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A Comic Celebration
Elaine C Smith charts 80 years of The Beano from its first issue in 1938
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A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas
The world’s funniest and most star-studded pantomime.
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A Common Thread
French drama. A girl, pregnant at just 17, decides to give birth anonymously.
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A Concert for Bangladesh Revisited
The story of the 1971 charity rock concert organised by George Harrison in New York.
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A Concert for Heroes
Special concert to mark the nation's appreciation of its servicemen and women.
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A Concerto for Evelyn
The 1992 premiere of James MacMillan's Veni, Veni, Emmanuel, written for Evelyn Glennie.
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A Conversation with Gregory Peck
Documentary following the Hollywood star Gregory Peck on a tour of speaking engagements.
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A Cook's Tour of France
Cookery series celebrating the delights of modern French cuisine.
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A Cottage on Dartmoor
Classic silent drama about an escaped Dartmoor prisoner after vengeance on a love rival.
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A Country Practice
Patients and doctors in a Lake District village fight to save their GP surgery.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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A Countryside Winter
The ultimate guide to a countryside winter featuring wildlife, food and gardening.
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A Cross to Carry
Denis Rice and Gillean Maclean visit powerful Passion Story paintings for Good Friday.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio Scotland
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A Culture of Encounter
Douglas Alexander asks how we can overcome the forces that divide us.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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A Cure At What Cost?
Tom Chivers considers the moral and ethical dilemmas around our response to coronavirus.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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A Cut Above
Comedian Arnold Brown takes an entertaining look at the world of male fashion.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio Scotland
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A Cut Too Far? Male Circumcision
Male circumcision is becoming controversial. Should it remain legal in the UK?
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A Cymbal Tale
Writer, comedian and rock drummer Andrew McGibbon explores the history of the cymbal.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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A Dalmatian Trilogy
By James Hopkin. Stories that explore the history and landscape of the Dalmatian Islands
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4 Extra
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A Damsel in Distress
A dance star (Fred Astaire) pursues an aristocratic heiress (Joan Fontaine).
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A Dance Through the Decades
Uplifting nostalgia, featuring brilliant songs from each of the last six decades.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 2
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A Dancer Dies Twice
First deaths and last dances - when a dancer's body begins to change.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4 Extra
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A Dangerous Dynasty: House of Assad
The inside story of a family dynasty at the heart of one of the world's biggest problems.
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A Dangerous Innocence by Elizabeth Jane Howard (Omnibus)
Biography of the author of The Cazalet Chronicles: Elizabeth Jane Howard
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A Dangerous Place to be a Kid?
What is Birmingham doing to put a stop to preventable child deaths?
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A Dangerous Place to Meet My Family
A UK man with a British dad and Yemeni mum visits Yemen to meet his extended family.
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A Dark and Stormy Night
Five stories about a crime told from five separate points of view
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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A Dark History of British Gardening
Jenny Uglow on the less lovely aspects of the British character that blossom in the garden
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4 Extra
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A Date with Darkness
Fact-based thriller about the crimes and apprehension of Max Factor heir Andrew Luster.
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A Date With Dolly: Michael Ball Meets Dolly Parton
Michael Ball fulfils his longtime ambition to meet Dolly Parton
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 2
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A Date With Dyall
Jonathan Rigby celebrates the life and career of Valentine Dyall – horror's Man in Black.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4 Extra
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A Date With Nurse Dugdale
Arthur Marshall plays the ever-efficient Nurse Dugdale, battling against hospital chaos.
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A Date With Nurse Dugdale
Arthur Marshall plays the efficient Nurse Dugdale battling to arrange the hospital pageant
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A Date with the Falcon
The Falcon tries to find a kidnapped scientist who has a formula for synthetic diamonds.
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A Day In The Life
People from around Northern Ireland reflect on their daily life.
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A Day in the Life of a Diva
Shan Cothi follows a typical day in the life of a soprano
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio Wales
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A Day in the Life of an Insect
An entertaining glimpse of most populous creatures on the planet
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ World Service
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A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol
A portrait of the real Andy Warhol, the man behind the enigmatic pop art superstar.
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A Day in the Life of Earth
Hannah Fry reveals how much the Earth can change in a single day.
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A Day in the Life of Heathrow
A day in the life of the busiest international airport in the world
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A Day in the Life of Radio 4
A comic take on a day in the life of Radio 4 - with the headlines from Pauline Bush House.
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A Day in the Life: The Beatles in Bangor
Alan Thompson marks the fiftieth anniversary of The Beatles in Bangor.
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A Day in the Parish
Highlights of ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Guernsey's recent broadcast in the island's parishes.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio Guernsey
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A Day Out
Alan Bennett's first TV play, from 1972. A comedy, it follows a cycling club's day out.
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A Day Out with Gwyn
Gwyn is stifled by a day out with his grandad, but the old man has a trick up his sleeve.
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A Day That Shook The World
A strand of short programmes detailing the events of a particular day in history.
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A Day To Remember
Michael Ball looks back on an unforgettable experience interviewing Doris Day
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A Deadly Mission: Belfast to Congo
An Irish missionary family's experience of the bloody 1964 rebellion in Congo.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ One Northern Ireland
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A Deadly Trade
Sue Mitchell investigates the deadly trade in human life as smugglers profit from refugees
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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A Deadly Trade
Even through lockdown boatloads of refugees made the dangerous crossing by boat to the UK.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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A Deadly Warning: Srebrenica Revisited
Journalist Myriam François-Cerrah marks the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre.
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A Deadly Warning: Srebrenica Revisited
A film to mark the 20th anniversary of the worst atrocity in Europe since World War II.
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A Death in the Family by Karl Ove Knausgaard (Omnibus)
Writer Karl Ove Knausgaard relives the story of his life
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A Decade a Day with Ben Kerrigan
Join Ben for a look back through the sounds of today's chosen decade.
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A Degree of Fraud
Ellie Cawthorne investigates the multimillion pound trade in fake essays and dissertations
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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A Degree of Frost
A special variety show with host David Frost and guests whose work he admires. (1964)
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A Dentist's Life
How one community dentist is navigating the biggest crisis in dentistry in a generation.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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A Design for Life - The Manic Street Preachers Story
The story of the Welsh indie-rock band.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 6 Music
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A Dewey Decimal
Shaun Wallace visits his local library to see how the Dewey Decimal System works.
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A Different Country
A moving and witty drama about a mother and her son with learning disabilities.
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A Different Drum
Alan Dein meets Zimbabwean musician and political refugee Wilson Magwere.
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A Different Drum
Alan Dein meets Zimbabwean musician and political refugee Wilson Magwere.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio Ulster
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A Different Kind of Justice
The inside story of a 'restorative justice' meeting between a burglar and his victim.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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A Dinosaur Called Sue
Sue MacGregor tells the story of the battle over a perfect T-Rex skeleton.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4 Extra
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A Dirty Secret
Mary-Ann Ochota visits Bangladesh and India to ask why 2.3bn people lack adequate toilets.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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A Distant Trumpet
A US Cavalry officer finds love and adventure at an outpost near the Mexican border.
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A Documentary: By ChatGPT
What would a documentary made by ChatGPT sound like? Lara Lewington explores AI territory.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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A Dog's Journey
An old dog promises his owner that he will always be there to protect his granddaughter.
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A Dog's Tale
Clare Balding meets the native dog breeds of Britain and Ireland which are endangered
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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A Doggerel Bard
The comic poet Elvis McGonagall explores the world of satirical verse.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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A Dollar a Day
Mike Wooldridge presents a series exploring what living on a dollar a day really means
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A Double Life
A renowned actor becomes unable to differentiate between his stage roles and real life.
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A Dreadful Night by Anton Chekhov
Returning home one Christmas Eve, Ivan Spektroff is horrified by what’s waiting for him.
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A Dream of Eleanor
Mary Robinson examines Eleanor Roosevelt's role in the UN Declaration of Human Rights.
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A Dream Vision for Our Times
Writer Henry Eliot explores Geoffrey Chaucer’s surreal Dream Vision poems.
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A Dyeing Wish
Facing his own mortality, an artist collaborates with a farmer to transform toxic dyes.
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A Failure to Provide?
Yasmeen Khan investigates the problem of caring for elderly British Asians.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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A Fair Fortnight
Programme taking a look at the Glasgow fair holiday fortnight of July 1976. (1977)
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A Falkland Reunion
Thirty years after the invasion, Oliver Hides meets men who had key roles in the conflict.
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A Family Business
In February 2009 catering business P and C Morris went under.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Two Scotland
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A Family Business: The Chaplin Legacy
Tim Brooke-Taylor discovers how the creative legacy of Charlie Chaplin lives on.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4 Extra
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A Family Business: The Chaplin Legacy
Tim Brooke-Taylor views Chaplin's legacy in the theatre of his grandson James Thierree.
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