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Episode Guide
- An A to Z of English
- The Academy of Waste?
- Acid Politics
- The Ad Factor
- After the Genome
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After the Genome
Genetic code of humans.
- After the Revolution
- Alaska: The Last Frontier?
- Angelica Kauffman
- Animal Physiology: A Time to Be Born
- Animated English: The Creature Comforts Story
- Apples, Risks and Recriminations
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The Arch Never Sleeps
How massive structures such as Gothic cathedrals, which were built of stone but using very little mortar, have survived for centuries.
- The Argument From Design
- Art: A Question of Style
- Art in Australia
- Art in Australia: Postmodernism and Cultural Identity
- The Art of Breathing
- The Art of the Restorer
- Asteroid Hunters
- Asteroid Hunters
- Asthma and the Bean
- Athens: Democracy for the Few
- Attack on the Wires
- Auntie's Big Adventure
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The Authentic and Ironical History of Henry V
History, patriotism and propaganda collide in this story of our obsession with reconstructing the past.
- Bangkok: A City Speaks
- The Baptistery, Padua
- The Battle for Congress
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Behind a Mask
Looking for common threads to the lives and work of six women writers.
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Behind a Mask
The lives of six women writers.
- Berlin: Unemployment and the Family
- Berlin: Unemployment and the Family
- Big Money in Kentucky
- The Birth of Calculus
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The Birth of Calculus
Discovery of calculus.
- The Black Triangle
- Blue Haven
- The Bobigny Trial
- Breaking The Seal: Church Courts
- Breaking the Seal: Criminal Records
- Breaking the Seal: Domesday
- Breaking the Seal: Land Records
- Breaking the Seal: Military Records
- Breaking the Seal: Tax Records
- Brief Encounter
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Bringing Home the Bacon
A Cumbrian boar farmer travels through Europe to discover how the Common Agricultural Policy has changed farming, food and the countryside.
- Britain and Germany
- Building by Numbers
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Building the Perfect Beast
A focus on 'Frankenstein' - how and why does Mary Shelley's creation continue to exert such power over our collective imaginations?
- The Care Industry
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Catalysts Against Pollution
A look at the use of high-tech solutions for curbing vehicle emissions.
- The Celebrated Cyfarthfa Band
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The Census
The answers to the questions on the census form help local authorities plan their services.
- The Challenge: The Riddle of the Tay Bridge Disaster
- The Challenge: To Engineer a Million
- The Challenge: To Rebuild the Human Body
- Changes in Rural Society: Piedmont and Sicily
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Changing Berlin: Changing Europe
Political and social change in Berlin.
- Chardin and the Still Life
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The Chemistry of Creation
An offbeat exploration of the role chemistry plays in the creation of life.
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The Chemistry of Creativity
Exploring the relationship between art and science.
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The Chemistry of Power
A double-edged relationship exists between chemical knowledge and military, commercial and political power.
- Children First
- Children First
- Chinese Cultures
- Church and Mosque: Venice and Istanbul
- Cine Cinephiles
- Cinema For the Ears
- Cities in a Hurry
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Cities in a Hurry
Kuala Lumpur.
- Citizens of the World
- The Civil War: Endgame
- Civil War: Nick of Time
- Civil War: The Breakdown
- Civil War: Total War
- Classical and Romantic Music: Putting on the Style
- Classical Sculpture and the Enlightenment
- Clayoquot Sound: The Final Cut?
- Clayoquot Sound: The Final Cut?
- The Clinical Psychologist
- Code and Catastrophe
- Coming Home
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Coming Home
Journalist Agnieszka Rakoczy.
- Coming Home to Banaba
- Composing George Fenton in Conversation
- Containing the Pacific
- Cool Hand Luke
- The Copulation Explosion
- Cosmic Recycling
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Cosmic Recycling
Death of a star.
- Cosmology on Trial
- The Cretaceous Greenhouse World: Poles Apart
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Cultures of the Walkman
How the Sony Walkman has been designed, redesigned, marketed, and produced to become a cultural icon.
- The Cutting Edge of Progress
- Daisyworld
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Daisyworld
James Lovelock.
- Danger: Children at Play
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Danger: Children at Play
Bullying.
- The Dangers of Powerful Neighbours
- Danish Energy
- Deaf-Blind Education in Russia
- Declining Citizenship
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Defining Moments
The funerals of Sir Winston Churchill and Diana, Princess of Wales, illustrate how Britain has changed.
- Design for an Alien World
- Design for an Alien World
- Designer Rides: The Jerk and the Jounce
- Designing a Lift
- Developing Language
- Development Aid
- Dialogue in the Dark
- Difference on Screen
- Difference on Screen
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A Different Way of Learning
Studying at the OU.
- Does Science Matter?
- Driving While Black
- Duccio: The Rucellai Madonna
- Dynamic Analysis
- Edison: The Invention of Invention
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Encyclopedie
The great 18th-century French encyclopaedia.
- The End of the Race Against Time
- Energy From Waste
- Energy Through the Window
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An English Accent
A study of received pronunciation, the English accent associated with prestige and privilege.
- An English Education
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An English Education
Teaching English.
- English, English Everywhere
- English Is Not Enough
- English Only in America?
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The Enlightenment: Reason and Progress
A look at the 18th-century period of Enlightenment and the origins of the social sciences.
- Ensembles in Performance
- Environmental Solutions?
- Euripide's Medea
- The Euro Beat
- The Euro Beat
- The Euro Beat
- Evaluating Preschool Education
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Evaluating Preschool Education
Early education.
- Ever Wondered?
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Ever Wondered?
Space tourist.
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Ever Wondered?
Mediterranean diet.
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Ever Wondered?
Why music makes people tingle.
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Ever Wondered?
Rubbish.
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Ever Wondered?
Cornish countryside artists.
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Ever Wondered?
Love junkies.
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Ever Wondered?
Tamara Beckwith.
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Ever Wondered?
Gardens.
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Ever Wondered?
Great artists.
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Ever Wondered?
Influential grass-roots action.
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Ever Wondered?
Dinner the 15th-century way.
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Ever Wondered?
Secrets behind Vermeer's paintings; re-creating the past in Handel's London home.
- Ever Wondered?
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Ever Wondered?
History of the Venice carnival.
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Ever Wondered?
Clever clothing.
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Ever Wondered?
The pros and cons of celebrity.
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Ever Wondered?
High art and high street.
- Ever Wondered: Is Utopia a Pointless Dream?
- Experiments and Energy
- Extracts From Dialogue in the Dark by Michael Ignatieff
- Eyewitness Memory
- Family Ties: The Story of Adeline Yen Mah
- Final Frontier
- Finding a Balance
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Finding a Voice: Alex and Leigh
Two children experience sudden brain trauma.
- Finding a Way: Bowbridge and Great Bardfield
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Finding a Way: Luke, Carl and Matthew
Exploring attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
- Finding a Way: Marni and Renee
- Flexible Work: Insecure Lives
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Flexible Work: Insecure Lives
Workers adapt.
- Flexible Work, Insecure Lives
- Following a Score
- Forecasting the Economy
- Forest Futures
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Fortress Britain
Immigration policies.
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Fortress Europe
Germany's border with Poland is the front line for war refugees.
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France in the Viewfinder
How photographers helped rebuild a sense of French national identity after the Second World War.
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Frederick the Great and Sans Souci
What does this palace near Potsdam reveal about Prussia's philosopher king?
- Free Body Diagrams
- The French Revolution
- The French Revolution: Impact and Sources
- From a Different Shore: An American Identity
- From Here to Modernity
- The Front Desk
- The Front Desk
- Fuelling the Philippines Tiger
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Fuelling the Philippines Tiger
Protecting their environment.
- Galapagos: Research in the Field
- Gender Matters
- General Interest: A Living Doll -- A Background to Shaw's Pygmalion
- Getting It Right
- Giotto: The Arena Chapel
- Gitto: The Arena Chapel
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Given Enough Rope
The modern rope - a piece of materials engineering, and a technical marvel.
- Glastonbury Tales
- The Glastonbury Tales
- A Global Culture?
- Global Fantasy 2: The Irresistible Rise of the Computer Game?
- Global Fantasy 2: The Irresistible Rise of the Computer Game
- Global Fantasy 2: The Irresistible Rise of the Computer Game
- Global Finns, Shrinking Worlds
- Global Firms in the Industrialising East
- Global Firms, Shrinking Worlds
- Global Tourism
- Global Warming: Global Policy?
- The Golden Thread
- Gothic in India: Bombay Railway Station
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Gothic in India: Bombay Railway Station
Victoria Terminus Station.
- Greenberg on Jackson Pollock
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Groupware: So What?
Increasing reliance on computer systems to move information around affects the business world.
- Hack the Planet
- A Hard Act to Follow
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Hard Questions, Soft Answers
Key people from the history of object computing explain what software objects are, and how they were invented.
- Hard Rock Cafe
- Harlem in the '60s
- Healthy Living ... Back to the Future
- Hearing the Call
- Hidden Power
- Hidden Visions
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Home and Away
How can the risks of chemicals be balanced with the benefits they bring?
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Housing: Business as Usual
The housing markets in Britain and Germany.
- How We Study Children
- Hubbard Brook: The Chemistry of a Forest
- Human Rights
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Humanity and the Scaffold
The impact of Enlightenment thinking on the gruesome penal systems of 18th-century England and France.
- Images of Disability
- Images of Disability
- Images of Education
- Images Over India
- Imagining New Worlds
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Imagining the Pacific
Examining the different ways people have thought about the Pacific region.
- In Pursuit of Pleasure at Home
- In Search of Identity
- In Search of Vector Spaces
- In Search of Vector Spaces
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In the Nick of Time
A young MEP forces a piece of telecoms legislation through Brussels in record time.
- In Tune With America
- Independent Living
- The Information Society
- Informer, Eduquer, Divertir?
- Inspection by Torchlight
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Introduction to Psychology: Two Research Styles
Two contrasting methods used by psychologists to study people's behaviour.
- It Futures
- It's Only Plastic
- Jazz, Ragga and Synthesizers
- Jean Jacques Rousseau: Retreat to Romanticism
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Retreat to Romanticism
Philosophy on his life.
- Jets and Black Holes
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Jets and Black Holes
Mysterious phenomena.
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Jump Over Your Shadow
The economical impact of the reunification of Germany.
- Just an Illness
- Just Like a Girl
- Just Like a Girl
- Just Seventeen: The Geometry of Patterns
- Kedleston Hall
- Keeping Watch on the Invisible
- The KT Event
- La Bonne Formule
- Lab Detectives
- Landfill For the New Millennium
- A Language for Movement
- The Lapedo Child
- Large-Scale Production
- Le Corbusier and the Villa La Roche
- Learning to Care
- Learning to Love Grey
- A Lesson in Progress?
- Lie of the Land: Three Revolutions in Mapping
- Linkage Mechanisms
- Listening in the Dark
- Living With Risk
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Living With Risk
Modern labour market.
- Long Remembered Hills
- Look What Happens in Hospital
- Looking at What Happens in Hospital
- Looking Glass World
- Los Angeles: City of the Future?
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The Lyonnais: A Changing Economy
Tracing the industrialisation of the Lyonnais region in 19th century France.
- The Magic Flute
- Making Astronauts
- Making Contact
- Making the News
- The Man Who Loved Trees
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Management in Chinese Cultures
The success of the Chinese approach to business may have lessons for the West.
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Management in Chinese Cultures
The continuing success of the Chinese approach to business may have lessons for the West.
- Manchester Divided!
- Mapping the Milky Way
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Mapping the Milky Way
The secrets of our galaxy.
- Meaning in Abstract Art
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Meaning in Abstract Art
Development of abstract art.
- Mexico City: Whose City?
- Mexico City: Whose City?
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A Migrant's Heart
Theatre director Jatinder Verma traces roots in the search for home.
- Mind Readers
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Mind Readers
Televised experiments.
- Missing the Meaning?
- Modelling in the Long Term
- Modelling in the Long Term
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Modelling in the Motor Industry
A look at how motor companies such as Ford and Toyota use economic models to forecast their market positions.
- Modernist Primitivism: Gauguin and Pontaven
- Molecular Engineers
- Mondrian
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Moral Panics: The Agony and the Ecstasy
Britain's youth culture provokes moral panic.
- Mosaico Hispanico
- Moscow: A City in Transition
- Moscow: A City in Transition
- Mother Knows Best
- Mr. Moore Runs for Washington
- Musee Du Louvre
- The Museum of Modern Art
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The Museum of Modern Art
Influential art institutions.
- Music and Place: In Tune With America
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Music of Mali
The story of Mali's best-known musicians reveals a rich history of diverse musical traditions.
- Music to the Ear
- My Favorite Things
- My Favourite Things: Looking at What Things in the Living Room Reveal About the Owner
- Mystery of the Marriage
- The Myth of Medea: Authenticity in Greek Tragedy
- Nathan the Wise
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Nathan the Wise
Extracts from the play.
- Natural Navigators
- A New Sun Is Born Part 1: The Coup
- A New Sun Is Born Part 2: The Revolution
- A New Way of Life
- New York: Making Connections
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New York: Making Connections
Networks.
- News and the Democratic Agenda?
- News Stories
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News Stories
News programs.
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No Lay-bys at 35,000 Feet
A look at how materials are chosen for three vital parts of an aeroplane: the airframe, the tyres and the engine.
- No Place to Hide
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The North Sea: Managing the Common Pool
A look at how environmental problems in the North Sea are handled.
- Oceanography
- On Pictures and Paintings
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Open Advice
The three degrees. Students discuss taking a higher degree.
- Open Advice
- Open Advice: A Different Way of Learning
- Open Advice: Exam Success
- Open Advice: Staying on Course
- Open Advice: Study to Succeed
- Open Advice: The Three Degrees
- Open Advice: The University Without Walls
- Open Advice: The University Without Walls
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Open Advice: The University Without Walls
Personal accounts.
- Open Advice: Time for You
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Orsanmichele
Florence's shrines.
- Orsanmichelle
- Our Invisible Sun
- Out of Development
- Out of the Melting Pot
- Ozone: The Hole Story
- Pacific Studies: Patrolling the American Lake
- Packaging Culture
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The Palazzo Pubbtico, Siena
A tour of Siena's great medieval town hail, built to honour and beautify what was one of Italy's wealthiest city states.
- Paper
- Paris and the New Mathematics
- Partnerships
- Passing Judgements
- The Passion for Distinctiveness
- Pathfinding in the Brain: A Fish and Bird's Eye View
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Persisting Dreams
What was Byron really like and how did he influence later Romantics such as Delacroix and Verdi?
- Personal Passions
- Personnel Selection
- Philosophy in Action
- Picasso's Guernica
- Picturing the Modern City
- Play and the Social World
- Plugging In to the Sun
- Plus Ca Change
- Poetry and Landscape
- Population Transition in Italy
- The Poverty Complex
- Power and Vision: The West and the Rest
- Powers of the President
- Private Lives
- Problems With Patterns
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The Programmers
The history of computing - from hardware and software to programming.
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The Programmers
History of computing.
- Psychology in Action
- The Publicity of Oxygen
- Putting Training to Work: Britain and America
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Putting Training to Work: Britain and America
Unemployment.
- Putting Training to Work: Britain and Germany
- Putting Training to Work: Britain and Germany
- Pyramids, Plato and Football
- The Qualifications Chase
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Quality Care
A look at getting the right daycare for young children.
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A Question of Identity: Berlin and Berliners
Berlin and its people evolve from the time of Napoleon's arrival to World War I.
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The Rainbow
Properties of rainbows.
- Raising Arms Against Air Pollution
- Rapid Climate Change
- Rapid Climate Change
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Refining the View
Examining the many uses of mathematics, from erecting bamboo scaffolding to monitoring the survival of an endangered dolphin population.
- Reflections on the Global Screen
- Reindeer in the Arctic
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Reinventing the City
Examining the forces that have shaped the redevelopment of New York and Los Angeles during the last 30 years.
- Relationships: Social Sciences
- Relative Risk: The Human Genome Project
- Renaissance Secrets
- Rich Mathematical Activities
- The Rinuccini, Florence
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Risk
Statistics in relation to taking risks.
- A Robot in the Parlour?
- Romans in Britain
- The Roof of the World
- Running the Planet
- Samples of Analysis
- A School for Our Times?
- Science Shack
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Science Shack
Jacuzzi; champagne.
- Science Shack
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Science Shack
Flying machines.
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Science Shack
Buildings protected against lightning.
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Scotland in the Enlightenment
The buildings and art of 18th century Scotland reflect social and political thought during the Enlightenment.
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Seal Secrets
Examining the physiology behind the diving abilities and feeding habits of grey, common and elephant seals.
- The Search for Reality
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The Search of Reality
Albert Einstein.
- The Secret of Sporting Success
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The Secret of Sporting Success
Mathematic guide.
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Secrets of Sporting Success
Mathematical guide to achieving sports success.
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Seeing Through Maths
A brief history of mathematical models, revealing how people use everyday maths to describe and control their world.
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Sensing Intelligence
A look at what constitutes intelligence in machinery.
- Ships and Boats and Strain
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Shooting Video History
How to get more out of a video camera by using it to record the life and times of family or community.
- Shooting Video History
- Sickle Cell: A Lethal Advantage
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Siena Cathedral
The story of one of Italy's greatest ecclesiastical buildings dramatically illustrates Siena's rivalry with Florence.
- The Signature of Life
- Simple Beginnings
- Slaves and Noble Savages
- Smithson and Serra: Beyond Modernism?
- Soaring Achievements
- Soaring Achievements
- Software Surgery
- Software Surgery
- Somewhere a Wall Came Down
- Sounds of Paradise
- A Source of Inspiration
- South Korea: The Struggle for Democracy
- The Spanish Chapel, Florence
- Spanning Materials
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The Spiral of Silence
Investigating the reasons why opinion polls failed to predict the result of the 1992 General Election.
- Statistical Sciences
- Strike a Light
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The Sunbaskers
Although they can't heat themselves, reptiles are by no means cold-blooded.
- Surviving Cities
- Surviving Cities
- Swedish Science in the 18th Century
- Sydney: Living With Difference
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Sydney: Living With Difference
Transforming Sydney into a cosmopolitan city.
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Synthesis of a Drug
A focus on how chemists set about developing a new kind of painkiller.
- Taking Off
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A Tale of Two Capitals: Paris and Rome
Napoleon's new Paris, modelled on Ancient Rome, ironically becomes the inspiration for changes in the Italian city.
- Talking About Care
- Talking Buildings
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Talking Buildings
Virtual reality.
- Tax Rules OK?
- Television to Call Our Own
- Theory and Practice
- Theory and Practice
- They Did It Their Way
- This True Book of Ours: The Human Body
- The Three Degrees
- Time for You
- To Build the Fastest Round-the-World Yacht
- To Create the Duchess's Water Garden
- The Train to Cluj-Napoca
- Transforming the World
- Trend Trackers
- The True Geometry of Nature
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Under the Walnut Tree
An exploration of the integrated approach of one community school that provides primary education for children of all needs and abilities.
- A University Without Walls
- Unusual Suspects
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Valued Environments, Environmental Values
How 19th century campaigners fought to preserve the character of the English Lake District.
- Velocity Diagrams
- Venus Unveiled
- Virtual Democracy
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Virtual Democracy
Internet in democratic involvement.
- A Vunerable Life
- A Wall Came Down
- Wallace in Wales
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Was Anybody There?
Seances in Victorian society.
- Water Is for Fighting Over
- Wayang Golek: Puppeteers of West Java
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We the Peoples: Democracy and the UN
Changing role of the UN since the end of the Cold War.
- We the Peoples: Democracy and the UN
- The Web Weavers
- Welfare for All?
- Well Connected
- Wembley Stadium: Venue of Legends
- Wendepunkte
- West Africa: Art and Indentites
- What Is Religion?
- What's All This Fuss About It
- What's Right for Children?
- The Wheels of Innovation
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The Wheels of Innovation
The concept.
- Which Body?
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Who Belongs to Glasgow?
The recreation of Glasgow's international identity in response to a changing economy over the last century and a recent tourism programme.
- Whose History Is It Anyway?
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Whose Web Is It Anyway?
Software companies fight to control the World Wide Web.
- Why Do Peacocks Have Elaborate Trains?
- Wide Sargasso Sea: Real and Imaginary Islands
- Wild Moves
- Women and Allegory: Gender and Sculpture
- Women at the Wire
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Women in Science and Technology
Looking at why more women than ever before are turning to science and technology for rewarding study and careers.
- Women of Northern Ireland
- Wood, Brass and Baboon Bones
- Words and Music
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The World Network
Examining how and why India is becoming a force in the new global software market.
- The World Network
- The World of the Dragon
- The Write to Choose
- Yes, We Never Say No
