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Spiritual reflection and prayer to begin the day with Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra. Show more

One listener describes feeling like she'd dropped off the planet after the husband she was caring for died. And we brand PM with its own corporate song. Email iPM@bbc.co.uk. Show more

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Jules Hudson explores the waters of Hampstead Heath, which have been used for over 200 years by champion swimmers and year-round bathers. Show more

Charlotte Smith tracks down new businesses in the country. How much help do they need from the government to succeed? Show more

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Morning news and current affairs presented by John Humphrys and Justin Webb and debating police complaint procedures, plus Syria, and Sir Humphry Appleby's Olympics. Show more

Sian Williams and Richard Coles with paralympian Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson, plus John McCarthy goes punting in Cambridge, and musician Gary Kemp's Inheritance Tracks. Includes News. Show more

Every day novels, film scripts, poems and business plans are written in the British Library. Robin Hunt discovers the people that inhabit perhaps the best-read office in the world. Show more

As the parliamentary year ends, Steve Richards of the Independent talks to Lord Lawson, Jack Straw and Sir Menzies Campbell about the fortunes of their respective parties. Show more

Kate Adie introduces despatches from BBC foreign correspondents in Ciudad Real, Port Harcourt, Paris, Buenos Aires and Seinajoki. Show more

Financial advice series with Paul Lewis. The Serious Fraud Office warns of rising Sipps' fraud, plus hidden pension charges, auto-enrolment and small pension pots. Show more

Nathan Caton, Mitch Benn, Laura Shavin and Jon Holmes join Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis for a look at the week's headlines. Show more

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Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and politics from All Hallows School, Farnham, Surrey with Helena Kennedy, Norman Lamont, Owen Jones and Kelvin Mackenzie. Show more

Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's edition of Any Questions? Topics include: Syria, union strikes, the Olympics, Ian Tomlinson and education. Show more

The Russians want 007 dead. Will romancing a beautiful spy cloud Bond's judgement? Starring Toby Stephens and John Sessions. Show more

The Essex teacher fighting back against the 'TOWIE' stereotype. Plus, why author Angela Neustatter thinks we need to think again about the value of time spent at home. Show more

Full coverage of the day's news with Ritula Shah.

One listener describes feeling like she'd dropped off the planet after the husband she was caring for died. And we brand PM with its own corporate song. Email iPM@bbc.co.uk. Show more

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Danny Wallace is joined by Fay Weldon, Ben Miller, John Caudwell and Eloisa James. With music from Lazy Habits. Show more

Writers create a fictional response to the week's news. Kate Clanchy imagines one child's remarkable school report. Show more

Tom Sutcliffe and his guests, writer Kamila Shamsie, historian Dominic Sandbrook and filmmaker Carol Morley, review the week's cultural highlights including The Dark Knight Rises. Show more

Paul Farley joins other poets to remember and celebrate the Penguin Modern Poets series which started life 50 years ago. Show more

4 Extra Debut. California in the summer of '63. Despite having the world at his feet, Benjamin is anxious. Stars Danny Mahoney and Sian Thomas. Show more

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Should we hold the present government accountable in the courts for the history and morality of the British Empire? Combative, provocative and engaging debate with Michael Buerk. Show more

Paul Gambaccini chairs the final of the music quiz with contestants from Chelmsford, Swindon and London. From 2012. Show more

Poet Simon Armitage takes listeners on a journey round the Stanza Stones, new poems on the theme of water that have been carved into rocks along a stretch of Pennine moorland. Show more

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On a transatlantic flight, Alan is delighted by an unusual upgrade to a first class seat, but finds his journey disturbed by portents of doom. Read by David Shaw-Parker. Show more

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