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Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Derek Boden. Show more
Rural news. New figures show a 20 per cent decline in the grey partridge in a year - even though it's red-listed. Anna Hill asks if it should still be legal to shoot the game bird. Show more
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Morning news and current affairs, with Justin Webb and Sarah Montague. Featuring Michael Gove's defence of the Academies Bill, and Diana Athill's care home diary. Show more
Writer Peter Hitchens returns to Portsmouth, whose naval tradition left a deep impression on him. This was also where his long squabble with his brother, Christopher, took root. Show more
Alan meets The Merseybeats, contemporaries of Alan's band The Area who achieved everything Alan dreamed of, and who 45 years later are still touring with the same hits. Show more
Presented by Jane Garvey: Are you being served? The history and role of department stores, living where you grow up, Iranian hostage mother and music from The Unthanks. Show more
Vic starts a new job managing the record shop. Since he no longer sees Ingrid every day at work, things simmer down between them and for months he doesn't see her until she visits. Show more
10,000 families have been recruited in the biggest health survey of its kind. This is reaching a crucial milestone for insights into diabetes, obesity and genetic conditions. Show more
Pip and Harry must build an entire railway network. Mark Evans's Dickensian spoof stars Richard Johnson. From August 2008. Show more
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National and international news with Martha Kearney.
Nigel Rees chairs the quotations quiz with Julia Hartley-Brewer, AL Kennedy, Patrick Barlow and Max Hastings. From July 2010.
There's an irate customer in the The Bull and Pip mucks in with the Young Farmers. Show more
4 Extra Debut. The near future. The bee is extinct. Can a controversial technology provide a solution for farmer Sam Clark? Stars Tony Bell. Show more
Professor Steven Fielding talks to Alastair Campbell, David Hare and others to assess how New Labour has been portrayed on stage and screen. Show more
4 Extra Debut. Drunkenness 'is not one sin, but all sins', said a preacher in 1624. Mark Whitaker looks at a royal campaign against drink. From July 2010. Show more
Sheila Dillon takes a culinary food walk in Belfast, where peace and a handful of trailblazing chefs, have sparked a revolution in the city's restaurant and food culture. Show more
Exploring the place of faith in a complex world, Ernie Rea and a panel of guests discuss the role and place of women as religious leaders. Show more
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Jack Dee chairs the perennial antidote to panel games. Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined by David Mitchell at the Cambridge Corn Exchange. Show more
The game's afoot for Lynda, and will Edana triumph at the show? Show more
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Earth, Wind and Fire reflect on their career which now spans four decades, plus a report from Milton Keynes International Festival. Show more
Vic starts a new job managing the record shop. Since he no longer sees Ingrid every day at work, things simmer down between them and for months he doesn't see her until she visits. Show more
Despite enormous advances in gay rights, Jane Hill discovers that institutional homophobia is making some dread the prospect of old age residential care. Show more
Billions of dollars were pledged to help Haiti. Mark Doyle asks what has been happening on the ground. Who is making the decisions and will the aid really transform the country? Show more
Quentin Cooper with the latest from the BP oil spill, the L'Aquila earthquake blame game and the MP behind the Parliamentary Group for Life Sciences. Show more
Writer Peter Hitchens returns to Portsmouth, whose naval tradition left a deep impression on him. This was also where his long squabble with his brother, Christopher, took root. Show more
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National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah. Show more
Concetta's sisters have gone to celebrate carnuale in a neighbouring village. But now heavily pregnant, she has had to stay behind. Show more
Dominic Arkwright, Arabella Weir, Deborah Orr and Oliver James discuss the demands of motherhood and paid work. From July 2010. Show more
Sean Curran and the BBC's parliamentary team report as MPs hold their first debate on the Government's plans to allow all schools in England and Wales to become academies. Show more
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4 Extra Debut. Adopted in the 1960s, poet and novelist Jackie Kay traces her biological parents from Scotland to Nigeria. Read by the author. Show more
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