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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Andrew Martlew. Show more

Farming and countryside news. Since the foot-and-mouth outbreak of 2001, feeding catering waste to pigs has been banned. Is it time to rethink the rules? Campaigners think so. Show more

Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the story and sound of the cormorant. Show more

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Physiocrats, an important group of economic thinkers in 18th-century France. Show more

Jane Garvey discovers that Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns. Plus the findings of the Women in the Workplace report, and music from folk musicians Fay Hield and Nancy Kerr. Show more

Jessie's world is in crisis, but her father’s adamant she shouldn’t volunteer as a Sleeping Beauty. Stars Holliday Grainger. Show more

Tourism in turmoil in Egypt, and other despatches from BBC correspondents in Romania, Lebanon, California and Ireland, presented by Kate Adie. Show more

Stuart Maconie visits the Shakespeare and Company bookshop in Paris to discover what drew Joyce, Hemingway, Ginsberg and 30,000 aspiring writers to its doors. Show more

Consumer news with Peter White. What to do if you're overcharged for your utility bills, and Mark Radcliffe on why the UK albums chart is dominated by acts from the 70s and 80s. Show more

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National and international news, presented by Shaun Ley. Show more

The price paid in war dead by India, Canada, Australia and others put a huge strain on relations with the mother country, but tensions were already well matured by 1913. Show more

Jamie's finding it hard work, and Jolene has some good advice. Show more

A city-state plagued by drought has instituted a system of sacrifice in a desperate bid to bring on rain. Stars Nicholas Jones. Show more

Clare Balding walks a section of the West Highland Way, north from Balmaha, with twin sisters Pauline Walker and Fiona Rennie. Show more

Erwin James, a former prisoner, presents an appeal on behalf of the Prison Phoenix Trust. Show more

Louise Doughty talks to Mariella Frostrup about her thriller Apple Tree Yard, plus exploring Balkan literature, and news of the first pan-African prize for debut novelists. Show more

Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy reunite with director Richard Linklater for Before Midnight. Plus World War Z, The Sea and Kiarostami's Like Someone in Love. With Francine Stock. Show more

Quentin Cooper looks back at 100 years work of the MRC. Plus how snails travelled from the Pyrenees to Ireland, and the nature of applause. Show more

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Victoria Coren Mitchell dares Katy Brand, David Baddiel and Richard Osman to commit heresy. From June 2013. Show more

Helen goes kite flying, and Pip's back on track. Show more

David Edgar on the coalition, Errol Flynn's adventures in Northampton, two series about airports and airlines, and Glenn Patterson on a famous James Cagney dance routine. Show more

Jessie's world is in crisis, but her father’s adamant she shouldn’t volunteer as a Sleeping Beauty. Stars Holliday Grainger. Show more

Do women judge differently from men? And what have been the practical consequences of last April's changes to civil legal aid? Legal magazine with Joshua Rozenberg. Show more

Food company CEOs tell Evan Davis how they balance demand for locally sourced produce with consumers' taste for something exotic. Show more

Quentin Cooper looks back at 100 years work of the MRC. Plus how snails travelled from the Pyrenees to Ireland, and the nature of applause. Show more

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Physiocrats, an important group of economic thinkers in 18th-century France. Show more

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CQC names those allegedly involved in a 'cover-up', demonstrations in the Brazilian city of Rio, an American poet mistaken for William Blake and Australia's treatment of refugees. Show more

Cooper hopes that an apprehended villain from a different case may lead him to the spiv that Evelyn said Lillian went off with. Show more

A week of radio that never happened. Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes rewind and mangle real programmes. From September 2010. Show more

Sean Curran reports from Westminster, as the health secretary updates MPs on a possible cover-up by England's healthcare regulator. Show more

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Pursuing his lifelong interest in Cleopatra, Peter Stothard takes a visit to a carpet shop and a history lesson, both ancient and modern. Read by Kenneth Cranham. Show more

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