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  1. The Cliff

    Four contributors present illustrated essays on the theme of cliffs.

    BBC Radio 4

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  2. Salt

    Steph McGovern discovers that salt is much more than something to season our food with.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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  3. Letters from Europe

    Personal reflections on the challenges facing Europe after events in France and elsewhere.

    BBC Radio 4

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  4. Good News Is No News

    Charlie Beckett explores whether news is bad for us and how it could be done differently.

    BBC Radio 4

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    An Image of Sound

    Photographer Andrew Heptinstall's quest to represent sound within a photograph.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Tata: India's Global Giant

    Can the Indian group which owns Jaguar Land Rover maintain its ethical reputation?

    BBC Radio 4

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    Virtual Stars

    Hardeep Singh Kohli discovers and explores the world of internet personalities.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Clinging On: The Decline of the Middle Classes

    Is the middle class in decline? The divide between a rich elite and those now clinging on.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Spoilsport: Science Stops Play

    Claudia Hammond investigates sporting concussions and asks how safe our sports are.

    BBC Radio 4

  10. The Price of Inequality

    Robert Peston investigates the rise in financial inequality since the 1980s.

    BBC Radio 4

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  11. A Cook Abroad

    Celebrity chefs try out different recipes from around the world.

    BBC Two

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  12. A Modern Magna Carta

    Baroness Helena Kennedy designs a Magna Carta for the 21st century.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

    Giles Fraser explores the personal moral response to inequality.

    BBC Radio 4

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    JD Salinger's Spiritual Quest

    Vishva Samani explores author JD Salinger's enduring relationship with Hindu philosophy.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    Attenborough's Paradise Birds

    Documentary tracing David Attenborough's lifelong passion for birds of paradise.

    BBC Two

  16. Tales from the Ring Road

    Anne-Marie Duff narrates stories of life and death on the UK's ring roads.

    BBC Radio 4

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  17. Anne Frank's Trees: Keeping the Memory Alive

    Michael Rosen commemorates Holocaust Memorial Day and looks at how we choose to remember.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Inside the Unit - Treating Disorder

    Carole Hayman serves time in a secure unit for men detained under the Mental Health Act.

    BBC Radio 4

  19. Shoah

    Documentary recounting the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses.

    BBC Four

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  20. The True Story of Abner Jay

    Laura Barton pieces together the true story of Abner Jay, a most unusual musical talent.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    Can You Spot the Hidden Message?

    How did subliminal advertising begin, and does it work? David Aaronovitch investigates.

    BBC Radio 4

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    MCAT: The Scourge of the Valleys

    Writer Rachel Trezise looks at the effects of class B drug MCAT on the South Wales Valleys

    BBC Radio 4

  23.

    The Single Life

    What happened to the musicians who poured their hopes and savings into a DIY 7" single?

    BBC Radio 4

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    Mein Kampf: Publish or Burn?

    Hitler's Mein Kampf comes out of German copyright this year. What happens next?

    BBC Radio 4

  25. Can Democracy Work?

    Nick Robinson explores democracy, questioning senior politicians, activists and the public

    BBC Radio 4

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  26. The Mountain

    Series charting life around Cairngorm.

    BBC Scotland

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  27. Everyone a Rembrandt

    Art critic Louisa Buck lifts the lid on the Painting By Numbers craze of the 1950's.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    Hip in a Hijab

    Shelina Janmohamed explores what it means to be young, female and Muslim today.

    BBC Radio 4

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    How to Dismantle a Nuclear Power Station

    Radio 4 explores just what is involved in dismantling a nuclear power plant.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Beirut's House of Barakat

    Rebecca Lloyd-Evans visits Beirut's house of memory.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    The City on the Couch

    Psychoanalyst Mary Bradbury investigates mental health in the pressured financial sector.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Sasha's Song

    Sasha Tsaliuk fights for his Moscow A Capella Jewish choir in a rapidly changing Russia.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Mindfulness: Panacea or Fad?

    How a Buddhist meditation technique became a cure-all for the ills of modern life.

    BBC Radio 4

  34. Self Orbits CERN

    Will Self embarks on a 50-kilometre walking tour of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

    BBC Radio 4

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  35. Magna Carta

    Melvyn Bragg presents a series marking the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta.

    BBC Radio 4

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  36. Speak Low, Speak Weill

    Ute Lemper explores the political and musical legacy of Mack the Knife composer Kurt Weill

    BBC Radio 4

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    Wittgenstein's Jet

    A jet engine built by Ludwig Wittgenstein in Manchester is investigated by Cassie Newland.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    Prois Tartan/Tartan Pride

    The story of the oldest international football fixture in the world, Scotland v England.

    BBC ALBA

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    Faultline Scotland

    Aasmah Mir asks if Scottish society has been split in two by the independence referendum.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Sister Aimee

    The story of the glamorous woman who invented broadcast evangelism.

    BBC Radio 4

  41. Out of Armenia

    Writer and historian Charles Emmerson explores Europe's Armenian communities.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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  42. This Farming Life

    Geoff Watts explores the science, history and cultural implications of gossip.

    BBC Radio 4

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  43. At Home with David Hockney

    Radio 4 documentary.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Music to Save Grimethorpe

    Ian McMillan celebrates his local brass band and the community it represents.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    Pass the Turkey Twizzlers

    Lucy Kellaway hosts an argumentative dinner party where all the debates are about food.

    BBC Radio 4

  46.

    One Day in Winter: Driving Home for Christmas

    The stories of some of the millions of travellers making their way home for Christmas.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Terror and the Oxygen of Publicity

    How terrorists need the oxygen of publicity, and the battle to starve them of it.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Character Studies with Alexander McCall Smith

    Alexander McCall Smith explores the work of writers and their favourite characters.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Midwives to Be

    Sarah Taylor follows a new intake of student midwives at King's College London.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    Six Weeks to Save the World

    Dr John Wright records his work in setting up an Ebola centre to serve Moyamba junction.

    BBC Radio 4

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