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    The Supercalculators

    Alex Bellos meets the supercalculators taking part in the Mental Calculation World Cup.

  2. The Strange Case of the Arab Whodunnit

    Jonathan Guyer examines the rise of neo-noir fiction in Egypt.

  3. The Sprung Floor

    Dane Hurst takes a dance floor to South Africa for use by underprivileged children

  4. The Sound of Bombs

    Fatima Al Qadiri explores how the sounds of war run through modern music.

  5. The Sound Odyssey: Nadine Shah travels to Beirut

    Gemma Cairney takes Nadine Shah to Beirut for a musical collaboration.

  6. The Sound Odyssey: Loyle Carner in Guyana

    Gemma Cairney and Loyle Carner travel to Georgetown, Guyana, for a musical collaboration.

  7. The Song Hunters: The Black Mountains' Lament

    Sam Lee travels to remote mountains of Greece and discovers Europe's oldest folk music.

  8. The Sky's the Limit?

    Jonathan Glancey on the future of aviation with top architect of airports, Lord Foster.

  9. The Skipped Beat

    What does the heartbeat mean to our culture, our identity, our lives?

  10. The Sisters of the Sacred Salamander

    Why are Mexican nuns breeding a rare salamander? Could they save this remarkable species?

  11. The Silent Mind

    What鈥檚 it like to have a silent mind? Psychologist Charles Fernyhough investigates.

  12. The Silence and the Scream

    Garrett Carr on the radical commune which broke the silence of rural Donegal in the 1970s.

  13. The Shadow Pope

    Edward Stourton explores the tensions caused by the presence of two popes in the Vatican.

  14. The Secret History of Yoga

    Mukti Jain Campion explores the surprising origins of modern yoga practice.

  15. The Screening Dilemma

    Could good intentions to detect illnesses early actually be causing more harm?

  16. The Scramble for Rare Earths - 5. The Great New Game

    Misha Glenny hears how Ukraine is sitting on huge amounts of rare earth minerals.

  17. The Scramble for Rare Earths - 4. The EU's Dependency on China

    Misha Glenny asks whether the EU can find other ways of satisfying its rare earth demand.

  18. The Scramble for Rare Earths - 3. The Super Magnets

    Misha Glenny discovers how neodymium magnets will help power the green transition.

  19. The Scramble for Rare Earths - 2. The Hidden Paradox

    Misha Glenny on why mining rare earth materials could either help or harm the environment

  20. The Scramble for Rare Earths - 1. The Magnificent 17

    Misha Glenny discovers why the future of the world depends on rare earth metals.

  21. The Science of Dad

    Dr Oscar Duke discovers how pregnancy, birth and childcare affect the father.

  22. The School is Full of Noises

    How did the avant-garde find their way in to school music lessons during the 1960s?

  23. The Saigon Tapes

    Ripples from an explosion in Saigon in 1966 are felt in the soul of a 17-yr-old Londoner.

  24. The River Man

    Fergal Keane investigates the fate of James Kane, executed by the IRA a century ago.

  25. The Rise of Sinn F茅in

    Ireland Correspondent Chris Page looks at the growth of Sinn F茅in over the last 30 years.

  26. The Returnees

    How should Britain manage its returning foreign fighters?

  27. The Remarkable Resistance of Lilo

    Lilo and her husband Erich Gloeden hid Jews from the Nazis in wartime Berlin.

  28. The Reinvention of Italy

    On the road talking to Italians as a country steeped in the past wrangles over its future.

  29. The Race to Fingerprint the Human Voice

    Impressionist Rory Bremner explores the role of the human voice in forensic phonetics.

  30. The Purity Spiral

    Gavin Haynes heads into the eye of the moral storms gripping some unlikely communities.

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