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Greg Jenner is joined in 17th-century France by Dr Jonathan Spangler and comedian Tom Allen to learn all about Philippe, Duc d’Orléans, Louis XIV’s younger brother.

Evan Davis gets inside access to the UK’s ambitious new science and technology innovation agency ARIA.

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David Mitchell invites Holly Walsh, Henning Wehn, Zoe Lyons and Tony Hawks to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as sugar, saints, spiders and heavy metal.

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