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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon Mark Oakley of the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace.

Caz Graham visits the last rake maker in the country and asks whether we should mourn our dying rural skills. Plus, how intensive farming could help increase biodiversity. Show more

Morning news and current affairs, presented by Sarah Montague and James Naughtie, debating Euro 2012 boycott, cyber warfare, welfare cuts and with singer Neil Young. Show more

Kirsty Young interviews Margaret Rhodes, former MI6 worker and first cousin to the Queen. Show more

Presented by Jenni Murray. Paul Heathcote makes a tropical fruit salad. A new exhibition looks at the allure of gold. How do you tell a child that they have a serious illness? Show more

4 Extra Debut. Irving Finkel rescues other people's diaries from junk shops and car boot sales. But what should he do with them? From June 2012. Show more

Deputy superintendent registrar Malcolm Fox is distracted by a breast-feeding mother during a birth registration. Stars David Schneider. From June 2012. Show more

Peter White talks to singer-songwriter Kristyna Myles, who is busking 10,000 miles for charity, and hears how some restaurants are teaching customers to cook. Show more

Fi Glover presents Radio 4's series capturing the nation in conversation - Anne and her daughter Georgina discuss the desire to be a mother and the joy of grandchildren. Show more

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We're with UN monitors in Syria as they investigate a massacre. The Foreign Office tells us Assad must go. David Blunkett says outsiders should oversee the police. Twitter #WATO. Show more

Richard Holloway discusses what is meant by free will and takes Ridley Scott's film of the science-fiction novel Blade Runner as an analogy. Show more

Amy goes too far and Jennifer enters into a heated debate. Show more

4 Extra Debut. 1979: Hapless accountant Arthur and wife Gwen's new friendship with Reeve takes a very sinister turn. Stars Reece Shearsmith. Show more

Matthew Biggs, Christine Walkden and local gardener Alison Pringle answer horticultural questions at Scampston Gardens in North Yorkshire. Show more

Novelist and stand-up performer AL Kennedy relates some of the hapless events that befell her whilst trying to complete her latest book in the USA. Show more

Matthew Bannister on writer Ray Bradbury, newspaper editor Bob Edwards, Armenian massacre survivor Astrid Aghajanian and Platters vocalist Herb Reed. Show more

A look back at the BBC jubilee coverage, plus is the Archers endangered? Presented by Roger Bolton. Show more

Fi Glover presents Radio 4's series capturing the nation in conversation. Sarah Jane and her brother Philip discuss the turmoil his spell behind bars caused her and their mother. Show more

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Jon Holmes, John Finnemore, Mitch Benn and Pippa Evans join Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis to dissect the week's news in their own indomitable style. Show more

Ben makes an horrific discovery. Meanwhile Iftikar bowls a maiden over. Show more

John Wilson interviews the Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young, who discusses his new album of traditional songs, including God Save the Queen. Show more

Alice's obsession with her family's connection to the myth of Dracamuth leads her into danger. Stars Amanda Drew and Greg Wise. Show more

Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and politics from Aldborough Northern Festival, North Yorkshire, with Salma Yaqoob, Douglas Murray, Alan Johnson and David Davis. Show more

Adam Gopnik on a universal truth of parenting - why, at exactly age 13, your child will discover that you are the most embarrassing, ridiculous and annoying person on the planet. Show more

Richard Holloway discusses doubt as a means of challenging the prevailing religious thought, how religion dealt with those who paraded their doubts and what is meant by free will. Show more

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National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah.

The day of the reunion arrives and Satish returns to Cherry Gardens. The bunting and the celebratory table look just the same, but the children have all grown up. Show more

4 Extra Debut. Maggie Aderin-Pocock, William Orbit and Harriett Gilbert on books by John Wyndham, Janice Galloway and Tom Stoppard. From 2012. Show more

Jon talks to Stewart Lee about why we're all so caught up in competitive lives. How is aiming low a way forward? From May 2011. Show more

Fi Glover presents Radio 4's series capturing the nation in conversation. Margaret and Barry remember their murdered son Jimmy. Show more

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A year of discoveries on Ainsdale Sands. For a brief time, the tide reveals ancient footprints. Concluded by Jean Sprackland. Show more

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