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The team behind The Play That Goes Wrong franchise on making comedy out of errors, Slow Painting at Leeds Art Gallery, and reviving the high street with culture. Show more

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The Finnish fisherman who believes he has a solution to climate change: battling the peat extraction industry and re-wilding peat fields. But can he overcome vested interests? Show more

Timandra Harkness teams ups with London cabby Robert Lorden to scrutinise a technology that we now take for granted. How do GPS devices affect our brains, health and well-being? Show more

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