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  1. Gove in Government

    Mary Ann Sieghart examines Michael Gove's distinctive approach to being a minister.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Face in the Crowd

    Vanley Burke returns to his photograph of Handsworth’s Africa Liberation Day 1977.

    BBC Radio 4

  3. National Health Stories

    Sally Sheard on the characters, innovations and heroic standoffs that have shaped the NHS.

    BBC Radio 4

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  4. Pink Rabbits and Other Animals

    A profile of the beloved children's author Judith Kerr as she works on her latest book.

    BBC Radio 4

  5. Deadly Dinosaurs with Steve Backshall

    Steve learns about the most deadly animals to have walked the earth - dinosaurs.

    CBBC

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  6. Storm and Stress: New Ways of Looking at Adolescent Mental Health

    Series exploring mental illness in young people.

    BBC Radio 4

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  7. The Long March of Corbyn's Labour

    Steve Richards presents a series examining the state of Jeremy Corbyn's Labour leadership.

    BBC Radio 4

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  8. SLICE: Politics and Personality

    Jolyon Jenkins investigates personality and how it can be measured.

    BBC Radio 4

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  9. Edward Brittain and the Forgotten Front

    Shirley Williams reveals the circumstances of her uncle Edward Brittain's death in WWI.

    BBC Radio 4

  10. Caribritish: Children of Windrush

    Journalist Hugh Muir examines Carib-British identity through the descendants of Windrush.

    BBC Radio 4

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  11. The Sisters of the Sacred Salamander

    Why are Mexican nuns breeding a rare salamander? Could they save this remarkable species?

    BBC Radio 4

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    Big Drums on Little Carriacou

    Zakia Sewell returns to her grandparents home to discover a dance ritual from West Africa.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    Toxic Love: The Mark Van Dongen Story

    The inside story of the acid attack that led to the victim ending his life by euthanasia.

    BBC Radio 4

  14. The Grenfell Wall

    Sue Mitchell follows people whose lives have been affected by the Grenfell fire.

    BBC Radio 4

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  15. Pursuit of Beauty

    Arts series

    BBC Radio 4

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  16. The Walk: For Richer, For Poorer

    How do rich and poor live together side by side? Mesmerising real-life London encounters.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Moondog: Sound of New York

    Huey Morgan travels to New York to examine the enduring appeal of blind musician Moondog.

    BBC Radio 4

  18.

    Does the Time Fit the Crime?

    Criminologist Professor David Wilson on how society and history have shaped sentencing.

    BBC Radio 4

  19. How Syria Changed the World

    Documentary series presented by Ed Stourton.

    BBC Radio 4

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  20. How Iran Sees the West

    Pooneh Ghoddoosi explores the long history of Iranian suspicion of the outside world.

    BBC Radio 4

  21. Parole: A Calculated Risk

    Rex Bloomstein investigates how parole panels make their decisions on releasing prisoners.

    BBC Radio 4

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  22. The Town That Floored the World

    How did the Scottish town of Kirkcaldy become the world centre for linoleum?

    BBC Scotland

  23. The Questionnaire

    Alan Dein asks families revealing questions about every aspect of their lives.

    BBC Radio 4

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  24. Climate Change and Me

    Five scientists describe how their eyes were opened to global climate change.

    BBC Radio 4

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  25. Israel at 70: A Personal Reflection

    Simon Schama considers Israel's troubled life, its achievements and possible future.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Present at the Creation

    The moment Israel declared its independence, recalled by the last two surviving witnesses.

    BBC Radio 4

  27. Plastic Fantastic

    Professor Mark Miodownik explores our love/hate relationship with plastic.

    BBC Radio 4

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  28. A Church in Crisis

    William Crawley explores the decline of the Catholic church's authority in society.

    BBC Radio 4

  29. Burma with Simon Reeve

    Adventurer and broadcaster Simon Reeve travels to beautiful and troubled Burma.

    BBC Two

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  30. Effective Altruism

    Giles Fraser explores the movement that aims to make charitable giving most effective.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Beautiful Britain

    Toyah Willcox takes an audio journey into the private world of hair and beauty salons.

    BBC Radio 4

  32. Classified Britain

    James Naughtie finds the heartbeat of history in small ads of old UK newspapers.

    BBC Radio 4

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  33. The Art of Money

    As paintings sell for world record prices, John Wilson examines an art market boom.

    BBC Radio 4

  34.

    Is Eating Plants Wrong?

    Plants can do much more than we might think. So is it wrong to eat them?

    BBC Radio 4

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    Bearing Grudges

    Why do many of us hold grudges, what sustains them in our lives and can we overcome them?

    BBC Radio 4

  36. The Assassination

    An investigation into the death of Benazir Bhutto, former prime minister of Pakistan.

    BBC Radio 4

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  37. The Remittance

    The prejudices, politics and pride of the multi-billion pound world of migrant money

    BBC Radio 4

  38.

    American Art: From the Outside In

    How African-American self-taught artists are gaining recognition in American institutions.

    BBC Radio 4

  39.

    The Invisible Man of Britain's Far Right

    An investigation into Jim Dowson, the front man for Knights Templar International.

    BBC Radio 4

  40. Gym Stars

    Behind the scenes of the lives of some of the UK's most promising young gymnasts.

    CBBC

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  41. Single Black Female

    Bridgitte Tetteh explores hurdles single black women face when looking for love in 2018.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Dispersing the Immigrants

    Exploring the bussing of immigrant children to predominantly white schools in the 1960s.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Guilty Architecture

    Jonathan Glancey asks for how long a building carries the charge of an evil past.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Too Young to Veil?

    An investigation into the growing number of very young girls wearing the hijab in the UK.

    BBC Radio 4

  45.

    Imperial Echo

    Jonny Dymond traces the often uneven history of the Commonwealth and asks 'what next?'.

    BBC Radio 4

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    The Art of Immersion

    Artist and sceptic Adham Faramawy uncovers virtual reality's dark and fantastical spaces.

    BBC Radio 4

  47.

    Inherited Fear

    Sally Herships explores how trauma that we haven't experienced directly can shape us.

    BBC Radio 4

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    The Man Who Buries Planes

    Artist Roger Hiorns is on a mission to bury aircraft around the world.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Russians in Britain: A Handbook

    Oligarchs, dissidents and beyond, Lucy Ash meets the Russians of the UK.

    BBC Radio 4

  50. The Crash Detectives

    Following Gwent Police's dedicated forensic collision investigators

    BBC One Wales

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