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  1. Writing's on the Wall

    Lucky socks, pre-match rituals, Nadal’s water bottles. Sport is teeming with superstition.

    BBC Radio 4

  2. Bloodsport

    The story of the systematic doping of the 2012 and 2014 Olympics by the Russian state.

    BBC Radio 4

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  3. James Naughtie’s Letter to America

    Reflections on half a century of ‘looking in’ on the United States

    BBC World Service

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  4. Guilty Men

    In 1940, an attack on the 'guilty' in government caused uproar. What can it tell us today?

    BBC Radio 4

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    Mapping the Future

    Jerry Brotton navigates the transformation from paper to digital mapping.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Home Birds

    Naturalist Brett Westwood considers migration in differing forms from the DRC to the UK.

    BBC Radio 4

  7. Go Domhain san Fhuil

    Exploring the life of fishermen working out of Magheraroarty Pier.

    BBC Two Northern Ireland

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  8. Your Call Is Important to Us

    New universal credit claimants tell us about their lives on hold.

    BBC Radio 4

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    On the Menu

    Adam Hart explores our relationship with some of the animal kingdom's deadliest predators.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Stretch and Listen!

    Derrick Evans, aka Mr Motivator, tells the global story of fitness on the radio.

    BBC Radio 4

  11. DIY Deadly with Steve Backshall

    Steve Backshall explores deadly animals in the world around us.

    CBBC

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  12. The New Tech Cold War

    Gordon Corera asks if the West is losing the technological race with China.

    BBC Radio 4

  13. Art of Persia

    Broadcaster and journalist Samira Ahmed reveals the remarkable story of Iran.

    BBC Four

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  14. Life, Uncertainty and VAR

    Tom Chivers asks what football's search for truth tells us about uncertainty in our lives.

    BBC Radio 4

  15. Afterlives

    Two people come together to examine how their pasts have changed but not overwhelmed them.

    BBC Radio 4

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  16. A Big Disease with a Little Name

    Charting the early years of the AIDS crisis, as told by the people who lived through it

    BBC Radio 4

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  17. Operation Ouch! Do Try This at Home

    Dr Chris and Dr Xand bring their lab into Xand’s kitchen.

    CBBC

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  18. Weans’ World

    A child's eye view of growing up in the East End of Glasgow.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Knight Fights Giant Snail

    Dr Alixe Bovey presents a surreal journey through the world of medieval marginalia.

    BBC Radio 4

  20. The Everywoman

    Novelist Sarah Hall goes in search of the literary Everywoman.

    BBC Radio 4

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  21. Meanwhile...

    Covid-19 has dominated the media for months. Meanwhile, other stories are developing.

    BBC Radio 4

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  22. The Great Post Office Trial

    The extraordinary story of a campaign to uncover a massive scandal at the Post Office.

    BBC Radio 4

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  23. Butch

    Joelle Taylor celebrates 'being butch' and asks whether it's an identity with a future.

    BBC Radio 4

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    The Global Ventilator Race

    Engineers and inventors worldwide are rushing to build new ventilators. Are they any good?

    BBC Radio 4

  25. The Irish Houses – Scéal Phobal Bhóthar Seoighe

    Documentary telling the story of the founding of Belfast’s urban Gaeltacht.

    BBC Two Northern Ireland

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  26. The Migrant Medics

    Is it fair for the rich world to cherry-pick the best doctors from poorer countries?

    BBC Radio 4

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    Happy Little Trees

    An exploration of young people's mental health and their attraction to TV artist Bob Ross.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Nudes4Sale

    Ellie Flynn investigates people making money from selling their nude photos and videos.

    BBC Three

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    Bellfield's Year

    One year with a primary school in a poor part of Birmingham as it battles to stay solvent

    BBC Radio 4

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    The Price of Life

    Anita Anand meets the people putting a price on life. How do they justify their decisions?

    BBC Radio 4

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    Lee Miller: A Life on the Front Line

    Celebrating Lee Miller, a model turned photographer turned war reporter.

    BBC Two

  32. Primates

    The definitive celebration of the animals you thought you knew.

    BBC One

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  33. Iran’s Long Game

    Iran is now calling the shots in Iraq. How did the clerics outmanoeuvre the US?

    BBC Radio 4

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    How to Cure Viral Misinformation

    The story of one misleading post - and how we can all stop the spread of bad information.

    BBC Radio 4

  35. The Learning Revolution

    The Learning Revolution

    BBC Radio 4

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  36. Girl Reading

    Zoë Comyns explores the pose of the girl reader with painters and writers.

    BBC Radio 4

  37. Rebuilding Notre-Dame

    A look inside the restoration of the Notre-Dame de Paris following the 2019 fire.

    BBC Two

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  38. Snakes & Ladders

    Conversations about money in modern Britain. With Cathy FitzGerald.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Blind Mind's Eye

    Sue Armstrong hears the personal experience of people with aphantasia - no mind's eye.

    BBC Radio 4

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    China and the Virus

    Has the Covid-19 epidemic weakened or strengthened the grip of China’s Communist Party?

    BBC Radio 4

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    The Art of Raising a Child

    Can you make creativity a life skill? Where might such a skill take a child in later life?

    BBC Radio 4

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    Left Out of Power

    Steve Richards examines the challenges for the Labour Party under Keir Starmer.

    BBC Radio 4

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    My Final Wish

    Sushma Puri reveals why many British Hindus want their ashes scattered in the Ganges.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Return to the Calais Jungle

    Hossein Ahmadi, an Iranian refugee, returns to the Calais Jungle that was once his home.

    BBC Radio 4

  45. Ingenious

    Find out what you're made of, one gene at a time, with Dr Kat Arney.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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  46. Hidden Children of the Church

    The secret lives of Catholic priests' children.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Sharing the Baby

    Shared Parental Leave has a 3% take-up in the UK. Fi Glover asks why it is so low.

    BBC Radio 4

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    The City That Sings

    Singing together is bringing hope to a struggling South African community.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Fighting Talk: How Language Can Make Us Better

    What impact does the language we use around cancer have on those living with the disease?

    BBC Radio 4

  50. Blue Planet Revisited

    Nature documentary.

    BBC One

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