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Fritz Reiner
"Engendering fear was a basic tool": a profile of Hungarian conductor Fritz Reiner
BBC World Service
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Peace and the Media
"Nobody got to be an editor through covering the United Nations": peace and the media
BBC World Service
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Aaron Copland, America's Composer
Looking back at a life in music, on the centenary of his birth
BBC World Service
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Westerns: Bad History, Great Mythmaking
How the backbone of the American movie industry spread its influence way beyond the screen
BBC World Service
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Who Was St Nicholas?
How an early Christian bishop was claimed for everything from Christmas to pawnbrokers
BBC World Service
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Execution Day - Texas
What it's like to live near a prison that carries out the death penalty
BBC World Service
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Izmit Earthquake
Aftermath of the 1999 Izmit earthquake and a look at poor building construction
BBC World Service
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The Fall of Saddam Hussain
A look at the events which led to the downfall of Saddam Hussain.
BBC World Service
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Mammon and Mafia
The imprisonment of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the 'wild east' of Russia's market economy
BBC World Service
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Qaanaaq – World made of Water
One of the most northern communities on earth – Qaanaaq, Greenland
BBC World Service
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Stones of Tengenenge
How Zimbabwe's Tengenenge sculpture centre began as a survival strategy
BBC World Service
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The International Trade in Drugs
How do authorities tackle drug trade? With reports from South Africa and Trinidad
BBC World Service
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Caring for Drug Users in Gambia
Profile of a Gambian community nurse working with drug users and psychiatric patients
BBC World Service
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Mystery of Tomb 55 in the Valley of the Kings
Mystery has surrounded Tomb 55 in the Valley of the Kings ever since it was discovered
BBC World Service
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History of Leipzig's Jews in a Single House
Mike Joseph discovers his mother's pre-war Leipzig home and the family's fate under Nazism
BBC World Service
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Science in the News
The close relationship between the science and politics of vaccination
BBC World Service
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The Life and Times of Ibn Al Arabi
A profile of the Andalusian scholar of Islam described as 'The Greatest Master'
BBC World Service
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The American Cowboy
How the cowboy has influenced generations of American musicians and movie makers
BBC World Service
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Herat, Afghanistan
The history and culture of Herat - and a look towards its future
BBC World Service
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The Environmental Impact of Travel and Tourism
Why tourism is encouraged in the developing world, but doesn't always see the profits
BBC World Service
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Disunited
How has portrayal and participation of African Americans on TV and in film changed?
BBC World Service
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Learning with Dogs
How pairing troubled dogs with troubled young men produces results for both
BBC World Service
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The Master Minds
Meet the engineers and scientists at MIT who are shaping our future
BBC World Service
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Medicine Woman
How civil war threatens the traditional way of life, including folk healing, in Columbia
BBC World Service
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Bugs that Rule the World
Bad bacteria, how they spread and the diseases they can cause
BBC World Service
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Giants on our Hands
Modernisation is making many of Asia's working elephants redundant
BBC World Service
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Endangered 'Click' Languages of the Kalahari
Audio-exploration of the click languages of the Khoisan peoples of the Kalahari Desert
BBC World Service
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Being Human
How DNA analysis reveals that chimpanzees are even closer to humans than we thought
BBC World Service
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The Fall of Enron
The fall of the energy trading company Enron in 2001 was the biggest bankruptcy in history
BBC World Service
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Peace Rhythms
The benefits of music therapy for children living in impoverished areas and conflict zones
BBC World Service
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David Kelly and the BBC
The events surrounding the death of Dr David Kelly and the build up to the Hutton Enquiry
BBC World Service
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A New Axis of Power
Critics claim Latin American television station is “propaganda”
BBC World Service
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Maroon Rebels
The people who negotiated their freedom from the British against incredible odds
BBC World Service
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HyperNormalisation
Welcome to the post-truth world. You know it’s not real. But you accept it as normal.
BBC
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Death On The I-95
Returning to the US to find out what happened to the people met along the notorious I-95.
BBC Three
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Spending Black: The Currency of Community?
Aaron Roach Bridgeman explores the impact of “spending black” on the black community.
BBC Three
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Drive Fast Die Young
The story of a teenage road death told by his family and first responders.
BBC News
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Oasis: Countdown to the Comeback - Highlights
All the buzz from Cardiff as Oasis take to the stage for the first time in nearly 16 years
BBC News
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Selling Sheffield Wednesday
BBC Sport looks at one of England’s most famous football clubs’ fight for survival.
BBC Sport
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The Radio 3 Documentary
Exploring different aspects of history, science, philosophy and the arts.
BBC Radio 3
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WW2: War and Words
Twenty momentous years that changed the course of world history, from 1936 to 1956.
BBC World Service
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Radio 1 and 1Xtra Stories
The home of real-life stories that talk about your life, your world, your issues.
BBC Radio 1