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  1. Paula McIntyre's Burns Night Banquet

    Chef Paula McIntyre recreates dishes from an 1859 banquet to celebrate Burns Night.

    BBC Two Northern Ireland

  2. Women Building Peace

    Women trying to bring peace to communities talk to global influencers

    BBC World Service

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  3. Dark Land: The Hunt for Wales' Worst Serial Killer

    The hunt for Peter Moore, the 'man in black' who was Wales’ worst serial killer.

    BBC One Wales

  4. Kelvin's Big Farming Adventure

    Strictly star Kelvin Fletcher has bought a farm, but can he make it pay?

    BBC One

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  5. The Chronicles of Strangford

    Series charting a year on Strangford Lough, the largest sea inlet in the UK.

    BBC One Northern Ireland

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  6. Night Watch

    Stories of everyday street harassment from women across Britain.

    BBC Radio 4

  7. Message the Mayor

    Your chance to put questions directly to West Yorkshire's elected mayor, and her deputy.

    BBC Radio Leeds

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  8. Oti Mabuse's Dancing Legends

    Oti Mabuse explores the extraordinary people who have changed the course of dance.

    BBC Radio 4

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  9. Room 5

    When a diagnosis changes everything.

    BBC Radio 4

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  10. Couples Therapy

    Couples Therapy unlocks a hidden world: other people’s relationships.

    BBC Two

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  11. Things You Didn't Know About Pop

    Scott Mills goes deep on the unexpected objects that made the Radio 2 playlist.

    BBC Sounds

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  12. Life on the Bay

    Following the fortunes of the holiday park run by three generations of a Fife family.

    BBC Scotland

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  13. Now You're Asking with Marian Keyes and Tara Flynn

    Marian Keyes and Tara Flynn solve your problems. Or try, at the very least.

    BBC Radio 4

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  14. The Green Planet

    A five-part series presented by Sir David Attenborough looking at the lives of plants.

    BBC One

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  15. Alright, Pet?

    Anne-Marie Wallace and Rob Adams celebrate the unique relationship we have with our pets.

    BBC Radio Ulster

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  16. Fungi: The New Frontier

    Tim Hayward falls down a rabbit hole and into the vast and largely hidden world of fungi.

    BBC Radio 4

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  17. Andy Warhol's America

    He was an artist and a cultural icon - and his work is a history of 20th-century America.

    BBC Two

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  18. Breaking History

    Nandini Das discusses the political power of empathy with Claire Yorke.

    BBC Radio 4

  19.

    Pakistan's Long Game

    Owen Bennett-Jones examines the long game Pakistan played in the US defeat in Afghanistan.

    BBC Radio 4

  20. The Coming Storm

    America through the looking glass - enter a world where nothing is as it seems.

    BBC Radio 4

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  21. Ar An Sliabh

    A portrait of life in Ireland's mountain communities.

    BBC

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  22. Attenborough's Wonder of Song

    David Attenborough chooses seven of the most remarkable animal songs found in nature.

    BBC One

  23. Past Forward: A Century of Sound

    Greg Jenner dives deep into the BBC archive to explore what it says about who we are now.

    BBC Radio 4

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  24. Viewfinders: Ways of Seeing at 50

    Five writers on looking at pictures, in celebration of John Berger's 1972 TV series.

    BBC Radio 4

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  25. Walter: A Life in Football

    A tribute to one of the most successful managers in Scottish football, Walter Smith.

    BBC One Scotland

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    Gaisgich sna Glinn

    How the Highlands made the ideal military training ground during World War II.

    BBC ALBA

  27.

    Attenborough and the Mammoth Graveyard

    Sir David Attenborough uncovers an Ice Age mammoth mystery on the outskirts of Swindon.

    BBC One

  28. The Flipside with Paris Lees

    Paris uses stories of human nature and science to understand why we are the way we are.

    BBC Radio 4

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  29. Call to Kabul

    Anita Anand tracks an unfolding story of three brothers being hunted by the Taliban.

    BBC Radio 4

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  30. The Hidden History of the Staircase

    Rachel Hurdley climbs the staircase to discover a story of steps, status and segregation.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Aonghas - Miann na Mara/Aonghas - A Wish for the Waves

    A poetic short documentary following Aonghas, a young boy who roams the seashore.

    BBC ALBA

  32. 100 Years of Scottish Stories

    Sharing the special stories that mean the most to you and your families.

    BBC Radio Scotland

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  33. Eat the Town

    Pals Dazza and Natalie Erskine eat their way round Forfar, Fraserburgh and Dumfries.

    BBC Scotland

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  34. Mr Fletcher, the Poet

    1986 documentary about mining community life by acclaimed radio producer Piers Plowright.

    BBC Radio 4

  35.

    A Family of Strangers

    How a simple DNA test turned worlds upside down, leading to profound questions of identity

    BBC Radio 4

  36. Consumed by Desire

    Radio 4 documentary series.

    BBC Radio 4

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  37. Setting Sail

    An exploration of death from 1985 by Piers Plowright and Malcolm Clarke.

    BBC Radio 4

  38.

    Look At What You Could Have Won

    A reappraisal of the 80s TV quiz Bullseye, asking what we've lost and what we've become.

    BBC Radio 4

  39.

    Solomon Browne

    Forty years on, the dramatic story of the Penlee lifeboat disaster.

    BBC Radio 4

  40.

    Yorkshire's Cricket Test

    Kamran Abbasi considers the roots of Yorkshire County Cricket Club's problems with racism.

    BBC Radio 4

  41. Ruby Wax Talking Human

    Ruby is joined by a neuroscientist and a Buddhist monk to talk about being human.

    BBC Radio 4

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  42. Leaving the Family Home

    Geoff Bird charts the sadness and excitement of children growing up and flying the nest.

    BBC Radio 4

  43.

    The Great Pyramids of Albania

    The story of an extraordinary mass fraud that gripped Albania in the 1990s.

    BBC Radio 4

  44.

    The Lotte Berk Technique

    Nadine Shah embarks on a personal journey into the controversial fitness phenomenon Barre.

    BBC Radio 4

  45. The Naked Podcast

    Two friends. One guest. No clothes. Celebrating and undressing the taboos about nudity.

    BBC Radio Sheffield

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  46. The Hackers

    Gabriella Coleman investigates one of the most misunderstood cultures of the modern world.

    BBC Radio 4

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  47. Críochdheighilt: Partition

    Journalist and author, Ian Malcolm, explores the impact of the Partition of Ireland.

    BBC Two Northern Ireland

  48. A Pyrotechnic History Of Humanity

    Justin Rowlatt looks at the energy revolutions that drove human history.

    BBC World Service

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  49. A Line in the Water

    Aboard the Belfast-Birkenhead ferry Neil McCarthy looks for the border down the Irish Sea

    BBC Radio 4

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    Under the Influence

    Exploring the rise of behavioural science at the heart of our politics.

    BBC Radio 4

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