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  1. The Virtual Reality Virgin

    Tyger Drew-Honey explores how high-spec virtual reality headsets could change how we live.

    BBC Three

  2. Camila's Kids Company: The Inside Story

    This film records the dramatic implosion of one of Britain's best-known charities.

    BBC One

  3. Grime Scene Queens

    Following Marie Fagan and her all-girl extreme cleaning team.

    BBC One Scotland

  4. The Docklands Bomb: Executing Peace

    Looking at the events that resulted in the Docklands bombing twenty years ago.

    BBC One Northern Ireland

  5. The Story of Misty in Roots

    A profile of British reggae band Misty in Roots, who are appearing at the 6 Music Festival

    BBC Radio 6 Music

  6. The Easybeats to AC/DC: The Story of Aussie Rock

    How a family-run music company launched one of the world's great rock bands.

    BBC Four

  7.

    Batman and Ethan

    Ethan, a 10-year-old blind boy and gifted musician, learns echolocation.

    BBC Radio 4

  8.

    JD Salinger: Made in England

    How 3 months in rural Devon influenced one of the greatest chroniclers of urban New York

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  9.

    Unhappy Child, Unhealthy Adult

    How traumatic experiences in childhood contribute to poor health and shorter lives.

    BBC Radio 4

  10.

    Choose Life

    Twenty years after Trainspotting's release, the real-life addicts who inspired the actors.

    BBC Radio 4

  11. Rick Stein's Taste of Shanghai

    Shanghai is a rapidly expanding city, but has it hung on to its culinary roots?

    BBC Two

  12. How to Die: Simon's Choice

    Simon debates whether to end his life after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease.

    BBC Two

  13. Montalbano and Me: Andrea Camilleri

    A portrait of the man behind Inspector Montalbano, the Italian novelist Andrea Camilleri.

    BBC Four

  14. Addicted to Sheep

    A family of tenant hill farmers try to breed the perfect sheep in the Pennines.

    BBC Four

  15. Facelifts and Fillers

    Following the patients and doctors at one of Scotland's busiest cosmetic medicine clinics.

    BBC Scotland

  16. Botticelli's Venus: The Making of an Icon

    Sam Roddick explores the enduring appeal of Botticelli's masterpiece The Birth of Venus.

    BBC Four

  17. The Great Car Crash Con

    How Welsh police uncovered one of the UK's biggest ever cases of motor insurance fraud.

    BBC News

  18.

    Ireland's Treasures Uncovered

    The story of the iconic Irish artefacts that have helped shape and create modern Ireland.

    BBC One Northern Ireland

  19.

    Musical Variations: The Life of Angela Morley

    The colourful career of British composer and transgender pioneer Angela Morley.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  20.

    The Art of Adultery

    Natalie Haynes finds out why adultery remains such a regular subject in popular culture.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  21. The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive: 10 Years On

    Stephen Fry follows up on his 2006 series about manic depression.

    BBC One

  22. My Baby, Psychosis and Me

    Documentary following two mums for whom childbirth triggers postpartum psychosis.

    BBC One

  23.

    The Next Step Live - The Movie

    A performance by the cast of The Next Step in their sold-out tour across Canada.

    CBBC

  24. Williams on the Wireless

    A selection of highlights to mark the 90th anniversary of the birth of Kenneth Williams.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  25. Before I Kick the Bucket: The Whole Story

    The late Rowena Kincaid revealing what was on her bucket list.

    BBC One Wales

  26.

    Simon Schama: The Obliterators

    Simon Schama offers some context for the destruction of antiquities in Syria and Iraq.

    BBC Radio 4

  27.

    Black, White and Beethoven

    Joseph Harker asks why Britain's classical music scene remains so resolutely white.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  28.

    Laverne in the Willows

    Lauren Laverne celebrates Kenneth Grahame's classic tale, 'The Wind in the Willows'.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  29.

    An Eton Experience

    Each year disadvantaged pupils get the opportunity to enter the hallowed corridors of Eton

    BBC Radio 4

  30.

    Glad to Be Grey

    Grey-haired Professor Mary Beard investigates why fewer people are now "Glad to be Grey".

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  31. Kipling's Indian Adventure

    Patrick Hennessey travels to Lahore in the footsteps of Rudyard Kipling.

    BBC Two

  32. A Border of Life and Death

    Following 62-year-old Annie Mulholland's campaign for fairer cancer care in Wales.

    BBC One Wales

  33. In It to Wynne It

    Wynne Evans joins the Swansea Synchro team to learn a special Bollywood-inspired routine.

    BBC One Wales

  34.

    The Pope's Letters

    Extracts from letters charting a friendship between Pope John Paul II and a married woman.

    BBC Radio 4

  35.

    Ghosts of the Tsunami

    Five years after Japan's tsunami, some survivors report seeing the ghosts of the dead.

    BBC Radio 4

  36.

    Tim Key Delves Into Daniil Kharms And That’s All

    Tim Key gives his surreal and startling take on the Soviet absurdist writer Daniil Kharms.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  37. Pompeii: New Secrets Revealed with Mary Beard

    Mary Beard uses modern technology to examine the secrets of the victims of the eruption.

    BBC One

  38. The Real Henry James (Omnibus)

    The great 19th Century writer is revealed through his letters and memoirs.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  39.

    Brexit: What Happens to Scotland?

    What impact would Brexit have on Scotland's politics and economy? Sarah Smith investigates

    BBC Radio 4

  40. Dunblane: Our Story

    Commemorating the Dunblane shooting, one of the worst firearms atrocities in the UK.

    BBC One Scotland

  41.

    The Day the Refugees Came

    Michael Palin's story of a group of refugees welcomed to Somerset.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  42.

    Sport and Fitness: Running in Circles

    As the Olympics approach, Peter White considers the confusion over sport and fitness.

    BBC Radio 4

  43. The Return of the Flying Scotsman

    Following the Flying Scotsman as it returns to the tracks after a ten-year restoration.

    BBC Four

  44. Britain's Secret Slavery Business

    Darragh MacIntyre exposes the reality of modern-day slavery and exploitation in Britain.

    BBC Two

  45. The Boy with No Hands

    Documentary following Alan Gifford, who is looking to receive a £30,000 bionic hand.

    BBC One Wales

  46. Boris: The London Years

    Jo Coburn takes a behind-the-scenes look at Boris Johnson's eight years as mayor of London

    BBC One

  47. Lord Byron and the Hebrew Melodies

    The little-known story of how the poem She Walks in Beauty was set to Jewish music.

    BBC Radio 4

  48.

    The Horns of a Dilemma

    Will the sale of harvested rhino horn help to stop poaching?

    BBC Radio 4

  49.

    The Women Who Wrote Rock

    Kate Mossman tells the story of long-overlooked female music writers of the 1960s.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  50.

    Dance Your Life Away

    Contemporary community dance in Oxford, from the cradle to the grave

    BBC Radio 4

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