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  1. My Family and Other Ibex

    Andrea Sella returns to the Italian landscape of his childhood to explore how it's changed

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    Heaven and Earth: Le Ly Hayslip

    Writer Le Ly Hayslip tells how she survived the Vietnam war and its aftermath.

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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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    The Lost Women of British Jazz

    Shining a light on the earliest female jazz pioneers, who were erased from music history.

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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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  6. Election Call

    Hear interviews with the candidates for each constituency ahead of polling day.

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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. Lorraine Pascale: How to Be a Better Cook

    Lorraine Pascale shows people with no kitchen confidence how to cook impressive meals.

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  10. Operation Stonehenge: What Lies Beneath

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

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  11. 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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  13. FutureProofing

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

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  14. 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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    The Lost Genius of Judee Sill

    Ruth Barnes explores the music, life and loves of the singer songwriter Judee Sill

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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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  23. The Secret Life of Books

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

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  24. 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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  29. Penguin Post Office

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

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  30. 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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    Don't Go in the Water!

    Shark biologist Gareth Fraser explores Jaws, forty years after Peter Benchley created it.

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  38. Lucy Mangan's Literary Solutions to the Economy

    Writer Lucy Mangan selects five different economic remedies from literature.

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  39. Still Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo?

    Allan Little returns to Sarajevo to explore the role of the arts in restoring the city.

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  40. Agree to Differ

    Discussion programme that gives listeners a new way to understand controversial issues.

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  41. The Waiting

    Raymond Tallis describes how the act of waiting pervades so much of our daily lives.

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    Taking the Edge Off

    Francine Stock explores our use of mind-altering substances and Aldous Huxley's influence.

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    Langley School Music Project

    The story of a Canadian school music recording that inspired the film School of Rock.

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    Ansel Adams on Tape

    Miles Warde explores the life of American photographer Ansel Adams

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    A Family Without a Child

    The stories of three women in a touching exploration of what it means to be childless.

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    Learning to Listen

    Dominic Sandbrook explores how the first generation of radio listeners learned to listen.

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    The Voter's Voice

    James Naughtie hosts discussion about Scotland's future, from the Edinburgh Festival.

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  48. The Wonder of Animals

    Chris Packham discovers the unique features that make certain animal groups successful.

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  49. The Educators

    Sarah Montague interviews the people whose ideas are challenging the future of education.

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  50. The Birth of Love

    Dr Laura Ashe reveals how our ideas of romantic love were born in 12th-century literature.

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