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  1. 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?

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    A Theatre For Everyman

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

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  5. Penguin Post Office

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

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  6. The Lessons of Ray Honeyford

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

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    The Map That Made Manhattan

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

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    Sandhurst and the Sheikhs

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

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    Whatever Happened to Global Governance?

    Prof Ngaire Woods examines how international cooperation is evolving.

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    Music of the Forest

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

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    Everything We Know Is Wrong

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

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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

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    Don't Go in the Water!

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

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  14. Lucy Mangan's Literary Solutions to the Economy

    Writer Lucy Mangan selects five different economic remedies from literature.

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  15. Still Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo?

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

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  16. Agree to Differ

    Discussion programme that gives listeners a new way to understand controversial issues.

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  17. The Waiting

    Raymond Tallis describes how the act of waiting pervades so much of our daily lives.

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    Taking the Edge Off

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

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    Langley School Music Project

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

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    Ansel Adams on Tape

    Miles Warde explores the life of American photographer Ansel Adams

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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.

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    Learning to Listen

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

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    The Voter's Voice

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

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  24. The Wonder of Animals

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

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  25. The Educators

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

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  26. The Birth of Love

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

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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.

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  28. Heroes at War

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

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  29. Meet the Wainwrights

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

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    Choral Diplomacy

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

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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.

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    The Business Covenant

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

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  33. Heal Thyself: A History of Self-Help

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

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  34. Bricks and Bubbles

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

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  35. James Baldwin鈥檚 Last Amen

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

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    The Soul of Ireland

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

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    Trick or Trust

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

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  38. A Law Unto Themselves

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

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  39. The Singing Fish of Batticaloa

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

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    Betjeman's Banana Blush

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

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    A Bombay Symphony

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

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  42. Talking About Antony Hopkins

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

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 3

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  43. The Georgians: Restraint, Revolution and Reform

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

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  44. Kurdistan: A State of Uncertainty

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

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  45. Roots Reggae and Rebellion

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

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  46. At the End of Death Row

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

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  47. The Art of the Nation

    Will Gompertz investigates the artworks kept in our homes.

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  48. Plants: From Roots to Riches

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

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  49. The Paper Commonwealth

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

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  50. The Long and the Short of It

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

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