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  1. The Meaning of Liff at 30

    John Lloyd celebrates 30 years of The Meaning of Liff with Matt Lucas and Helen Fielding.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    This Eurosceptic Isle

    James Landale examines how Euroscepticism has become increasingly powerful in UK politics.

    BBC Radio 4

  3. Battle for the Airwaves

    Nick Robinson presents a series on the relationship between broadcasters and politicians

    BBC Radio 4

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  4. Crossing the Bay

    Poet Paul Farley takes a walk across the dangerous sands of Morecambe Bay.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Marseille 2013

    Philip Sweeney on music, crime and culture in Marseille, 2013 European City of Culture.

    BBC Radio 4

  6. The Listeners

    Series about people whose professional lives revolve around listening.

    BBC Radio 4

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  7. Artworks

    Imaginative documentaries about culture and the arts from BBC Radio 4.

    BBC Radio 4

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  8. The Sound and the Fury in Concert

    Performances recorded for BBC Four's The Sound and the Fury: A Century of Music.

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  9. Remembering James Bulger

    Winifred Robinson returns to the Bulger family, 20 years after the murder of their son.

    BBC Radio 4

  10. Grahame Dangerfield: Back to the Serengeti

    Grahame Dangerfield, veteran naturalist, revisits the place he thought was Eden

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  11. The World Cup for Writers

    Joe Dunthorne's England Writers Football Team plays against the Scotland Writers Team.

    BBC Radio 4

  12. The Richard Dimbleby Lecture

    Annual lecture delivered by a guest speaker

    BBC World Service

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  13. Bridging the Gulf

    Razia Iqbal visits the women architects of the Gulf - a story of success in the desert.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    The Art of Sequencing

    Guy Garvey on the challenge of turning a collection of songs into a single piece of art.

    BBC Radio 4

  15. In Search of the British Dream

    Mukul Devichand seeks to see Britain through the eyes of those who have recently arrived

    BBC Radio 4

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  16. Technicolour

    Tracey Logan explores the world of colour, from biology to fashion

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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  17. Wonders of Life

    Professor Brian Cox asks what is life and how did it begin?

    BBC Two

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  18. What If...

    A series of programmes about what the world of the future might be like.

    BBC World Service

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  19. The Real George Orwell

    A journey exploring the man Eric Blair and the writer George Orwell

    BBC Radio 4

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  20. Talking Movies

    Talking Movies' weekly report in which Tom Brook and his team explore the world of cinema.

    BBC News

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  21. David Attenborough - The Early Years

    David Attenborough recalls key moments from his early career. (2013)

    BBC

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    The Most Troubled Families in Britain

    Radio 4 has been granted access to track work with some of the UK most troubled families.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Quarter Life Crisis

    Katharine Whitehorn, 84, tackles the twentysomethings facing tough life choices.

    BBC Radio 4

  24. Sexual Nature: A Brief Natural History of Sex

    Adam Rutherford explores the deep history of sex

    BBC Radio 4

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  25. Pop-Up Economics

    Tim Harford tells an audience stories about fascinating people and ideas in economics

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  26. A Menace to Society

    Lifelong fan Danny Wallace celebrates the Beano comic in its 75th anniversary year.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  27. Just So Science

    Vivienne Parry with the science behind Kipling's stories

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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  28. Where Did All the Comrades Go?

    How the Communist Party's money and ideas influenced British politics after its collapse.

    BBC Radio 4

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    The Cultural Exchange

    Mark Lawson and guests debate what now shapes our cultural choices - critics or clicks?

    BBC Radio 4

  30. The Riviera: A History in Pictures

    Richard E Grant follows in the footsteps of artists who have painted on the Cote d'Azur.

    BBC Four

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  31. A Tale of Two Villages

    How the iconic Yorkshire pit village of Grimethorpe has adjusted to life after coal.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Do I Have a Right to Be Forgotten?

    Emma Barnett asks what rights we have to our online life and if deleting is desirable.

    BBC Radio 4

  33. A Guide to Mountain and Moorland Birds

    Brett Westwood and Stephen Moss offer a guide to Britain's upland birds

    BBC Radio 4

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  34. Phelophepa

    Laverne Antrobus tells the story of the Phelophepa Health Train in rural South Africa.

    BBC Radio 4

  35. The A to Z of TV Gardening

    Carol Kirkwood takes an alphabetical journey through the world of television gardening.

    BBC Two

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  36. Talking Pictures

    A nostalgic journey through cinema’s greatest moments.

    BBC Two

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  37. Reimagining the City

    Writers and musicians offer guides to cities with which we think we are already familiar.

    BBC Radio 4

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  38. Forgetting a Revolutionary: Lawrence Durrell at 100

    Tim Marlow encourages us not to forget the novelist Lawrence Durrell.

    BBC Radio 4

  39. Africa

    Eye to eye with the unknown - the world's wildest continent.

    BBC One

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  40. Ben Goldacre's Bad Evidence

    Ben Goldacre explores the idea of evidence-based policy.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Northern Ireland: Who Are We Now?

    As Derry-Londonderry becomes the UK City of Culture, William Crawley considers identity.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Roger, the Eagle Has Landed

    Mark Radcliffe recalls the influential life of cult DJ and club promoter Roger Eagle.

    BBC Radio 4

  43. The Value of Culture

    Melvyn Bragg explores the history of the idea of culture, and its value today.

    BBC Radio 4

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  44. And No Birds Sing: Rachel Carson and Silent Spring

    Franny Armstrong looks at the explosive impact of Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Bellydancing and the Blues

    Guy Schalom hunts out the spirit of the new Egypt in the musical roots of the bellydance

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    Freedom Pass

    Terry Waite and Christopher Matthew use their Freedom Passes on the buses of London.

    BBC Radio 4

  47. Danny Cox

    Join Danny Cox on BBC Radio Oxford.

    BBC Radio Oxford

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  48. Train Hopping in the USA

    Jumping on freight trains in America, adventure or desperation? Peter Bowes explores.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    Europe Moves East

    Allan Little looks at the changing dynamic of the European Union, as power heads east.

    BBC Radio 4

  50.

    2012: The End of Time

    As the Mayan prophecy of doom approaches, enjoy this light-hearted guide to the apocalypse

    BBC Radio 4

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