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  1. Rearming the UK

    Douglas Fraser asks what it will take to get the UK defence sector on a war footing.

    BBC Radio 4

  2. Total Sport - Weekend Preview

    Paul Newton and James Phillips look ahead to the weekend's games for our teams.

    BBC Radio Cumbria

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  3. Saving Lives in Cardiff

    Lifting the lid on the heart-rending, hard-headed decisions surgeons must make.

    BBC Two

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  4. Total Sport - Non-league Cumbria

    Dedicated to non-league football in the county from Tier 7 down to grassroots level.

    BBC Radio Cumbria

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  5. A Year in the Life of the Swinging Sixties

    James Peak and Joan Bakewell find incredible archive from 1963. Wait! Is that The Beatles?

    BBC Radio 4

  6. Total Sport - Weekend Review

    Looking back on the big stories from the weekend's games for our local clubs.

    BBC Radio Cumbria

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  7. Grenfell: Building a Disaster

    What a fire in west London that killed 72 people shows about how Britain works and doesn't

    BBC Radio 4

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  8. Ukraine - On the Frontline

    Drone technology is transforming the battlefield in Ukraine.

    BBC Radio 4

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    The Four Rules of the Poker Kings

    Poker players travel to Monte Carlo and Las Vegas - but are they destined to lose?

    BBC Scotland

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    This Land

    An interrupted documentary about copyright law, told through a single song.

    BBC Radio 4

  11. Phil Mercer

    Join Phil Mercer on BBC Radio Berkshire.

    BBC Radio Berkshire

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  12. Inside the Riots

    Paul Kenyon reports from Liverpool, where protesters clashed with police.

    BBC Radio 4

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    The Drug Death Detectives

    Is a lethal drug killing more people in the UK than official records suggest?

    BBC Radio 4

  14. Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World?

    Decision-makers from Kissinger to Rice revisit how the US responded to world conflicts.

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  15. Retracted

    Was the data behind a medical research study really 'too good to be true'?

    BBC Radio 4

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    Inside The Wasp Factory

    Simon Pegg explores Iain Banks's controversial novel, 40 years after publication.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Living without our smartphones - the adults' turn

    A group of adults agree to live without their smartphones for a week. How do they get on?

    BBC Radio 4

  18. Miriam Margolyes: A New Australian Adventure

    Miriam Margolyes is on a quest to embrace her true self on Australia's sunny shores.

    BBC Two

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  19. The Tremor

    Surgeons sometimes develop hand tremors. Surgeon Lilli Cooper asks why.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Eiffel Tower: Building the Impossible

    Immersive documentary chronicling Gustave Eiffel's extraordinary feat of engineering.

    BBC Four

  21. Extreme

    A mountain of trouble. 11 climbers died in 2 disastrous days on K2. What really happened?

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  22. Status by Carl Honoré

    Status. We don't like to talk about it. Carl Honoré brings it out into the open.

    BBC Radio 4

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  23. Stacey Dooley Sleeps Over

    Break out the sofa bed - Stacey's coming to stay.

    BBC Three

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  24. Fifty-Fifty Vision

    How has our rapidly changing world altered blind and partially sighted people's lives?

    BBC Radio 4

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    Loving, Living and Dying Together in the Netherlands

    The story of Jan and Els who opted for euthanasia and died together in the Netherlands.

    BBC Radio 4

  26.

    Hell Jumper

    Courage, love and loss among young people saving lives in Ukraine’s most dangerous towns.

    BBC Two

  27.

    The Science Of... Knife Crime

    Knife crime in Britain gets called an 'epidemic', so is science the answer to tackling it?

    BBC Radio 4

  28. The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam

    It was the biggest gold discovery in history…until it wasn’t

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  29. Kyle: The Gunman Who Divided America

    Documentary about one of America's most controversial figures, Kyle Rittenhouse.

    BBC Three

  30.

    The Battle to Beat Malaria

    The inside story, from lab to roll-out, of a game-changing vaccine from Oxford.

    BBC Two

  31. Policing Protest

    Exploring the policing of protest in the UK, from Peterloo to the present - and beyond.

    BBC Radio 4

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  32. Donald Trump and Black America

    Black voters could be pivotal in the US election and are increasingly backing Donald Trump

    BBC Radio 4

  33.

    Dying for a Transplant

    Emmanuel Sonubi examines the lack of organ donors from ethnic minority backgrounds.

    BBC Radio 4

  34.

    Daley: Olympic Superstar

    Daley Thompson takes an epic journey to tell his story.

    BBC Two

  35. The Human Subject

    Investigating the threads connecting modern-day medicine to its often brutal origins.

    BBC Radio 4

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  36. Searching for Butterflies

    As spring arrives in Syria, Mudar Salimeh searches for butterflies.

    BBC Radio 4

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    The Club Nobody Wants to Join

    The American principals dealing with shootings in the hallways of their school.

    BBC Radio 4

  38. Crime Next Door

    Audrey Gillan traces the ripple effects of the murder of a child, by a child.

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  39. Jon Holmes Says the C-Word

    Jon Holmes was diagnosed with cancer so - inevitably - here comes his new chatty podcast.

    BBC Radio 4

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  40. Horsepower

    Series capturing life at one of the world’s major stables in the run-up to Royal Ascot.

    BBC Four

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  41. Rage Against the Regime: The Revolutionary Power of Metal Music

    Dannii Leivers explores how metal musicians perform, and rebel, under oppressive regimes.

    BBC Radio 4

  42. Ten Second Showdown

    Legendary commentator Mike Costello explores the explosive drama of the 100m sprint.

    BBC Radio 4

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  43. The Third Information Crisis by Naomi Alderman

    Naomi Alderman argues we are living through the third great information crisis.

    BBC Radio 4

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  44. A Vindication of Frankenstein's Monster

    Linda Marshall Griffiths reimagines Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

    BBC Radio 4

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  45. Stealing Power

    Meter tampering is dangerous and illegal yet reports of it are rising at an alarming rate.

    BBC Radio 4

  46. Tanwen & Ollie

    Mae bywyd ar fîn newid yn llwyr i'r cwpl ifanc Tanwen ac Ollie, wrth iddynt groesawu eu...

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  47. How to Prepare for Government

    Cleo Watson and Helen MacNamara go behind the scenes of the civil service during purdah.

    BBC Radio 4

  48. Song Exploder

    Host Hrishikesh Hirway invites musicians to break apart one of their songs.

    BBC Sounds

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  49. Paddy & Molly: Show No Mersey

    Documentary series following UFC fighters Paddy Pimblett and Molly McCann.

    BBC Three

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  50. On the Spot

    Robert McCrum looks into his family history to find out the origin of the penalty kick.

    BBC Radio 4

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