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Podcast Radio Hour
Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Restart
They claim to cure video game addiction - but what's really going on? Mind-bending thriller from the makers of The Cipher, starring Armin Karima (Sex Education).

The Film We Can't See
Adam Zmith has found some lost sound recordings from 1930. As he listens to this archive of intriguing noises, he imagines a film that could have changed the world.

Newsjack
The week's news stories lovingly bashed, mashed and moulded into sketches and one-liners by the public.

The Matter of the North
Melvyn Bragg explores the pivotal role of England's north in the shaping of modern Britain.

Maxwell's Equations
Will Self goes on a 600-mile road trip from Edinburgh to Cambridge on the trail of physicist James Clerk Maxwell, who pioneered the theory of electromagnetic waves

In the Psychiatrist's Chair
Psychiatrist Dr Anthony Clare conducts in depth interviews with prominent people from different walks of life.

The Business of Film with Mark Kermode
Film critic Mark Kermode reveals the economic realities behind the film industry.

Plants: From Roots to Riches
Kathy Willis considers our changing relationship with plants over the last 250 years - from tools to exploit, to objects of beauty, to being an essential resource we must conserve.

An Eye for Pattern: The Letters of Dorothy Hodgkin
An intimate portrait of Dorothy Hodgkin, the only British woman to win a Nobel Prize for science, for cracking the chemical structures of penicillin and vitamin B12.

Britain at Sea
Admiral Lord West tells the story of the Royal Navy during the 20th century.

The New Elizabethans
James Naughtie profiles 60 public figures nominated to mark the diamond jubilee

Shakespeare's Restless World
Making a selection of objects from the British Museum and collections across the UK, Neil MacGregor uncovers the stories they tell about Shakespeare's world.

The Art of Monarchy
Will Gompertz enters the Royal Collection to examine some of the objects that have adorned, defined and described the story of a thousand years of the British monarchy.

Sport and the British
Clare Balding presents a 30-part series charting how sport has shaped the British and how Britain has shaped sport

A Brief History of Mathematics
Professor of Mathematics Marcus du Sautoy reveals the personalities behind the calculations and argues that mathematics is the driving force behind modern science.