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Andrew Graystone presents an act of worship recorded at this year's Greenbelt Festival, an event celebrating faith, social justice and the arts which has been held since 1974. Show more
Lisa Jardine reflects on memory and her newly acquired facility to recite Horace's odes. She muses how - as she gets older - her long-term memory seems to become sharper. Show more
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The week's events in Ambridge. Nigel comes to a decision and Robert exacts an ingenious revenge. Show more
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Chef Mark Hix travels to Transylvania to help revive a disappearing food culture. From cheese making shepherds to pickle producers, he meets the people improving food in Romania. Show more
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David Stenhouse looks back at the achievements of Scottish poet Edwin Morgan, who died in August after a writing career which spanned over 60 years. Show more
Brett Westwood on how to identify many of the birds found on Britain's offshore islands, with the help of wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson. Show more
My Family and Other Animals is Gerald Durrell's comic gem of a book, the classic story of his upper-class English eccentric family on the pre-package holiday island of 1930s Corfu. Show more
James Naughtie and readers talk to the Canadian writer Yann Martel about his novel Life of Pi, which won the 2002 Man Booker Prize and went on to become a global phenomenon. Show more
Anthony Sattin on what is said by some to be the most beautiful poem in the Arab world, Layla and Majnun, which was also the inspiration for Eric Clapton's seminal pop song. Show more
Gerry Northam lifts the lid on tense race relations at a new 25-million-pound secondary school which is part of a scheme promoting closer community cohesion in Nelson, Lancashire. Show more
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Hardeep Singh Kohli introduces his selection of highlights from the past week on BBC radio. Show more
Clarrie has her suspicions, and is it last orders at The Bull? Show more
The conservative economist, Thomas Sowell, on his belief that political correctness is holding America back; classic American television offers a lesson in civic responsibility. Show more
Angela Rippon travels to her home town of Plymouth to find out how children there lived through the Blitz and explores a fascinating archive of logs kept by schools during WWII. Show more
Tim Harford presents the magazine which explains the numbers behind the news.
Matthew Bannister remembers Lord Glenconner, Dimitrios Ioannidis, Lady Anne Tree, Michel Montignac and Corinne Day. Show more
Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal finance, including the new financial product that claims to offer a risk- and cost-free way to make money from homes. Show more
Sister Frances Dominica appeals on behalf of React. Show more
In California, Peter Day meets Graham Hawkes, the London-born creator of a submersible vessel that flies through the ocean like a plane. Show more
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Hugo Rifkind takes a look at how the broadsheets and red tops treat the week's news. Show more
Francine Stock discusses the work of Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. Show more
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