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  1. FutureProofing

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

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4

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  2. Urine Trouble: What's in Our Water

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

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4

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    High St Fashion: Weaving New Threads

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

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4

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    Build and Be Damned

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

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4

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    Casa Negra: The Real Casablanca

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

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 Extra

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    The Mother of the Sea

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

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 Extra

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    Glenshane

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

    蜜芽传媒 Radio Ulster

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    Tupac Shakur, Hip Hop Immortal.....

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

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 Extra

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    The Life Sub-Aquatic

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

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 Extra

  10. Our School

    Documentary series following students as they go from primary to secondary school.

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  11. The Secret Life of Books

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

    蜜芽传媒 Four

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  12. Painful Medicine

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

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4

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    The Poet Librettists

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

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    Mum and Dad and Mum

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

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    Digitising Stalin

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

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4

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    A Theatre For Everyman

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

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 Extra

  17. Penguin Post Office

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

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  18. The Lessons of Ray Honeyford

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

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4

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    The Bridge: Fifty Years Across the Forth

    Celebrating the 50th anniversary of a great Scottish landmark, the Forth Road Bridge.

    蜜芽传媒 Scotland

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    The Map That Made Manhattan

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

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 Extra

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    Sandhurst and the Sheikhs

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

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4

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    Whatever Happened to Global Governance?

    Prof Ngaire Woods examines how international cooperation is evolving.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4

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    Music of the Forest

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

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4

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    Everything We Know Is Wrong

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

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4

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    Why Men Pay for Sex

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

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4

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    Don't Go in the Water!

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

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 Extra

  27. Lucy Mangan's Literary Solutions to the Economy

    Writer Lucy Mangan selects five different economic remedies from literature.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4

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  28. Still Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo?

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

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4

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    Taking the Edge Off

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

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4

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    Langley School Music Project

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

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4

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    Ansel Adams on Tape

    Miles Warde explores the life of American photographer Ansel Adams

    蜜芽传媒 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.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4

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    Learning to Listen

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

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4

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    The Voter's Voice

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

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4

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    The Birth of Love

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

    蜜芽传媒 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.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4

  37. Heroes at War

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

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 5 Live

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  38. Choral Diplomacy

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

    蜜芽传媒 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.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 Extra

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    The Business Covenant

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

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4

  41. Heal Thyself: A History of Self-Help

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

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  42. Bricks and Bubbles

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

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  43. The Soul of Ireland

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

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 Extra

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    Trick or Trust

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

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4

  45. A Law Unto Themselves

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

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  46. The Singing Fish of Batticaloa

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

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 Extra

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    Betjeman's Banana Blush

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

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4

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    A Bombay Symphony

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

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4

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    Kurdistan: A State of Uncertainty

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

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4

  50. Roots Reggae and Rebellion

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

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4

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