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Daily prayer and reflection with George Craig. Show more

Anna Hill hears calls for polytunnels to be banned from National Parks. And the pigs Farming Today has been following get taken to the abattoir. Show more

Playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah explores how London became a diverse, creatively rich world city and how its people have shaped its politics and culture since the 1970s. Show more

Presented by Jane Garvey. What has happened to women in punk? Children's minister Sarah Teather on early years education and Brenda Blethyn on her latest film London River. Show more

Maggie begins work as Kenneth's live-in secretary, helping him catalogue his huge music library. Kenneth is completely unaware that she has a secret motive. Show more

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4 Extra Debut. Artist Grayson Perry goes on a quest to discover what it means to be creative. With Terry Pratchett. From July 2010. Show more

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Rainer Hersch investigates the catchiest song in the 15th century, 'The Armed Man', and its revival today. With Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. From April 2010. Show more

Ruth broaches a sensitive subject and Jaxx has an appreciative visitor. Show more

By Iain Finlay MacLeod. As a jacket is conjured from a bolt of cloth, two men learn more about each other in a handful of days than in decades of neighbourly contact. Show more

A special programme marking the success of the History of the World Project, and questioning the future of museums in a cash-strapped digital age. Show more

By Lucy Caldwell. 4 Extra Debut. Being overshadowed by a sibling takes on a whole new meaning when your sister is a figure of national notoriety. Read by Corinne Kempa. Show more

Stories from London street sellers and market traders, both from Victorian times and the present day. Show more

Following the barristers, clerks and staff of one of London's leading law chambers as they prepare for the upheaval caused by the full implementation of the 2007 Legal Services Act. Show more

Sue MacGregor talks to Helen Fraser, chief executive of the Girls' Day School Trust, and writer and comic performer Neil Innes about their favourite books. Show more

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Sitcom written by and starring Sanjeev Kohli and Donald McLeary, set in a Glasgow corner shop. Trouble looms for Ramesh as his nemesis Tom Skilliter reappears after 20 years. Show more

Reality bites for Pip, and Susan solves a mystery. Show more

Mark Lawson reviews The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, and interviews the actor and Frasier star David Hyde Pierce and author Piers Paul Read. Show more

Neil MacGregor's world history as told through objects. Today - an icon celebrating the restoration of holy images at the end a period of religious iconoclasm. Show more

Jon Manel lifts the lid on illegal working in London, discovering a world of forged documents and faked identities. Show more

Peter White goes to Harvard to take part in neuro-scientific research and has his brian scanned by Prof Alvaro Pascual-Leone, who looks at the way Peter's brain processes Braille. Show more

Claudia Hammond reveals new evidence on how children's brains work and looks at how this could help children learn. Show more

Playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah explores how London became a diverse, creatively rich world city and how its people have shaped its politics and culture since the 1970s. Show more

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Mary flees Dedmayne in turmoil, while Kathy's plans to escape to a new life go awry. Read by Juliet Stevenson. Show more

London-born novelist Andrea Levy presents diverse and diverting mixes of voices, sounds and experience capturing the city's spirit by night and day. From 2010. Show more

Rachel Byrne and the BBC's parliamentary team report on David Cameron's announcement in the Commons of an inquiry into the treatment of terrorism suspects. Show more

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