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  1. The Science of Dad

    Dr Oscar Duke discovers how pregnancy, birth and childcare affect the father.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Universal Basic Income: Alaska Style

    Every citizen gets an annual dividend from the state’s oil fund. Mark Whitaker reports.

    BBC Radio 4

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    The Hidden History of the Mantelpiece

    Rachel Hurdley explores the story of the mantelpiece and how it reveals our secret selves.

    BBC Radio 4

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    The Cathedral Thinkers

    Ian Sansom meets the people daring to dream beyond their own lifespans.

    BBC Radio 4

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    The Battle for English

    Lexicographer Susie Dent investigates the future of English as a global lingua franca.

    BBC Radio 4

  6. The Lang Hame

    Dan Gordon visits some of Ulster’s thousands of graveyards.

    BBC Two Northern Ireland

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  7. Faith on the Move

    A journey with the chaplains who support travellers on Britain’s rail network.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Out of Soweto: BCUC

    Sound African band BCUC's journey from their rehearsal space in Soweto to Glastonbury

    BBC Radio 4

  9. Eighteen

    Exploring the lives, dreams and creative worlds of six 18- to 21-year-old global artists.

    BBC Radio 4

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  10. And the Good News Is You’re Jewish

    When journalist Katie Glass lost her father she began a search for her Jewish identity.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Wales: A Twentieth Century Tragedy?

    Simon Jenkins presents a challenging personal view of the economics of contemporary Wales.

    BBC Radio 4

  12. Girl Taken

    A grieving mother, a real life search for the truth and a race to find a little girl taken

    BBC Radio 4

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  13. Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

    The story of a truly singular talent, unpacking the myth of the man behind the horn.

    BBC Two

  14. Le Divide

    How France is facing the challenges of three key issues: liberty, fraternity and equality.

    BBC Radio 4

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  15. The Cash for Ash Scandal

    Chris Page tells the inside story of Northern Ireland's botched green energy scheme.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Class Talk

    How to have meaningful conversations across the class divide, with Kerry Hudson.

    BBC Radio 4

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    OK, Boomer!

    The generation gap has never felt wider. Rhys Jones asks if we have seen this before.

    BBC Radio 4

  18. Hey You What If?

    We find out some epic answers to some impossible questions!

    CBBC

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  19. The Hidden Loss

    An emotional programme exploring the difficult and rarely discussed subject of baby loss.

    BBC Radio Wales

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    Leap

    Artist Monster Chetwynd leads a delightfully bonkers exploration of the Leap Day.

    BBC Radio 4

  21. Murder 24/7

    Following teams of detectives and specialists involved in murder investigations.

    BBC One

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  22. The Day of Two Suns

    James Nokise looks at how Pacific wordsmiths have protested nuclear testing.

    BBC Radio 4

  23. The Californian Century

    Stanley Tucci imagines the history of modern California as a Hollywood screenplay.

    BBC Radio 4

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  24. My Kind of Town

    Ian Hamilton explores the past, present and future of towns across Scotland.

    BBC Scotland

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  25. Royal History’s Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

    Lucy Worsley dispels the myths behind some of the key moments in royal history.

    BBC Two

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  26. Hong Kong: Love in a Divided City

    An intimate glimpse of the Hong Kong protests, as experienced by a newlywed couple.

    BBC Radio 4

  27. Inside Cinema

    Short films taking you to the heart of the movies.

    BBC Arts

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  28. Remembering Tryweryn

    Guto Harri explores the event that shaped Welsh art and literature for a generation.

    BBC Radio 4

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    What Does Boris Johnson Really Think?

    Nick Robinson explores Boris Johnson's political beliefs through interviews with insiders.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Code Red

    The innovation in trauma science that's saving the lives of bleeding trauma patients.

    BBC Radio 4

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    The Art of Survival

    Stories of homelessness shared as an art project.

    BBC Radio 4

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    The Purity Spiral

    Gavin Haynes heads into the eye of the moral storms gripping some unlikely communities.

    BBC Radio 4

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    The Crisis Inside

    Ian Acheson examines whether the London Bridge attack could have been prevented.

    BBC Radio 4

  34. Lies My Teacher Told Me

    When the textbooks are faked - history is subverted.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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  35. The Remarkable Resistance of Lilo

    Lilo and her husband Erich Gloeden hid Jews from the Nazis in wartime Berlin

    BBC Radio 4

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    The Last of the Just: Finding Beauty in Barbarity

    Naomi Gryn revisits the Holocaust novel The Last of the Just, published 60 years ago.

    BBC Radio 4

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    The Touch Test

    The Touch Test: Claudia Hammond launches a major new study investigating the role of touch

    BBC Radio 4

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    The People's Pyramid

    Once they made pop records. Now they're building a pyramid out of dead people.

    BBC Radio 4

  39. Orwell in Five Words

    George Orwell has been dead for 70 years. What can his ideas tell us about life in 2020?

    BBC Radio 4

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  40. Curating the Future

    V&A Director Tristram Hunt explores the new challenges facing the world's oldest museums.

    BBC Radio 4

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  41. Croí Briste

    Documentary following a two-year-old boy and his parents as he awaits a heart transplant.

    BBC Two Northern Ireland

  42. Murder Trial

    Murder, mystery, justice? A compelling insight into the UK's criminal justice system.

    BBC Two

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  43. The Stem Cell Hard Sell

    Lesley Curwen investigates the hope, hype and potential harm of stem cell treatments

    BBC Radio 4

  44. Green Originals

    Reflections on the pioneers of the environmental movement over the last sixty years.

    BBC Radio 4

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  45. The World Turned Upside Down

    The transition from fossil fuels to renewables and its geopolitical consequences.

    BBC Radio 4

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  46. The End of the World Has Already Happened

    Philosopher Timothy Morton explores our psychological relationship with the climate crisis

    BBC Radio 4

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  47. Earth’s Tropical Islands

    Exploring some of the world's most isolated and iconic tropical islands.

    BBC Two

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  48. A Guide to Disagreeing Better

    Why do we hold our opponents in contempt? And what steps should we take to stop?

    BBC Radio 4

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    Fidget on Four

    Dr Kat Arney examines the potential health benefits of jiggling and doodling.

    BBC Radio 4

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    A Small Matter of Hope

    Life's getting better. So why don't we believe it? Fraser Nelson finds out.

    BBC Radio 4

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