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  1. TechXplore

    BBC tech reporter Paul Carter hunts down cutting-edge tech across the globe.

    BBC News

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  2. Terrorism and the Mind

    Raffaello Pantucci explores the role of mental health in the actions of violent extremists

    BBC Radio 4

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  3. Survivors: Portraits of the Holocaust

    Following seven leading artists as they paint seven survivors of the Holocaust.

    BBC Two

  4. Taxi Drivers

    Scottee examines the relationships between artists and those who assist them.

    BBC Radio 4

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  5. Tudur Owen: United Nations of Anglesey

    Another true tale from much loved Anglesey comic Tudur Owen.

    BBC Radio 4

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  6. The Nilsen Files

    Revisiting the case of Dennis Nilsen, convicted in 1983 for the murders of six young men.

    BBC Two

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  7. 1922: The Birth of Now

    Matthew Sweet investigates objects and events from 1922, the crucial year for modernism.

    BBC Radio 4

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  8. The Narrow Sea, The Farther Shore with Phil Cunningham

    Composer Phil Cunningham creates a new musical composition inspired by the Narrow Sea.

    BBC Two Northern Ireland

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  9. Women Building Peace

    Women trying to bring peace to communities talk to global influencers

    BBC World Service

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  10. Dark Land: The Hunt for Wales' Worst Serial Killer

    The hunt for Peter Moore, the 'man in black' who was Wales’ worst serial killer.

    BBC One Wales

  11. Kelvin's Big Farming Adventure

    Strictly star Kelvin Fletcher has bought a farm, but can he make it pay?

    BBC One

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  12. The Chronicles of Strangford

    Series charting a year on Strangford Lough, the largest sea inlet in the UK.

    BBC One Northern Ireland

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  13. Night Watch

    Stories of everyday street harassment from women across Britain.

    BBC Radio 4

  14. Oti Mabuse's Dancing Legends

    Oti Mabuse explores the extraordinary people who have changed the course of dance.

    BBC Radio 4

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  15. Room 5

    When a diagnosis changes everything.

    BBC Radio 4

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  16. Couples Therapy

    Couples Therapy unlocks a hidden world: other people’s relationships.

    BBC Two

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  17. Life on the Bay

    Following the fortunes of the holiday park run by three generations of a Fife family.

    BBC Scotland

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  18. The Green Planet

    A five-part series presented by Sir David Attenborough looking at the lives of plants.

    BBC One

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  19. Fungi: The New Frontier

    Tim Hayward falls down a rabbit hole and into the vast and largely hidden world of fungi.

    BBC Radio 4

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  20. Andy Warhol's America

    He was an artist and a cultural icon - and his work is a history of 20th-century America.

    BBC Two

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  21. Pakistan's Long Game

    Owen Bennett-Jones examines the long game Pakistan played in the US defeat in Afghanistan.

    BBC Radio 4

  22. The Coming Storm

    America through the looking glass - enter a world where nothing is as it seems.

    BBC Radio 4

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  23. Ar An Sliabh

    A portrait of life in Ireland's mountain communities.

    BBC

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  24. Attenborough's Wonder of Song

    David Attenborough chooses seven of the most remarkable animal songs found in nature.

    BBC One

  25. Past Forward: A Century of Sound

    Greg Jenner dives deep into the BBC archive to explore what it says about who we are now.

    BBC Radio 4

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  26. This Is Joan Collins

    The Dynasty star narrates her rollercoaster life story.

    BBC Two

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    Walter: A Life in Football

    A tribute to one of the most successful managers in Scottish football, Walter Smith.

    BBC One Scotland

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    Attenborough and the Mammoth Graveyard

    Sir David Attenborough uncovers an Ice Age mammoth mystery on the outskirts of Swindon.

    BBC One

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    Maorach - Hebridean Shellfish

    How does Hebridean shellfish get from the wild seas and onto people’s plates in Spain?

    BBC ALBA

  30. Call to Kabul

    Anita Anand tracks an unfolding story of three brothers being hunted by the Taliban.

    BBC Radio 4

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  31. The Hidden History of the Staircase

    Rachel Hurdley climbs the staircase to discover a story of steps, status and segregation.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Mr Fletcher, the Poet

    1986 documentary about mining community life by acclaimed radio producer Piers Plowright.

    BBC Radio 4

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    A Family of Strangers

    How a simple DNA test turned worlds upside down, leading to profound questions of identity

    BBC Radio 4

  34. Consumed by Desire

    Radio 4 documentary series.

    BBC Radio 4

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  35. Setting Sail

    An exploration of death from 1985 by Piers Plowright and Malcolm Clarke.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Look At What You Could Have Won

    A reappraisal of the 80s TV quiz Bullseye, asking what we've lost and what we've become.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Solomon Browne

    Forty years on, the dramatic story of the Penlee lifeboat disaster.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Yorkshire's Cricket Test

    Kamran Abbasi considers the roots of Yorkshire County Cricket Club's problems with racism.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Leaving the Family Home

    Geoff Bird charts the sadness and excitement of children growing up and flying the nest.

    BBC Radio 4

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    The Great Pyramids of Albania

    The story of an extraordinary mass fraud that gripped Albania in the 1990s.

    BBC Radio 4

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    The Lotte Berk Technique

    Nadine Shah embarks on a personal journey into the controversial fitness phenomenon Barre.

    BBC Radio 4

  42. The Hackers

    Gabriella Coleman investigates one of the most misunderstood cultures of the modern world.

    BBC Radio 4

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  43. Críochdheighilt: Partition

    Journalist and author, Ian Malcolm, explores the impact of the Partition of Ireland.

    BBC Two Northern Ireland

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    A Line in the Water

    Aboard the Belfast-Birkenhead ferry Neil McCarthy looks for the border down the Irish Sea

    BBC Radio 4

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    Under the Influence

    Exploring the rise of behavioural science at the heart of our politics.

    BBC Radio 4

  46. Wild Inside

    Ben Garrod and Jess French glimpse inside animals from the big wild world

    BBC Radio 4

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  47. Screenshot

    Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode guide us through the expanding universe of the moving image

    BBC Radio 4

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  48. Lemn Sissay's Poetry Rebels

    How did performance poetry conquer the poetry world?

    BBC Radio 4

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  49. Rutherford and Fry on Living with AI

    The science sleuths unwrap some of the biggest ideas in this year's BBC Reith Lectures.

    BBC Radio 4

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  50. Male Order

    Aleks Krotoski investigates sperm donors and the unofficial online fertility market.

    BBC Radio 4

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