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With the Revd Dr Leslie Griffiths.

'They look in the mirror and they're disgusted. They don't like themselves.' Former beautician Penny explains how she offers friendship, support and make-up tips to transsexuals. Show more

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Richard Uridge travels the route proposed for high speed rail in Buckinghamshire to find out what is so special about the countryside there that people battle to protect it. Show more

Farmers are being urged towards 'sustainable intensification' to help feed the growing population with restricted resources. Sarah Swadling asks how that can be done. Show more

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Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.

Fi Glover with cook Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, poet Kate Fox, a gay former US Marine and a man who is king of an island; Inheritance Tracks from Archers stalwart June Spencer. Show more

John McCarthy explores Paris with Independent newspaper correspondent John Lichfield and the Lebanon with photographer Max Milligan and historian Philip Mansel. Show more

The second of two programmes in which the author Michael Dobbs considers how The Archers has reflected politics over the years. This week racism, fox-hunting and rural snobbery. Show more

The Big Society will revolutionise the way we think of the state and will change politics forever beyond Westminster. So what exactly does it mean? Mary Ann Sieghart investigates. Show more

The news behind the news, hosted by Kate Adie. In this edition: Islamabad, Abidjan, Baku, Rio de Janeiro and the Aldabra lagoon. Show more

Sandi Toksvig presents another episode of the ever-popular topical panel show. Guests this week are Jeremy Hardy, Sue Perkins, Phill Jupitus and Francis Wheen. Show more

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Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from Hinde St Methodist Church in Marylebone, London with questions for the panel including the designer Dame Vivienne Westwood. Show more

Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's edition of Any Questions? Show more

An ex-jewel thief in France battles to prove his innocence. The novel that became a Hitchcock film classic. Stars Jeff Harding. Show more

Producer Alan Hall explores the complementary skills of daydreaming and the ability to concentrate. From 2010. Show more

Jane Garvey presents: Celebrating, informing and entertaining women with news, views and interviews of topical interest. Show more

Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the sports headlines.

'They look in the mirror and they're disgusted. They don't like themselves.' Former beautician Penny explains how she offers friendship, support and make-up tips to transsexuals. Show more

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Peter Curran and guests with a mix of conversation, music and comedy. Peter is joined by Sandra Bernhard, Mark Thomas and Emma Freud. With music from Pearl and the Puppets. Show more

At 26, Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is now thought to be the world's youngest billionaire. Is he really the character portrayed in the film, The Social Network? Show more

Tom Sutcliffe and his guests novelist Louise Doughty, literary critic John Carey and comedian Natalie Haynes review the week's cultural highlights including The King's Speech. Show more

Shaun Ley recalls the rise and fall of the SDP. The party never made the breakthrough, but did it change British politics? Is the SDP's main legacy its impact on other parties? Show more

Robin Brooks' dramatisation of Robert Graves' histories of Roman political vice. An ageing Claudius works to restore the Republic. But his young wife Messalina has other plans. Show more

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Clive Anderson and some of the country's top lawyers discuss how the law controls the actions of trades unions and employers during industrial disputes. Show more

Another four potential Brains of Britain join questionmaster Russell Davies, in the penultimate heat in the current series of the nationwide general knowledge quiz. Show more

Journey of the Magi by TS Eliot. Peggy Reynolds investigates this strange and beautiful work, written as Eliot was preparing to join the Anglican Church in 1927. Show more

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Mark Williams reads a selection of anecdotes from a 19th century German almanac. Show more

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