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Who Was St Nicholas?
How an early Christian bishop was claimed for everything from Christmas to pawnbrokers
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ World Service
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Who We Are
Documentaries about how we shape our lives through love, pain, war and hope
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ World Service
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Who Will Call Me Beloved?
Writer Tania Hershman on the word ‘beloved’ and commemorating single people when they die.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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Who You Don't See
An insight on what it’s like to work with some of the biggest names in pop culture.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Sounds
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Who'd Be A Museum Director Today?
Our panel debate the many challenges facing museum curators in the 2020s.
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Who's British Now?
Fewer and fewer of us say we are 'British'. Ritula Shah asks, 'Who's British now?'.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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Who's My Half-Brother? Where's My Half-Sister?
How children conceived through a sperm donor can make contact with their half-siblings.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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Who's the Pest?
Entomologist Erica McAlister takes listeners on an adventure in insect world
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4 Extra
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Who’s Got Greg? Peter Bleksley Investigates
A Radio 1 DJ has disappeared in fishy circumstances. Can Peter Bleksley set Greg free?
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 1
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Whodunnits
Murder mysteries from the world's greatest crime fiction writers. Only on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Sounds.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4 Extra
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Whose Truth Is It Anyway?
Writer and broadcaster Damian Barr explores reality, truth and fiction in literature.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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Why Become a Doctor?
Kevin Fong looks at how the role of junior doctors has changed over the past 50 years.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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Why Can't Our Children Talk?
Kim Normanton explores why many children start school without being able to communicate.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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Why Coups Fail
Natalie Haynes explores why overthrowing a government by force is not as easy as it looks.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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Why do Americans distrust Washington?
How Ronald Reagan has overcome American distrust of central government
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ World Service
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Why Do We Do That?
Ella Al-Shamahi investigates the origins of everyday human habits and behaviour.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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The Why Factor
Series that explores the hidden histories behind everyday objects and actions.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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The Why Factor
The extraordinary and hidden histories behind everyday objects and actions
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ World Service
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Why I Changed My Mind
Dominic Lawson interviews people who have changed their mind on controversial matters.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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Why Men Pay for Sex
What motivates men to pay women to sleep with them? Four men tell Jo Fidgen why they do it
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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Why Should This Happen To Me?
A series of discussions with people dealing with crisis
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ World Service
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Why Stories
Thought provoking documentaries produced by international filmmakers from across the globe
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Russian TV
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Why the Moon, Luke?
Artist Luke Jerram is obsessed with the Moon, so he has made one to take around the world.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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Why Time Flies (and how to slow it down)
Armando Iannucci explores why time appears to speed up alarmingly as we age.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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Why War? The Einstein-Freud Letters
Exploring the 1932 letters between Einstein and Freud on global peace and total war.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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Why Why Why?
Comedian Phill Jupitus searches for the answers to questions posed by songs.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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Wiki Wars
Tech journalist Lara Lewington looks into information battles played out on Wikipedia.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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Wil ac Aeron
Cyfres yn dilyn y ffermwyr ifanc Wil Hendreseifion ac Aeron Pughe ar daith. Following f...
S4C
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Wild Arabia: The Natural History of the Middle East
Tessa McGregor explores the natural history of the Middle East
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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Wild Bond
Celebrate 60 years of Bond movies with a cast of characters from the animal kingdom.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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Wild Inside
Ben Garrod and Jess French glimpse inside animals from the big wild world
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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Wild Music
A collaboration between the poet John Burnside and composer Erland Cooper.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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Wild Scandinavia
Witness the nature of wild Scandinavia, where orcas rule coasts and wolves patrol forests.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Two
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Wild Weather with Richard Hammond
Richard Hammond attempts to reveal the unexplained and unexpected world of weather.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ One
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A Wild Year
A unique insight into the nature of three iconic regions of the British countryside.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Two
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Wilderness with Simon Reeve
Simon Reeve travels through some of the most remote landscapes on Earth.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Two
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Wildfire
Bushfires have been burning worldwide – a report from South Australia
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ World Service
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Wildlife
Fourteen-year-old Joe Brinson moves with his mother and father to a small town in Montana.
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The Wilkie Collins Guide to Modern Life
Matthew Sweet on the life and work of the sensationally modern figure - Wilkie Collins.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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Will AI Kill Development?
Will artificial intelligence lead to a more unequal world?
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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Will Bird Flu Steal Christmas?
Charlotte Smith investigates the outbreak, vaccines, and if bird flu will steal Christmas.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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Will Cameron Change Britain?
Janan Ganesh asks if the Conservatives, now free from coalition, will transform Britain.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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Will Emily be allowed to keep her baby?
We follow the story of a mother, working with social workers to keep her new baby.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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Will Self Takes the Waters
Will Self ponders the origins of our insatiable thirst for bottled waters.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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Will Self's Great British Bus Journey
Will Self makes a 1,000-mile tour of the UK, by bus and coach, exploring British identity
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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Will Self's Great British Bus Journey
Will Self makes a 1,000-mile tour of the UK, by bus and coach, exploring British identity
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?
Tracey McLeod recalls the girl groups of the 1960s.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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William Burroughs: Nothing Is True, Everything Is Permitted
Laurie Anderson profiles one of the most original writers and thinkers of the 20th century
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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William of Orange
The story of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the rise of William III and Queen Mary
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ World Service
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Wilson, Keppel and Several Bettys
Barbara Windsor tells the story of the popular variety act Wilson, Keppel and Betty.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4 Extra
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The Wilsons Save the World
Sitcom about trying to live ethically and do the right thing.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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Wimbledon
The triumphs, upsets and fightbacks from the world’s greatest tennis tournament.
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Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Kenneth Grahame’s jolly riverside romp with the eccentric Mr. Toad and his animal chums.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Sounds
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The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame's classic tale of Mole, Ratty, Badger and Toad.
School Radio
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Windrush
Conflict, controversy and culture - the story of a generation that rebuilt Britain.
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Windrush: A Family Divided
Robert and Jennifer Beckford argue the pros and cons of Windrush 75 years on.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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Windrush: Portraits of a Generation
A film about a remarkable Windrush portrait project spearheaded by the King.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Two
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Windrush: Rhwng Dau Fyd
75ml ers i bobl o'r Caribi gyrraedd Prydain ar y Windrush, Emily Pemberton sy'n holi am...
S4C
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The Wine Detectives
Susie Barrie follows the experts employed to tell fine wines from fakes.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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A Wing and a Prayer
Battle of Britain fighter pilots recall the summer of 1940. Presented by Misha Glenny.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4 Extra
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Wing It
Mike Wozniak plays host to a panel of improv all stars in this new spontaneous game show.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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Winning the Peace
Paddy Ashdown investigates how the international community helps rebuild a nation
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ World Service
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Winslow ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖr's Odyssey
Michael Smith investigates the American artist's visit to Cullercoats in Northumberland.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4 Extra
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Winston
Peter Tinniswood's bawdy comedy starring Maurice Denham and Bill Wallis.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4 Extra
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Winter Journey: Schubert's Winterreise
Schubert's song cycle Winterreise reimagined in the wintry setting of an Alpine landscape.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Four
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The Winter Olympic Mile
Walk a mile with Aimee Fuller + some of the world's finest athletes ahead of Beijing 2022
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 5 Live
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Winterwatch
Live coverage as our wildlife faces up to the most challenging time of year.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Two
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Wir Kinda Country
Shelia Manson and Jim Pearson with country music Shetland style!
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio Scotland
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Wired Love
Wired Love, published in 1879, is a story of long-distance love over the telegraph wire.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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Wireless Nights
Jarvis Cocker explores the human condition after dark, with stories of night people
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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Wisdom of the World
Series examining the spiritual and practical wisdom of past and present
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ World Service
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A Wish for Afghanistan
Lyse Doucet on the experiences of a nation during 20 years of war
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ World Service
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Witch Hunt
The history of Scotland’s witch hunts revealed with Susan Morrison.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio Scotland
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Witches Be Tripping
Carys Eleri has bought a cauldron - will Kiri Pritchard-McLean join her coven?
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio Wales
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The Witches' Pardon
Is it time Scotland recognised 'witches' as victims of state-sanctioned violence?
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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The Witchfinder
A witchfinder has a chance to change his luck - he just has to get his suspect to trial.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Two
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With a Fine Feeling for Steam
A look at the private steam railway network, the Strathspey Railway. (1977)
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With Humble Duty Reports...
How a government whip told the Queen what really went on in the House of Commons.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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With us or against us
The story of the coalition set up following the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
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Witless
Two flatmates' lives are thrown into disarray after witnessing a gangland shooting.
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The Witness for the Prosecution
Thrilling two-part drama about a man accused of killing his lover.
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