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Arrows' female pilot
Red Arrows gets first female pilot
The Red Arrows' 2010 line-up includes a female pilot, a first in the history of the display team. Watch Flight Lieutenant Kirsty Moore as she talks about her new job with the famous Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team.
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End of landlines?
Are landline phones checking out?
Civil Service workers are getting a two-day taste of life without fixed-line phones. In the US, one in five homes is without a landline as more people cut the cord during the recession. Is the end in sight for landline phones?
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Watch: Steve Martin
Funny man on a banjo
Steve Martin's hidden talent
Comedian Steve Martin is best known for making people laugh. But for 40 years he's nurtured another talent, which he showed off to Jools Holland this week. Click to find out more about Steve Martin, banjo man.
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When Mervyn King does cautious optimism, you can keep the emphasis on cautious. The Bank's new forecast for the economy is rather more upbeat than it was in August, and to judge by the "backcast" for GDP, it expects some...
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Cows have 60 chromosomes - 14 more than humans.
As she lay there dozing next to me, one voice inside my head kept saying, "Relax... you are not the first doctor to sleep with one of his patients," but another kept reminding me, "Howard, you are a veterinarian." DICK WILSON
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The Chris Moyles Show
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BBC Radio 1's Chart S
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08/11/2009 - Sugababes & JLS
Reggie counts down the official Top 40 with JLS and the Sugababes in the studio.
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The Chris Moyles Show
Thursday - with friend-of-the-show Jon Culshaw!
With the award-winning Chris Moyles, unless it's Jon Culshaw impersonating him.
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Annie Mac 06/11/2009 Annie Mac provides a Mini Mix from the Swedish House Mafia.
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Zane Lowe 11/11/2009 Featuring another session from the BBC's Maida Vale studios.
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The Radcliffe & Macon ... 11/11/2009 Mark and Stuart have live music from Nerina Pallot.
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Bob Dylan - Christmas in the Heart
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Good Night, and Good ...
Drama set in 1950s America. A TV reporter takes a stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy.
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Passing of a Generati
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Highlights of the service to honour the passing of the World War One generation.
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Art Deco Icons
The Orient Express
David Heathcote takes a trip on the Orient Express and enjoys its Art Deco glamour.
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Andrew Marr's The Mak ... The Great War Britain gets its first taste of total war, which transformed the lives of millions.
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Jimmy's Food Factory Preserving Jimmy tries to copy some of the methods that food companies use to preserve food.
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Brought up by Booze A Children in Need Special Calum Best travels the UK meeting children who are growing up with alcoholic parents.
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Series 4: Episode 6
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1918: Austria declares itself a republic, rejecting the Habsburg dynasty that had dominated Europe since 1267.
1944: The last great German battleship, 'Tirpitz', is sunk by RAF bombers in Tromso fjord, Norway.
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