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  1. The Anatomy of Rest

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

    BBC Radio 4

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  2. Graffiti: Paint and Protest

    Aside from the physical landscape, what does graffiti and street art actually change?

    BBC Radio 4

  3. Oliver Burkeman Is Busy

    Oliver Burkeman explores why people feel so busy today.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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  4. The Web Sheikh and the Muslim Mums

    Five Muslim mums come together to discuss the hate messages their children are exposed to.

    BBC Radio 4

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    The Online Identity Crisis

    Anjana Ahuja believes we should take control of our online identity before it is too late.

    BBC Radio 4

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    The Muhammadan Bean: The Secret History of Islam and Coffee

    Abdul-Rehman Malik explores the longstanding relationship between Islam and coffee.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Standing Up to the Sharing Economy

    Mary Ann Sieghart on how hotel, music and car companies are fighting off the competition.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Antony Gormley: Missing Continents at the British Museum

    The artist asks why collections from Oceania, the Americas and Africa are hidden from view

    BBC Radio 4

  9. Eastern Europeans in Brexitland

    Gary Younge explores what Brexit means for Eastern Europeans living in the UK.

    BBC Radio 4

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  10. In Search of Eden

    Neuroscientist and Eden-seeker Paul Howard-Jones investigates the downside of knowledge.

    BBC Radio 4

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  11. Funny Money

    Former Lehman Brothers banker Henry Dodds explores our relationship with money.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Great Fire 350

    Behind the scenes of London's Burning, a spectacle marking 350 years since the Great Fire.

    BBC Radio 4

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    A Journey Through English

    The changing accents on the UK's longest rail journey, the 0820 from Aberdeen to Penzance.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Sushi Marriages

    How do Sunni-Shia couples handle the deepening gulf between their two sects of Islam?

    BBC Radio 4

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    A River of Steel

    An immersive river journey through the city of Sheffield and its industrial past.

    BBC Radio 4

  16. Yusra: Swim for Your Life

    The courageous journey of refugee Yusra Mardini, from war-torn Syria to the Rio Olympics.

    BBC Radio 4

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  17. Brexit: The Leavocrats

    Gus O'Donnell reports on how the civil service is working to make Brexit happen.

    BBC Radio 4

  18. Egyptian Journeys with Dan Cruickshank

    Dan Cruickshank explores some of the most intriguing stories from Ancient Egypt

    BBC Two

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  19. Cities from the Ashes

    350 years after the Great Fire, Nicholas Kenyon explores the challenges for London today.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Things Called Jazz That Are Not Jazz

    An apple, a car, even a super yacht... Why are so many things called Jazz?

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  21. Nature's Great Invaders

    Natural history series telling the stories of Britain's non-native invasive species.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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  22. The Matter of the North

    Melvyn Bragg explores the pivotal role of England's north in the shaping of modern Britain

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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  23. Online Criminals Stole My Confidence

    Simon Read explores the psychological impact on people who fall victim to fraudsters.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Jane Garvey's Bottom Gear

    Jane Garvey reflects on women and cars with presenter Suzi Perry and driver Susie Wolff.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  25. Earth's Seasonal Secrets

    Documentary series exploring how each of the four seasons transforms the planet.

    BBC One

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  26. L'origine de L'Origine du monde

    Viv Groskop explores Gustave Courbet's notorious and explicit painting.

    BBC Radio 4

  27.

    The Inflamed Mind

    Can your immune system make you psychotic or depressed?

    BBC Radio 4

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    What Point Prison? The Debate

    Stephen Sackur chairs a debate in Nottingham about the role of prison in the 21st century.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Alvin Hall Goes Back to School

    Financial guru Alvin Hall returns to his Florida hometown.

    BBC Radio 4

  30.

    How We Voted Brexit

    Remainers and Brexiteers reveal the thinking that shaped their EU referendum campaigns.

    BBC Radio 4

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    The Truth about Children Who Lie

    Psychotherapist Philippa Perry investigates when and why children lie.

    BBC Radio 4

  32.

    Sweet Mother KD

    Laura Barton tells the story of Karen Dalton, the folk world's answer to Billie Holliday.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Hersey's Hiroshima

    Seventy years ago, an article about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima rocked the world.

    BBC Radio 4

  34. Rethinking Clink

    What is prison for? Former home secretary Jacqui Smith examines 250 years of prison reform

    BBC Radio 4

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  35. My Muse

    Series in which artists describe the artists that inspire them.

    BBC Radio 4

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  36. Unforgettable

    Playback technology enables guests to have a real-time conversation with someone now dead.

    BBC Radio 4

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  37. In Defence of the Mid-Life Crisis

    Time to re-think the mid-life crisis? Stephen Smith explores....

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    Looping Swans

    Tutus, tanks and Tchaikovsky. Swan Lake's strange pas de deux with the fate of Russia.

    BBC Radio 4

  39.

    Mind Reading

    Gaia Vince explores how scientists are trying to read others' minds..

    BBC Radio 4

  40. Why Become a Doctor?

    Kevin Fong looks at how the role of junior doctors has changed over the past 50 years.

    BBC Radio 4

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  41. Personalised Medicine: Dose by Design

    Vivienne Parry asks if the NHS can deliver the benefits of genomic medicine for all.

    BBC Radio 4

  42.

    In the Criminologist's Chair

    David Wilson talks to former bank robber Noel 'Razor' Smith about his life in crime.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Songs for the Dead

    Marie-Louise Muir explores the lost tradition of keening for the dead in Ireland.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    Grunwick Changed Me

    Maya Amin-Smith explores the legacy of the Grunwick dispute, four decades after it began.

    BBC Radio 4

  45. The River

    Five illustrated talks by different writers on the theme of the river.

    BBC Radio 4

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  46. The Whale Menopause

    Animal wisdom, mothers and sons. What do killer whales tell us about the human menopause?

    BBC Radio 4

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    Party Futures

    Is now the point when the structure of British party politics will fundamentally change?

    BBC Radio 4

  48. Prime Ministers' Props

    David Cannadine explores how an object or prop can come to define a political leader.

    BBC Radio 4

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  49. Could the Birmingham Six Happen Again?

    What did the Birmingham Six case alter - could such miscarriages of justice happen today?

    BBC Radio 4

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    Everybody Hates Me

    James Walton asks what it is like to do a job that guarantees loathing from the public.

    BBC Radio 4

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