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  1. Same-Sex Parents

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

    BBC Radio 4

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    Patients Doing It for Themselves

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

    BBC Radio 4

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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

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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

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

    BBC Four

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

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

    BBC Radio 4

  6. Operation Stonehenge: What Lies Beneath

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

    BBC Two

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  7. The Wood Pushers

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

    BBC Radio 4

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    Andy Warhol: Time Regained

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

    BBC Radio 4

  9. FutureProofing

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

    BBC Radio 4

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  10. Urine Trouble: What's in Our Water

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

    BBC Radio 4

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    High St Fashion: Weaving New Threads

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

    BBC Radio 4

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    Build and Be Damned

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

    BBC Radio 4

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    Casa Negra: The Real Casablanca

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

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    The Mother of the Sea

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

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    Glenshane

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

    BBC Radio Ulster

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    Tupac Shakur, Hip Hop Immortal.....

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

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    The Life Sub-Aquatic

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

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  18. Our School

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

    CBBC

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  19. The Secret Life of Books

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

    BBC Four

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  20. Painful Medicine

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

    BBC Radio 4

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    The Poet Librettists

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

    BBC Radio 4

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    Mum and Dad and Mum

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

    BBC Radio 4

  23.

    Digitising Stalin

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

    BBC Radio 4

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    A Theatre For Everyman

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

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  25. Penguin Post Office

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

    BBC Radio 4

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  26. The Lessons of Ray Honeyford

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

    BBC Radio 4

  27.

    The Map That Made Manhattan

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

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    Sandhurst and the Sheikhs

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

    BBC Radio 4

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    Whatever Happened to Global Governance?

    Prof Ngaire Woods examines how international cooperation is evolving.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Music of the Forest

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

    BBC Radio 4

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    Everything We Know Is Wrong

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

    BBC Radio 4

  32.

    Why Men Pay for Sex

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

    BBC Radio 4

  33.

    Don't Go in the Water!

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

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  34. Lucy Mangan's Literary Solutions to the Economy

    Writer Lucy Mangan selects five different economic remedies from literature.

    BBC Radio 4

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  35. Still Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo?

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

    BBC Radio 4

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    Taking the Edge Off

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

    BBC Radio 4

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    Langley School Music Project

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

    BBC Radio 4

  38.

    Ansel Adams on Tape

    Miles Warde explores the life of American photographer Ansel Adams

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  39.

    A Family Without a Child

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

    BBC Radio 4

  40.

    Learning to Listen

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

    BBC Radio 4

  41. The Wonder of Animals

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

    BBC Four

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  42. The Voter's Voice

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

    BBC Radio 4

  43.

    The Birth of Love

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

    BBC Radio 4

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    The Tories and the Police: The End of the Affair

    Robin Aitken examines the relationship between the Conservative Party and the police.

    BBC Radio 4

  45. Heroes at War

    Stories of sporting heroes who went to into battle during the First World War

    BBC Radio 5 Live

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  46. Choral Diplomacy

    Alex Stevenson explores musical diplomacy, as the Parliament and Bundestag choirs sing.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Graffiti: Kings on a Mission

    Was graffiti the great art of the 70s? Some of New York's pioneers share their stories.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    The Business Covenant

    Lord Digby Jones explores the relationship between business, government and society.

    BBC Radio 4

  49. Heal Thyself: A History of Self-Help

    Robin Ince explores our timeless fascination with the self-help shelf.

    BBC Radio 4

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  50. Bricks and Bubbles

    Series exploring the truth in claims that the UK is experiencing a housing bubble.

    BBC Radio 4

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