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  1. Arts Technologica

    Series exploring how technology is changing the arts.

    BBC Radio 4

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  2. 3D Bioprinting

    Howard Stableford investigates whether advances in 3D printing can benefit nature.

    BBC Radio 4

  3. Codes that Changed the World

    Aleks Krotoski tells the story of the languages that have been used to talk to machines.

    BBC Radio 4

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  4. Ways Of Thinking

    Naomi Alderman looks a the advantages of thinking algorithmically.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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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

  6. Soundstage

    Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson presents a series of audio postcards.

    BBC Radio 4

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  7. Did Douglas Get It Right?

    Did Douglas Adams predict the future in the year 2000?

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    The Sound of Space

    Dr Lucie Green takes a sonic tour of the Universe, revealing the hidden sounds of space.

    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

  10. The Mountain

    Series charting life around Cairngorm.

    BBC Scotland

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  11. How to Dismantle a Nuclear Power Station

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

    BBC Radio 4

  12. Yorkshire Farming

    BBC Radio York look at issues affecting farming and the North Yorkshire countryside.

    BBC Radio York

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  13. Gwarchod y Gwyllt

    Iolo Williams yn crwydro nifer o gynefinoedd gwyllt Cymru.

    BBC Radio Cymru

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  14. Wittgenstein's Jet

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

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  15. Cells and Celluloid: A Science and Cinema Special

    Adam Rutherford and Francine Stock explore the relationship between film and science.

    BBC Radio 4

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  16. In Search Of The Holy Tail

    Marc Riley, Damon Albarn and Ceri Levy travel to Mull to swim with seals and sharks.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  17. Life Story

    Life Story takes us on the greatest of all adventures - the journey through life.

    BBC Four

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  18. Hidden Histories of the Information Age

    Technological innovations and cultural events from the age of communication

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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  19. Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race

    Documentary telling the story of how the Russians led us into the space age.

    BBC Four

  20. Cefn Gwlad

    Crwydro cefn gwlad Cymru gydag amryw gyflwynwyr a chymeriadau. We visit people and loca...

    S4C

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  21. Human Universe

    Prof Brian Cox explores the most precious, most wonderful thing in the universe, us.

    BBC Four

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  22. An Eye for Pattern: The Letters of Dorothy Hodgkin

    A portrait of Dorothy Hodgkin, the only female British scientist to win a Nobel Prize.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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  23. My Family and Other Ibex

    Andrea Sella returns to the Italian landscape of his childhood to explore how it's changed

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  24. Operation Stonehenge: What Lies Beneath

    Two-part documentary following a team of scientists hoping to reveal Stonehenge's secrets.

    BBC Two

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  25. The Mother of the Sea

    Quentin Cooper tells the story of a British scientist hailed as a god in Japan.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    The Life Sub-Aquatic

    Whatever happened to the dream of living under the sea? Helen Scales investigates

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  27. Penguin Post Office

    The adventures of a film crew who travel to Antarctica to film a colony of Gentoo penguins

    BBC Radio 4

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  28. The Singing Fish of Batticaloa

    The search for an elusive watery wonder in the aftermath of Sri Lanka's civil war.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  29. Plants: From Roots to Riches

    Our relationship with plants: a major new history by Kew's science director Kathy Willis.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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  30. Into the Abyss

    Series taking listeners down to the deepest parts of the ocean.

    BBC Radio 4

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  31. Gone to Earth

    Horatio Clare discovers how infantry soldiers are shaped by the Brecon Beacons' landscape.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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  32. Cold Water California

    How surfing is shaping Ireland's coastal communities, north and south of the border.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  33. Blow Your Mind

    Dr Chris and Dr Xand van Tulleken meet the top experts on the planet

    CBBC

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  34. Can a Computer Write Shakespeare?

    Trevor Cox asks whether computers can ever be truly creative.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  35. Intelligence: Born Smart, Born Equal, Born Different

    Adam Rutherford charts the rise, fall and rise of the genetics of intelligence

    BBC Radio 4

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  36. Podcasting - The First Ten Years

    Podcasters Helen Zaltzman and Olly Mann trace the origins of on-demand radio.

    BBC Radio 4

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  37. The Great Space Hunt

    Jolyon Jenkins speaks to the unsung enthusiasts on a mission to protect us from asteroids

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  38. My Teacher Is an App

    Sarah Montague presents a series looking at how technology has changed education

    BBC Radio 4

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  39. Andy's Dinosaur Adventures

    Pre-school dinosaur history series. Andy goes on prehistoric adventures.

    CBeebies

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  40. All You Need Is Lab - How Science And Technology Inspired Innovation In Music

    Midge Ure explains how technical innovation has always stimulated musical creativity.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  41. Elements

    Chemical elements: where do we get them and how do they fit into our economy?

    BBC World Service

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  42. Mapping the Void

    Dr Kat Arney meets a new generation of virtual cartographers, making maps to save lives.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  43. Tech Life

    How tech is transforming the way the world works, learns and plays

    BBC World Service

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  44. Dinosaurs in the Drawing Room

    How the Natural History Museum packed its collections off to country houses during WWII.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    Natalie Haynes' Brave New Algo-World

    Natalie Haynes attempts to find the algorithm to determine the perfect joke.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  46. Brainwaves

    Pennie Latin explores the science behind the everyday.

    BBC Radio Scotland

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  47. The Science of Doctor Who

    Professor Brian Cox takes an audience on a journey into the universe of the Doctor.

    BBC Two

  48. Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines

    Michael Mosley tells the story of the creation of our most useful and valuable drugs.

    BBC Four

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  49. Scotland’s Animals

    Meet some of Scotland’s native species.

    BBC Scotland

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  50. Scotland’s Wildlife

    Find out about our native species and how they are being protected.

    BBC Scotland

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