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COMING NEXT ON BBC FOUR
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UP FOR DEBATE - TEAM QATAR
BBC Four: Mon 11 May: 10pm-11.30pm
The stakes are high for Qatar's first national debate team as they prepare for the world championships and are initiated into the cut-throat world of high school debate.
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PREVIOUS STORYVILLES
Some of these may be available on BBC iPlayer
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THE JAZZ BARONESS
BBC Four: Sun 19 April
British baroness Pannonica Rothschild was born with everything, but one track by a man she had never met inspired her to leave and start a new life in America.
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JAPAN - A STORY OF LOVE AND HATE
BBC Four: Mon 30 March
Naoki had it all in Japan's bubble economy days, but lost everything when the economy crashed. He was saved by his new girlfriend Yoshie who juggles three jobs to support them both.
 Watch a clip from the film
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CAMPAIGN! - THE KAWASAKI CANDIDATE
BBC Four: Sun 22 March
Originally shown as part of Why Democracy? this film is being repeated as part of BBC Four's Japan season. It follows a candidate as he runs for a seat on the Japanese council.
More programmes in the Hidden Japan season
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HAMMER AND TICKLE
BBC Two: Monday 16 March
Ben Lewis tells the real history of Communism through the jokes told by ordinary people about the oppressive Communist regimes of the Soviet Union and its satellites.
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THE CHILDREN'S WARD
BBC Four: Monday 9 March
Not all casualties of war are combatants. This film looks at two children who are victims of conflict, both directly and indirectly, in Afghanistan and Sudan.
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ROBERT CAPA - IN LOVE AND WAR
BBC Four: Saturday 7 March
Robert Capa photographed five epic conflicts on three continents, all in the 40 short years of his life. This is a compelling insight into the life and loves of the iconic war photographer.
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BULLETPROOF SALESMAN
BBC Four: Monday 2 March
Fidelis Cloer is a self-confessed war profiteer. In a career spanning two decades of global turmoil, he has supplied presidents and dictators with the finest luxury armoured vehicles money can buy.
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GODS OF BRAZIL
BBC Four: Tuesday 24 February
Pele and Garrincha are both footballing legends in Brazil. Using archive footage, Gods of Brazil tells the story of how one of them became a legend and the other saw success slip away.
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BARCA - THE INSIDE STORY
BBC Four: Monday 23 February
A study of Barcelona Football Club from the inside, as a new management team try to claw the club out of debt and towards glory during their turbulent 2003/04 season.
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MARADONA - IN THE HANDS OF THE GODS
BBC Four: Monday 23 February
Five young British freestyle footballers undertake a journey from London to Argentina in the hope of fulfilling a lifelong dream - to meet their hero, Diego Maradona.
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SOLITARY ENDEAVOUR ON THE SOUTHERN OCEAN
BBC Two: Sunday 22 February
The extraordinary journey of a man who refused to be ordinary: this story charts the fatal attempt of Andrew McAuley to cross from Australia to New Zealand in a kayak.
Read about the voyages on Andrew's website
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STANDING IN THE SHADOWS OF MOTOWN
BBC Four: Friday 20 February
This film tells the story of the Funk Brothers, the Motown musicians who were behind more number one hits than the Beach Boys, the Rolling Stones, Elvis and The Beatles combined.
 Martin Freeman meets the Funk Brothers
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GHOSTS OF THE 7TH CAVALRY
BBC Four: Monday 16 February
Award-winning director Tom Roberts explores the profound human consequences of America's frontier wars through the personal journey of Robert 'Snuffy' Gray, a retired US Major.
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HOW VIETNAM WAS LOST
BBC Four: Monday 16 February
Based on They Marched into Sunlight, a book by David Maraniss, this film tells the story of two seemingly unconnected events in October 1967 that changed the course of the Vietnam War.
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PROSTITUTION BEHIND THE VEIL
BBC Four: Saturday 14 February
Director Nahid Persson follows the lives of two Iranian women who, faced with desperate circumstances, resort to prostitution to support both their children and their heroin habits.
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