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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra.

Caz Graham hears that milk processors are delaying their cuts to dairy farmers. Dairy Crest will not implement their planned two pence per litre price cut on the 1st August. Show more

Choreographer and dancer Akram Khan is interviewed by Kirsty Young. Show more

Celebrating, informing and entertaining women, presented by Jenni Murray. Around 20,000 people will attend the WOMAD festival this weekend as it celebrates 30 years. Show more

The tale of Richard's week since his last session is as usual lamentable and laughable, but he has begun to reconsider his condition and has alarming news for Martha. Show more

Chris Kelly tells a story of lost ideals and broken dreams through letters sent between her Austrian-born father and his brothers and sister as they fought for Germany in the war. Show more

Lucy is in despair about the future of the planet and Tom's best friend runs away from home. Stars Mark Bonnar. From July 2012. Show more

James Naughtie explores the life Roald Dahl, who put his huge success down to conspiring with children against adults in his stories and sharing a child's sense of humour. Show more

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Jonathan Glancey visits Oban to discover why grander plans for the hill around McCaig's Tower never materialised. From July 2012. Show more

Adam gets a fresh perspective. Meanwhile Vicky takes offence. Show more

By Roy Smiles. The story of Graham Chapman, the Monty Python team and how he overcame his considerable demons to star in the two of the funniest British films of all time. Show more

Peter Gibbs and the team are in Brixham. Matthew Wilson, Bunny Guinness, Anne Swithinbank and Toby Buckland discuss how to heal a garden suffering from flood damage. Show more

By Jay Barnett. Quirky story about a dog you could set your watch to. Read by Alex Lanipekun. Show more

Matthew Bannister on astronaut Sally Ride, Egypt's spy chief Omar Suleiman, Bollywood star Rajesh Khanna, journalist and campaigner Jane Leighton and windsurf pioneer Jim Drake. Show more

Which countries punch above their weight at the Olympics? Is there any correlation between gun control laws and gun crime? And why do US presidents' mums live so long? Show more

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The actress and her writing partner/big brother in the talk tag show where the guest is the next interviewer. From 2012 Show more

Brenda is in for a shock and Adam chooses sides. Show more

London as seen by international photographers; singer-songwriter Newton Faulkner; Australian writer Louis Nowra; Britain's first kitchen-sink film, with Sylvia Syms. Show more

The tale of Richard's week since his last session is as usual lamentable and laughable, but he has begun to reconsider his condition and has alarming news for Martha. Show more

Eddie Mair chairs a live discussion of news and politics from West Kilbride Village Hall in Scotland, with Michael Moore, Anas Sarwar, Lesley Riddoch and Linda Fabiani. Show more

John Gray reflects on the paradox of immortality as captured by the writer Theodore Powys: 'The longest life may fade and perish but one moment can live and become immortal.'. Show more

David Eldridge's play follows the relationship of a couple from different backgrounds over 25 years, set against a backdrop of political change. With Ruth Wilson and Tom Brooke. Show more

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Live at the opening ceremony of the Olympics, the Syrian city of Aleppo braces itself for conflict, and can a UN treaty effectively control the sale of arms? With Roger Hearing. Show more

'Love... it makes my poor old heart run fast, its little flywheel fairly spinning.' In the final part of John Banville's haunting novel, Alex discovers not all was as he remembered. Show more

In the first of his five Reith Lectures, musician and conductor Daniel Barenboim examines the physical phenomenon of sound. Show more

At the end of the Korean War, POWs could choose where they wanted to go. Thousands of North Korean and Chinese prisoners went to the USA. Only a few Americans chose China.

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After hundreds of miles on the road, and quite a few hours in the bars of Arkansas, Steve Boggan finds himself on the home straight following a $10 bill across America. Show more

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