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Assassins
Political assassination, a look at how and why it happens
Stimela
A profile of the South African music band Stimela
Music and Madness
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A Greedy Eye
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Breath
Breath and breathing and how various cultures have interpreted it's importance to life
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The Day Apartheid Died - Soweto Uprising
People who were there recall the events of the 1976 Soweto Uprising
Nien Cheng
Writer Nien Cheng talks about living through the Chinese Cultural Revolution
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Last Flight of Amelia Earhart
A profile of the the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
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Richard Mabey discusses nightingales and what makes their song so special
Trucker's Tale
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Thrill Seekers
A look at the variety of thrill-seeking physical challenges available around the world
An Indian Pacific Journey
Crossing Australia by train on the Indian Pacific Express
The Mercury Thirteen
'They had the right stuff but they were the wrong sex'. Female astronauts in 1961
Partition
A look back at the Partition of India in 1947
In the Wake of Colmcille
The recreation of St Colmcille's journey to Iona in a currach
Make Do and Mend
Blacksmith Ron Carter talks about the philosphy of 'make do and mend'
Pablo Fanque
A profile of the first non-white circus proprietor in Britain
Fighters
The life of the fighter pilot and their role in air warfare
The 2000 Mile Harvest
Bringing in the wheat harvest in the USA
Fox Hunting
A look at the world of fox hunting in the UK as it faces being banned
Lenin
A revisionist profile of the communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin
Paul Robeson - A Welcome in the Hillside
How the plight of unemployed Welsh miners led to the political awakening of Paul Robeson
The Last Voice
The San people of the Kalahari Desert and the fight to preserve their language
Death Foretold
How common is murder in Chicago?
Trokosi Women
What happens to the estimated 30,000 African women held in ritual servitude?
Last Ditch Stand
The story of the British resistance movement during World War Two
Living with Pain
A look at the nature of pain and the wide variety of ways people deal with it