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  1. The Whistling Woman

    Soprano, broadcaster and inveterate whistler Catherine Bott on the art of whistling

    BBC Radio 4

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    Pushing Up the Daisies

    As she approaches her 80th year, Penelope Simpson decides to paint her own coffin.

    BBC Radio 4

  3. The Business of Film with Mark Kermode

    Film critic Mark Kermode reveals the economic realities behind the film industry.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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  4. A Country Practice

    Patients and doctors in a Lake District village fight to save their GP surgery.

    BBC Radio 4

  5. Writing a New South Africa

    Thabiso Mohare presents a picture of South Africa's literary and spoken word scene.

    BBC Radio 4

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  6. The Placebo Problem

    Geoff Watts explores the phenomenon of the nocebo effect and its implications for medicine

    BBC Radio 4

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    Malcolm X and the 'American Nightmare'

    Four voices consider the legacy of Malcolm X in post-Ferguson America.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Entitlement to Care

    Bradford GP Dr Alastair Bavington explores how we deal with the health needs of immigrants

    BBC Radio 4

  9. Albert Speer

    A series of programmes about Albert Speer, Hitler's architect and armaments minister.

    BBC Four

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  10. A World Beyond Alice

    David Almond argues that more European children's books should be translated into English

    BBC Radio 4

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    A Love Supreme: 50 Years On

    Courtney Pine explores John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, fifty years after its release.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    Finding Your Voice

    Helen Keen explores selective mutism, a condition often described as a phobia of speaking.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Erasing Enoch: The Tory Quest for the Minority Vote

    Can the Conservatives increase their share of the minority vote? Hugh Muir investigates.

    BBC Radio 4

  14. The Cliff

    Four contributors present illustrated essays on the theme of cliffs.

    BBC Radio 4

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  15. Salt

    Steph McGovern discovers that salt is much more than something to season our food with.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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  16. Letters from Europe

    Personal reflections on the challenges facing Europe after events in France and elsewhere.

    BBC Radio 4

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  17. Good News Is No News

    Charlie Beckett explores whether news is bad for us and how it could be done differently.

    BBC Radio 4

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    An Image of Sound

    Photographer Andrew Heptinstall's quest to represent sound within a photograph.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Tata: India's Global Giant

    Can the Indian group which owns Jaguar Land Rover maintain its ethical reputation?

    BBC Radio 4

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    Virtual Stars

    Hardeep Singh Kohli discovers and explores the world of internet personalities.

    BBC Radio 4

  21. A Timewatch Guide

    Series looking at how the BBC has revealed and interpreted great moments in our history.

    BBC Four

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  22. Clinging On: The Decline of the Middle Classes

    Is the middle class in decline? The divide between a rich elite and those now clinging on.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Spoilsport: Science Stops Play

    Claudia Hammond investigates sporting concussions and asks how safe our sports are.

    BBC Radio 4

  24. The Price of Inequality

    Robert Peston investigates the rise in financial inequality since the 1980s.

    BBC Radio 4

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  25. A Cook Abroad

    Celebrity chefs try out different recipes from around the world.

    BBC Two

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  26. A Modern Magna Carta

    Baroness Helena Kennedy designs a Magna Carta for the 21st century.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

    Giles Fraser explores the personal moral response to inequality.

    BBC Radio 4

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    JD Salinger's Spiritual Quest

    Vishva Samani explores author JD Salinger's enduring relationship with Hindu philosophy.

    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

  30. Tales from the Ring Road

    Anne-Marie Duff narrates stories of life and death on the UK's ring roads.

    BBC Radio 4

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  31. Anne Frank's Trees: Keeping the Memory Alive

    Michael Rosen commemorates Holocaust Memorial Day and looks at how we choose to remember.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Inside the Unit - Treating Disorder

    Carole Hayman serves time in a secure unit for men detained under the Mental Health Act.

    BBC Radio 4

  33. Shoah

    Documentary recounting the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses.

    BBC Four

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  34. The True Story of Abner Jay

    Laura Barton pieces together the true story of Abner Jay, a most unusual musical talent.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    Can You Spot the Hidden Message?

    How did subliminal advertising begin, and does it work? David Aaronovitch investigates.

    BBC Radio 4

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    MCAT: The Scourge of the Valleys

    Writer Rachel Trezise looks at the effects of class B drug MCAT on the South Wales Valleys

    BBC Radio 4

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    The Single Life

    What happened to the musicians who poured their hopes and savings into a DIY 7" single?

    BBC Radio 4

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    Mein Kampf: Publish or Burn?

    Hitler's Mein Kampf comes out of German copyright this year. What happens next?

    BBC Radio 4

  39. Can Democracy Work?

    Nick Robinson explores democracy, questioning senior politicians, activists and the public

    BBC Radio 4

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  40. The Mountain

    Series charting life around Cairngorm.

    BBC Scotland

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  41. Everyone a Rembrandt

    Art critic Louisa Buck lifts the lid on the Painting By Numbers craze of the 1950's.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    Hip in a Hijab

    Shelina Janmohamed explores what it means to be young, female and Muslim today.

    BBC Radio 4

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    How to Dismantle a Nuclear Power Station

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

    BBC Radio 4

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    Beirut's House of Barakat

    Rebecca Lloyd-Evans visits Beirut's house of memory.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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    The City on the Couch

    Psychoanalyst Mary Bradbury investigates mental health in the pressured financial sector.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Sasha's Song

    Sasha Tsaliuk fights for his Moscow A Capella Jewish choir in a rapidly changing Russia.

    BBC Radio 4

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    Mindfulness: Panacea or Fad?

    How a Buddhist meditation technique became a cure-all for the ills of modern life.

    BBC Radio 4

  48. Self Orbits CERN

    Will Self embarks on a 50-kilometre walking tour of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

    BBC Radio 4

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  49. Magna Carta

    Melvyn Bragg presents a series marking the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta.

    BBC Radio 4

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  50. Speak Low, Speak Weill

    Ute Lemper explores the political and musical legacy of Mack the Knife composer Kurt Weill

    BBC Radio 4

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