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  1. Debating Animals

    Rod Liddle examines our differing responses to related animal species

    BBC Radio 4

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  2. Wasting Away in the Outback

    The Australian government's deal with an indigenous community to take their nuclear waste.

    BBC Radio 4

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    The Medicalisation of Normality

    Are we are turning normal human behaviour into medical conditions?

    BBC Radio 4

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    The Island of Secrets

    Haunting sound portrait of Orford Ness in Suffolk, Europe's largest vegetated shingle spit

    BBC Radio 4

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    Type A Meet Type B!

    What makes people early or late risers?

    BBC Radio 4

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    The Criminal Mind

    Joshua Rozenberg examines new medical insights into the criminal mind.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Who Killed the Cockney Sparrer?

    Nature detective Tom Heap investigates who, or what, is killing the common sparrow.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Ursula Le Guin at 80

    Writer China Mieville talks to American science fiction writer Ursula Le Guin.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Supersize Surgeries

    Penny Marshall asks if new super-sized polyclinics will mean the end of the family GP.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Sound Architecture: The Spaces That Speak

    Science broadcaster Professor Trevor Cox explores the science of aural architecture.

    BBC Radio 4

  11. Oceans: What Lies Beneath

    Gabrielle Walker explores why we know so little about the planet's oceans

    BBC Radio 4

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  12. Chi-Chi: Panda Ambassador

    Naturalist and journalist Henry Nicholls traces the story of Chi-Chi the panda.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Whose Health Is It Anyway?

    Barbara Myers examines the health trainers initiative.

    BBC Radio 4

  14.

    Percy Edwards Showdown

    David Attenborough hosts a documentary game-show about the bird impersonator.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  15. Hairspray and Harmonies

    Kit Hesketh-Harvey follows a Birmingham-based ladies barbershop chorus, Second City Sound.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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  16. The Prime Ministers

    Nick Robinson explores the history of Britain's prime ministers

    BBC Radio 4

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  17. Blasted: The Life and Death of Sarah Kane

    Dan Rebellato explores the life and work of playwright Sarah Kane.

    BBC Radio 4

  18. Islam and Science

    Ehsan Masood explores the status of science in the modern Islamic world

    BBC Radio 4

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  19. Britain's Atlantis

    The most recent knowledge of what the land around Britain was like before the Ice Age.

    BBC Radio 4

  20.

    A Voyage on Livingstone's Lake

    The story of the MV Ilala, a 60-year-old boat still in use in Malawi and Mozambique.

    BBC Radio 4

  21.

    Online Damage: Porn in the 21st Century

    Penny Marshall examines the effects of the rapid expansion of online porn on UK society.

    BBC Radio 4

  22. A View Through a Lens

    Wildlife cameraman John Aitchison on human experience and the beauty of nature

    BBC Radio 4

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  23. State of Mind

    Claudia Hammond tells the story of mental health care in the UK from the 1950s to today

    BBC Radio 4

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  24. Obama: Professor President

    Kwame Anthony Appiah investigates president-elect Obama's academic career.

    BBC Radio 4

  25. Facal Oirbh

    Gaelic terminology, proverbs and idioms, as well as Highland customs and beliefs.

    BBC Radio nan Gàidheal

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  26. Brand Cuba

    Allan Little analyses some of the factors that have given Cuba such a prominent image.

    BBC Radio 4

  27.

    Doctor Who: Top 5 Christmas Moments

    A look back at the best moments from the Doctor's festive adventures.

    BBC One

  28. Pick of the Year

    Yearly round-up of the best BBC programmes, selected by radio personalities

    BBC Radio 4

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  29. Strictly Come Brucie

    Bruce Forsyth talks revealingly to Paul Morley about his life and career in showbusiness.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  30. Trusadh

    Compelling stories

    BBC ALBA

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  31. I Was...

    Series analysing great artists from the perspective of someone who knew them

    BBC Radio 4

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  32. Street Science

    Five eminent scientists discuss controversial areas of science with members of the public

    BBC Radio 4

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  33. Remembering Alistair Cooke, 2008

    James Naughtie presents a tribute to Alistair Cooke, who would have been 100 this week.

    BBC Radio 4

  34. Tim Crowther

    Join Tim Crowther on BBC Radio Leeds.

    BBC Radio Leeds

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  35. Dotun Adebayo

    Join Dotun Adebayo on BBC Radio London.

    BBC Radio London

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  36. Born in Bradford

    Winifred Robinson reports on research involving children born in Bradford 2007-2009.

    BBC Radio 4

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  37. Robert Elms

    Everything you need to know about London from architecture to accents and great music.

    BBC Radio London

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  38. Business Weekly Archive

    Business Weekly brings you the best of the week's Business Daily programmes

    BBC World Service

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  39. The Strand

    Harriett Gilbert and friends present global arts, culture and entertainment.

    BBC World Service

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  40. Through the Looking Glass

    Edi Stark finds out about a little-know eye condition affecting thousands of UK people.

    BBC Radio 4

  41.

    Life After Tom

    Charting Claire Prosser's first year without her teenage son, Tom, who died suddenly.

    BBC Radio 4

  42.

    The Oldest Bible

    The story of the Codex Sinaiticus found in 1844 in a monastery in the Sinai desert.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    Ian Hislop Goes off the Rails

    Ian Hislop looks at the 1963 Beeching Report, which closed a third of the UK's railways.

    BBC Four

  44. The Media Show

    This is the programme about a revolution in media.

    BBC Radio 4

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  45. Seachd Là

    Local, national and international news from BBC ALBA.

    BBC ALBA

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  46. Inflamed Response

    Claudia Hammond investigates inflammation

    BBC Radio 4

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  47. America, Empire of Liberty

    Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds

    BBC Radio 4

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  48. The Great Big Particle Adventure

    Ben Miller explores the workings of the new LHC atom smasher at CERN in Switzerland

    BBC Radio 4

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  49. Physics Rocks

    Brian Cox meets some celebrity physics enthusiasts, including Alan Alda and Eddie Izzard.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Big Bang Day: Engineering Solutions

    Adam Hart-Davis follows the construction of the Large Hadron Collider atom smasher at CERN

    BBC Radio 4

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