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Prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Craig Gardiner. Show more

'Tabloids destroyed my friend's life'. Listener Gillian Maher talks about how press intrusion can ruin ordinary lives. With Eddie Mair. iPM@bbc.co.uk. Show more

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Which of our natural habitats is under threat? Helen Mark travels across the north of England to find out about the work being done to save the traditional upland hay meadow. Show more

Chicken is the UK's favourite meat and we consume three times the amount that we did 40 years ago - but some say this has been at the cost of the bird's welfare. Show more

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With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

Clare Balding at Wimbledon with jazz legend Al Jarreau, poet Matt Harvey, a former ball-boy, a man whose life was saved by Gil Scott Heron and Biddy Baxter's Inheritance Tracks. Show more

Sandi Toksvig looks at rites of passage around the world with photographer Anders Ryman, death rituals with journalist Sarah Murray and Mexico with author Lucy Neville. Show more

Musician and writer Terence Blacker looks at politically incorrect songs of the last century and asks what makes a song offensive, and why songs have such power to upset people. Show more

Jackie Ashley of The Guardian talks about this week's strike action with two politicians who used to be teachers. And she examines Labour's link with the trades unions. Show more

Kate Adie introduces despatches from correspondents in Athens, Misrata in Libya, Dubai, the Amazon rainforest in Brazil and from the Indian capital, Delhi. Show more

Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by Mitch Benn, Susan Calman, Laura Shavin, Boothby Graffoe and Nik Pynn, to present a mix of topical stand-up, sketches and comedy songs.

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Your chance to have your say. Call Jonathan Dimbleby on 03700 100 444 or email us at any.answers@bbc.co.uk about employing Brits before foreigners, pensions and the Coalition. Show more

Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's edition of Any Questions?

4 Extra Debut. The murder of a stranger sparks trouble for a small Shetland village. Soon everyone is a suspect. Stars Steven Robertson. Show more

4 Extra Debut. Singer Martha Reeves uncovers the politics of disco, from New York lofts to record burnings. With Gloria Gaynor. From June 2011. Show more

Jane Garvey presents highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Sexual grooming of children; the stigma of being ginger? Pancreatic cancer; snoring hell; music from Avery Sunshine. Show more

With Ritula Shah. A fresh perspective on the day's news with sports headlines.

Evan Davis asks his guests to cast their minds forward to how the Web will look in 2020. They also consider the importance of having a good story to tell in business. Show more

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Clive Anderson is joined by Rita Rudner, Wayne Hemingway, Michelle Ryan, Jon Holmes and Dave Gorman. With music from Devon Sproule and Vetiver. Show more

The IMF elects its first female Managing Director, Christine Lagarde, the stylish former synchronised swimmer and French Finance Minister. Show more

Sarfraz Manzoor and his guests writer Bidisha, actor Kerry Shale and theatre writer David Benedict review the cultural highlights of the week, including Richard III at the Old Vic. Show more

From Boomtown Rat to Live Aid organiser and famine relief ambassador, Bob Geldof explores his life through the BBC archives in an extraordinary frank conversation with John Wilson. Show more

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The Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, explores the human aspiration to be free and what it means in the first of the 2011 Reith Lecture series, 'Securing Freedom'. Show more

Paul Gambaccini hosts the final of the general knowledge music quiz to reveal the nation's musical mastermind of 2011. Show more

Roger McGough presents listeners' poetry requests.

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The Nightingale, Coleridge's 'conversation poem', and Wordsworth's series of elegiac poems about the narrator's love for the enigmatic Lucy. Show more

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