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Alice's Restaurant
Ian McMillan discovers how Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant became a Thanksgiving anthem.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Attenborough: 60 Years in the Wild
Sir David Attenborough looks at the changes in natural history during his 60-year career.
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Malala's Diary
The blog of the Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai voiced by British girls her age.
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From Worcester with Love
Peter White finds out what the blind boarding school he attended is like today
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Tim Key and Gogol's Overcoat
Comedian Tim Key spins his own surreal tale of one of Russia's greatest short stories.
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In Pursuit of the Ridiculous
Matthew Oates presents a series about naturalists and their pursuits
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Attenborough's Ark
David Attenborough picks ten animals that he would most like to save from extinction.
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What's in a Name?
Sangita Myska with a witty and insightful exploration of names in contemporary Britain.
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Great Continental Railway Journeys
Michael Portillo retraces the journeys from George Bradshaw's 1913 Continental Guide.
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In Alistair Cooke's Footsteps
Alvin Hall revisits the insights and observations of Alistair Cooke's Letter from America
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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The Gaza Surf Club
A portrait of life in Gaza through the eyes of a group of young Palestinian surfers.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Space Dive
The story of Felix Baumgartner's record-breaking freefall from the edge of space to Earth.
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Climategate Revisited
Chris Vallance explores the long-term results of the hacking of climate scientists' emails
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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A Scottish Hotel in the Holy Land
Why is the Church of Scotland funding a luxury boutique hotel in the Holy Land?
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Land Of The Rising Sums
Alex Bellos visits Japan to discover why Asian cultures seem so much better at maths.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Jamie Owen's Wales
Jamie Owen explores the people and places of our historic nation.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Wales
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Foreign Bodies
Mark Lawson examines how mystery novels reflect a country's history and political system.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Earworms
6Music DJ Shaun Keaveny meets the scientists investigating why songs get stuck in our head
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Hallucination: Through the Doors of Perception
Geoff Watts explores the cultural and scientific story of hallucination.
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Was Dracula Irish?
Irish novelist Patrick McCabe explores the Irish influences on Bram Stoker's Dracula.
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China: As History Is My Witness
Carrie Gracie presents a series exploring ten great lives from Chinese history
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Mr Blue Sky: The Story of Jeff Lynne and ELO
Documentary about musician-songwriter Jeff Lynne, with access to Jeff in his LA studio.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Four
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Happy Days - The Children of the Stones
Writer and comedian Stewart Lee explores the television series Children of the Stones.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Operation Ouch!
Dr Chris, Dr Xand and Dr Ronx explore their way through the world of medicine and biology.
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Putin, the Patriarch and Pussy Riot
After Pussy Riot, Lucy Ash explores the power of the Orthodox Church in Putin's Russia.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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The Reluctant Lama
The Spanish toddler who was chosen by the Dalai Lama as a reincarnated Tibetan lama.
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Luck Be a Lady Tonight
Journalist Marverine Cole looks at the increase in female gambling in the UK.
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Deborah Bull's Dance Nation
Dancer, writer and broadcaster Deborah Bull presents a social history of dance in the UK
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The Spanish Ambassador's Suitcase: Stories from the Diplomatic Bag
Matthew Parris presents memorable despatches sent home by British diplomats down the ages
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Ireland's Troublesome Priests
Ruth McDonald investigates the crisis in the Irish Catholic church.
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HV Morton - Travelling into the Light
John McCarthy retraces one of the journeys of the mercurial travel writer HV Morton.
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China's New Iron Rice Bowl
Rana Mitter discovers the unexpected thinking behind China's welfare state.
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The Stasi Jigsaw Puzzle
Chris Bowlby tells the story of the attempt to rescue East Germany's Stasi secret files.
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Walter Kershaw: The UK's First Street Artist?
Uncovering the life and work of a pioneering and under-appreciated British painter
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Hy-Brasil
Paul Evans navigates a sea of stories to a phantom island where fact and fiction coexist.
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The Lifecycle of a Bullet
A journey through the UK defence economy telling the story of a bullet from factory to war
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Helping Hamlet: Can Science Cure Procrastination?
Rowan Pelling searches for a cure for the problem which blights her life, procrastination.
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Rock 'n' Roll in Four Movements
Stuart Maconie on rock musicians who combined symphony and pop music in the 60s and 70s
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Composing LA
How Western classical music underpinned the golden age of the Hollywood film score.
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Inside The Paralympics
A series of programmes focusing on the Paralympic Games.
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Steptoe and Son... and Sons
Paul Jackson and a team of scriptwriters assess the legacy of Steptoe and Son, 50 years on
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Death Camp Treblinka: Survivor Stories
The stories of two men who escaped from Treblinka extermination camp in 1943.
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The 'arse that Jack Built
Ian McMillan goes in search of one of Britain's strangest linguistic features...
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Darwin's Tunes
Can you apply Darwin's theory of natural selection to music and create the perfect song?
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Greening the Military
Angus Crawford asks whether the army can do its job whilst respecting the environment.
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Fixing Broken Banking
Michael Robinson examines what went wrong with Britain's banks
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Letters to the Russian Front
A story of Austrian siblings told in their wartime letters to and from the Russian front.
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