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  1. A Bipolar Expedition

    A Bipolar Expedition

    1 Episode

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    Paul 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

  2. After the Apocalypse

    After the Apocalypse

    1 Episode

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    The story of the people of Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, who were used as guinea pigs in the Soviet Union's testing of nuclear weapons

  3. The Ancient World with Bettany Hughes

    The Ancient World with Bettany Hughes

    5 Episodes

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    A new film about Alexandria provides the centrepiece of Bettany Hughes' definitive history of the ancient world and classical civilisation

  4. The Battle for Barking

    The Battle for Barking

    1 Episode

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    Laura 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

  5. Big Snake

    Big Snake

    1 Episode

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    The 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...

  6. Britain's Supreme Court

    Britain's Supreme Court

    1 Episode

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    True 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

  7. The Day I Will Never Forget

    The Day I Will Never Forget

    1 Episode

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    More 4 documentary assessing the acutely painful and highly dangerous practice of female circumcision, focusing on girls in Kenya

  8. True Stories: Dolphin Boy

    Dolphin Boy

    1 Episode

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    The story of a young man suffering from severe post-traumatic stress disorder, and his last chance of recovery, using dolphin-assisted therapy

  9. Faith School Menace?

    Faith School Menace?

    1 Episode

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    Professor Richard Dawkins calls on us to reconsider the consequences of faith education, which, he believes, indoctrinates and divides children, and bamboozles parents

  10. Julianna Margulies

    The Good Wife

    5 Episodes

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    Drama 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

  11. Google Baby

    Google Baby

    1 Episode

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    An 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?

  12. Hell and Back Again

    Hell and Back Again

    1 Episode

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    Danfung 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

  13. I Was Bin Laden's Bodyguard

    I Was Bin Laden's Bodyguard

    1 Episode

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    Laura 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

  14. The Invention of Dr Nakamats

    The Invention of Dr Nakamats

    1 Episode

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    An 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

  15. John Le Carre: A Life Unmasked

    John Le Carre: A Life Unmasked

    1 Episode

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    John le Carre speaks with unprecedented candour about his life, and about his career as both special agent and celebrated author

  16. The Laughing Club of India

    The Laughing Club of India

    1 Episode

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    A 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

  17. The Lost Boys

    The Lost Boys

    1 Episode

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    Moving, 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

  18. Miliband of Brothers

    Miliband of Brothers

    1 Episode

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    From 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

  19. The Nurture Room

    The Nurture Room

    1 Episode

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    Filmed over a year, this documentary follows three troubled Glasgow schoolchildren on a journey to recapture their childhood

  20. The Queen of Persia

    The Queen of Persia

    1 Episode

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    Iranian director Nahid Persson Sarvestani's very personal film compares and contrasts herself to another exile - Farah Diba, the late Shah of Iran's wife

  21. Road to Las Vegas

    Road to Las Vegas

    1 Episode

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    Jason Massot's moving film follows African American couple Vanessa and Maurice Melton as they leave Alaska for Las Vegas in search of their fortunes

  22. The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

    The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

    3 Series, 13 Episodes

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    The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures have been inspiring children and adults alike since 1825, with the express purpose of teaching science to young people

  23. The Sound of Mumbai: A Musical

    The Sound of Mumbai: A Musical

    1 Episode

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    The story of a Mumbai slum school choir who perform a concert at the city's prestigious National Centre for the Performing Arts

  24. The TV Book Club: Dave Spikey

    The TV Book Club

    46 Episodes

    Favourite Show

    Books, reviews, debates, author interviews and more from The TV Book Club

  25. David Cross as Todd Margaret

    Todd Margaret

    6 Episodes

    Favourite Show

    In 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...

  26. Up in Smoke

    Up in Smoke

    1 Episode

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    A British scientist is attempting to convince farmers and the authorities to adopt his revolutionary alternative to slash-and-burn farming

  27. Vic Reeves' Turner Prize Moments

    Vic Reeves' Turner Prize Moments

    1 Episode

    Favourite Show

    Vic 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

  28. Enemies of the People

    Voices from the Killing Fields

    1 Episode

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    The 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.

  29. Vote Afghanistan

    Vote Afghanistan!

    1 Episode

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    Reporting from behind the scenes of the recent disputed Afghan elections, this documentary goes on the campaign trail with three of the main candidates

  30. When Boris Met Dave

    When Boris Met Dave

    1 Episode

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    An 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

  31. When Britain Went to War

    When Britain Went to War

    1 Episode

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    This 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

  32. White Tribe

    White Tribe

    3 Episodes

    Favourite Show

    Darcus Howe travels the length and breadth of the country to discover why the English don't seem to want to be English anymore

  33. The World Sheep Dog Trials: Collie

    The World Sheep Dog Trials

    5 Episodes

    Favourite Show

    Coverage 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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