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  1. Inside the Sex Offenders' Prison

    Film-maker Rex Bloomstein looks at how sex offenders are rehabilitated in HMP Whatton.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Allergic to the 21st Century

    Jane Little explores why thousands suffer reactions to common man-made chemicals.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Children on the Front Line

    Mike Thomson reports from Northern Iraq on the changing role of child soldiers.

    BBC Radio 4

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    My Pakistani Jazz Orchestra

    Izzat Majeed could have retired quietly, but he formed a Pakistani jazz ensemble instead.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    The Lariam Legacy

    An investigation into why the MOD still uses a drug that can cause serious side effects.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Company vs Country

    Inside the booming and lucrative business of multinational companies suing governments.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Saffron Censorship: India's Culture Wars

    Zareer Masani asks if censorship and religious fanaticism are threatening India's freedom.

    BBC Radio 4

  8. Healthy Visions

    Five experts set out their ideas for the future of public health in Britain.

    BBC Radio 4

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  9. Minecraft: More than a Game

    Jolyon Jenkins asks why UK children are hooked on the computer game Minecraft.

    BBC Radio 4

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    The Moment That Made Putin

    How Vladimir Putin's experience as KGB agent in Germany shaped his career and behaviour.

    BBC Radio 4

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    The Clocks Go Forward Tonight

    Stephen Fry takes a look at the history of daylight saving time.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    Jane Russell and the Springtown Mother

    The story of an adoption which became an international scandal in the 1950s

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    My Name Is Isis

    Isis Thompson talks to others who share their name with the radical Islamist State group.

    BBC Radio 4

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    A Wing and a Prayer

    Battle of Britain fighter pilots recall the summer of 1940. Presented by Misha Glenny.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    Same Tune, Different Song

    Debbie Wiseman delves into the world of the song lyricist

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    California: Paradise Lost

    Adam Smith travels through California to discover why being a paradise is so much trouble.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Snow White and the Seven Signs of Ageing

    Cathy FitzGerald tries to rescue the Wicked Queen from the mirror's spell.

    BBC Radio 4

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    The 'Gay Cake' Affair

    William Crawley tells the story of Northern Ireland's so-called 'Gay Cake' row.

    BBC Radio 4

  19. Caribbean with Simon Reeve

    Simon Reeve travels around the edge of the Caribbean Sea in a stunning three-part series.

    BBC Two

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  20. Young Behind Bars

    Winifred Robinson investigates government plans to target the education of young prisoners

    BBC Radio 4

  21.

    The Quietest New Year On Earth

    Imagine an entire country staying silent for 24 hours - listen to Bali on New Year's Day.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Sounds Up There

    Sound designer Glenn Freemantle, who worked on Gravity, commemorates the first spacewalk.

    BBC Radio 4

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    In Search of Moderate Muslims

    Sarfraz Manzoor asks if moderate Muslims exist and, if not, where did they go?

    BBC Radio 4

  24. Restarting the Antibiotic Pipeline

    Roland Pease examines how an increasing number of antibiotics are failing.

    BBC Radio 4

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  25. Giving Up Music for Lent

    Will Trevor Cox, a professor of acoustic engineering, be able to give up music for Lent?

    BBC Radio 4

  26. When the People Say Not Sure

    Peter Hennessy and guests discuss how a government is formed if there is a hung parliament

    BBC Radio 4

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  27. Inconspicuous Consumption

    Documentary series that takes a forensic look at how humans consume culture.

    BBC Radio 4

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  28. African Students Abroad

    Bola Mosuro follows four African students as they begin courses at British universities.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Martha: An Endling's Tale

    A century ago the last passenger pigeon died. What drove billions of birds to extinction?

    BBC Radio 4

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    Ben Ainslie's Big Gamble

    Can sailor Sir Ben Ainslie lead the first British team to win the America's Cup?

    BBC Radio 4

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    The Spy Who Came In from Al-Qaeda

    Former al-Qaeda member Aimen Dean talks about his eight years undercover as a British spy.

    BBC Radio 4

  32. Saudi Arabia: Sands of Time

    Egyptian writer Tarek Osman examines the history of this desert kingdom.

    BBC Radio 4

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  33. Jock Purdon, the Miners' Poet

    Billy Bragg tells the story of Jock Purdon and the history of songwriting about mining.

    BBC Radio 4

  34. Promises, Promises: A History of Debt

    Anthropologist David Graeber explores the ways debt has shaped society over 5,000 years.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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  35. The Life in My Head: From Stroke to Brain Attack

    Robert McCrum journeys into his own brain to understand more about his stroke.

    BBC Radio 4

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  36. Julia, Dear Boy... Welcome to Westminster

    Julia Langdon on changes to Parliament over 40 years, with Betty Boothroyd and Ken Clarke.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Ebola Junction

    As the new Ebola treatment centre opens, Dr John Wright and his team record what happens.

    BBC Radio 4

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    The Whistling Woman

    Soprano, broadcaster and inveterate whistler Catherine Bott on the art of whistling

    BBC Radio 4

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    Pushing Up the Daisies

    As she approaches her 80th year, Penelope Simpson decides to paint her own coffin.

    BBC Radio 4

  40. The Business of Film with Mark Kermode

    Film critic Mark Kermode reveals the economic realities behind the film industry.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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  41. A Country Practice

    Patients and doctors in a Lake District village fight to save their GP surgery.

    BBC Radio 4

  42. Writing a New South Africa

    Thabiso Mohare presents a picture of South Africa's literary and spoken word scene.

    BBC Radio 4

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  43. The Placebo Problem

    Geoff Watts explores the phenomenon of the nocebo effect and its implications for medicine

    BBC Radio 4

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    Malcolm X and the 'American Nightmare'

    Four voices consider the legacy of Malcolm X in post-Ferguson America.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Entitlement to Care

    Bradford GP Dr Alastair Bavington explores how we deal with the health needs of immigrants

    BBC Radio 4

  46. Albert Speer

    A series of programmes about Albert Speer, Hitler's architect and armaments minister.

    BBC Four

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  47. A World Beyond Alice

    David Almond argues that more European children's books should be translated into English

    BBC Radio 4

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    A Love Supreme: 50 Years On

    Courtney Pine explores John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, fifty years after its release.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    Finding Your Voice

    Helen Keen explores selective mutism, a condition often described as a phobia of speaking.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Erasing Enoch: The Tory Quest for the Minority Vote

    Can the Conservatives increase their share of the minority vote? Hugh Muir investigates.

    BBC Radio 4

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