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  1. The Business Covenant

    Lord Digby Jones explores the relationship between business, government and society.

    BBC Radio 4

  2. World War One Centenary Commonwealth Service

    A service live from Glasgow Cathedral presented by James Naughtie with guest Colin Mackay.

    BBC Radio Scotland

  3. The Sycamore Sings: The Wilfred Owen Violin

    Steve Burnett makes a violin using wood from a WWI-era military psychiatric hospital.

    BBC Radio Scotland

  4.

    Choral Diplomacy

    Alex Stevenson explores musical diplomacy, as the Parliament and Bundestag choirs sing.

    BBC Radio 4

  5. Red Arrows: Inside the Bubble

    Documentary about one of the world's premier aerobatic display teams, the Red Arrows.

    BBC Two

  6. The Games People Play

    John Beattie investigates what happens when the worlds of sport and politics collide.

    BBC News Channel

  7. Live Longer Wales: Helen's Heart - Diet or Die

    Helen Whewell attempts to lose weight in order to alleviate a serious heart condition.

    BBC One Wales

  8. Welsh Weight Clinic - The Next Generation

    Following three patients at Wales's only weight management clinic.

    BBC One Wales

  9. Great Welsh Diet Experiment: One Year On

    Tara Hammett checks on the people she put on her fitness boot camp a year ago.

    BBC One Wales

  10. Salmond & Darling: The STV Debate

    Alex Salmond and Alistair Darling go head-to-head in an independence referendum debate.

    BBC Parliament

  11. Batter My Heart: Growing Up and Growing Old with John Donne

    Ed Docx discovers that John Donne can be a poet for life.

    BBC Radio 4

  12.

    The Birth of Love

    Dr Laura Ashe reveals how our ideas of romantic love were born in 12th-century literature.

    BBC Radio 4

  13.

    The Tories and the Police: The End of the Affair

    Robin Aitken examines the relationship between the Conservative Party and the police.

    BBC Radio 4

  14.

    A Family Without a Child

    The stories of three women in a touching exploration of what it means to be childless.

    BBC Radio 4

  15.

    Learning to Listen

    Dominic Sandbrook explores how the first generation of radio listeners learned to listen.

    BBC Radio 4

  16. Dannsa Gaidhealach - Dannsa Gallda/Scottish Country Dancing: Controlle

    Celebrating 90 years of The Royal Scottish Country Dance Society.

    BBC ALBA

  17. Liverpool's Giant War

    Sue Johnston tells the story of the WWI Liverpool Pals.

    BBC One

  18. Don't Mention the Referendum

    James Naughtie explores how the Scottish referendum is impacting on friends and family.

    BBC Radio 4

  19. The Girl in the Diary

    Geraint Talfan Davies reveals how his uncle witnessed the rise of Nazi Germany in the 30s.

    BBC One Wales

  20.

    Taking the Edge Off

    Francine Stock explores our use of mind-altering substances and Aldous Huxley's influence.

    BBC Radio 4

  21.

    Langley School Music Project

    The story of a Canadian school music recording that inspired the film School of Rock.

    BBC Radio 4

  22.

    Still Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo?

    Allan Little returns to Sarajevo to explore the role of the arts in restoring the city.

    BBC Radio 4

  23. The Sunshine Corner Coalfields

    Documentary recounting Kent's proud mining history and heritage.

    BBC One

  24. Mods and Rockers Rebooted

    A fresh look back at the seaside bank holiday clashes between mods and rockers in 1964.

    BBC One

  25. From Auschwitz with Love

    Recounting Welshman Ron Jones's wartime experience as a prisoner of war in Auschwitz.

    BBC One Wales

  26. Swastika over Wales?

    Charting the political climate that saw a Nazi flag fly over Cardiff City Hall in 1938.

    BBC One Wales

  27.

    Why Men Pay for Sex

    What motivates men to pay women to sleep with them? Four men tell Jo Fidgen why they do it

    BBC Radio 4

  28. In Memoriam: Conversations on a Bench

    Anna Scott-Brown hears tales of loss and hope, turned to poetry by Michael Symmons Roberts

    BBC Radio 4

  29.

    Everything We Know Is Wrong

    Most published science papers are untrue, but few ever get tested. Jolyon Jenkins reports.

    BBC Radio 4

  30.

    Music of the Forest

    Horatio Clare tells the story of the unconventional anthropologist Colin Turnbull.

    BBC Radio 4

  31.

    Whatever Happened to Global Governance?

    Prof Ngaire Woods examines how international cooperation is evolving.

    BBC Radio 4

  32.

    Sandhurst and the Sheikhs

    How does training at Sandhurst Academy bolster militarised monarchies of the Arab world?

    BBC Radio 4

  33.

    Don't Go in the Water!

    Shark biologist Gareth Fraser explores Jaws, forty years after Peter Benchley created it.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  34. My Lost Son

    A mother's journey to piece together the last days of the son who died at Lockerbie.

    BBC One Scotland

  35. DEC Gaza Crisis Appeal

    Winifred Robinson presents the DEC Gaza Crisis Appeal.

    BBC Radio 4

  36. DEC Gaza Crisis Appeal

    A Gaza Crisis Appeal on behalf of DEC, the Disasters Emergency Committee.

    BBC One

  37. Apél DEC Gaza

    Heledd Cynwal ag apêl ar ran y Pwyllgor Argyfyngau Brys yng Nghymru.

    BBC Radio Cymru

  38. Annie's War: A Welsh Nurse on the Western Front

    Charting the life and career of WWI front line nurse Annie Brewer.

    BBC One Wales

  39. DEC Gaza Crisis Appeal

    John Carmichael presents the DEC Gaza Crisis Appeal.

    BBC ALBA

  40. DEC Gaza Crisis Appeal

    Tagradh as leth Comataidh nan Suidheachaidhean Èiginneach son sluagh Ghàsa.

    BBC Radio nan Gàidheal

  41.

    The Map That Made Manhattan

    Exploring the Manhattan grid as city matrix, psychic space and a bold political ideal.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  42.

    The Lessons of Ray Honeyford

    Aasmah Mir on the outspoken head teacher who caused a national controversy.

    BBC Radio 4

  43.

    The Poet Librettists

    Michael Symmons Roberts explores why so many poets choose to become opera librettists.

    BBC Radio 4

  44.

    Painful Medicine

    Sally Marlow investigates the hidden problem of addiction to over-the-counter painkillers.

    BBC Radio 4

  45.

    Mum and Dad and Mum

    Rebecca Morelle examines how children could be born with DNA from three people.

    BBC Radio 4

  46.

    Digitising Stalin

    For Stalin, privacy was key. So how would he feel about his secrets being revealed?

    BBC Radio 4

  47.

    Casa Negra: The Real Casablanca

    Andrew Hussey on the cultural renaissance affecting Morocco's largest city.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  48.

    Build and Be Damned

    The Victorians built grand ambitious railways, sewers and tunnels. Should we do the same?

    BBC Radio 4

  49. The Bridge: Fifty Years Across the Forth

    Celebrating the 50th anniversary of a great Scottish landmark, the Forth Road Bridge.

    BBC Scotland

  50.

    High St Fashion: Weaving New Threads

    Sarah Butler asks, can the Bangladesh garment industry become ethical and profitable?

    BBC Radio 4

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