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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Leslie Griffiths. Show more
Thatching straw, known as wheat reed, has been losing ground to cheaper imported water reed. But as Sarah Swadling finds out, it still has its devotees among thatchers and farmers. Show more
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David Attenborough presents the starling. Show more
Monty Python star Michael Palin guest-edits the programme.
Start the Week
Michael Gove on teaching history
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Andrew Marr talks to the education minister Michael Gove and historians Margaret MacMillan and Tom Holland. Show more
What are the views of the next generation? Emma Barnett hears from schoolgirl activist Malala Yousafzai, YouTube star Benjamin Cook and teens from across the UK. Show more
A tale of banks and bankers, credit and discredit, and a single woman who does something truly radical. Stars Penelope Wilton. Show more
Aasmah Mir meets some of the families in which grandparents are bringing up their grandchildren and experiencing the highs and lows of parenthood the second time around. Show more
Against her better judgement, Jan has dinner with her ex-husband. Stars Sheila Hancock and Geoffrey Palmer. From December 2013. Show more
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Dominic Lawson talks to writer and former alcoholic John Healy. How did chess help Healy give up the booze? And why does he think the world of chess is harsher than life on street? Show more
Something is bothering Lilian. Meanwhile Lynda is overcome with emotion. Show more
Katie Hims - Listening to the Dead
1. Enoch's Machine
45 minutes
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A Victorian scientist ploughs his wealth into developing a device to record his dead daughter’s voice. Stars Michael Bertenshaw. Show more
Nationwide general knowledge quiz, hosted by Russell Davies. Featuring competitors from Scotland and the north of England. Show more
The Food Programme
100 years of Elizabeth David
28 minutes
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Sheila Dillon and Tim Hayward discuss the legacy of Elizabeth David, the woman who brought the Mediterranean to post-war Britain, 100 years after her birth. Show more
Robert Macfarlane takes inspiration from writer Nan Shepherd on a very special poetic pilgrimage to the Cairngorms. From 2013. Show more
4 Extra Debut. Liz Barclay follows three busy people on an experiment to slow their pace of life. Their 'slow coach' is Carl Honoré. From 2013. Show more
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David Cameron is headmaster, but for how long? Michael Gove arrives and has a licence to teach. Show more
David Mitchell gets Arthur Smith, Henning Wehn, Bridget Christie and Ed Byrne to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on subjects such as poison, etiquette, jelly and David Mitchell. Show more
Adam has a few misgivings, and Peggy offers some well-meaning advice. Show more
Mark Lawson examines the American fiction that made headlines in 2013, including interviews with Edith Pearlman, James Salter, Renata Adler, Julian Barnes and Ruth Rendell. Show more
A tale of banks and bankers, credit and discredit, and a single woman who does something truly radical. Stars Penelope Wilton. Show more
Elinor Goodman looks at how the arrival of Roma from eastern Europe is challenging the already complex identity of England's Gypsies. Show more
Brazil's anti-slavery hit squads are unique. Linda Pressly joins a raid with a committed band of labour inspectors on an alleged slave labour operation in deepest rural Brazil. Show more
Shared Planet
Are There Too Many People for Wildlife to Thrive?
28 minutes
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Monty Don and guests address the question, in a special edition recorded before a live audience in the Great Hall of the University of Bristol. Show more
Start the Week
Michael Gove on teaching history
43 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
Andrew Marr talks to the education minister Michael Gove and historians Margaret MacMillan and Tom Holland. Show more
The latest weather forecast.
Northern Ireland parties in final push for peace process deal. Russia says it won't retreat in face of second suicide bombing in Volgograd. Presented by Roger Hearing. Show more
The police are getting closer to Allan and his friends at Lake Farm, and so are the Never Again gang. Show more
Michael Rosen looks at children's television and language development. He meets the makers of Rastamouse, and talks about Clanger speak and censorship with Daniel Postgate. Show more
Richard and Door discover who ordered the death of Door's family. Can Richard finally find his way home? Stars James McAvoy. Show more
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Nina Myskow discusses food, memory and an appetite for life with the author of When the Tiger Came To Tea, Judith Kerr. Show more
Partly inspired by his childhood admiration of the Duke of Edinburgh, Matthew Baylis travels to Vanuatu to explore the cult whose members revere Prince Philip as an island god. Show more
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