 72 hours in a bid to stem Ebola.

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  13. Open or Wrapped...?

    Alison Clarkson follows eight people on a fish and chip shop course in Leeds.

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  14. Germany: Memories of a Nation

    Neil MacGregor explores 600 years of Germany's complex and often challenging history.

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  15. Hamlet Undressed

    A look behind the scenes at Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre's Hamlet with Maxine Peake.

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    Voices of the Air

    Documentary telling the story of the 麻豆社 Singers from its beginnings in the 1920s.

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    In Search of the Ideal Music Venue

    Acoustics expert Trevor Cox goes in search of the best venues for different types of music

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  18. Last Day

    Documentary series exploring people's last days at work.

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  19. Same-Sex Parents

    Mary Smeeth talks to same-sex parents about the challenges of raising their children.

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    Patients Doing It for Themselves

    Vivienne Parry explores how patients are taking control of their own treatment.

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    Yesterday's Papers: The End of the Music Press

    David Hepworth talks to fellow writers and bloggers about the decline of the music press

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  22. British Art at War: Bomberg, Sickert and Nash

    The story of how three British artists responded to the cataclysm of World War One.

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  23. Power in the Blood: The Life of Ian Paisley

    William Crawley looks at the life of former Northern Ireland first minister Ian Paisley.

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  24. Operation Stonehenge: What Lies Beneath

    Two-part documentary following a team of scientists hoping to reveal Stonehenge's secrets.

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  25. The Wood Pushers

    A close encounter with the street chess players of Washington Square park, New York.

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    Andy Warhol: Time Regained

    Lenny Henry unveils the mysterious contents of Andy Warhol's Time Capsules.

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  27. FutureProofing

    Series examining the big ideas that are set to transform the way society functions

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  28. Urine Trouble: What's in Our Water

    What happens to the medicines we take after they leave our body? Andrea Sella finds out.

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    High St Fashion: Weaving New Threads

    Sarah Butler asks, can the Bangladesh garment industry become ethical and profitable?

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    Build and Be Damned

    The Victorians built grand ambitious railways, sewers and tunnels. Should we do the same?

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    Casa Negra: The Real Casablanca

    Andrew Hussey on the cultural renaissance affecting Morocco's largest city.

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    The Mother of the Sea

    Quentin Cooper tells the story of a British scientist hailed as a god in Japan.

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    Glenshane

    Marie-Louise Muir explores the landscape, history and people of the Glenshane Pass.

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    Tupac Shakur, Hip Hop Immortal.....

    Poet and playwright Al Letson recalls the life of Tupac Shakur.

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    The Life Sub-Aquatic

    Whatever happened to the dream of living under the sea? Helen Scales investigates

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  36. Our School

    Documentary series following students as they go from primary to secondary school.

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  37. The Secret Life of Books

    Classic books are reconsidered by returning to the writers' original manuscripts.

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  38. Painful Medicine

    Sally Marlow investigates the hidden problem of addiction to over-the-counter painkillers.

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    The Poet Librettists

    Michael Symmons Roberts explores why so many poets choose to become opera librettists.

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    Mum and Dad and Mum

    Rebecca Morelle examines how children could be born with DNA from three people.

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    Digitising Stalin

    For Stalin, privacy was key. So how would he feel about his secrets being revealed?

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    A Theatre For Everyman

    As Liverpool's Everyman Theatre prepares to re-open, we hear from those who worked there.

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  43. Penguin Post Office

    The adventures of a film crew who travel to Antarctica to film a colony of Gentoo penguins

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  44. The Lessons of Ray Honeyford

    Aasmah Mir on the outspoken head teacher who caused a national controversy.

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    The Map That Made Manhattan

    Exploring the Manhattan grid as city matrix, psychic space and a bold political ideal.

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    Sandhurst and the Sheikhs

    How does training at Sandhurst Academy bolster militarised monarchies of the Arab world?

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    Whatever Happened to Global Governance?

    Prof Ngaire Woods examines how international cooperation is evolving.

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    Music of the Forest

    Horatio Clare tells the story of the unconventional anthropologist Colin Turnbull.

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    Everything We Know Is Wrong

    Most published science papers are untrue, but few ever get tested. Jolyon Jenkins reports.

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    Why Men Pay for Sex

    What motivates men to pay women to sleep with them? Four men tell Jo Fidgen why they do it

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