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A Big Disease with a Little Name
Charting the early years of the AIDS crisis, as told by the people who lived through it
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Operation Ouch! Do Try This at ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½
Dr Chris and Dr Xand bring their lab into Xand’s kitchen.
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Knight Fights Giant Snail
Dr Alixe Bovey presents a surreal journey through the world of medieval marginalia.
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Meanwhile...
Covid-19 has dominated the media for months. Meanwhile, other stories are developing.
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The Great Post Office Trial
The extraordinary story of a campaign to uncover a massive scandal at the Post Office.
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What's the Matter with Tony Slattery?
Comedian Tony Slattery turns to psychiatry for some answers to his psychological problems.
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Butch
Joelle Taylor celebrates 'being butch' and asks whether it's an identity with a future.
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The Global Ventilator Race
Engineers and inventors worldwide are rushing to build new ventilators. Are they any good?
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The Migrant Medics
Is it fair for the rich world to cherry-pick the best doctors from poorer countries?
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Happy Little Trees
An exploration of young people's mental health and their attraction to TV artist Bob Ross.
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Nudes4Sale
Ellie Flynn investigates people making money from selling their nude photos and videos.
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Bellfield's Year
One year with a primary school in a poor part of Birmingham as it battles to stay solvent
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The Price of Life
Anita Anand meets the people putting a price on life. How do they justify their decisions?
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Addicted: America’s Opioid Crisis
A compelling insight into the growth of America’s devastating relationship with opioids.
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Iran’s Long Game
Iran is now calling the shots in Iraq. How did the clerics outmanoeuvre the US?
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How to Cure Viral Misinformation
The story of one misleading post - and how we can all stop the spread of bad information.
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Girl Reading
Zoë Comyns explores the pose of the girl reader with painters and writers.
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Rebuilding Notre-Dame
A look inside the restoration of the Notre-Dame de Paris following the 2019 fire.
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Snakes & Ladders
Conversations about money in modern Britain. With Cathy FitzGerald.
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Blind Mind's Eye
Sue Armstrong hears the personal experience of people with aphantasia - no mind's eye.
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China and the Virus
Has the Covid-19 epidemic weakened or strengthened the grip of China’s Communist Party?
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The Art of Raising a Child
Can you make creativity a life skill? Where might such a skill take a child in later life?
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Left Out of Power
Steve Richards examines the challenges for the Labour Party under Keir Starmer.
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My Final Wish
Sushma Puri reveals why many British Hindus want their ashes scattered in the Ganges.
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Return to the Calais Jungle
Hossein Ahmadi, an Iranian refugee, returns to the Calais Jungle that was once his home.
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Sharing the Baby
Shared Parental Leave has a 3% take-up in the UK. Fi Glover asks why it is so low.
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The City That Sings
Singing together is bringing hope to a struggling South African community.
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Fighting Talk: How Language Can Make Us Better
What impact does the language we use around cancer have on those living with the disease?
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The Science of Dad
Dr Oscar Duke discovers how pregnancy, birth and childcare affect the father.
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Universal Basic Income: Alaska Style
Every citizen gets an annual dividend from the state’s oil fund. Mark Whitaker reports.
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The Hidden History of the Mantelpiece
Rachel Hurdley explores the story of the mantelpiece and how it reveals our secret selves.
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The Cathedral Thinkers
Ian Sansom meets the people daring to dream beyond their own lifespans.
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The Battle for English
Lexicographer Susie Dent investigates the future of English as a global lingua franca.
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Faith on the Move
A journey with the chaplains who support travellers on Britain’s rail network.
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Out of Soweto: BCUC
Sound African band BCUC's journey from their rehearsal space in Soweto to Glastonbury
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Eighteen
Exploring the lives, dreams and creative worlds of six 18- to 21-year-old global artists.
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And the Good News Is You’re Jewish
When journalist Katie Glass lost her father she began a search for her Jewish identity.
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Wales: A Twentieth Century Tragedy?
Simon Jenkins presents a challenging personal view of the economics of contemporary Wales.
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Girl Taken
A grieving mother, a real life search for the truth and a race to find a little girl taken
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Le Divide
How France is facing the challenges of three key issues: liberty, fraternity and equality.
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The Cash for Ash Scandal
Chris Page tells the inside story of Northern Ireland's botched green energy scheme.
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Class Talk
How to have meaningful conversations across the class divide, with Kerry Hudson.
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