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  1. What I'd Really Like to Do

    A countdown of Britain's top ten dream jobs.

    BBC One

  2. What If

    A boy from an estate learns fundamental life lessons on how to become an admirable man.

    BBC Two

  3. What if Africa was the New Hub of Global Science?

    BBC World Service hosts an international science festival from the heart of Africa.

    BBC World Service

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  4. What If Everyone Was Disabled?

    Mat Fraser imagines how different our world would be if everybody had a disability.

    BBC Radio 4

  5. What If Our Textbooks Were Black?

    A series celebrating Black cultural figures who should be more central to history.

    BBC Radio 4

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  6. What If Putin Goes Nuclear?

    As President Putin put Russia's strategic nuclear forces on high alert, the world held its breath. Jon Snow explores what the threat of a nuclear attack might mean for us all.

    BBC Persian TV

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    What If We Stopped Buying Stuff and Started Making It?

    Meet the crafts people behind the current revival in making and repairing belongings.

    BBC Radio 4

  8. What If?

    Documentary series asking intriguing questions about our future way of living

    BBC News

  9. What If?

    Christopher Andrew considers the path of history if events had taken a different course.

    BBC Radio 4

  10. What If?

    A look into the future to see what life will be like 10, 20, even 50 years from now.

    BBC News

  11. What If?

    What might have happened if important moments in history had taken a different course.

    BBC Radio 4

  12. What If...

    Professor Christopher Andrew and guests imagine how the past could have been different.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  13. What If...

    A series of programmes about what the world of the future might be like.

    BBC World Service

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  14. What If... We Could All Talk To Joi Ito?

    Joi Ito is a pioneer of internet openness. Razia Iqbal and an audience ask him about his claims for the web’s benign power.

    BBC World Service

  15. What If... We Could Shape Our Lives?

    What are the decisions that change our lives? We hear how people from different cultures try to shape their lives and futures.

    BBC World Service

  16. What If...?

    Looking into the future for the weather and landscape of Wales in a warming world.

    BBC Radio Wales

  17. What If...?

    What might have happened, had important events in history taken a different course.

    BBC Four

  18. What in the World

    Helping you make sense of what’s happening in your world.

    BBC World Service

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  19. What In The World (Visualisation)

    Helping you make sense of what's happening in your world

    BBC World Service TV

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  20. What Iranians are Being Told About the War

    The BBC looks at how Iran is using AI and propaganda throughout this war

    BBC News

  21. What Is a Story?

    Marina Warner explores the world of contemporary fiction

    BBC Radio 4

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  22. What is a Wife?

    Writer Geraldine Bedell examines the role of the wife in modern society.

    BBC Radio 4

  23. What Is Beauty?

    Matthew Collings asks whether beauty is a matter of taste or a more universal concept.

    BBC Two

  24. What is Civil Society?

    Examining the ideology behind a non-governmental society

    BBC World Service

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  25. What is Democracy?

    The history and principles of democracy

    BBC World Service

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  26. What Is IS?

    David Aaronovitch untangles the ideological threads that make up the 'Islamic State'.

    BBC Radio 4

  27. What Is It about Judy Blume?

    If you could speak to a writer who changed your life, what would you say?

    BBC Radio 4

  28. What is Monkeypox?

    James Gallagher explains what it is and if we should be worried

    BBC News

  29. What iS Music Videos?

    Monthly comedy show about music videos, hosted by the worst artificial intelligence ever.

    BBC Radio 1

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    What Is Quantum?

    Marnie Chesterton travels to the birthplace of quantum theory armed with just one question

    BBC Radio 4

  31. What Is....

    Classical music deconstructed and explained

    BBC World Service

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  32. What Just Happened

    A once-successful Hollywood producer is in trouble when his new movie gets panned.

    BBC Two

  33. What Just Happened?

    Brand new comedy panel show. Kiri Pritchard-McLean and guests review the news of 2021.

    BBC Radio Wales

  34. What Just Happened?

    Kiri Pritchard-McLean is the host of a brand new topical panel show.

    BBC One Wales

  35. What Just Happened?

    Join Robin Morgan and a panel of talent, all ready to satirise the past week

    BBC Radio Wales

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  36. What Just Happened?

    A special end-of-year episode of the award-winning topical panel show.

    BBC One Wales

  37. What Leonard Cohen Did for Me

    A celebration of the career of revered singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen.

    BBC Four

  38. What Macca Did Next: The Decade with Wings

    Johnnie Walker explores what Paul McCartney did next after the Beatles.

    BBC Radio 2

  39. What Makes a City?

    Mal Pope explores the urban experience - the city as a place to live, work and play

    BBC Radio Wales

  40. What Makes a Derry Girl?

    Join Anna Curran as she asks some famous faces just what makes a Derry Girl?

    BBC Radio Ulster

  41. What Makes a Great Soprano?

    Dame Kiri Te Kanawa explores the physical and artistic demands of being a soprano.

    BBC Two

  42. What Makes a Great Tenor?

    Rolando Villazon takes us inside the world of the sexiest and riskiest of operatic voices.

    BBC Four

  43. What Makes a Hero?

    American veterans talk about what it means to be defined as a 'hero' in the US.

    BBC News

  44. What Makes a Hero?

    American veterans discuss the widespread act of calling all veterans "heroes".

    BBC News

  45. What Makes Britain Rich?

    Peter and Dan Snow present their annual investigation into how Britain's fortunes are made

    BBC One

  46. What Makes Me, Me? And Other Interesting Questions

    Fun and engaging short films exploring fundamental philosophical concepts.

    BBC Two

  47. What Makes the World Laugh?

    The best international stand-up comedians at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

    BBC World Service

  48. What Makes Tuchel Tick? Ralf Rangnick on his Protege

    Thomas Hitzelberger sits down with Ralf Rangnick to learn more about the new England boss.

    BBC Sport

  49. What Makes Us Human

    Jeremy Vine explores what makes us human with leading thinkers and writers.

    BBC Radio 2

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  50. What Makes You Tic?

    Lewis Nickell, TV's first talkshow host with Tourette's, meets The Vamps & Nadine Coyle.

    BBC Three

  51. What Mid-Life Crisis?

    John Beattie explores the feelings and issues that surface on reaching middle age.

    BBC Radio Scotland

  52. What Midlife Crisis?

    John Beattie explores the feelings and issues that surface on reaching middle age.

    BBC Radio Scotland

  53. What Next for Palestinians After Ceasefire?

    Palestinians in the West Bank tell Clive Myrie of their hopes for a united future

    BBC News

  54. What Next for the Wellerman?

    Online sea shanty star Nathan Evans aims to make it big in the pop world.

    BBC Scotland

  55. What Next In The Bitter Trump-Musk Feud?

    The President told several media outlets he's not interested in talking to Elon Musk

    BBC News

  56. What Next In The Bitter Trump-Musk Feud?

    The feud between two of the world's most powerful billionaires shows no sign of ending

    BBC News

  57. What Not to Wear

    BBC One

  58. What Not to Wear

    BBC One

  59. What Not to Wear

    BBC One

  60. What Not To Wear

    Series which sets out to prove that anyone can look stylish

    BBC One

  61. What Now for BP?

    5 live examines the impact of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on BP.

    BBC Radio 5 Live

  62. What Now for Scotland?

    After the vote to leave the EU, senior politicians face questions from a studio audience.

    BBC One Scotland

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    What On Earth? With Count Binface

    Space politician Count Binface invades Radio 4 to learn about Earth and how to conquer it.

    BBC Radio 4

  64. What Planet Are We On? ... with Liz Bonnin

    Liz Bonnin and a team of experts explore the impacts of climate change.

    BBC Radio 5 Live

  65. What Planet Are We On? ...with Liz Bonnin

    Offering solutions and tips to combat climate change with Liz Bonnin and guests.

    BBC Radio 5 Live

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  66. What Point Prison? The Debate

    Stephen Sackur chairs a debate in Nottingham about the role of prison in the 21st century.

    BBC Radio 4

  67. What Really Happened in the Nineties?

    Robert Carlyle takes us back to moments we missed in the '90s that shaped the world today.

    BBC Radio 4

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  68. What Remains

    Detective Len Harper investigates when a couple discover a body in their new flat.

    BBC One

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  69. What Scientists Believe

    Stephen Webster investigates the links between scientists' personal beliefs and their work

    BBC Radio 4

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    What Should We Teach Our Kids?

    Robert Peston investigates the future for secondary education.

    BBC Radio 4

  71. What Sports Stars Do Next

    Retired sports stars discuss what fills their lives now their competing days are over

    BBC Radio Wales

  72. What Sports Stars Do Next

    Paralympian Dame Tanni Grey Thompson explores life after sport with Tim Henman.

    BBC Radio Wales

  73. What Sweetness Touched Your Tongue?

    Alison Brackenbury's poems, inspired by her grandmother's recipes; a view into her life.

    BBC Radio 4

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    What Syria Means for Britain

    John Kampfner examines the potential consequences of Britain not intervening in Syria.

    BBC Radio 4

  75. What Texting Owes to the Literary Enlightenment

    The links between text-speak and the language of the 18th-Century Literary Enlightenment.

    BBC Radio 4

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    What Thatcher Did Next

    Elinor Goodman explores Margaret Thatcher's life after she ceased to be prime minister.

    BBC Radio 4

  77. What the Ancients Did for Us

    BBC Two

  78. What the Ancients Did for Us

    Series examining the innovations and inventions of ancient civilisations.

    BBC Two

  79. What the Butler Saw

    Drama set in a home where the administrators are crazier than the patients.

    BBC Four

  80. What the Donkey Saw: UA Fanthorpe's Christmas Poems

    Sheila Hancock reads the poems that UA Fanthorpe sent as Christmas greetings.

    BBC Radio 4

  81. What the Election Papers Say

    Journalists take a wry look at how the broadsheets and red tops treat the week's top news

    BBC Radio 4

  82. What the financial crisis means for you

    Peter Allen and BBC Business editor Robert Peston examine the current financial crisis.

    BBC Radio 5 Live

  83. What The Future?

    Comedy sketch show that explores the world of tomorrow. Hosted by Kirsty Wark.

    BBC Radio 4

  84. What the Minister Saw

    Art expert Philip Mould looks at what new government ministers have put on their walls.

    BBC Radio 4

  85. What the Papers Say

    A look back at the events of the week as reported in the press

    BBC Two

  86. What the Papers Say

    The country's leading political journalists analyse the newspapers

    BBC Radio 4

  87. What the Papers Say

    Peter Hitchens of the Mail on Sunday looks at how papers covered the week's big stories.

    BBC Radio 4

  88. What the Romans Did for Us

    The innovations and inventions brought to Britain by the Romans.

    BBC Two

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  89. What the Scandinavians Know About Children's Literature

    Mariella Frostrup looks at Scandinavian children's literature.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    What the Songbird Said

    Angela Saini explores the science of birdsong and its relationship to human language.

    BBC Radio 4

  91. What the Victorians Did For Us

    Adam Hart-Davis investigates Victorian innovations.

    BBC Two

  92. What the World Needs Now

    Carrie and David Grant search for the meaning of Advent

    BBC One

  93. What the World Needs Now

    Carrie and David Grant search for the meaning of Advent.

    BBC One

  94. What the World Needs Now

    Carrie and David Grant search for the meaning of Advent.

    BBC One

  95. What the World Needs Now

    Carrie and David Grant search for the meaning of Advent.

    BBC One

  96. What the World Needs Now Is... Burt Bacharach

    Paul Gambaccini talks to Burt Bacharach and Kyle Riabko about stage show Close to You.

    BBC Radio 2

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