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Jarvis on McCullers
Jarvis Cocker celebrates the life and work of literary wunderkind Carson McCullers.
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Mao's Little Red Book Goes West
David Aaronovitch asks why Mao's Little Red Book captured the imagination of the West.
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Invisible Belfast
A mysterious note sends a visitor to Belfast on a labyrinthine journey through the city.
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Splitting the Assets
Examining the emotionally charged court process of financial settlement following divorce.
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Living with Water
Susan Marling discovers what architects can do to make homes more flood resilient.
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Unnatural Selection
Adam Hart reveals how humanity is altering the evolutionary paths of other creatures.
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Gay Bombay
Zareer Masani returns to Mumbai to measure India's changing attitudes to homosexuality.
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The Good Goering
The story of Hermann Goering's brother, who claimed he saved people from Nazi persecution.
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The Gospel Truth
Financial educator Alvin Hall examines gospel music and commercialisation.
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Crafty Orchids
Why are orchids so popular? Jim Endersby offers a new scientific history of their allure.
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Trump and the Politics of Paranoia
The story of how ethnic fear has been used from the republic through to Donald Trump.
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Cymoedd Roy Noble
Roy Noble sy'n crwydro Cymoedd De Cymru gan ddysgu mwy am yr hanes a'r bobl. Roy Noble ...
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Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur
The story of the discovery in Argentina of the largest animal to ever walk the earth.
BBC One
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Raising the Dead
Composer Adam Gorb goes on a journey to listen to the lost music of concentration camps.
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Rethinking Anorexia Nervosa
How stimulating the brain could be used to treat severe and enduring anorexia nervosa.
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Deciding Fast and Slow
Elinor Goodman investigates how government ministers take decisions in the 21st century.
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Three Score Years and Ten
Bishop Richard Holloway looks back on his life and wonders about his decreasing future
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Can We Trust the Opinion Polls?
David Cowling examines the role of opinion polling in British politics
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Bus Lines
First bus company run a writing competition for their drivers. Hop on board...
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Ffermio
Cyfres gylchgrawn wythnosol am faterion cefn gwlad. S4C's countryside and farming magaz...
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The Abuse Trial
David Nolan tells a very personal story of a historical sex abuse investigation.
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The Ever Widening War
Professor Christopher Clark presents a documentary series on the First World War.
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The Best Exotic Etiquette Academy
Why is there such a demand for British etiquette around the world?
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Compression versus Art
Trevor Cox finds out how recording and copying music compromises the original quality.
BBC Radio 4
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Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley
Lucy Worsley tells the story of the dynasty that ruled Russia for over three centuries.
BBC Four
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Road Stories
Miles Warde presents the untold story of roads and the people who live on them
BBC Radio 4
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How to Make a Brexit
Carolyn Quinn explores the practical process for exiting the EU if UK voters opt to leave.
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From Mumbai to Machynlleth
A poetic and musical collaboration melding two traditions and seeking common ground.
BBC Radio 4
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Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite... Laicite
Catherine Guilyardi examines traditional French values after the Charlie Hebdo killings.
BBC Radio 4
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The Etiquette Guide
An examination of the way manners and etiquette have evolved over the centuries
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After Ebola
Dr John Wright, one of the first NHS volunteers in Sierra Leone, returns to the country.
BBC Radio 4
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Behaving Ourselves: Mitchell on Manners
David Mitchell investigates the confusing world of manners.
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The Future of Leadership
Margaret Heffernan argues existing models of leadership have outlived their usefulness.
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Miles Jupp and the Plot Device
Miles Jupp investigates the Plot Device that spawned a million pulp fictions.
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A New Life in Europe
A family of Syrian migrants risks everything in a remarkable journey to Germany.
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The Boat Children
Hashi Mohamed follows the trail of of unaccompanied child migrants arriving in Europe.
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Tiny Tinkles
Rainer Hersch investigates how and why tinkly music is so evocative of childhood.
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School of Thought
Former universities minister David Willetts examines the UK's education system
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All Aboard! The Sleigh Ride
A real-time journey across the wilderness of the Arctic on a traditional reindeer sleigh.
BBC Four
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Brain Tingles
Comedian and actor Isy Suttie explores the phenomenon of ASMR, or 'brain tingles'.
BBC Radio 4
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A Meaty Problem
Henry Dimbleby unravels the deep-seated attachment of the British to eating meat.
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The Disused Chapel on the Cornish Skyline
Petroc Trelawny on Cornwall's disused chapels and the changing identity of the county
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Singing Piaf with No Regrets
Caroline Nin listens to those drawn to sing the music of the legendary French performer.
BBC Radio 4