Seriously... Podcast
Seriously is home to the world’s best audio documentaries and podcast recommendations. Introduced by Vanessa Kisuule. This feed is no longer being updated. Thanks for listening.
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Introducing Illuminated
Fri 2 Aug 2024
A preview of Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4’s new home for creative and surprising one-off documentaries.
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Stealing Power
Tue 30 Jul 2024
Meter tampering is dangerous and illegal yet reports of it are rising at an alarming rate.
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The Club Nobody Wants to Join
Tue 23 Jul 2024
The American principals dealing with shootings in the hallways of their school.
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Searching for Butterflies
Fri 19 Jul 2024
As spring arrives in Syria, Mudar Salimeh searches for butterflies.
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Stoppage Time for Scunthorpe
Fri 5 Jul 2024
The inside story of a football club on the brink of extinction.
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The City That Stayed at Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ
Fri 28 Jun 2024
Alex Forsyth investigates the reasons for Hull's historically low election day turnouts.
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Living Without My Smartphone
Tue 25 Jun 2024
Reflections from a group of teenagers who give up their smartphones for the school week.
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The Beauty of Everyday Things
Fri 21 Jun 2024
Poet Ian McMillan explores the beauty of everyday things, places and encounters.
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Conflict on Campus
Tue 18 Jun 2024
How the Israel-Gaza war is affecting one student community in Leeds.
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Broken Politicians, Broken Politics
Tue 4 Jun 2024
With personal testimonies from across Parliament we ask, is British politics broken?
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Night Train
Fri 17 May 2024
Horatio Clare discovers how night trains take our imaginations to new destinations.
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True Crime 1599
Tue 14 May 2024
Charles Nicholl explores the first wave of true crime dramas on the English stage.
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Haiti - Descent Into Anarchy
Tue 7 May 2024
Mike Thomson looks at Haiti's long descent into anarchy.
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A Dentist's Life
Fri 3 May 2024
How one community dentist is navigating the biggest crisis in dentistry in a generation.
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Counterfeit Characters
Fri 26 Apr 2024
What do AI and digital technology mean for actors and their relationship with audiences?
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Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Fires
Tue 23 Apr 2024
Writer Richard King explores the past and present of the second homes debate in Wales.
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Mila’s Legacy
Tue 16 Apr 2024
One mother’s efforts to save her child could start a revolution in personalised medicine.
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Protein: Powerhouse or Piffle?
Fri 12 Apr 2024
Protein is having a moment in the spotlight. Should you be worried about getting enough?
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Rwanda Thirty Years On
Tue 9 Apr 2024
Rwanda's journey towards healing and reconciliation after the 1994 genocide.
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Dehumidified
Fri 5 Apr 2024
One baffling online scam – involving a £138 dehumidifier – and a wild journey to return it
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Do We Still Need the Pips?
Tue 2 Apr 2024
After 100 years of GTS on the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ, Paddy O'Connell asks Do We Still Need the Pips?
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Wokewash - Episode 1
Fri 29 Mar 2024
Satirist Heydon Prowse takes looks at big corporates and LGBTQ+ rights.
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The War the World Forgot
Tue 19 Mar 2024
Sudan's latest civil war is devastating, so why aren't we hearing more about it?
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Farmers and Furious
Fri 15 Mar 2024
With farmers protesting across the UK, is the agricultural industry is at breaking point?
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Decolonising Russia
Tue 12 Mar 2024
Inside the new, vital global debate about how to curb Russia's 'imperial' ambitions.
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How to Build an Oil Field
Fri 8 Mar 2024
Scotland's Rosebank oil field development and our relationship with oil.
Nazanin and the mystery of a decades old tank debt
Has an old tank debt with Iran cost Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe her freedom?
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