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  1. Maestro or Mephisto: The Real Georg Solti

    Re-examining the life of conductor Georg Solti using archive footage and interviews.

    BBC Four

  2. Bho Stalag Gu Gulag/From Stalag to Gulag

    Norman MacArthur pieces together his grandfather's incredible wartime journey.

    BBC ALBA

  3. The Belfast Mayor - A Year in Chains

    A year in the life of Belfast's youngest ever Lord Mayor, 25-year-old Niall O Donnghaile.

    BBC One Northern Ireland

  4. The Naughty Pictures Committees

    Laurie Taylor seeks out the local censors who privately vetted controversial films

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  5. Eric Liddell: The Spirit Lives On

    Mo McCullough meets people who knew 'Uncle Eric' as youths in a WW2 internment camp.

    BBC Radio Scotland

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    Tim Key and Gogol's Overcoat

    Comedian Tim Key spins his own surreal tale of one of Russia's greatest short stories.

    BBC Radio 4

  7. The Art of Remembrance

    Mark Whitaker looks at some of the lesser-known ways the arts responded to the Great War.

    BBC Radio 4

  8. Words on Water

    Mike Greenwood talks to a number of writers about their literary fascination with fishing.

    BBC Radio 4

  9. A Place for Us

    Moving insight into the experience of teenagers arriving alone to seek asylum in Britain.

    BBC Radio 4

  10. Dads Who Do

    Tottenham MP David Lammy meets African Caribbean fathers who are serious about parenting.

    BBC Radio 4

  11. The Late Great Eric Sykes

    A tribute to a man who blasted his way through six decades of British comedy.

    BBC Two

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    Attenborough's Ark

    David Attenborough picks ten animals that he would most like to save from extinction.

    BBC Two

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    Space Dive

    The story of Felix Baumgartner's record-breaking freefall from the edge of space to Earth.

    BBC Two

  14. The Road to El Alamein: Churchill's Desert Campaign

    Jonathan Dimbleby sheds new light on the significance of the North African campaign.

    BBC Two

  15. Bosnia Remembered

    Simon Weston meets the Welsh soldiers who served in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 20 years on.

    BBC Radio Wales

  16. The Place of Padres

    Andrea Rea examines the role of British Army chaplains over the last 200 years and today.

    BBC Radio Ulster

  17. The Richard Burton Diaries

    Documentary about the private diaries Richard Burton wrote at the height of his fame.

    BBC One Wales

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    Malala's Diary

    The blog of the Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai voiced by British girls her age.

    BBC Radio 4

  19. Ballaí Dhoire

    Revealing the story behind the construction of Derry's 400-year-old city walls.

    BBC Two Northern Ireland

  20. Chateau Chunder: When Australian Wine Changed the World

    How a small group of enterprising Australian winemakers took on the world and won.

    BBC Four

  21. Shalom Belfast?

    Why have some people in Northern Ireland taken sides in the Middle East conflict?

    BBC One Northern Ireland

  22. Pop Charts Britannia: 60 Years of the Top 10

    Documentary chronicling our ever-changing love affair with the British singles chart.

    BBC Four

  23. Sound It Out

    Documentary following life in one of the last independent record shops still trading.

    BBC Four

  24. Expressing Pain

    Stuart Flanagan explores how art can teach him about pain and help in the consulting room.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Alice's Restaurant

    Ian McMillan discovers how Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant became a Thanksgiving anthem.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    What Does Ed Miliband Really Think?

    Steve Richards talks to Ed Miliband, his friends and critics about his political ideas.

    BBC Radio 4

  27. Blues Run the Game

    Laura Barton tells the poignant story of singer-songwriter Jackson C Frank.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  28. Mockery with Monocles: The Western Brothers Revealed

    Geoffrey Palmer celebrates variety act The Western Brothers.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  29. Revolutionary Radio

    Fi Glover investigates radio's 90 years as a potent political force in revolutions.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  30. The Curse of Pendle

    400 years on, novelist Jeanette Winterson considers the Pendle Witch trials.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    Poor Reporting

    Nick Fraser asks what it takes to get the rich world interested in the poor world.

    BBC Radio 4

  32. Bond Songs Are Forever

    The Oscar-winning lyricist Don Black explores what makes a great Bond song.

    BBC Radio 2

  33. The Joy of the Single

    Documentary about the power of pop's most abiding artefact, the seven-inch single.

    BBC Four

  34. Special Me

    The stress experienced by young adults with learning difficulties when they leave school.

    BBC One Northern Ireland

  35. We Beat the All Blacks

    Reliving the Scarlets' historic victory over the All Blacks in 1972.

    BBC One Wales

  36. Johnny Beattie: In the Limelight

    A star-studded tribute to Johnny Beattie as he celebrates sixty years in showbusiness.

    BBC One Scotland

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    Walking on Planet C (2012)

    Musician Nile Rodgers walks the streets of New York, after a cancer diagnosis.

    BBC Radio 4

  38. Project Nim

    Documentary about Nim Chimpsky, the chimp who became the focus of a landmark experiment.

    BBC Two

  39. When Harry Potter Met Frodo: The Strange World of Fan Fiction

    Novelist Naomi Alderman investigates the extraordinary subculture of internet fan fiction.

    BBC Radio 4

  40. The Hackers

    Simon Cox delves into the sometimes strange world of the hacker activist, or 'hacktivist'.

    BBC Radio 4

  41.

    Open Sesame: Science in the Desert

    David Shukman travels to Jordan to find out if science can bring peace in the Middle East.

    BBC Radio 4

  42.

    The State of Welfare

    What now for the welfare state, 70 years after the Beveridge report?

    BBC Radio 4

  43.

    Care to Be a Nurse?

    Christina Patterson explores why nursing sometimes goes wrong and what can put it right.

    BBC Radio 4

  44.

    The Goddess of English

    Zareer Masani on why Indians worship English as a goddess who can free them from poverty.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  45. Superstorm USA: Caught on Camera

    How young people took to social media sites to record Superstorm Sandy.

    BBC Three

  46. Bond and Beyond: The John Barry Interview

    John Barry talks to Paul Sexton about his 007 years and a distinguished life in music.

    BBC Radio 2

  47. Sandy: Anatomy of a Superstorm

    A minute-by-minute forensic analysis of the devastation wreaked by superstorm Sandy.

    BBC Two

  48. Gary Speed: One Year On

    Rob Phillips speaks to those closest to Gary Speed about the friend they lost a year ago.

    BBC Radio Wales

  49. Who's Drummer?

    Nick Barraclough finds out about the 15 minutes of fame for one young fan of The Who.

    BBC Radio 4

  50. The Beach Boys: Doin' it Again

    To mark the Beach Boys' 50th anniversary, a behind-the-scenes look at their 2012 reunion.

    BBC Four

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