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    A Sense of Time

    Does a second feel the same for a fly, a bird, or a swordfish, as it does for me?

  2. A Sense of Quietness

    Four women explore the unexpected consequences of talking about abortion.

  3. A Sense of Music

    What happens when music meets the animal mind?

  4. A Sense of Direction

    Might humans have an inbuilt compass like homing pigeons? How can we rediscover it if so?

  5. A Sailor Went to Sea Sea Sea

    Songwriter Emmy the Great rediscovers the craft of the playground clapping game.

  6. A Reckoning with Drugs in Oregon

    How has Oregon鈥檚 radical drug decriminalisation policy changed lives?

  7. A Recipe for Love

    Sophie Ward makes a scientifically-accredited love potion. Don't try this at home.

  8. A Pyrotechnic History of Humanity: Fire

    How the mastery of fire and the energy it released gave our ancestors intelligence

  9. A Picture Held Us Captive

    Zia Haider Rahman explores the very real impact metaphor has on the world around us.

  10. A New School for New Orleans

    Clara Amfo meets the staff and artists at a groundbreaking music studio in New Orleans.

  11. A Mother Tongue

    What is the etymology of your being?

  12. A Mathematician's Guide to Beauty

    Mathematician Vicky Neale explores the idea of the beautiful in maths.

  13. A Long Way from Vietnam

    大象传媒 journalist Nga Pham investigates people-smuggling from her country into the UK.

  14. A Line in the Water

    Aboard the Belfast-Birkenhead ferry Neil McCarthy looks for the border down the Irish Sea

  15. A Life Less Vertical

    Melanie Reid reunites with her ward mates, a decade after becoming tetraplegic.

  16. A Life in Miniatures

    Max Porter explores why model villages hold such fascination and inspiration for him.

  17. A Journey Through English

    The changing accents on the UK's longest rail journey, from Aberdeen to Penzance.

  18. A Job for the Boys

    What are the hidden consequences of having so few women in the tech industry?

  19. A History of Hate - Bosnia: The Weaponisation of History

    Allan Little explores how anti-Muslim hatred was mobilised during the Bosnian war.

  20. A History of Ghosts: Ancient Ghosts

    Kirsty Logan explores the evolution of Ghost Lore.

  21. A Hard Look at Soft Power

    Does soft power still wield force in a time of brutal displays of hard power in Ukraine?

  22. A Hack's Progress

    Jonathan Freedland tells the story of journalism as depicted in fiction.

  23. A Guide to Disagreeing Better

    Why do we hold our opponents in contempt? And what steps should we take to stop?

  24. A Fishy Phobia

    Angela Hartnett investigates why we eat so little of the fish and seafood we catch.

  25. A Family of Strangers

    How a simple DNA test turned worlds upside down, leading to profound questions of identity

  26. A Documentary: By ChatGPT

    What would a documentary made by ChatGPT sound like? Lara Lewington explores AI territory.

  27. A Dentist's Life

    How one community dentist is navigating the biggest crisis in dentistry in a generation.

  28. A Degree of Fraud

    Ellie Cawthorne investigates the multimillion pound trade in fake essays and dissertations

  29. A Deadly Trade

    Even through lockdown boatloads of refugees made the dangerous crossing by boat to the UK

  30. A Dancer Dies Twice

    A documentary about first deaths and last dances.

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