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6 Minute English
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Learn and practise useful English with clips from programmes around the BBC. Each week, we talk about an interesting topic and learn helpful words and phrases used in natural spoken English - all in 6 minutes! Practise your listening and hear natural spoken English. Find more at https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish…
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What should you eat for a better night’s sleep?
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Why has gold got so expensive?
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Are people drinking less alcohol?
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Why does heartbreak hurt so much?
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Why do we itch?
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Is rejection good for us?
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Can apps teach you a language?
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Climate change and extreme weather
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How do we describe smells?
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Sharing the road with driverless cars
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Who does the housework?
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How do climate scientists make predictions?
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The Enhanced Games
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Children in warzones
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What's in a footballer's brain?
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Should we cycle more?
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Rude emails
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Stress-free family meals
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Limiting screen time for children
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How advertisers make us spend money
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The power of poetry
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Living with debt
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Making cities feel quieter
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How reading shapes your brain
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Searching for life on another planet
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Should we eat ultra-processed food?
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Why are we all so stressed?
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Love the foods you hate
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The future of food
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Are saunas good for you?
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Weight loss drugs
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How do we adapt to the cold?
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Should we pay more for chocolate?
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Why are some animals black and white?
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The power of pepper
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Dreaming of being a chef
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Artistic swimming
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Rethinking dyslexia
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Why are billionaires building bunkers?
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Scared to speak English?
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What English phrases really mean
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Is social media dead?
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Is it OK to disagree?
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Was Christmas better in the past?
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Finding and eating wild food
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How are horses helping to heal humans?
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What’s your favourite flavour of crisp?
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How are influencers affecting politics?
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Do you have good dining etiquette?
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How important is play?
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Do you like garlic?
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Is breakfast the most important meal of the day?
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Did a civilisation exist on Earth before humans?
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Are we too fixated on protein?
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What makes a good citizen?
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Have you ever seen a whale?
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The criminal trade in ancient objects
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Would you like a robot companion?
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What causes hearing loss?
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The joys of writing lists
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What's it like to be a twin?
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What's your favourite snack?
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Grown-ups buying kids’ toys
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Are you flourishing?
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What is the manosphere?
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What is degrowth?
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How can we help wild bees?
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Do you need to declutter your home?
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How do you say sorry?
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Are plant-based substitutes healthier than meat?
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How do babies communicate?
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Can climate change affect our mental health?
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How important is politeness?
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What's your favourite kind of noodle?
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Foods that go crunch
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Which cooking oil is the best?
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Should animals be kept in zoos?
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Can cows prevent wildfires?
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How climate change affects animal migration
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Can AI solve crime?
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Learning multiple languages
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Are we getting more allergic to things?
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Can we boost the immune system?
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Healthy meals on a budget
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Should we eat less rice?
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The country that measures happiness
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A vaccine for cancer
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Young women on social media
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Rage bait: How online anger makes money
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Why smells make us feel at home
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Becoming a musician
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How the world learned to love fast food
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Which country has the best schools?
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Eating 50-year-old stew
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Are you drinking enough water?
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Embarrassed to go to the doctor?
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Call centres: Are you talking to AI?
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Making 'mum friends'
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Can you trust ancestry DNA kits?
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How babies learn to talk
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The secrets to a healthy old age
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The bond between sisters
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Having acne
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Why you need a good night's sleep
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Divorce: Why does it happen?
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Tech that refuses to die
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Did Taylor Swift fans cause an earthquake?
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What decides our taste?
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Learning a new food culture
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Saving water in the driest place on Earth
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Keeping kids off smartphones
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Less salt, better health
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Meet a real Willy Wonka
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Why we love dumplings
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Kids and climate change
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Birthday cakes
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The science of falling in love
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Why read books, not screens?
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AI to reduce animal testing
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The school that puts the kids in charge
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What can we learn from toddlers?
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How learning to read changes lives
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Building a better world with wood?
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How names can tell painful stories
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Too old to have a baby?
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E-rickshaws driving away pollution
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How bubble tea got its bubbles
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Can you keep a secret?
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Bitter food, better health?
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Talking at the table
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Eating for two
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Dancing for the brain
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Nudges: The secrets of persuasion
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Why sitting is bad for health
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Why everyone loves the underdog
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Disability in music and theatre
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What makes a great library?
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Sewing to fight period poverty
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Plastic waste eaten by enzymes
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Feed your brain
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Food for new mums
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Fighting loneliness with soup
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What is the future of work?
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How the language of menus matters
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The psychology of greed
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Addicted to sugar
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Our love of pets
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Sexism: Female farmers fighting back
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Learning lessons from the Moon
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Could we live without plastic?
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Invasive species: Why don't we eat them?
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What and where is Little Italy?
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Social media and teenage health
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Mystery flying objects
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Elephant-proof farming
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Should we farm octopus?
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Ways to live for 100 years
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How green is your money?
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Mushrooms: Medicine or myth?
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Saving dead languages
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Sounds that make you want to scream
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How fans talk about their passions
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Making male friends
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Space-saving solar hacks
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The stories behind our names
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Heatwaves - can we adapt?
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Are you unhappy at work?
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Do you have eco-anxiety?
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Can we stop natural disasters?
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The right way to say sorry
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Could you live on wild food?
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Plants fighting pollution
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Should we fear chatbots?
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Is it wrong to eat plants?
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Sonic seasoning
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The benefits of doing nothing
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The art of subtitling
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Ecotourism: good or bad?
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Can climate change cause more disease?
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Food shortages
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Addicted to war
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Ice and the origins of life on Earth
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Women in politics
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What's the point of museums?
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How culture affects sadness
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Would you eat a Kalette?
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Do you get jealous easily?
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Are you lonely in a crowd?
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Food and mood
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How to talk to a climate denier
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Losing your mother tongue
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The health benefits of apples
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Why do we procrastinate?
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Doomscrolling: Why do we do it?
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Exercise for The Lazy
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Can AI have a mind of its own?
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Climate change: Are there too many people?
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The hidden life of buffets
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Songwriting
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United against food waste
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3D printers
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Are opinion polls accurate?
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Deep-sea mining: Good or bad for the planet?
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Can music mend a broken heart?
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The art of conversation
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Qatar's World Cup workers
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Controlling the weather
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Meet the flavourists
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Are Halloween costumes too scary?
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Does climate change make you anxious?
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Translating recipes
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Are artistic brains different?
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Why are prices going up?
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English for dating online
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Man vs beast: Who is more efficient?
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Are you following your dreams?
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Do emojis make language better?
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Being a beauty influencer
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Women in the workplace
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Connecting remote communities
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How pandemics end
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Confused by modern idioms?
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Which are more dangerous: Sharks or humans?
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Climate change and evolution
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Preserving traditional recipes
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Restoring trust in science
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The Manhattan Project
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Island life: Is it paradise?
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The technology of translation
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What is the Platinum Jubilee?
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People who can taste words
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Finding your way in space
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Can VR treat fears and phobias?
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Life in the modern office
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Remembering Desmond Tutu
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Discoveries of the Deep Sea
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Rhetoric: How persuasive are you?
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Britain's love affair with coffee
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Optimists vs Pessimists
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The world of Agatha Christie
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Mars: Mysteries of the Red Planet
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Why laughter is the best medicine
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Is being kind good for you?
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Eating bugs
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The benefits of boredom
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Sleepy in South Korea
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Sleepy in South Korea
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Preparing for the Beijing Winter Olympics
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Are personalised diets the best way to be healthy?
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Inventing languages
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Welcome to the 'metaverse'
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Do trees have memories?
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Algorithms
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Changing the Earth's climate
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Body language online
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The Human Library: Life as an open book
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How green is nuclear energy?
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Why we forget the things we learn
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Why is Super Mario so popular?
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Should fast food sponsor sport?
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Grime: Music from architecture
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Where do your tips go?
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Angela Merkel
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Smart tech and climate change
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Going through the menopause
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Bitcoin's energy cost
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I love my language!
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Why are people collecting NFTs?
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Robot Artists
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Bats: Friend or foe?
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Is the planet warming up faster?
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Is technology harmful to youngsters?
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Is chimp politics like ours?
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Making sense of the census
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The fear of numbers
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A future without doctors?
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Lights! Camera! Kiss! - Intimacy on screen
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Head injury in sport
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Inside the head of Jeff Bezos
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The history of swimming
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Are humans a messy species?
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The loneliest man in history
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How colour affects us
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Flexible working
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Hypnotism
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Saving the white rhinos
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Making old things last longer
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Building rapport with others
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Food superstitions
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The Rosetta Stone
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Compassion fatigue
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Hermits
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When males are not needed
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Mermaids
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A quieter world
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US and China vs climate change
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Naked in nature
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The language of biscuits
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Is English really English?
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Astronauts on strike?
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