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The bells of St Mary's Church, Andover, Hampshire.

Multi-lingual, intelligent and the surprise choice for arguably the biggest job in British sport - Roy Hodgson. Gerry Northam profiles the man with a 36-year coaching career. Show more

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Mark Tully assesses Henry David Thoreau's influence, 150 years after his death. Advocate of the simple life and champion of emancipation, Thoreau's influence persists to this day. Show more

Joanna Pinnock joins naturalist John Walters in Devon to find out more about a bee mimic, the dark-edged bee-fly. Like the cuckoo, its young develop in others' nests. Show more

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Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme, presented by Samira Ahmed. Show more

Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson presents an appeal on behalf of the charity Bag Books. Show more

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A service from Highfields Church in Cardiff, exploring the concept of 'Grace' and how it influences and shapes people's lives. The preacher is the Rev Peter Baker. Show more

Will Self savages the continuing role of hereditary peers in parliament and denounces the narrowing - or 'Googlisation' - of the range of political choice in Britain. Show more

Sunday morning magazine programme with news and conversation about the big stories of the week. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.

Usha is frustrated and Brian's thinking positive. Show more

Musician and comedian Tim Minchin is interviewed by Kirsty Young. Show more

Seaweed, a Forgotten Food? Nutritious, tasty but long-overlooked, Sheila Dillon asks if seaweed is the food of the future? Show more

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As voters go to the polls in both France and Greece, Shaun Ley asks if the political mood is shifting away from the need to undertake austerity measures across the eurozone. Show more

Robin Denselow visits LA, the commercial centre of the narcocorrido, or Mexican drug ballad, to discover the renewed appeal of songs that glamorise the paramilitary drug cartels. Show more

Drought-themed postbag edition, chaired by Peter Gibbs. The panellists are Matthew Wilson, Pippa Greenwood, Bob Flowerdew. Show more

Capturing the nation in conversation. Fi Glover presents encounters from Manchester, London and Liverpool. Show more

Nick Carraway arrives in wealthy Long Island. The Jazz Age decadence and fallibility of the American dream. Stars Bryan Dick. Show more

Ross Raisin is a young writer who won much praise for his debut novel God's Own Country in 2008. He discusses the book with James Naughtie and a group of readers. Show more

When Coleridge failed to complete his poem Kubla Khan, he laid the blame on the arrival of a 'person from Porlock'. Paul Farley seeks out this embodiment of artistic interruption. Show more

After the recent deaths of journalists reporting from Syria, John Simpson examines what it is like to work on the news front line and considers the cost of getting the story home. Show more

Multi-lingual, intelligent and the surprise choice for arguably the biggest job in British sport - Roy Hodgson. Gerry Northam profiles the man with a 36-year coaching career. Show more

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Caz Graham makes her selection from the past seven days of BBC Radio. Show more

Usha puts her foot in it. Meanwhile Alice has to change her plans. Show more

Coverage of the results of the French presidential election. Presented by Ed Stourton.

Are we witnessing a grand economic experiment playing out between Britain and the United States, and how long have travellers been waiting to get through immigration at Heathrow? Show more

Matthew Bannister on aid worker Khalil Dale, children's writer Leila Berg, Nicaraguan revolutionary Tomas Borge, boxer Terry Spinks and peacemaker the Rev Ray Davey. Show more

Short-changed by your energy company? The HMRC phone odyssey, benefit confusion over capping, IFA's ordered to pay landmark compensation and when is a faster payment fast? Show more

Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson presents an appeal on behalf of the charity Bag Books. Show more

Big companies can learn from the cheap improvisation of the developing world. Peter Day discovers some of the secrets of what is now known as Frugal Innovation. Show more

Carolyn Quinn talks to Liberal Democrat MP Jo Swinson about tensions in the coalition government following the local elections in England, Scotland and Wales. Show more

George Parker of the Financial Times analyses how the newspapers are covering the biggest stories in Westminster and beyond. Show more

Fifty years on, presenter Francine Stock joins Sir Tom Courtenay to look back at The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. Show more

Mark Tully assesses Henry David Thoreau's influence, 150 years after his death. Advocate of the simple life and champion of emancipation, Thoreau's influence persists to this day. Show more

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Laurie Taylor meets the winners of sociology's first book prize. He discusses body modifications chosen by transgender people, and the place of nationalism amongst the English. Show more

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