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Prayer and reflection with Dr Tina Beattie, Director of Catholic Studies at Roehampton University.
Plans for 12 new nature improvement areas are planned for England. It's one of the proposals outlined in the Government's blue-print for wildlife and countryside. Show more
Libby Purves is joined by opera singer Meeta Raval, locked-in syndrome survivor Kate Allatt, theatre director Gene David Kirk and circus founder Nell Gifford. Show more
Presented by Jenni Murray. Pamela Stephenson-Connolly on how our sex lives define us; ex-Catatonia singer Cerys Matthews sings live; equal pay for academics; author Arundhati Roy. Show more
Tom is happy on Lord Bidborough's estate until the lord's son Charles arrives from abroad. Stars Stuart McLoughlin and John Rowe. Show more
Alan Dein meets a 75-year-old life model who is much in demand at art classes and whose physique has been honed by his training as a champion swimmer. Show more
Stand-up from the Isle of Portland, Dorset, celebrating what makes the island and its people so distinctive. From April 2009. Show more
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Channel 4 screens what it calls 'probably the most horrific images it has ever shown'; Jeremy Hunt's Local TV plans struggle for funding; comedy producer Caryn Mandabach. Show more
Adam gets things moving. Meanwhile Kathy has her fingers crossed. Show more
4 Extra Debut. Yvonne has lost her job and with it her patience for her husband's obsession with bird watching. Stars Anne Reid and Paula Wilcox. Show more
Vincent Duggleby and guests discuss how to avoid hidden extra charges when paying for goods and services in the UK and abroad. Show more
By Michele Roberts. Stories of the joy of outdoor swimming. An English woman finds a kind of fulfilment on the Venetian Lido. Read by Joanna Tope. Show more
The Rattigan Versions
Episode 3: Memories of Terence Rattigan from Adrian Brown
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Memories of playwright Terence Rattigan, from people with a close connection to him, in conversation with Mark Lawson. Adrian Brown had a relationship with him late in his life. Show more
Laurie Taylor and a panel of experts explore dirt, its relationship to order and how hygiene and the mass generation of dirt have become such potent symbols of civilisation. Show more
All in the Mind
Compassion and Faith - Junk Food Adverts - Magicians
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Claudia Hammond talks to Paul Gilbert about compassion, what is it, why did it evolve and why is it useful as a basis for talking therapies? Show more
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The young, aspiring politicians of the new political Party take their campaign to the internet. Stars Tim Key. From June 2011. Show more
It's a day of memories in Ambridge and Roy tries to make Kate listen. Show more
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Arnold Wesker's play Chicken Soup with Barley, Michael Longley, the Orange Prize winner
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Mark Lawson reviews a new staging of Arnold Wesker's play Chicken Soup with Barley, interviews the winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction and talks to poet Michael Longley. Show more
Tom is happy on Lord Bidborough's estate until the lord's son Charles arrives from abroad. Stars Stuart McLoughlin and John Rowe. Show more
Nick Robinson goes behind the closed doors of Westminster and Whitehall to ask how controversial decisions are reached. Show more
Professor Felipe Fernandez-Armesto explodes what he sees as the newly revived myth of the Protestant work ethic and debunks cultural explanations for economic progress or decline. Show more
Sue Broom meets the scientists using GM technology in an attempt to control animal disease. Show more
Libby Purves is joined by opera singer Meeta Raval, locked-in syndrome survivor Kate Allatt, theatre director Gene David Kirk and circus founder Nell Gifford. Show more
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The UN debates action on Syria The latest from Libya A special report on political freedom in Russia. Show more
Back in their rural home, Father remembers the early years of love and marriage, and realises just how often he failed to understand his wife. Show more
Colin is all at sea as the foundations of Jimmy's dream take shape on the beach. Stars Johnny Vegas, Kevin Eldon and Ronni Ancona. From June 2011. Show more
Sean Curran and the BBC's parliamentary team report as Labour accuses the Government of being in a 'total mess' over planned changes to sentencing policy. Show more
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Malcolm X - A Life of Reinvention: Manning Marable's biography of the human rights activist. In prison, Malcolm joined the Nation of Islam and quickly became an inspiring orator. Show more
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