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The Search for Cool
1 Episode
Favourite ShowThe Search For Cool is an irreverent and exhaustive journey to get behind the extraordinary science of cool - and what it is, what it means and how to find it, bottle it and even sell it
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Strictly Lady Sumo
1 Episode
Favourite ShowA group of British women undertake the extraordinary challenge of learning the ancient art of Sumo in time to compete at the World Championships in Japan
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Tower Block of Commons
4 Episodes
Favourite ShowPoliticians swap their comfortable homes and move into council estates across the country, encountering first-hand the reality of residents' lives
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The Homecoming
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Favourite ShowIn this Cutting Edge film, journalist Rachel Roberts goes in search of the people with whom she once shared a children's home, with only a photo and childhood memories to help her
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Wild Things
1 Episode
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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How to Snare a Millionaire
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Favourite ShowEssex girl Rebecca Arnold is 28, single and broke, and has never had a long-term relationship. She sets out to find a man, and a rich one at that, in this light-hearted First Cut.
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Jackpots and Jinxes: Lottery Stories
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Favourite ShowCutting Edge tells the story of a number of lottery winners and the moment their lives were suddenly turned upside down, revealing their extraordinary experiences
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The Rules of Seduction
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Favourite ShowFirst Cut journeys into the hidden world of pick-up artists or 'PUA' - a community of men who've developed a sequence of tricks, codes and routines that they claim men can use to seduce any woman
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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 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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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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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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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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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.