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The Internet Millionaires' Club
Jolyon Jenkins reports on the people trying to get rich online without actually working.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Black Is a Country
Exploring the underground music generated by the Black Power and Black Arts movements
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Among the Managers
Robert Peston lifts the lid on the multi-million pound football management industry
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Thinking Streets
Angela Saini explores shared space - an idea set to bring peace and harmony to our streets
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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How Folk Songs Should Be Sung
Folk singer Martin Carthy examines the rise and fall of Ewan MacColl's Critics Group.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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The Bishop and the Prisoner
The bishop of Liverpool talks to prisoners, politicians and pundits about the penal system
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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In Search of Barney Bubbles
The hunt for the truth about the most influential and enigmatic of graphic designers.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Dear Professor Hawking
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 pays tribute to scientist Professor Stephen Hawking
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Buying Defence
Is Britain wasting billions through bad defence procurement? Francis Tusa investigates.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Jane Austen: The Unseen Portrait?
Martha Kearney investigates a possible lost portrait of Jane Austen.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Two
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Goodnight John Boy
Frank Cottrell Boyce celebrates one of the great TV families - The Waltons.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Inside the Academie Francaise
Agnes Poirier explores the role of the body which protects the French language.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Am I Really Free?
When are mentally ill patients really free to make decisions about their treatment?
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Stories in Sound
Radio Ulster brings together radio documentaries from UK and Irish broadcasters.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Ulster
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Can You Touch Your Toes?
Anita Anand investigates a new system designed to work out who is and isn't fit for work.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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The Art of Darkness
Richard Coles on the inspiration to artists of darkness and the Northern lights in Norway.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Tales from the Arab Spring
Jeremy Bowen hears first-hand accounts of the revolution which started in Tunisia
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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The Bob Graham Round
Can the beauty of the Lake District and the grit of fell running inspire a composer?
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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The Unsettled Dust: The Strange Stories Of Robert Aickman
Screenwriter Jeremy Dyson praises the supernatural stories of Robert Aickman.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Post Mortem
Professor Lucas performs a 'consented' post mortem, defending its contribution to medicine
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Boundaries of Blood
How does the Indo-Pakistan war of 1971, which created Bangladesh, still resonate today?
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Blue Notes, Cold Nights
How Scandinavia became home to a generation of African-American jazz and blues musicians.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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How New Is the New Philanthropy?
Hugh Cunningham presents a history of philanthropic giving in Britain
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The Wedding Gold Thefts
The high price of gold has led to Asians being targeted for their wedding jewellery.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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The Blood Telegram
The story of one of the most controversial documents in US diplomatic history.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Greece: Broken Marble, Broken Future
Writer Maria Margaronis returns home to listen to those living through the Greek disaster.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Three Wishes
Janet Ellis celebrates that most unpredictable of mythological beings, the genie.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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The Alias Men
Andrew Collins tells the story of Alan Smithee, prolific film director who never existed.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Prisoners' Women
Women talk about how they cope with life on the outside when men go to prison.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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The Countertenor
Men who sing in falsetto. Bidisha on the countertenor voice, from Purcell to Plan B.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Mastering the Art of the Kimono
Japan: Roland Buerk explores why the kimono industry in Japan is in steep decline.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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From Frestonia to Belgravia: The History of Squatting
Robert Elms charts the history, ideology and culture of squatting.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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The Brotherton Archive and Me
Julia Blackburn meets writers whose private papers reside in Leeds University Library.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Coming Out
Five programmes exploring the ways in which people reveal their true selves to the world.
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The British Germans
Why many thousands of former British army soldiers have settled in Germany.
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Brain Culture: Neuroscience and Society
Matthew Taylor explores the coming 'Brain Culture'
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Art of America
Andrew Graham-Dixon explores the rich, exciting and diverse art history of the USA
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Four
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The New Global Economics
Martin Wolf, of the Financial Times, examines the global financial situation
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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Oscar and Al Pacino
An exclusive interview with Al Pacino about his passion for Oscar Wilde.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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The Freedom Trail
Edward Stourton walks the most dangerous WWII escape route over the Pyrenees
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The War Brides Return
Testimony from the women who sailed across the Atlantic to join their servicemen husbands.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Bleached Bone and Living Wood
Christine Finn visits the house that was the poet Wilfred Owen's final refuge in France.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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The Poppy Factory
Stories from The Poppy Factory in Surrey, where poppies are made for Remembrance Sunday.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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The Lobotomists
Why were tens of thousands of people lobotomised in the 1940s and 50s in the UK and US?
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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The Leonardo Detectives
Art critic Rachel Campbell-Johnston, explores the mysterious world of art attribution.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
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A History of the Brain
Dr Geoff Bunn journeys through 5,000 years of human understanding of the brain
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra