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  1. Jon Ronson On… Worst Internet Date

    Journalist Jon Ronson investigates the extraordinary story of Mary Turner Thompson, who experienced the worst internet date ever which lasted seven years and was to cause the total devastation of her life.

    Edinburgh-based Mary met and married a man who told her he was a CIA agent. Jon visits her in Scotland and hears the incredible twisting and turning love story of Will and Mary. Will carried a gun and had to dash off to Israel at a moment’s notice; Mary was left holding the baby, never knowing when he would come back, and was unable to contact him. She even feared a terrorist attack on her home. But the most bizarre twist was still to come.

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  2. Jon Ronson On… When Small Talk Goes Wrong

    Jon Ronson talks to Denis Fillion, who was behind one of the first major internet hoaxes.

    Denis used to post threads and make small talk on a technical forum called Anandtech. Irritated by the misogyny he found on the site, he invented a female character to join in the chat. Soon he found himself flirting with his own character and weaving a tale so believable that the character took on an air of reality, even for him. As the relationship deepened, Denis was forced to take drastic action to get out of his own hoax.

    With additional contributions from comedian Josie Long and Charlie Brooker.

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  3. Reith Lectures Archive: 1996 2. A Web Of Deceit

    rofessor Jean Aitchison delivers her second Reith Lecture from her series entitled ‘The Language Web’. She examines the origin of language in the human species and explains how a fresh look at the role of language has led to new ideas about how it started.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/rla76/all

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  4. Reith Lectures Archive: 1996 1. A Web Of Worries

    Professor Jean Aitchison delivers her first Reith Lecture from her series entitled ‘The Language Web’. She explores whether our language really is in decay and argues that we need to understand language, not try to control it.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/rla76/all

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  5. Reith Lectures Archive: 1996 3. Building the Web

    Professor Jean Aitchison delivers her third Reith Lecture from her series entitled ‘The Language Web’. She examines the predictable way in which the language web develops in children and how adults can help, and sometimes slow down, a child’s progress.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/rla76/all

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  6. Reith Lectures Archive: 1996 5. The World Wide Web

    Professor Jean Aitchison delivers her fifth and final Reith Lecture from her series entitled ‘The Language Web’. She looks at the possibilities and the pitfalls of the way we use language, and how it can shape as well as distort our view of the world.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/rla76/all

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  7. Reith Lectures Archive: 1996 4. A Web Of Words

    Professor Jean Aitchison delivers her fourth Reith Lecture from her series entitled ‘The Language Web’. She examines the word-learning ability inbuilt in humans, and explains how we manage to recall words at speed when we need them.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/rla76/all

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  8. Jon Ronson On… Spying

    Writer and documentary maker Jon Ronson returns for another series of fascinating stories shedding light on the human condition.

    Jon Ronson talks to comedian Josie Long who found herself in a situation where she had to make a choice on whether to spy on someone’s life… did morality step in? Writer Danny Wallace recalls the days when a spy was sent to his home to spy on his father, a leading expert on East German literature.

    Johnny Howorth, rookie documentary maker, was also in a situation where he was asked by US Marshals to spy on the couple Ed and Elaine Brown who were convicted of tax crimes. As he naively got more deeply involved, he feared another Wako and had to make a difficult decision… John Symonds, a so-called ‘romeo spy’ also tells his sometimes shocking story.

    Producers: Laura Parfitt and Simon Jacobs An Unique production for BBC Radio 4.

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  9. Yuri Gagarin — space flight anniversary on BBC Discovery

    Yuri Gagarin was the first spaceman. This week’s special is an hour long special on that epic mission 50 years ago.

    Each week, Discovery takes an in-depth look at the most significant ideas, discoveries and trends in science, from the smallest microbe to the furthest corner of space.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/discovery

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  10. The Story of Economics ‘Monsters’

    In this three-part series Michael Blastland lays out the history of economic ideas to understand why economics goes wrong and whether it can ever go entirely right. In the third and final programme, ‘Monsters’, Michael investigates another view of economics: that it is the story of people, how they think and behave.

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