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I've Never Told Anyone This Before

Erica Wagner - A History of My Family in One Object

Erica Wagner examines her mother's stories about her father and an unusual wedding gift.

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I've Never Told Anyone This Before

Jane Stevenson - An Uneasy Feeling

Writer Jane Stevenson tells the true story of an unusual encounter during house-hunting.

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I've Never Told Anyone This Before

5. Suzanne Joinson - 'Somebody Else's Story'

Novelist and market enthusiast Suzanne Joinson shares a story she has never told before.

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World War One Round the World

St Petersburg - White Flowers and Revolution

Novelist Tatyana Tolstaya tells a St Petersburg audience how World War I changed Russia.

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World War One Round the World

London - Shell Shock and the Shock of Shells

Joanna Bourke on the emotional, cultural and physical impact of WWI shelling on soldiers.

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World War One Round the World

Sarajevo - Divine Uncertainty

Haris Pasovic explores WWI's effect on the long history of nationalism in the Balkans.

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World War One Round the World

Paris: The Christmas Truce

Christian Carion asks what the mud and degradation of WWI did to the idea of heroism.

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World War One Round the World

Dresden - Targets

Herlinde Koebl discusses World War One, targets and killing.

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World War One Round the World

Sydney - Stories that Bind

Wesley Enoch explores the powerful mythology of the Anzacs in Australia.

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World War One Round the World

Washington - Safe for Democracy

David Frum explains how World War One still defines American foreign policy.

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World War One Round the World

Amman - Jordan, a Country of Nationalists

Lina Attel explores how Jordanian national culture has survived since World War One.

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World War One Round the World

Delhi - Parting Words

Shashi Tharoor explores Indian remembrances of the World War One.

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World War One Round the World

Dar es Salaam - Ubhuche, Invisible Histories of the First World War

Exploring why WWI is almost forgotten in Tanzania despite the casualties it suffered.

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The Genius of Disability

The Genius of Disability: Al-Ma'arri - Visionary Free Thinker

Tom Shakespeare discusses the blind tenth-century Arabian poet Al-Ma'arri.

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The Genius of Disability

The Genius of Disability: Bryan Pearce - What Would I Do If I Didn't Paint?

Tom Shakespeare on painter Bryan Pearce, born with the metabolic disorder phenylketonuria.

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The Genius of Disability

Arturo Bispo do Rosario: The Sculptor Who Saved the World

Tom Shakespeare discusses sculptor Arturo Bispo do Rosario, who had schizophrenia.

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The Genius of Disability

Goya, Klee, Matisse: Leaving the Best till Last?

Tom Shakespeare discusses the lives and works of a selection of disabled artists.

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The Genius of Disability

Lucy Jones: Crawling to Glory

Tom Shakespeare celebrates painter Lucy Jones, who was born with cerebral palsy.

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Venice Unravelled

At Home

Polly Coles on what 'home' and 'house' mean to various types of residents in Venice today.

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Venice Unravelled

Tinseltown

Writer Polly Coles focuses on the impact of celebrity on Venice.

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Venice Unravelled

The Writing on the Wall

On the recent Biennale fashion of rigging-up neon strips of random text around Venice.

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Venice Unravelled

So Near to Venice

Focusing on the residents of Venice who serve the many tourists who arrive each year.

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Venice Unravelled

Water Level

Polly Coles discusses the boat-loving residents of Venice.

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The Book that Changed Me

Steve Earle on In Cold Blood

Musician and singer Steve Earle discusses the book In Cold Blood by Truman Capote.

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The Book that Changed Me

Jude Kelly on Little Women

Jude Kelly of London's Southbank Centre discusses Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.

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The Book that Changed Me

Jon Ronson on What a Carve Up!

Journalist and writer Jon Ronson discusses Jonathan Coe's book What a Carve Up!

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The Book that Changed Me

Lolita Chakrabarti on A Tale of Two Cities

Actress and playwright Lolita Chakrabarti on Charles Dickens's book A Tale of Two Cities.

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The Book that Changed Me

Sir Paul Nurse on Conjectures and Refutations

Geneticist Sir Paul Nurse discusses the book Conjectures and Refutations by Karl Popper.

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The Fall and Rise of the British Castle

Power and Control

Professor Jeremy Black considers the primary military function of castles.

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The Fall and Rise of the British Castle

Castle Builders

Nicola Coldstream explores the careers of two master masons.

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