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Transplanting Memories
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Favourite ShowThis insightful documentary considers whether it is possible that, in receiving a transplanted organ, a patient could inherit some of their donor's memories and tastes as well
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The Bed
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Favourite ShowToby Paton's First Cut film, written and narrated by performance poet Luke Wright, tells the story of life in a busy hospital from the perspective of the Accident and Emergency trolley
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Teen Undertaker
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Favourite ShowFirst Cut meets two teenagers each striving to balance an ordinary teenage life with their shared dream: to work as undertakers
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Random
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Favourite ShowA touching and profound story that follows, over the course of a single day, an ordinary family's routine shattered by a random act
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One Under
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Favourite ShowFirst Cut examines the impact of suicide on the underground. Tube drivers give poignant and moving first-hand accounts of their experiences of what they know as a 'one under'.
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Wild Things
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Favourite ShowIn the early 1970s, a group of idealistic young adults chose to raise their children collectively. So what happened next? This intriguing documentary goes in search of the grown-up Wild kids.
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Drugs: The Lowdown on Getting High
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Favourite ShowThis documentary talks openly, through five young people, about the realities of drug taking
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Katie: My Beautiful Face
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Favourite ShowKatie was young and beautiful, but a vicious acid attack destroyed her face. Cutting Edge follows Katie as she tries to re-build her life.
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Google Baby
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Favourite ShowAn Israeli entrepreneur is proposing a new service: pregnancy producing. His customers can select sperm and eggs online, with surrogacy outsourced to India. But what are the ethical and moral implications?
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A Bipolar Expedition
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Favourite ShowPaul Downes, a successful businessman with bipolar disorder, invites 12 Ukrainian women to join him at a castle in Jamaica, hoping that one of them can be persuaded to marry him
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The Ancient World with Bettany Hughes
5 Episodes
Favourite ShowA new film about Alexandria provides the centrepiece of Bettany Hughes' definitive history of the ancient world and classical civilisation
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The Nurture Room
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Favourite ShowFilmed over a year, this documentary follows three troubled Glasgow schoolchildren on a journey to recapture their childhood
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When Boris Met Dave
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Favourite ShowAn exploration of the shared past at Eton and Oxford of the two most powerful Conservative politicians in Britain: London Mayor Boris Johnson and party leader David Cameron
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After the Apocalypse
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Favourite ShowThe story of the people of Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, who were used as guinea pigs in the Soviet Union's testing of nuclear weapons
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Britain's Supreme Court
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Favourite ShowTrue Stories goes behind the scenes of Britain's new Supreme Court, where the country's top judges hear high-profile cases that will shape the nature of our society
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Voices from the Killing Fields
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Favourite ShowThe Khmer Rouge slaughtered nearly two million people in the late 1970s. Yet the Killing Fields of Cambodia remain unexplained. Investigative journalist Thet Sambath records shocking testimonies, from the foot soldiers to Pol Pot's right-hand man.
