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For wildlife sound recordist Geoff Sample the strange sound of Dupont's lark is something of an enigma, as despite recording half a dozen birds he has never actually seen one. Show more

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Neil MacGregor describes the discovery of a clay tablet pre-dating the Bible that tells a similar tale to the one of Noah and the flood. The implications shook the Christian world. Show more

Convinced she has secured the Balarac’s withdrawal from the city, the murderous Fatima turns her attentions to the throne and how to get it. Show more

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4 Extra Debut. Steve Punt hosts the battle of wits as students from Bournemouth University take on their professors. From June 2020. Show more

As part of the BBC's Rethink series Dan Saladino finds out how food can better for all in a post-Covid world. Featuring Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and community cook Dee Woods. Show more

Frances Fyfield is in Prague to see both the handwritten score and some early sketches of Smetana's glorious Ma Vlast, My Land, including the famous evocation of the river Moldau. Show more

Aleks Krotoski asks if moving our lives online has given us a false sense of normality during these extraordinary times. Show more

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Parents have been warned they face fines if school-age children in England do not return to classes at the beginning of the new school year in September

David Mitchell persuades Henning Wehn, Lou Sanders, Sindhu Vee and Neil Delamere to talk with deliberate inaccuracy. From 2020. Show more

Elizabeth considers her options and Freddie is up to his neck in it. Show more

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Rebecca Morelle explores the future for human spaceflight after SpaceX became the first private company to fly astronauts to the International Space Station back in May. Show more

Big government sustained Britain during Covid-19. Now what? Thinkers of left and right discuss with Edward Stourton past political pivots and what the state can and should do next. Show more

The physicist Maurice Wilkins, alongside Watson and Crick, was awarded the Nobel Prize for elucidating DNA's structure. Why did he end up as the 'Third Man of the double helix?' Show more

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Hamed Amiri's mother speaks out against the Taliban in Afghanistan, so they realise the whole family are going to have to flee the country as soon as possible. Show more

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