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Saturday 25 May 2019
Chronic insomniac Jarvis Cocker explores the human condition after dark, with intriguing stories of night people.
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Saturday 18 May 2019
If data is the new oil, are data centres the new oil rigs?
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Saturday 11 May 2019
Simone discovers why her mother's music has stood the test of time and is sampled by hip hop artists and in film scores even today.
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Saturday 4 May 2019
Nina's daughter Simone explores her mother's life and career.
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Saturday 27 Apr 2019
Who are you when your identity, and your truth, is stolen?
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Saturday 20 Apr 2019
Fasten your seat belts, put your seat backs into the upright position as we bring you with a story of piracy at ten thousand feet.
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Saturday 13 Apr 2019
The rocky road for French women who joined the #MeToo movement and we go on patrol on the Seine with the Paris River police.
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Saturday 6 Apr 2019
It may be called the City of Light but the dark world below the streets and waters of Paris tells a different tale.
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Saturday 30 Mar 2019
Fourteen year-old Emmett Till was brutally murdered in Mississippi 1955. His death has resonated ever since.
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Saturday 23 Mar 2019
How many "likes" does it take to justify setting your pants on fire and jumping off a nine-story building?
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Saturday 16 Mar 2019
Jerry Hall explores the hedonistic lifestyle of one of counterculture's most dynamic and influential poets.
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Saturday 9 Mar 2019
We meet the women who helped iconic US singer songwriter Bob Dylan in his career and inspired some of his most famous songs.
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Saturday 2 Mar 2019
Ordinary Cubans reveal what their lives have really been like under Castro’s socialism and the hidden poetry of the humble broom.
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Saturday 23 Feb 2019
This week we take to the road with American foreign correspondent turned singer songwriter Doug Levitt.
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Saturday 16 Feb 2019
BBC 6 Music's Chris Hawkins listens to new music every day - and he's noticing a trend.
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Saturday 9 Feb 2019
We explore the roots of artistic inspiration diving into the minds of artists, first on the streets of Paris and then heading deep beneath the waves. Sarah Walker retraces the path French musician and composer Erik Satie walked each day across the city in order to earn a living playing cabaret music. She learns how it influenced his music.
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Saturday 2 Feb 2019
A sound-rich immersive journey along the mighty Congo River in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Saturday 26 Jan 2019
Celia Hatton traces how instant noodles, now 60 years old, went from a shed in Japan to global success with more than 100 billion serves consumed each year.
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