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The Good Wife
5 Episodes
Favourite ShowDrama starring Julianna Margulies as Alicia Florrick, a politician's wife who has to transform herself into a career woman when a scandal surrounding her husband turns her life upside down
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Google Baby
1 Episode
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
1 Episode
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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Big Snake
1 Episode
Favourite ShowThe prize: $50,000. The challenge: capture the world's largest snake, alive. Enter Robert Twigger - poet, martial artist and rap artist - who believes he's the man to do it. Shame he's scared of snakes...
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The Day I Will Never Forget
1 Episode
Favourite ShowMore 4 documentary assessing the acutely painful and highly dangerous practice of female circumcision, focusing on girls in Kenya
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The Nurture Room
1 Episode
Favourite ShowFilmed over a year, this documentary follows three troubled Glasgow schoolchildren on a journey to recapture their childhood
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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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Hell and Back Again
1 Episode
Favourite ShowDanfung Dennis paints an uncommonly intimate picture of the reality for soldiers involved in the Afghan conflict, both on the battlefield and in the unsettling normalcy of home
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When Boris Met Dave
1 Episode
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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Britain's Supreme Court
1 Episode
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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I Was Bin Laden's Bodyguard
1 Episode
Favourite ShowLaura Poitras' film tells how two men whose lives were caught up with Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden ended up taking very different paths after the invasion of Iraq
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After the Apocalypse
1 Episode
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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Faith School Menace?
1 Episode
Favourite ShowProfessor Richard Dawkins calls on us to reconsider the consequences of faith education, which, he believes, indoctrinates and divides children, and bamboozles parents
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The Lost Boys
1 Episode
Favourite ShowMoving, and occasionally very funny, documentary that follows the attempts of orphaned refugee boys from Sudan to relocate in the world's richest country - the USA
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Voices from the Killing Fields
1 Episode
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.
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Miliband of Brothers
1 Episode
Favourite ShowFrom the team behind More4's When Boris Met Dave comes this docudrama that tells the unlikely story of David Miliband and his younger brother Ed
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Todd Margaret
6 Episodes
Favourite ShowIn The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, the titular American bluffs his way into a great job opportunity, heading up sales in his employer's London office. All he has to do is sell several thousand energy drinks before the boss arrives...
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Road to Las Vegas
1 Episode
Favourite ShowJason Massot's moving film follows African American couple Vanessa and Maurice Melton as they leave Alaska for Las Vegas in search of their fortunes
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Dolphin Boy
1 Episode
Favourite ShowThe story of a young man suffering from severe post-traumatic stress disorder, and his last chance of recovery, using dolphin-assisted therapy
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The Invention of Dr Nakamats
1 Episode
Favourite ShowAn intriguing portrait of octogenarian Yoshiro Nakamatsu, who claims to hold over 3,000 patents, among them the floppy disc and the digital display on this computer
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Vic Reeves' Turner Prize Moments
1 Episode
Favourite ShowVic Reeves looks back at the controversy, shock and outrage of 20 years of Turner Prize coverage and assesses its impact on the British public's appetite for art
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White Tribe
3 Episodes
Favourite ShowDarcus Howe travels the length and breadth of the country to discover why the English don't seem to want to be English anymore
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The Battle for Barking
1 Episode
Favourite ShowLaura Fairrie's film records the battle between Labour's Margaret Hodge and BNP leader Nick Griffin in the London borough of Barking during this year's election
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John Le Carre: A Life Unmasked
1 Episode
Favourite ShowJohn le Carre speaks with unprecedented candour about his life, and about his career as both special agent and celebrated author
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Up in Smoke
1 Episode
Favourite ShowA British scientist is attempting to convince farmers and the authorities to adopt his revolutionary alternative to slash-and-burn farming
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When Britain Went to War
1 Episode
Favourite ShowThis documentary uses archive footage and the recollections of an eclectic mix of key players from both camps to revisit a crucial period in Britain's social history: the miner's strike of 1984
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The World Sheep Dog Trials
5 Episodes
Favourite ShowCoverage of the World Sheep Dog Trials 2011 where 26 nations and 240 of the world's greatest handlers and their dogs pit their wits against some of Britain's finest sheep
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The Queen of Persia
1 Episode
Favourite ShowIranian director Nahid Persson Sarvestani's very personal film compares and contrasts herself to another exile - Farah Diba, the late Shah of Iran's wife
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Vote Afghanistan!
1 Episode
Favourite ShowReporting from behind the scenes of the recent disputed Afghan elections, this documentary goes on the campaign trail with three of the main candidates
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The Laughing Club of India
1 Episode
Favourite ShowA look at the power of laughter, and the popularity of laughing clubs in contemporary Bombay - part of a movement that now has over 6000 clubs in 60 countries
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The TV Book Club
46 Episodes
Favourite ShowBooks, reviews, debates, author interviews and more from The TV Book Club
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The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
3 Series, 13 Episodes
Favourite ShowThe Royal Institution Christmas Lectures have been inspiring children and adults alike since 1825, with the express purpose of teaching science to young people
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The Sound of Mumbai: A Musical
1 Episode
Favourite ShowThe story of a Mumbai slum school choir who perform a concert at the city's prestigious National Centre for the Performing Arts