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Seeking The Endgame

Episode 2

Chess fanatic Simon Terrington explores the allure of the game in today's world

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The Mysteries of the Brain

How do our senses affect our ability to communicate and respond to the world around us?

• 25 mins

World Stories

The Rollercoaster of Life in Kabul

Meena Baktash on Kabul's beauty, vibrant culture and inspiring people.

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World Stories

World Stories - A Widow's Journey

In 1989 Tamil leader Appapillai Amirthalingam was killed in Sri Lanka. His wife and son...

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World Stories

World Stories - Afghanistan's Dancing Boys

A controversial practise in Afghanistan's heartland.

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World Stories

World Stories - The Children of Pedro Pan

In the 1960's 14,000 Cuban children were sent to live in the USA, to seek a better life...

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World Stories

World Stories - Revolutions in Iran

In Iran, how does the spread of ideas shape world opinion?

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The Magic Carpet Flight Manual

What does our desire to defy gravity tell us about ourselves?

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The Mysteries of the Brain

Is the biggest challenge of the brain not to explain thinking but to understand movement?

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Memory Wars - Part One - Ghosts of Europe

Can oral history challenge the official records of a nation's turbulent past?

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01/10/2010

A former British colonial officer returns to Nigeria to meet a civil servant he trained...

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The Mysteries of the Brain

Do the emotional mechanisms in the brain overpower reason?

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Memory Wars - Part Two - Silent No Longer

Can oral history challenge the official records of a nation's turbulent past?

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The City That Sacked Its Staff

The story of a small Californian city that made a radical move to avoid bankruptcy.

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The Mysteries of the Brain

Examining the link between the brain and consciousness

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Nelson Mandela: In His Own Words

Can Nelson Mandela's writing help us understand the man behind the icon?

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The Price of Bio Fuels - Part One

Can bio fuels provide a viable alternative energy source?

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Nelson Mandela: In His Own Words

Listen to Mandela's thoughts on the night of his release from Robben Island

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25/10/2010

Gerry Northam investigates claims that biofuels, rather than helping the world, may be ...

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The Other Guantanamo

Polly Evans travels to Guantanamo to talk to Cubans about living next to the prison

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Baghdad Boy

Seven years after a US rocket attack left him without arms, Ali Abbas returns to Baghdad

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The Battle Of King Salmon

Episode 1

Reporting on the greatest wild salmon run on earth

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The Battle Of King Salmon

The Battle of King Salmon - part two

Is mining threatening the world's greatest wild salmon run?

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Return To White Horse

Episode 1

Carrie Gracie returns to China to see how 21st Century urbanisation is progressing

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Return To White Horse

Episode 2

Carrie Gracie returns to China to see how 21st Century urbanisation is progressing

• 25 mins

Baghdad Boy

Episode 2

Seven years after a US rocket attack left him without arms, Ali Abbas returns to Baghdad

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The Great Palace of Verse

Narguess Farzad explores the legacy of Iran's 1000 year old 'Book of Kings' or Shahnameh

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The Impossible Life of Jacques Costeau

Marine explorer Jacques Cousteau inspired millions in his heyday. Can his legacy survive?

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Road Kill

Episode 1

Sheena McDonald finds out what the Kenyan government is doing to improve on road safety

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Road Kill

Episode 2

Sheena McDonald finds out what the Costa Rican government is doing to improve road safety

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