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999 - Which Service Do You Require?
Ian Sansom dials up the story of the 999 service, 80 years after it was introduced.
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Port Talbot Paradiso
Actor Michael Sheen's tells the story of Port Talbot's famous art deco Plaza cinema.
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Butterbeer and Grootcakes
Aleks Krotoski explores the amazing world of fictional food made real.
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When Women Wore the Trousers
Laura Barton presents a brief history of trousers from function to fashion.
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Miss Simpson's Children
The story of how one woman offered refuge to leading intellectuals fleeing from the Nazis.
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The Invention of the USA: Borderlands
The USA is an invention. So how do you build the most powerful country in the world?
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The Organ Beauty Pageant
Is it fair to find your own living organ donor on Facebook? Lesley Curwen investigates.
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Trump at Studio 54
Frances Stonor Saunders on Trump's disco years and mentorship to McCarthy's henchman.
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A Woman Half in Shadow
Poet Jackie Kay tells the story of Zora Neale Hurston's literary rebirth.
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Rock Transition
A look at how musicians have defied gender boundaries to create era-defining art and music