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  1. The Computer with a Poker Face

    Simon Singh witnesses the first man versus machine poker championship in Vancouver.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4

  2. Night Rescue

    Sarah Moore meets bird rescuer Jean Hains, who launches stricken birds off the cliff-tops.

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  3. The Cairngorms - Scotland's Arctic

    Dougie Vipond visits the Cairngorms, Britain's largest and newest National Park.

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  4. Johnny Goes to Scotland

    Exmoor's wildman Johnny Kingdom goes wildlife spotting in Scotland.

    蜜芽传媒 One

  5. Why Do the British Love Wildlife?

    Francesco Da Mosto explores the British love of the natural world.

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  6. The Saving of Fordhall Farm

    The remarkable story of a community coming together to save a Shropshire farm.

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  7.

    Britain's Sputnik

    Roland Pease recalls ZETA, a nuclear energy project unveiled in 1958 by British scientists

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  8. The Voice

    Documentary on the human voice, how it works and why replicating it is such a challenge.

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  9. The Jet Stream and Us

    Documentary tracing how human understanding of the jet stream has grown.

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  10.

    Bridging the Morphine Gap

    Mukti Jain Campion asks why India's people have virtually no access to medical morphine.

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  11. Bad Nature

    Jo Brand discovers what wildlife presenters really think of the animals they talk about.

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  12. For the Love of Pod

    Colin Murray finds out why podcasting is changing listening habits the world over.

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  13.

    Who Needs Scientists?

    Mark Miodownik challenges the conventional wisdom that more scientists are essential.

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  14. Shroud of Turin: Material Evidence

    Exactly what it is about the image on the Shroud of Turin that has defied imitation?

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  15. Lonely Nights

    Self-confessed nocturnal hermit Brian Skiff reflects upon the night sky.

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  16. Planning An Eco House

    Documentary following George Monbiot as he transforms his house into an eco-friendly home.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio Wales

  17. Britain Under Water

    Documentary examining the cause and effect of 2007's shocking floods in Britain.

    蜜芽传媒 One

  18. The Computer that Changed our Future

    Twenty years on we review the accuracy of JigCal, the 80s computerised career search.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio Scotland

  19. Why Do We Sing?

    Choirmaster Gareth Malone explore the role of singing in our development.

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  20. Clair Patterson: Scourge of the Lead Industry

    The story of Clair Patterson's discovery of the global contamination of the environment.

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  21.

    Life's Soundtrack

    Trevor Cox explores how our voice and our hearing develop and change through our lives.

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  22.

    Peer Review in the Dock

    Mark Whitaker investigates the tarnished image of a flawed scientific process.

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  23. Jatropha the Wonder Plant

    Chandy Nath explores the properties of the wild tropical plant Jatropha.

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  24. Beardyman and the Mimics

    Beatboxer "Beardyman" aka Darren Foreman goes in search of nature's best sound mimics.

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  25.

    Big Bang Day: Engineering Solutions

    Adam Hart-Davis follows the construction of the Large Hadron Collider atom smasher at CERN

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  26.

    Physics Rocks

    Brian Cox meets some celebrity physics enthusiasts, including Alan Alda and Eddie Izzard.

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  27. Big Bang Day: The Genuine Particle

    Steve Punt's fast-moving comedy, set 100 metres underground in the Large Hadron Collider.

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  28. The Big Bang Machine

    A look around the LHC before the experiment to simulate Big Bang conditions begins.

    蜜芽传媒 Four

  29. Lost Horizons: The Big Bang

    Jim Al Khalili tells the story behind the Big Bang theory of the universe's creation.

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  30. Iolo Goes Techno

    Iolo Williams discovers the night-time world of the forest with a thermal imaging camera.

    蜜芽传媒 Two Wales

  31. Joanna Lumley in the Land of the Northern Lights

    Joanna Lumley travels across Norway in an attempt to see the Northern Lights.

    蜜芽传媒 One

  32. In Search of Spanish Flu

    Virologists attempt to detect the genetic footprint of Spanish Flu by exhuming a body.

    蜜芽传媒 Four

  33. High Anxieties: The Mathematics of Chaos

    How recent developments in mathematics have changed our understanding of the world.

    蜜芽传媒 Four

  34. Behind the Scenes with Carbon Dioxide

    The story of Joseph Black, the chemist who described carbon dioxide for the first time.

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  35. The Story of Asthma Island

    How the island of Tristan da Cunha could hold the key to the genetic basis for asthma.

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  36. The Quest for Virgin Birth

    Geneticist Aarathi Prasad explores the phenomenon known as parthenogenesis or virgin birth

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  37. Walker of the Downs

    Martin Sorrell walks the Sussex Downs which inspired the nature poet Ted Walker.

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  38. Frost Fair

    Celebrating the extraordinary fairs once held on London's frozen River Thames.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 Extra

  39. Star of Bethlehem

    Scientists try to find out if the star of Bethlehem was a real astronomical event.

    蜜芽传媒 Two

  40. Time and Tide: The Severn Barrage

    Miriam O'Reilly explores the viability of the controversial sustainable energy project.

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  41.

    Britain's Atlantis

    The most recent knowledge of what the land around Britain was like before the Ice Age.

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  42. Jon Ronson and the Quest for the Aryan Cow

    The story of the director of Berlin Zoo who attempted to resurrect extinct animal species.

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  43. Darwin's Struggle: The Evolution of the Origin of Species

    How Charles Darwin struggled for 20 years to create his book On the Origin of Species.

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  44. Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life

    David Attenborough shares his personal view on Darwin's theory of evolution.

    蜜芽传媒 One

  45. Why Reading Matters

    How modern neuroscience has revealed that reading unlocks remarkable powers in people.

    蜜芽传媒 Four

  46. The Star Jelly Mystery

    Euan McIlwraith investigates the identity of the mysterious 'star jelly'.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4

  47. When Wales Shook the World

    Documentary celebrating the beauty of some of Wales' iconic engineering achievements.

    蜜芽传媒 One Wales

  48. Tin Men

    Jolyon Jenkins explores the story of the last working tin mine in Cornwall.

    蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 Extra

  49.

    Sound Architecture: The Spaces That Speak

    Science broadcaster Professor Trevor Cox explores the science of aural architecture.

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  50. History of the Future: Cars

    A look at how we thought the car of the future was going to turn out in the 50s and 60s.

    蜜芽传媒 Four

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