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  1. Mallorca and Middle-Aged Men in Lycra

    Middle-Aged Men in Lycra flock to Mallorca each year for it's perfect cycling conditions

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  2. 1914: Day by Day

    Historian Margaret MacMillan chronicles the road to war in 1914.

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  3. The New Viking Invasion

    Why is there such an increasing demand for Danish sperm donors? Kate Brian investigates.

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    Linard's Travels

    An insight into the life of Linard Davies, a baggage attendant at San Francisco airport.

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    Bella Hardy Goes Home

    Radio 2's Folk Singer of the Year 2014 goes back to her roots, Edale in Derbyshire.

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    Controlling Our Borders

    Winifred Robinson investigates changes to border controls in the wake of election results.

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    Travelling the Spaceways: The Cult of Sun Ra

    Decades after his death, why does Sun Ra continue to inspire an obsessive following?

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    Generation Right

    Declan Harvey investigates if today's under-30s are a new right-wing political generation.

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    Marginalia

    Simon Armitage travels to the edge of the page in his exploration of marginalia.

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    Pole to Pole

    Half a million Poles have settled here in the last decade. Are they becoming British?

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    Jock Stein

    The story of Jock Stein, Scotland's greatest ever football manager.

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    The Unmaking of the English Working Class

    Historian Jon Lawrence of Cambridge University asks what has happened to the working class

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    D-Day: A Family Affair

    Paddy O'Connell meets D-Day veterans and asks 'what is remembrance?'.

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  14. Britain at Sea

    Admiral Lord West tells the story of the Royal Navy during the 20th century.

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  15. A Good Man in Rwanda

    A story of remarkable bravery from the Rwandan genocide of twenty years ago.

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    For All the TV in China

    Paul Jackson reports on TV in China, and the British producers hoping to succeed there.

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  17. Fit for Purpose

    Anne McElvoy and John Harris host a series of debates on institutions under pressure.

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  18. Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Primary Colours

    Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen presents a history of colour

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  19. Rooms with a View

    Tom Dyckhoff discovers that few things show our social status as clearly as windows.

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    Is Journalism Healthy?

    Can an NHS ethics code for medics, managers and public relations staff ever work?

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    Educating Ulster

    Andrea Catherwood examines the movement for integrated schools in Northern Ireland.

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    Melencolia

    Art historian Dr. Janina Ramirez is on a mission to decode Durer's Melencolia 1.

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    Little Chechnya on the Steppes

    The story of Kazakhstan's Chechens: exiled by Stalin, sustained by faith and memory.

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    The Bronze Age Man of Jodrell Bank

    His home's Bronze Age legacy and nearby Jodrell Bank inspire author Alan Garner to write.

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    Disabled and Broody: My Impossible Choice

    Julie Fernandez considers whether to have children at risk of inheriting her disability.

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    Personality Politics

    Timandra Harkness discovers links between political choices and how our brains function.

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    Singing with the Nightingales

    Sam Lee marks the 100th anniversary of cellist Beatrice Harrison's duet with a nightingale

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    Disabled and Behind Bars

    Nikki Fox investigates the treatment of disabled people in British prisons.

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    Cyprus: Divided Memory, United Future?

    Maria Margaronis explores the divided history of Cyprus, as a new settlement awaits.

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    The Future Is Not What It Used to Be

    How will the workforce of the future be changed by advanced technologies?

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    The Fisher Poets Gathering

    In the port of Astoria, Oregon, Katrina Porteous reports on the Fisher Poets Gathering.

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    With Humble Duty Reports...

    How a government whip told the Queen what really went on in the House of Commons.

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  33. The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain

    Dr Lucy Worsley tells the story of Britain's first Georgian kings.

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  34. Intelligence: Born Smart, Born Equal, Born Different

    Adam Rutherford charts the rise, fall and rise of the genetics of intelligence

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  35. A Gripping Yarn

    Jane Garvey's world of knitting - full of rebels, musicians, jailbirds and reality TV.

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    Teachers vs Government: Seventy Years of Education Policy

    Assessing 70 years of conflict and consensus since secondary education became free to all.

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    The Crime Conundrum

    An examination of the causes of the dramatic fall in crime over the last 20 years.

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    Bombay Jazz

    Sarfraz Manzoor explores a fascinating period of jazz music history in India.

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    Caribbean Domino Club

    Benjamin Zephaniah uncovers the passion, mind games and intrigue of competitive dominoes.

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    Tacita Dean: Save This Language

    Artist Tacita Dean travels to UNESCO on a mission to save photochemical film.

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    How Do Children Learn History?

    With a new history curriculum coming, Adam Smith explores how pupils learn about the past.

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    Blind Date with Don Camillo

    Communism vies with the Catholic church in Italy's post-war comic creation, Don Camillo.

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    Rubbish: The Great Waste Crisis

    Chris Mullin investigates what really happens to our rubbish.

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    Thatcher's Mad Monk or True Prophet?

    Keith Joseph's impact as the trailblazer for Thatcherism is assessed by James Landale.

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  45. Podcasting - The First Ten Years

    Podcasters Helen Zaltzman and Olly Mann trace the origins of on-demand radio.

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  46. Five Hundred Years of Friendship Omnibus

    Dr Thomas Dixon presents a history of the changing meaning of friendship.

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  47. Scotland Meet Murray Lachlan Young

    Poet Murray Lachlan Young goes in search of his Scottishness.

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    The Great Space Hunt

    Jolyon Jenkins speaks to the unsung enthusiasts on a mission to protect us from asteroids

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    PPI: Britain's Biggest Banking Scandal

    Michael Robinson investigates the continuing costs of the PPI mis-selling scandal.

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  50. Five Writers in Search of Their Character

    Writers talk about their favourite characters.

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