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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Bishop Martin Shaw. Show more
Vets are arguing that meat packaging should carry more detail about how animals were slaughtered. And, as the new Schmallenberg virus spreads, which exotic disease threat is next? Show more
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Lyrical Ballads, the 1798 volume of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Show more
One year on, the impact the Japan nuclear disaster has had on families. What brings about social change? Girls and public speaking. And the Funny Women comedy challenge. Show more
Ania is pregnant but in love with another man. Sam is falling in love. But his parents, Rose and Harry, have split up - haven't they? Show more
Featuring despatches on ageing populations in Japan, wine-making in Argentina, austerity measures in Greece, land grabs in China, and the troubled Sudan/South Sudan border. Show more
Comedian and musician Rich Morton explores the glossy, velvet-carpeted world of ‘lounge music’. From 2012. Show more
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Sport and the British
Episode 29: Globalisation
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Clare Balding explores the way global television has changed our relationship with sport forever. Show more
Alan throws down the gauntlet and Brian fishes for information. Show more
4 Extra Debut. David Tennant and Emila Fox star as strangers who meet accidentally by email. Can their passionate virtual affair survive? Show more
Clare Balding walks part of the Beacons Way in the Brecon Beacons National Park to find out how people are being inspired to create their own response to the surrounding landscape. Show more
Vanessa Redgrave presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the charity War on Want. Show more
Bookclub
Alan Hollinghurst - The Line of Beauty
28 minutes
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Alan Hollinghurst talks to James Naughtie and readers about his 2004 Man Booker prize-winning novel The Line of Beauty. Show more
Actor John Cusack talks to Francine Stock about playing Edgar Allan Poe and his concerns for free speech in America, and Juliet Stevenson discusses working with Peter Greenaway. Show more
Quentin Cooper investigates aliens in Antarctica, a collision that may have changed the climate, why we hate nasty noises and how star-quakes could help us find habitable planets. Show more
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Miles Jupp tests Ed Byrne, Richard Madeley and Roisin Conaty on how well one of their loved ones knows them. From March 2012. Show more
Brian's been caught on camera, while Ruth thinks she has the answer. Show more
Front Row
Gilbert and George; Nanci Griffith; John Cusack as Edgar Allan Poe
30 minutes
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Mark Lawson meets Gilbert and George; singer Nanci Griffith; John Cusack plays Edgar Allan Poe in The Raven; screenwriter Alun Owen reassessed by Frank Cottrell Boyce. Show more
Ania is pregnant but in love with another man. Sam is falling in love. But his parents, Rose and Harry, have split up - haven't they? Show more
Joshua Rozenberg investigates how the law is increasingly impacting on sport, with landmark cases being heard in the High Court and European Court of Justice. Show more
Evan Davis and his executive panel discuss corporate cock-ups and conspiracies - why do they occur, and how do you avoid them? Show more
Sue Armstrong reports on a controversial, last-ditch attempt to save the South China tiger from extinction. Show more
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Lyrical Ballads, the 1798 volume of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Show more
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Robin Lustig presents national and international news and analysis. Show more
Petunia faces a bleak future, Shahid has an unwanted guest and the police are investigating the postcards. Read by Rafe Spall. Show more
The net is closing on Dr Belasco, but the sleuth and his wife are now in danger from an unexpected quarter. Stars Gerda Stevenson.
Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from Westminster, including a cut in railway costs in England and Wales, the latest on Syria, and farewell to the Downing Street Guru. Show more
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Journalist Maziar Bahari's account of his incarceration in Iran's most notorious prison. Show more
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