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  1. Ansel Adams on Tape

    Miles Warde explores the life of American photographer Ansel Adams

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    A Family Without a Child

    The stories of three women in a touching exploration of what it means to be childless.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Learning to Listen

    Dominic Sandbrook explores how the first generation of radio listeners learned to listen.

    BBC Radio 4

  4. The Wonder of Animals

    Chris Packham discovers the unique features that make certain animal groups successful.

    BBC Four

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  5. The Voter's Voice

    James Naughtie hosts discussion about Scotland's future, from the Edinburgh Festival.

    BBC Radio 4

  6. The Educators

    Sarah Montague interviews the people whose ideas are challenging the future of education.

    BBC Radio 4

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  7. The Birth of Love

    Dr Laura Ashe reveals how our ideas of romantic love were born in 12th-century literature.

    BBC Radio 4

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    The Tories and the Police: The End of the Affair

    Robin Aitken examines the relationship between the Conservative Party and the police.

    BBC Radio 4

  9. Heroes at War

    Stories of sporting heroes who went to into battle during the First World War

    BBC Radio 5 Live

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  10. Meet the Wainwrights

    Nina Myskow talks to Rufus and Martha Wainwright about their confessional songs.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    Choral Diplomacy

    Alex Stevenson explores musical diplomacy, as the Parliament and Bundestag choirs sing.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Graffiti: Kings on a Mission

    Was graffiti the great art of the 70s? Some of New York's pioneers share their stories.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    The Business Covenant

    Lord Digby Jones explores the relationship between business, government and society.

    BBC Radio 4

  14. Heal Thyself: A History of Self-Help

    Robin Ince explores our timeless fascination with the self-help shelf.

    BBC Radio 4

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  15. Bricks and Bubbles

    Series exploring the truth in claims that the UK is experiencing a housing bubble.

    BBC Radio 4

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  16. James Baldwin’s Last Amen

    Clarke Peters recalls the 1987 production of James Baldwin's The Amen Corner.

    BBC Radio 4

  17.

    The Soul of Ireland

    Sean Rocks discovers how soul music and blues first gained an audience in 1960's Ireland.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    Trick or Trust

    How evolutionary biology shapes policy on welfare reform, immigration and bankers' pay.

    BBC Radio 4

  19. A Law Unto Themselves

    Helena Kennedy talks to eminent lawyers and judges who stand out from the legal crowd.

    BBC Radio 4

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  20. The Singing Fish of Batticaloa

    The search for an elusive watery wonder in the aftermath of Sri Lanka's civil war.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    Betjeman's Banana Blush

    Jarvis Cocker uncovers an album made by Sir John Betjeman in 1974.

    BBC Radio 4

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    A Bombay Symphony

    Zareer Masani on the new love for, and controversy over, Western classical music in India.

    BBC Radio 4

  23. Talking About Antony Hopkins

    Tribute to Antony Hopkins, composer and presenter of the radio series Talking About Music

    BBC Radio 3

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  24. The Georgians: Restraint, Revolution and Reform

    Amanda Foreman examines how the elite transformed politics in the shadow of revolution.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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  25. Kurdistan: A State of Uncertainty

    As Iraq falls deeper into chaos, John McCarthy asks a key question - who are the Kurds?

    BBC Radio 4

  26. Roots Reggae and Rebellion

    British musician and poet Akala examines the culture of his Rastafarian heritage

    BBC Radio 4

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  27. At the End of Death Row

    Rajini Vaidyanathan explores the future of the death penalty in the United States.

    BBC Radio 4

  28. The Art of the Nation

    Will Gompertz investigates the artworks kept in our homes.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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  29. Plants: From Roots to Riches

    Our relationship with plants: a major new history by Kew's science director Kathy Willis.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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  30. The Paper Commonwealth

    As the Glasgow Games begin, Dr Joya Chatterji explores the history of the Commonwealth.

    BBC Radio 4

  31. The Long and the Short of It

    Tim McGarry and Dr David Hume investigate Irish history from different perspectives.

    BBC Radio Ulster

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  32. The War Widows of Afghanistan

    Zarghuna Kargar hears the stories of British and Afghan women widowed by the 13-year war.

    BBC Radio 4

  33. Into the Abyss

    Series taking listeners down to the deepest parts of the ocean.

    BBC Radio 4

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  34. Karaoke As Art?

    Is karaoke now an art form? Katie Puckrik hits the clubs in Portland, Oregon to find out.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Who's British Now?

    Fewer and fewer of us say we are 'British'. Ritula Shah asks, 'Who's British now?'.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Doing It the Milton Keynes Way

    Deborah Meaden uncovers the business secrets of booming Milton Keynes.

    BBC Radio 4

  37. World Agony

    Irma Kurtz talks to five different agony aunts from around the world.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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  38. Playing the Skyline

    Musicians look at how the land meets the air and imagine it as music.

    BBC Radio 4

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  39. AL Kennedy: Holding Hands

    Join AL Kennedy for something uniquely intimate and comforting that begins in childhood.

    BBC Radio 4

  40. The Leadership Gap

    John Tusa explores the state of leadership in large UK organisations today.

    BBC Radio 4

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  41. Gone to Earth

    Horatio Clare discovers how infantry soldiers are shaped by the Brecon Beacons' landscape.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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  42. The Devil's Rope

    Ian Marchant drives across the midwest to learn how barbed wire privatised America.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Who Does John Hegley Think He Is?

    John Hegley thinks he might be descended from French composer Rameau. Could it be true?

    BBC Radio 4

  44.

    Walking Round in Circles

    Northern Ireland writer Nick Laird returns home to consider the culture of marching.

    BBC Radio 4

  45.

    The Hotel Suite

    Paul Farley explores and exploits the creative possibilities offered by hotel stop-overs.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  46.

    Cold Water California

    How surfing is shaping Ireland's coastal communities, north and south of the border.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    The Grace of Jeff Buckley

    The story of a momentous day during Jeff Buckley's first solo tour of the UK in March 1994

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    The Last Wish of a Prince

    Hardeep Singh Kohli finds out if Maharaja Duleep Singh's remains should go back to India.

    BBC Radio 4

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    My Family’s Fight For Civil Rights

    Oona King discovers her family's role in the fight for equality for African Americans.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    O Say Can You See?

    Erica Wagner explores America's relationship with its national anthem, an ode to its flag.

    BBC Radio 4

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