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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Dr Michael Ford. Show more

Scientists in Scotland have found a gene which could pave the way for a new generation of fuel crops. Plus, farming Japanese Wagyu cattle in Wales. Show more

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Michaela Strachan presents the story and sound of the icterine warbler. Show more

Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including the UK foreign secretary on the Egypt crisis. Show more

Robert McCrum and his guests, Malcolm Gladwell, Will Self, Sarah Waters and Howard Jacobson, examine the shifting sands of plagiarism, theft, influence and originality. Show more

Roger Law meets two contrasting creators - one making real objects out of almost anything he can find, the other who does all his effects on computer. Show more

Author Kate Mosse interviews WH power-lister Ursula Mackenzie on her role as chief executive of Little Brown Book Group. Show more

Until five months ago, Liz was a hard-nosed child-protection social worker. Today she doesn't know who she is, except that she's on suspension, hiding from the press. Show more

Carl asks his volunteers to step back from the daily grind to reflect on the bigger picture. What are the pressures keeping them speedy? Can they slow down in a way that will last? Show more

The office bonding exercise and a celebrity wedding at a country house prove a challenge for Malcolm Fox. Stars David Schneider. From August 2013. Show more

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On a remote island close to the Antarctic Circle, wildlife cameraman John Aitchison watches as leopard seals hunt young Adelie penguins learning to swim. Show more

Shula is finalising details, and Pip helps save a life. Show more

Award-winning poet Alice Oswald's extraordinary evocation of the experience of moonrise over the Severn Estuary. Set to original music by Roger Goula. Show more

Nigel Rees hosts the quotations quiz with Jenni Murray, Matt Barbet, David Wood and Katharine Whitehorn. From August 2013. Show more

Dan Saladino looks at how food has increasingly become a big ingredient in crime fiction.

4 Extra Debut. Comedian and musician Rich Morton talks to some of Britain's best loved stand-up comics about the nightmare gigs they'd rather forget. From August 2013. Show more

Ernie Rea and his guests debate whether violence is permitted within Buddhism, which is usually portrayed in the West as a religion of peace and non-violence. Show more

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Nicholas Parsons hosts the popular panel game. Paul Merton, Greg Proops, Joe Lycett and Sue Perkins play the devious linguistic game at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Show more

Oliver is reassuring, and Tom sticks his neck out. Show more

Tom Stoppard on his radio drama inspired by Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon; Elysium film review; and Charlaine Harris on ending the True Blood novels. With Mark Lawson. Show more

Until five months ago, Liz was a hard-nosed child-protection social worker. Today she doesn't know who she is, except that she's on suspension, hiding from the press. Show more

It is assumed that monogamy and love go hand in hand, but Jo Fidgen asks if true love really demands sexual exclusivity and what happens when couples challenge this ideal. Show more

The Soviet Gulag system is said to live on in Kazakhstan's jails, where a growing prison population faces daily torture and humiliation. Rayhan Demeytrie investigates. Show more

Melvyn Bragg tells the story of William and Lawrence Bragg, the father and son who shared the 1915 Nobel Prize in physics for their work on the structure of crystals. Show more

Robert McCrum and his guests, Malcolm Gladwell, Will Self, Sarah Waters and Howard Jacobson, examine the shifting sands of plagiarism, theft, influence and originality. Show more

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Greenwald, UN Baghdad bomb anniversary, political soundbites and Kurdistan. In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective with Ritula Shah. Show more

In 1973, Bill Shankly takes Liverpool to their first European trophy, but is shaken by his wife's serious illness. Show more

Late-night conversation. Jane Garvey asks whether sport matters, and why some can be so ambivalent about it even when we are winning. Show more

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The first English translation of a Latin American true crime classic. On the evening of June 9 1956, a group of men gather in an apartment in Buenos Aires to play cards. Show more

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