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  1. Germany: Memories of a Nation

    Neil MacGregor explores 600 years of Germany's complex and often challenging history.

    BBC Radio 4

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  2. Hamlet Undressed

    A look behind the scenes at Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre's Hamlet with Maxine Peake.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Voices of the Air

    Documentary telling the story of the BBC Singers from its beginnings in the 1920s.

    BBC Radio 3

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    Goldie The Alchemist

    Musician Goldie describes his story from a broken home to his success and later struggles.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    In Search of the Ideal Music Venue

    Acoustics expert Trevor Cox goes in search of the best venues for different types of music

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  6. Last Day

    Documentary series exploring people's last days at work.

    BBC Radio 4

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  7. Same-Sex Parents

    Mary Smeeth talks to same-sex parents about the challenges of raising their children.

    BBC Radio 4

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    My Family and Other Ibex

    Andrea Sella returns to the Italian landscape of his childhood to explore how it's changed

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    Heaven and Earth: Le Ly Hayslip

    Writer Le Ly Hayslip tells how she survived the Vietnam war and its aftermath.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    Patients Doing It for Themselves

    Vivienne Parry explores how patients are taking control of their own treatment.

    BBC Radio 4

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    The Lost Women of British Jazz

    Shining a light on the earliest female jazz pioneers, who were erased from music history.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    Yesterday's Papers: The End of the Music Press

    David Hepworth talks to fellow writers and bloggers about the decline of the music press

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  13. British Art at War: Bomberg, Sickert and Nash

    The story of how three British artists responded to the cataclysm of World War One.

    BBC Four

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  14. Power in the Blood: The Life of Ian Paisley

    William Crawley looks at the life of former Northern Ireland first minister Ian Paisley.

    BBC Radio 4

  15. Lorraine Pascale: How to Be a Better Cook

    Lorraine Pascale shows people with no kitchen confidence how to cook impressive meals.

    BBC Two

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  16. Operation Stonehenge: What Lies Beneath

    A team of scientists hope to reveal Stonehenge's secrets.

    BBC Two

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  17. The Wood Pushers

    A close encounter with the street chess players of Washington Square park, New York.

    BBC Radio 4

  18.

    Andy Warhol: Time Regained

    Lenny Henry unveils the mysterious contents of Andy Warhol's Time Capsules.

    BBC Radio 4

  19. FutureProofing

    Series examining the big ideas that are set to transform the way society functions

    BBC Radio 4

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  20. Urine Trouble: What's in Our Water

    What happens to the medicines we take after they leave our body? Andrea Sella finds out.

    BBC Radio 4

  21.

    High St Fashion: Weaving New Threads

    Sarah Butler asks, can the Bangladesh garment industry become ethical and profitable?

    BBC Radio 4

  22.

    Build and Be Damned

    The Victorians built grand ambitious railways, sewers and tunnels. Should we do the same?

    BBC Radio 4

  23.

    The Lost Genius of Judee Sill

    Ruth Barnes explores the music, life and loves of the singer songwriter Judee Sill

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  24.

    Casa Negra: The Real Casablanca

    Andrew Hussey on the cultural renaissance affecting Morocco's largest city.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  25.

    The Mother of the Sea

    Quentin Cooper tells the story of a British scientist hailed as a god in Japan.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    Glenshane

    Marie-Louise Muir explores the landscape, history and people of the Glenshane Pass.

    BBC Radio Ulster

  27.

    Tupac Shakur, Hip Hop Immortal.....

    Poet and playwright Al Letson recalls the life of Tupac Shakur.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  28.

    The Life Sub-Aquatic

    Whatever happened to the dream of living under the sea? Helen Scales investigates

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  29. The Secret Life of Books

    Classic books are reconsidered by returning to the writers' original manuscripts.

    BBC Four

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  30. Painful Medicine

    Sally Marlow investigates the hidden problem of addiction to over-the-counter painkillers.

    BBC Radio 4

  31.

    The Poet Librettists

    Michael Symmons Roberts explores why so many poets choose to become opera librettists.

    BBC Radio 4

  32.

    Mum and Dad and Mum

    Rebecca Morelle examines how children could be born with DNA from three people.

    BBC Radio 4

  33.

    Digitising Stalin

    For Stalin, privacy was key. So how would he feel about his secrets being revealed?

    BBC Radio 4

  34.

    A Theatre For Everyman

    As Liverpool's Everyman Theatre prepares to re-open, we hear from those who worked there.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  35. Penguin Post Office

    The adventures of a film crew who travel to Antarctica to film a colony of Gentoo penguins

    BBC Radio 4

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  36. The Lessons of Ray Honeyford

    Aasmah Mir on the outspoken head teacher who caused a national controversy.

    BBC Radio 4

  37.

    The Map That Made Manhattan

    Exploring the Manhattan grid as city matrix, psychic space and a bold political ideal.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  38.

    Sandhurst and the Sheikhs

    How does training at Sandhurst Academy bolster militarised monarchies of the Arab world?

    BBC Radio 4

  39.

    Whatever Happened to Global Governance?

    Prof Ngaire Woods examines how international cooperation is evolving.

    BBC Radio 4

  40.

    Music of the Forest

    Horatio Clare tells the story of the unconventional anthropologist Colin Turnbull.

    BBC Radio 4

  41.

    Everything We Know Is Wrong

    Most published science papers are untrue, but few ever get tested. Jolyon Jenkins reports.

    BBC Radio 4

  42.

    Why Men Pay for Sex

    What motivates men to pay women to sleep with them? Four men tell Jo Fidgen why they do it

    BBC Radio 4

  43.

    Don't Go in the Water!

    Shark biologist Gareth Fraser explores Jaws, forty years after Peter Benchley created it.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  44. Lucy Mangan's Literary Solutions to the Economy

    Writer Lucy Mangan selects five different economic remedies from literature.

    BBC Radio 4

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  45. Still Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo?

    Allan Little returns to Sarajevo to explore the role of the arts in restoring the city.

    BBC Radio 4

  46. Agree to Differ

    Discussion programme that gives listeners a new way to understand controversial issues.

    BBC Radio 4

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  47. The Waiting

    Raymond Tallis describes how the act of waiting pervades so much of our daily lives.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  48.

    Taking the Edge Off

    Francine Stock explores our use of mind-altering substances and Aldous Huxley's influence.

    BBC Radio 4

  49.

    Langley School Music Project

    The story of a Canadian school music recording that inspired the film School of Rock.

    BBC Radio 4

  50.

    Ansel Adams on Tape

    Miles Warde explores the life of American photographer Ansel Adams

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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