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Yesterday

Britain in a Box

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Casualty
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Paul Jackson's classic British TV celebration concludes with a profile of Casualty, the world's longest-running...

Friday Night Is Music Night

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The Dambusters 70 Years On
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Dermot O'Leary and Jeremy Vine present a live concert commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Dambusters raid,...

This Week

Fried Chicken Feels the Heat

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Fried Chicken Feels the Heat
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Yasmeen Khan investigates the nutritional value of food sold by increasingly popular fried chicken shops, and...

The Science of Music

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The Science of Music
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New series. Robert Winston explores human relationships with sound. The scientist assesses the mathematics of...

Heresy

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Heresy
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Victoria Coren Mitchell returns to chair a another run of the debate on the veracity of received wisdom. She is...

Desert Island Discs

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Damien Hirst
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Kirsty Young talks to artist Damien Hirst, who selects his eight favourite recordings to take to the BBC's...

Words and Music

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I Love No Leafless Land
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Lucy Briers and Gerard Murphy read poetry and prose on the theme of trees by Siegfried Sassoon, Cecil Day-Lewis,...

How Does That Make You Feel?

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How Does That Make You Feel?
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By Shelagh Stephenson. The return of the drama in which a sincere psychotherapist begins to lose patience with...

Electric Dreams: The Giorgio Moroder Story

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Electric Dreams: The Giorgio Moroder Story
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Part one of two. Chic's Nile Rodgers presents a profile of the Italian record producer and songwriter. He looks...

Chopping Onions

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Chopping Onions
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By Becky Prestwich. Three generations of Jewish women come together after grandmother Esther suffers a stroke....

Poetry in Translation

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Poetry in Translation
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Daljit Nagra explores the different approaches poets take in translating a poem. She meets writers Jo Shapcott,...

Opera on 3: Live from the Met

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Opera on 3: Wagner 200 - Live from the Met: Götterdämmerung
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Margaret Juntwait and guest commentator Ira Siff present a performance of the final part of Wagner's Ring cycle,...

This month

The Life Scientific

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The Life Scientific
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Theoretical physicist Jim Al-Khalili talks to neuroscientist Nancy Rothwell about her research into obesity, her...

Don't Log Off

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Don't Log Off
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New series. Alan Dein returns as he discovers the real-life dramas behind people's social networking profiles,...

Wireless Nights

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Night of the Hunter
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New series. Jarvis Cocker returns with a new run of the programme exploring the aural experience of the world...

The Reunion

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Hutton Inquiry
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Sue MacGregor's guests recall the BBC's quarrel with the government over the use of intelligence in the lead up...

The First Time with Quentin Tarantino

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The First Time with Quentin Tarantino
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Matt Everitt meets movie director Quentin Tarantino, who puts forward his thoughts about the role of music in...

The New Dissidents

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The New Dissidents
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Peter Taylor investigates why Northern Ireland remains violent, 15 years after the Good Friday Agreement. The...

Angel Pavement

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Angel Pavement
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Part one of two. Comedy, by JB Priestley. Dramatised by Martin Jameson. The business of Twigg & Dersingham,...

Living World

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Golden Pheasant
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New series. In the first of a new round of reports on Britain's countryside, Brett Westwood is joined by Paul...

Ella in Berlin

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Ella in Berlin
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Cleveland Watkiss revisits post-war Berlin, where jazz was experiencing a surge in popularity after the fall of...

And Calm of Mind

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And Calm of Mind
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Chris Ledgard follows a group of former soldiers who, as the Combat Veteran Players, are attempting to tackle...

The Essay

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The Essay: Unknown Cities
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Five writers recall a favourite city off the beaten track. Novelist Nicholas Shakespeare shares his experiences...

Front Row

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Cultural Exchange: Tracey Emin on Vermeer
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The launch of the Cultural Exchange project, in which 75 leading creative minds reveal their passions for...

Solar Max

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Solar Max
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Astronomer Lucie Green highlights the dangers of a solar superstorm as she investigates the incident that...

Swimming Through Chocolate

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Swimming Through Chocolate
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Despite working at the Bournville factory for more than 30 years, Gladys Jones and Adrian Cadbury never met....

From Donald Winnicott to the Naughty Step

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From Donald Winnicott to the Naughty Step
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Anne Karpf revisits the parenting advice of Donald Winnicott, the pioneering psychoanalyst who made some 50...

A Natural History of Me!

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A Natural History of Me!
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Paul Evans discovers the body hosts ten times more microbial cells than human ones. He also speaks to scientists...