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  1. ‘How I Changed the Suit’

    Duration: 01:58

  2. How did the T-Shirt become a Symbol of Rebellion?

    Duration: 02:30

  3. Cycling and Parkinson's disease

    Duration: 01:46

  4. Footwear Fortune

    Duration: 01:11

  5. ‘You can feel the game, you can hear them shouting, it’s a unique feeling’

    Duration: 02:39

  6. Commuting Blues

    Duration: 02:19

  7. Graffiti and Syria

    Duration: 01:42

  8. ‘Barbie, c’est moi’

    Duration: 01:04

  9. How to taste tea the right way

    Duration: 00:57

  10. Why do submariners have ‘coffin dreams’?

    Duration: 01:44

  11. “I feel that they are hanging me up by one leg with my head down”

    Duration: 01:40

  12. “the thought of people having to do things for me really scared me”

    Duration: 02:00

  13. ‘My diary preserves my memory’

    Duration: 01:35

  14. Psychologist Corinne Usher on travel

    Duration: 01:30

  15. ‘Home is a sanctuary’

    Duration: 01:53

  16. Hidden Messages

    Duration: 02:00

  17. Why do people fluff something they are normally good at?

    Duration: 02:00

  18. 'Plastic-Brit'

    Duration: 00:47

  19. Why Do People Take Risks?

    Duration: 01:26

  20. “People accept cash as an everyday thing, a lot of people will not accept cards”

    Duration: 01:59

  21. Hockney on how to draw

    Duration: 00:29

  22. How do people get good at drawing?

    Duration: 01:48

  23. How beards became fashionable

    Duration: 01:30

  24. “745 days with the same pair of jeans on”

    Duration: 01:59

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