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  1. Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

    Giles Fraser explores the personal moral response to inequality.

    BBC Radio 4

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    JD Salinger's Spiritual Quest

    Vishva Samani explores author JD Salinger's enduring relationship with Hindu philosophy.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    The Sound of Space

    Dr Lucie Green takes a sonic tour of the Universe, revealing the hidden sounds of space.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  4. Pawb a'i Farn

    Rhaglen drafod materion cyfoes. Current Affairs debate programme.

    S4C

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  5. Attenborough's Paradise Birds

    Documentary tracing David Attenborough's lifelong passion for birds of paradise.

    BBC Two

  6. Tales from the Ring Road

    Anne-Marie Duff narrates stories of life and death on the UK's ring roads.

    BBC Radio 4

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  7. Anne Frank's Trees: Keeping the Memory Alive

    Michael Rosen commemorates Holocaust Memorial Day and looks at how we choose to remember.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Inside the Unit - Treating Disorder

    Carole Hayman serves time in a secure unit for men detained under the Mental Health Act.

    BBC Radio 4

  9. Shoah

    Documentary recounting the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses.

    BBC Four

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  10. Churchill's Grave

    William Crawley visits Winston Churchill's final resting place in Bladon, Oxfordshire

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    The Real MacColl

    John Cooper Clarke looks back at the life of broadcaster and folk singer, Ewan MacColl.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    The True Story of Abner Jay

    Laura Barton pieces together the true story of Abner Jay, a most unusual musical talent.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    Can You Spot the Hidden Message?

    How did subliminal advertising begin, and does it work? David Aaronovitch investigates.

    BBC Radio 4

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    MCAT: The Scourge of the Valleys

    Writer Rachel Trezise looks at the effects of class B drug MCAT on the South Wales Valleys

    BBC Radio 4

  15.

    The Single Life

    What happened to the musicians who poured their hopes and savings into a DIY 7" single?

    BBC Radio 4

  16.

    Mein Kampf: Publish or Burn?

    Hitler's Mein Kampf comes out of German copyright this year. What happens next?

    BBC Radio 4

  17.

    Kitch!

    Musician and poet Anthony Joseph tries to get to the heart of Calypso star Lord Kitchener

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  18. Can Democracy Work?

    Nick Robinson explores democracy, questioning senior politicians, activists and the public

    BBC Radio 4

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  19. The Mountain

    Series charting life around Cairngorm.

    BBC Scotland

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  20. Everyone a Rembrandt

    Art critic Louisa Buck lifts the lid on the Painting By Numbers craze of the 1950's.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    The Secretaries of Juliet

    Jolyon Jenkins meets the women of Verona who answer letters sent to Shakespeare's Juliet

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  22. Yr Ynys

    Cyfres yn edrych ar ynysoedd y byd. Archive series exploring islands around the world.

    S4C

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  23. Hip in a Hijab

    Shelina Janmohamed explores what it means to be young, female and Muslim today.

    BBC Radio 4

  24. Our Story

    Communities around Scotland tell the stories that matter to them. With Mark Stephen.

    BBC Radio Scotland

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  25. Jim Allen: A Man of His Words

    Christopher Eccleston looks at the life and works of the Socialist playwright.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    How to Dismantle a Nuclear Power Station

    Radio 4 explores just what is involved in dismantling a nuclear power plant.

    BBC Radio 4

  27. David Baddiel Tries to Understand

    David Baddiel tries to make sense of some apparently puzzling topics.

    BBC Radio 4

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  28. Beirut's House of Barakat

    Rebecca Lloyd-Evans visits Beirut's house of memory.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    The City on the Couch

    Psychoanalyst Mary Bradbury investigates mental health in the pressured financial sector.

    BBC Radio 4

  30.

    Sasha's Song

    Sasha Tsaliuk fights for his Moscow A Capella Jewish choir in a rapidly changing Russia.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Mindfulness: Panacea or Fad?

    How a Buddhist meditation technique became a cure-all for the ills of modern life.

    BBC Radio 4

  32. Self Orbits CERN

    Will Self embarks on a 50-kilometre walking tour of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

    BBC Radio 4

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  33. Magna Carta

    Melvyn Bragg presents a series marking the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta.

    BBC Radio 4

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  34. Yorkshire Farming

    BBC Radio York look at issues affecting farming and the North Yorkshire countryside.

    BBC Radio York

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  35. Speak Low, Speak Weill

    Ute Lemper explores the political and musical legacy of Mack the Knife composer Kurt Weill

    BBC Radio 4

  36. Gwarchod y Gwyllt

    Iolo Williams yn crwydro nifer o gynefinoedd gwyllt Cymru.

    BBC Radio Cymru

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  37. Wittgenstein's Jet

    A jet engine built by Ludwig Wittgenstein in Manchester is investigated by Cassie Newland.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    Faultline Scotland

    Aasmah Mir asks if Scottish society has been split in two by the independence referendum.

    BBC Radio 4

  39. A Portrait Of...

    Series that follows portrait painter Fiona Graham-Mackay at work.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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  40. Sister Aimee

    The story of the glamorous woman who invented broadcast evangelism.

    BBC Radio 4

  41. Out of Armenia

    Writer and historian Charles Emmerson explores Europe's Armenian communities.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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  42. This Farming Life

    Geoff Watts explores the science, history and cultural implications of gossip.

    BBC Radio 4

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  43. At Home with David Hockney

    Radio 4 documentary.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Music to Save Grimethorpe

    Ian McMillan celebrates his local brass band and the community it represents.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  45. Cells and Celluloid: A Science and Cinema Special

    Adam Rutherford and Francine Stock explore the relationship between film and science.

    BBC Radio 4

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  46. Music on Hold

    Isy Suttie embarks on a mission to compose the ultimate on-hold music.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    Pass the Turkey Twizzlers

    Lucy Kellaway hosts an argumentative dinner party where all the debates are about food.

    BBC Radio 4

  48.

    One Day in Winter: Driving Home for Christmas

    The stories of some of the millions of travellers making their way home for Christmas.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Terror and the Oxygen of Publicity

    How terrorists need the oxygen of publicity, and the battle to starve them of it.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Character Studies with Alexander McCall Smith

    Alexander McCall Smith explores the work of writers and their favourite characters.

    BBC Radio 4

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