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Spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Canon Dr Sam Wells, vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields. Show more

Applications for 'village green status' on land earmarked for development may no longer save it, under new government plans. Presented by Anna Hill. Show more

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Morning news and current affairs, presented by Sarah Montague and Evan Davis, including ash tree disease, university funding and the US elections. Show more

Andrew Marr discusses the state of politics with Mary Robinson and Michael Ignatieff, while Israeli writer Amos Oz asks if entrenched ideas have increasingly polarised debate. Show more

How women's votes can sway the US election, Malala in her own words, the Women's Hour Power List, and is assertiveness training as relevant today as it was in the '80s? Show more

A love of opera leads two remarkable sisters into a life of danger, in Jane Purcell's true-life tale of the remarkable Cook sisters' wartime adventures. Show more

A portrait of life in Gaza through the eyes of a group of young Palestinian surfers who find freedom in riding the waves off the coast of this troubled territory. Show more

Cold weather and broken boilers. Pam Ayres' poetry and sketches with Felicity Montagu and Geoffrey Whitehead. From October 2012. Show more

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German writer Jakob Arjouni's Turkish sleuth, Kemal Kayankaya, has reflected a reunited Germany. Mark Lawson investigates. Show more

James revels in all the attention. Meanwhile George is in trouble. Show more

By Oliver Emanuel. The story of a 14-year-old girl who spends seven days in a refuge for runaways.

Tom Sutcliffe chairs the game of lateral thinking and cryptic connections, in this edition between teams from the south and the north of England. Show more

Lard is so unfashionable that the word is used as an insult, but Tim Hayward goes on a mission to reclaim lard and argue that it can be enjoyed as part of a healthy diet. Show more

Helena Kennedy QC explores the power of law in the pages of classic fiction, which has always engaged with the law, as plot device, social criticism, satire or allegory. Show more

Aleks Krotoski asks if we have all become cyborgs without even knowing it. Show more

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John Lloyd and his curator Jimmy Carr welcome objects from Sara Pascoe, Marc Abrahams and astronaut Buzz Aldrin. From May 2012. Show more

Fallon steps up to the plate, and Lynda proves to be unstoppable. Show more

Anna Friel in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, Kamila Shamsie on modern re-workings of great literature, letters from the Mary Whitehouse archive, and Chris O'Dowd in the film The Sapphires. Show more

A love of opera leads two remarkable sisters into a life of danger, in Jane Purcell's true-life tale of the remarkable Cook sisters' wartime adventures. Show more

Presented by Mike Thomson. A notebook left in a pub is at the heart of the story of just how close an ex-civil servant came to revealing one of Britain's greatest cold war secrets. Show more

The secular left is showing an interest in Catholic social teaching. Matthew Taylor asks how compatible such religiously-inspired ideas are with a modern liberal party. Show more

Gareth Mitchell looks into the various challenges and possible solutions to storing electrical energy, and the real threats facing British trees. Show more

Andrew Marr discusses the state of politics with Mary Robinson and Michael Ignatieff, while Israeli writer Amos Oz asks if entrenched ideas have increasingly polarised debate. Show more

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National and international news and analysis with Ritula Shah.

Madame Picot begins to feel guilty and Madame Beck is determined to blacken Agnes's name. In the past, Agnes goes to live with Jean Dupere, the man who found her as a baby. Show more

The 'Bard of Barking' about his career-defining album, 'Talking with the Taxman about Poetry'. With John Wilson. From 2012. Show more

Susan Hulme and the BBC parliamentary team report as ministers promise to 'scythe through reams of planning red tape' in a bid to rejuvenate the UK economy. Show more

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From his grandfather onwards, biographer Michael's family has always struggled to tame the motorcar, often with hilarious results. Read by the author. From November 2012. Show more

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