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Keighley and Worth Valley - The Railway Children at 40
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Forty years after Lionel Jeffries arrived to make his classic film The Railway Children, Helen Mark hears what it meant to the people of the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway. Show more
As cloned meat enters the UK food chain, Caz Graham looks at cloning in UK agriculture, and hears that the world must embrace the technology or mass starvation may result. Show more
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Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and James Naughtie, including more on Pakistan's floods. Show more
Fi Glover is joined by writer Gary Younge and poet Murray Lachlan Young. Songstress Sandie Shaw shares her Inheritance Tracks and a listener speaks out for Esperanto. Show more
Sandi Toksvig explores Afghanistan with travel writer Jason Elliot, BBC foreign correspondent Jill McGivering and ski-mountaineer Suzy Madge. Show more
Columnist Katharine Whitehorn battles against the Grumpy Old Men and Women out to convince us modern life is rubbish. From 2010. Show more
Kate Adie introduces reports on Rwanda's elections, bride stealing in Chechnya, Georgian patriotism, rarely-seen photos of Fidel Castro and the threatened gardens of Berlin. Show more
Financial guru Alvin Hall meets two 20-somethings to offer advice, exploring the different financial pressures facing young people now compared to their parents' generation. Show more
Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a satirical speed through the week's news, with Jon Holmes, Laura Shavin, Mitch Benn and special guest Marc Maron. Show more
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Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. The panellists are Tom Holland, Dominic Lawson, Sarah Churchwell and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown. Show more
Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's edition of Any Questions?
Ian Rankin's Edinburgh detective, Inspector Rebus, investigates the disappearance of an MP's wife. Ron Donachie stars in a two-part dramatisation by Chris Dolan.
Prof Winston examines how deafness and a catalogue of chronic illnesses became key to the transcendent spirit of Beethoven's music. Show more
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Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn Quinn, plus the sports headlines.
Men discuss having breast cancer, stopping domestic abuse and starting World War III. With Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracey. Show more
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Peter Curran is joined by Simon Schama, Rebecca Front, Max Decharne, Rafe Spall and Nikki Bedi. With comedy from Neil Delamere and music from Mystery Jets and Lucas Renney. Show more
Rwanda is an African economic success story, but as President Paul Kagame stands for re-election he's accused of crushing the opposition. Is he the country's saviour or a dictator? Show more
Sarfraz Manzoor and his guests novelist Deborah Moggach, theatre writer David Benedict and comedian Natalie Haynes review the week's cultural highlights including Knight and Day. Show more
The story of how a Manchester slum became a creative hub, using archive material and interviews with former residents of Hulme's infamous deck-access flats. Show more
Kate and Merton need money. Milly needs love. How far will they go to get what they want? Dramatisation of Henry James's classic 1902 novel, starring Lyndsey Marshal. Show more
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Justin Rowlatt and guests debate the future of the British military, and explore whether it is time to have a radical rethink about the size and remit of the armed forces. Show more
Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz, featuring teams from the Midlands and the south of England. Show more
Children's writer Michael Morpurgo travels to the Isles of Scilly to investigate their myths and legends and explore how they have been a source of inspiration to his writing. Show more
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If your husband isn't perfect, what do you do when divorce isn't an option? Written by Cathy Ace, and read by Glenne Headley. Show more
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