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Prayer and reflection with the Rt Rev and Rt Hon Richard Chartres, Bishop of London.
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Richard Uridge visits Herefordshire's rural film festival. Show more
Farming Today investigates the role farms play in preserving and unearthing history. Caz Graham visits a farm that recaptures the past by growing traditional crops. Show more
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What does disagreement over internships mean for the coalition's ambitions on social mobility? Show more
Sian Williams with writer and director Mike Leigh and poet Matt Harvey.
John McCarthy visits Northern Ireland, where he stays in two contrasting hotels and hears about different approaches to tourism after the Troubles. Show more
4 Extra Debut. Comic Danny Robins explores the Swedish cultural explosion conquering the world, from Abba and fiction to furniture. From April 2011. Show more
The prime minister led calls for intervention in Libya as defence cuts hit. Mary Ann Sieghart probes the apparent contradictions in the coalition's foreign and defence policies. Show more
Colour, analysis and wit from reporters in Libya, Qatar, Ethiopia, London and Paris. Introduced by Kate Adie. Show more
A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi Toksvig. Show more
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Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the live debate from Brick Lane Music Hall in Silvertown London with panellists Sayeeda Warsi, Alan Johnson and Rod Liddle. Show more
Listeners respond to the issues raised in the preceding edition of Any Questions?
Frank Cottrell Boyce's cycle of plays continues with the story of ex-punk anarchist Muttley. His unlikely pilgrimage to Camberley with his daughter takes him back to his youth. Show more
Archaeologist Christine Finn goes in search of sounds not heard for millennia, including Tutankhamun's trumpet. From 2011. Show more
Presented by Jane Garvey. A new biography of troubled singer Edith Piaf; what might AV mean for women? Tips from intrepid globe-trotters of the nineteenth century. Show more
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Clive Anderson is joined by Gyles Brandreth, Kay Mellor and Paul Merson. Music from The Severed Limb and Alessi's Ark. Arthur Smith tries the Californian craze of Sign Spinning. Show more
Rosie Goldsmith profiles the notorious literary bad boy Martin Amis, who has caused a stir in an interview with a French magazine by saying he would 'prefer not to be English'. Show more
Best of the week's arts reviewed. Featuring Anne Enright's latest novel the Forgotten Waltz, and How I Ended Last Summer, a Russian film set in the bleak Russian Arctic. Show more
Physicist and broadcaster Brian Cox presents a tribute to his science hero, Carl Sagan, the man who many people describe as the greatest populariser of science of all time. Show more
Britain and France are bitterly engaged in protecting their trade routes around Africa. Starring David Robb and Richard Dillane. Show more
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Is celebrity activism good for democracy? Combative, provocative and engaging debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories. Chaired by Michael Buerk. Show more
Paul Gambaccini hosts the wide-ranging music quiz, with contestants from London, Surrey and Worcestershire. From 2011. Show more
Herbert Read was knighted for his services to art but he always thought of himself as a poet. Brian Patten rediscovers his First World War poetry, which is read by Samuel West. Show more
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By Eleanor Thom. Distant memories mingle with the present as an old woman at the end of her life is cared for by her young nurse. Read by Laura Smales. Show more
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