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  1. CrowdScience

    Answering your questions about life, Earth and the universe

    BBC World Service

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  2. Sisters in Country: Dolly, Linda and Emmylou

    How the three country artists ended up uniting as close harmony singers on the Trio album.

    BBC Four

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    Butterfly Mind

    Can a Shaman cure writer's block? Playwright, David Greig, tries to find out.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  4. Our Lives

    Celebrating life in the UK in all its diversity.

    BBC One

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  5. The Unswayables: Trump's Loyal Army

    Michael Goldfarb is in Pennsylvania hearing the reasons Americans are voting Trump.

    BBC Radio 4

  6. The Escaped Lyric

    Nick Berkeley shows how song lyrics help us articulate and negotiate aspects of our lives.

    BBC Radio 4

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  7. Keepsake for My Lover

    Janine H Jones explores the history of the 'voice recording booth'.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    Asquith's Fight for Equality

    Oona King reveals how West Indian Asquith Xavier fought a colour bar at Euston station.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Searching for Tobias

    Eight years after she first met him in Mississippi, Chloe Hadjimatheou searches for Tobias

    BBC Radio 4

  10. The Pursuit of Power

    What is power, and how does it work? Bronwen Maddox talks to five people to find out.

    BBC Radio 4

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  11. Aberfan: Memory and Meaning

    Dai Smith asks what meaning might be found in the deaths of so many people at Aberfan.

    BBC Radio Wales

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    Aberfan: Covering a Catastrophe

    Felicity Evans meets some of the journalists who reported on the Aberfan disaster.

    BBC Radio Wales

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    Thelma & Michael: Love In The Cutting Room

    Cinema's great love story - UK director Michael Powell and US editor Thelma Schoonmaker.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  14. Sleuths, Spies & Sorcerers: Andrew Marr's Paperback Heroes

    Andrew Marr explores detective fiction, fantasy epics and spy novels.

    BBC Four

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  15. Green Cities from Bricks and Mortar

    Historian Dan Cruickshank asks if new garden cities are the answer to our housing crisis.

    BBC Radio 4

  16. The Robber Barons

    Historian Adam Smith tells the stories of the giants of 19th Century American business.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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  17. 21 Shades of Noir: Lee Child on John D MacDonald

    The Jack Reacher author Lee Child investigates the unusual life of author John D Macdonald

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    Gunning For Education

    Ian Peddie studies new Texan laws allowing concealed handguns into classrooms.

    BBC Radio 4

  19. Objects of Desire

    Matthew Sweet explores how the things people accumulate reflect who they are.

    BBC Radio 4

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  20. The Case for Doing Nothing

    Stephen Barber calls on politicians to resist the urge to act and instead do nothing.

    BBC Radio 4

  21. The Intimate Art of Tattoo

    Laurence Llewelyn Bowen explores the exponential rise in tattooing across the UK.

    BBC Radio 4

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  22. Body Count Rising

    Doon Mackichan asks if we need a moratorium on glossy TV dramas with female victims.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Too Many Helping Hands

    Peter White asks if blind children who go to mainstream schools get too much support.

    BBC Radio 4

  24. Britain's Black Past

    Gretchen Gerzina explores the lives of black people in Britain during a time of slavery.

    BBC Radio 4

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  25. A Casual Clearance

    Clare Jenkins explores the emotional challenges faced when clearing out her parents' home.

    BBC Radio 4

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    The Founding of Mensa

    Rachel Gillman speaks to Ian Fergus, high IQ club Mensa archivist, about its early days.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    What Does Theresa Really Think?

    Nick Robinson examines Theresa May's political beliefs and underlying philosophy.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Curvalicious

    What is wrong with being black and curvy? Bridgitte Tetteh investigates.

    BBC Radio 4

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    The British Film Studios - Pinewood

    John Huntley traces the history of one of Britain’s most iconic centres of film making.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    Pony Tales

    What is the appeal of ponies and pony books to girls - and some post-menopausal women?

    BBC Radio 4

  31. Britain's Lost Masterpieces

    Series tracking down lost and hidden paintings from local museums and galleries.

    BBC Four

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  32. Reporting Terror: A Dangerous Game

    Journalists debate terrorism in the news. Does the media need a new approach?

    BBC Radio 4

  33. Ambulance

    Documentary series taking a detailed look at ambulance services.

    BBC One

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  34. Arthur Russell: Vanished into Music

    An imaginative portrait of the elusive musician Arthur Russell.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  35. Moving Pictures

    A long, slow look at great artworks, photographed in extraordinary detail.

    BBC Radio 4

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  36. UNESCO: 70 Years of Peacekeeping

    Charlotte Higgins explores the work of the UN's peacekeeping agency.

    BBC Radio 4

  37. The Envy of the World

    Humphrey Carpenter charts the history of the Third Programme and Radio 3

    BBC Radio 3

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  38. Ian Sansom and The Little People

    Leprechauns, sprites, imps and elves - Ian Sansom is searching for the diminutive other.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  39. Conviction

    Investigating the case of convicted murderers who claim to be innocent.

    BBC Two

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  40. Sunni-Shia: Islam Divided

    Two-part series explaining the Sunni-Shia divide past and present.

    BBC Radio 4

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  41. Still Loving Thy Neighbour?

    Mark Hodkinson revisits the sitcom Love Thy Neighbour, forty years after it was last shown

    BBC Radio 4

  42. A History of the Infinite

    Adrian Moore journeys through philosophical thought on infinity over thousands of years.

    BBC Radio 4

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  43. Shrinking Population: How Japan Fell Out of Love with Love

    Tulip Mazumdar finds young people in Japan rejecting intimacy and a population in decline.

    BBC Radio 4

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    The King of Dreams

    Alice Roberts goes in search of the man who taught us how to control our own dreams.

    BBC Radio 4

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    The Call of the Pipes

    An inside story of two pipe bands, Thiepval Memorial and McDonald Memorial.

    BBC Two Northern Ireland

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    Up Close And Personal

    Clarke Peters follows the croon and practitioners of the art including Rudy Vallee.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    James Wong's Alternative Country Garden

    Garden designer James Wong asks if British gardening is stuck in the past.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  48. The Double War

    Alvin Hall explores an LP of African-American soldiers discussing fighting in Vietnam.

    BBC Radio 4

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  49. The Waterside Ape

    Sir David Attenborough examines new evidence on a controversial theory of human origins.

    BBC Radio 4

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  50. The Anatomy of Rest

    Claudia Hammond finds out what rest means in the modern world.

    BBC Radio 4

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