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  1. Goodnight John Boy

    Frank Cottrell Boyce celebrates one of the great TV families - The Waltons.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    Inside the Academie Francaise

    Agnes Poirier explores the role of the body which protects the French language.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Am I Really Free?

    When are mentally ill patients really free to make decisions about their treatment?

    BBC Radio 4

  4. Stories in Sound

    Radio Ulster brings together radio documentaries from UK and Irish broadcasters.

    BBC Radio Ulster

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  5. Can You Touch Your Toes?

    Anita Anand investigates a new system designed to work out who is and isn't fit for work.

    BBC Radio 4

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    The Art of Darkness

    Richard Coles on the inspiration to artists of darkness and the Northern lights in Norway.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  7. Tales from the Arab Spring

    Jeremy Bowen hears first-hand accounts of the revolution which started in Tunisia

    BBC Radio 4

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  8. The Bob Graham Round

    Can the beauty of the Lake District and the grit of fell running inspire a composer?

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    The Unsettled Dust: The Strange Stories Of Robert Aickman

    Screenwriter Jeremy Dyson praises the supernatural stories of Robert Aickman.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    Post Mortem

    Professor Lucas performs a 'consented' post mortem, defending its contribution to medicine

    BBC Radio 4

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    Boundaries of Blood

    How does the Indo-Pakistan war of 1971, which created Bangladesh, still resonate today?

    BBC Radio 4

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    Blue Notes, Cold Nights

    How Scandinavia became home to a generation of African-American jazz and blues musicians.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  13. How New Is the New Philanthropy?

    Hugh Cunningham presents a history of philanthropic giving in Britain

    BBC Radio 4

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  14. When the Levee Breaks

    Mark Lamarr explores the life of blues woman Memphis Minnie.

    BBC Radio 4

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    The Wedding Gold Thefts

    The high price of gold has led to Asians being targeted for their wedding jewellery.

    BBC Radio 4

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    The Blood Telegram

    The story of one of the most controversial documents in US diplomatic history.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Greece: Broken Marble, Broken Future

    Writer Maria Margaronis returns home to listen to those living through the Greek disaster.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Three Wishes

    Janet Ellis celebrates that most unpredictable of mythological beings, the genie.

    BBC Radio 4

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    The Alias Men

    Andrew Collins tells the story of Alan Smithee, prolific film director who never existed.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Prisoners' Women

    Women talk about how they cope with life on the outside when men go to prison.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Spooklights

    Chemist Andrea Sella investigates things that go flash in the dark.

    BBC Radio 4

  22.

    The Countertenor

    Men who sing in falsetto. Bidisha on the countertenor voice, from Purcell to Plan B.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    Mastering the Art of the Kimono

    Japan: Roland Buerk explores why the kimono industry in Japan is in steep decline.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    From Frestonia to Belgravia: The History of Squatting

    Robert Elms charts the history, ideology and culture of squatting.

    BBC Radio 4

  25.

    The Brotherton Archive and Me

    Julia Blackburn meets writers whose private papers reside in Leeds University Library.

    BBC Radio 4

  26. Coming Out

    Five programmes exploring the ways in which people reveal their true selves to the world.

    BBC Radio 4

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  27. The British Germans

    Why many thousands of former British army soldiers have settled in Germany.

    BBC Radio 4

  28. Brain Culture: Neuroscience and Society

    Matthew Taylor explores the coming 'Brain Culture'

    BBC Radio 4

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  29. Art of America

    Andrew Graham-Dixon explores the rich, exciting and diverse art history of the USA.

    BBC Four

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  30. The New Global Economics

    Martin Wolf, of the Financial Times, examines the global financial situation

    BBC Radio 4

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  31. Oscar and Al Pacino

    An exclusive interview with Al Pacino about his passion for Oscar Wilde.

    BBC Radio 4

  32. The Freedom Trail

    Edward Stourton walks the most dangerous WWII escape route over the Pyrenees

    BBC Radio 4

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  33. The Mysterious Mr Mercury

    Midge Ure goes in search of the real Freddie Mercury.

    BBC Radio 4

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    The War Brides Return

    Testimony from the women who sailed across the Atlantic to join their servicemen husbands.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    Bleached Bone and Living Wood

    Christine Finn visits the house that was the poet Wilfred Owen's final refuge in France.

    BBC Radio 4

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    The Poppy Factory

    Stories from The Poppy Factory in Surrey, where poppies are made for Remembrance Sunday.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    Mind Myths

    Claudia Hammond slays common myths about the brain and its workings.

    BBC Radio 4

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    The Lobotomists

    Why were tens of thousands of people lobotomised in the 1940s and 50s in the UK and US?

    BBC Radio 4

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    The Leonardo Detectives

    Art critic Rachel Campbell-Johnston, explores the mysterious world of art attribution.

    BBC Radio 4

  40. A History of the Brain

    Dr Geoff Bunn journeys through 5,000 years of human understanding of the brain

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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  41. The State of Israel

    At a time of change and turmoil in the Middle East, what is happening inside Israel?

    BBC Radio 4

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    The Young Italians

    Young Italian professionals working in the UK reveal how their economy has cast them out.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Lawrence in New Mexico

    Geoff Dyer explores DH Lawrence's life-changing experiences in New Mexico in the 1920s.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Angels In the North

    Gabrielle Drake looks at regional theatre through the story of Manchester's Royal Exchange

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  45. Picture Power

    Miles Warde presents an insight into the work of professional photographers.

    BBC Radio 4

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  46. Roger's Rabbits

    Roger Law takes a look at the 'fancy': the wonderful world of show rabbits

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  47. Frozen Planet

    The ultimate portrait of the Polar regions - the last great wildernesses on the planet.

    BBC One

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  48. Number One Forensic Detective Agency

    The story of how Botswana has become Africa's leading exponent of crime investigation.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Classics Illustrated: The Comic Book Unbound

    Bill Paterson marks the 70th anniversary of the Classics Illustrated comic book series.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  50. The Sleep Diaries

    In a series mixing science with art, myth and poetry, Paul Farley explores sleep

    BBC Radio 4

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