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  1. Greg James loves radio so much, he made a comedy about it!

    Is the Radio 1 DJ’s new show Dead Air a case of life imitating art? Well, he does love a good radio jingle…

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  2. Raymond Blanc's Kitchen Secrets

    There's a kitchen in a manor house on the edge of a village called Great Milton that has been my home for much of the last two years. If you saw the last series of Raymond Blanc's Kitchen Secrets, it's the little bit of heaven where we film most of the show and where we've been lucky enough ...

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  3. Wanted: A Very Personal Assistant – ‘We felt like long lost friends!’

    Tattoos, partying and crude comedy: meet the new, younger generation of carers

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  4. Q&A with Susan Jebb: What's The Right Diet For You?

    Professor Susan Jebb is a nutrition scientist and answers questions about the right diet for you in a live Q&A.

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  5. Operation Grand Canyon With Dan Snow: A geologist's record

    'Riding of the waves, frantic rowing and adrenalin.' Dougal Jerram shares the thrills of the rapids and the rocks in his expedition diary.

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  6. Everything you need to know about Claudia Jessie – the new woman on the beat in WPC 56

    The Birmingham-based 1950s police drama is back, and a new woman has picked up Gina Dawson's badge. But what can we expect from WPC Annie Taylor?

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  7. Death in Paradise: I can't repeat the French phrases I taught Kris Marshall

    Actress Joséphine Jobert on mastering her first English-speaking role, and why everyone is fascinated with rude foreign phrases

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  8. Pramface: Playing the pregnant teenager

    Pramface centres around two unlikely teenagers who are thrown together after a night of post A-level partying. I play Laura Derbyshire, the very unlucky pregnant 18-year-old by the even unluckier 16-year-old Jamie Prince. Both them and their families are forced kicking and screaming into...

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  9. Holy Flying Circus: Making a drama of Monty Python

    "I suppose the challenge with Jones The Wife was to try and create something sweet, something truthful, then stick some fake boobs on it and see if the audience still bought it."

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  10. Peter Jones Meets: The UK's top entrepreneurs

    Peter Jones shares his experience of the different styles and common traits that underpin some of the nation's most successful entrepreneurs.

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  11. Me And Mrs Jones: Do I go for Tom or Billy?

    Fran said I should be thrilled about a date with the school's do-able Dad. I mean, the last date I went on was... well it was with... it can't be... God, it was with my ex-husband!

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  12. Don’t tell me I can’t do something because I am deaf!

    As a researcher and presenter on See Hear, Erika Jones presents hard-hitting current affairs news and chases interviews with tenacity - why should not hearing change that?

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  13. Murder: Who are they all talking to?

    You can't ignore a character when they're looking right at you. Writer Robert Jones explores the drama's direct and demanding format.

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  14. The One Show: The nerves are building after a whirlwind few weeks

    I'll be honest with you, The One Show has been a whirlwind because I've only known for three weeks that I've had the job and everything has happened in the space of about four and a half weeks. I feel like I've been in some sort of film - I got the call and literally within hours my whole li...

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  15. Earth's Natural Wonders: The village where collecting honey is life and death

    People in the Sundarban forest harvest honey in the mangroves to survive - but risk tiger attacks

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  16. Turn Back Time: Researching your High Street through the ages

    How do you think the British high street has changed over the last 150 years? In an era of online shopping and out-of-town retail centres, what skills, services and trades have disappeared from our high streets? Do we have a chance to bring back to life what we have now lost? These were questi...

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  17. 25 years strong: the idea that defined Casualty

    We met at Bristol University, in 1979, where we were both studying drama. We then went on to work together in the theatre, when Paul directed Jeremy's play In Times Like These for the Bristol Old Vic. Both of us had spent time in hospital - Jeremy after illness and Paul after an accident...

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  18. Upstairs Downstairs: I design the sets

    I was standing on a rooftop in central London on the last day of filming a crucial scene for Sherlock when I got a call offering me the role of production designer on the new series of Upstairs Downstairs BUT - I had to start the following day! This was my introduction to the rollercoaster ri...

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