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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Leslie Griffiths. Show more
Countryside news. Every bat used in first-class cricket begins its life as a willow tree in a wet English field. Sarah Swadling discovers how the growing affects the game. Show more
David Attenborough presents the raven. Show more
Musician PJ Harvey guest-edits the programme.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Plato's Symposium, one of the Greek philosopher's best-known works and an influential text about the nature of love. Show more
Jenni Murray presents a phone-in discussing how to be happy after divorce or separation, with experiences, tips and post-split advice from listeners. Show more
Widower Edward Vernon can no longer resist speculating - putting Hester's bank at risk. Stars Joseph Kloska. Show more
Crossing Continents
Greenland: To dig or not to dig?
28 minutes
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James Fletcher asks if mining for rare earths and uranium will destroy Greenland's environment - or lead the country to independence. Show more
Sarfraz Manzoor visits India to meet a new generation of musicians and singers performing indie, reggae, ska and rap and examines whether they can ever rival Bollywood and bangra. Show more
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Dominic Lawson talks to the women's world chess champion Hou Yifan. Still only 19, Yifan is one of only a handful of women to have become an elite grandmaster. Show more
Jolene is encouraging, and Helen is in mischievous mood. Show more
Katie Hims - Listening to the Dead
4. Ruby's Shoes
45 minutes
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Ruby is unaware of her clairvoyant heritage and finds her gift a curse in an age of experimental psychology. Stars Ami Metcalf. Show more
Helen Mark visits the border landscape of Northumberland, where in 2013, the 'borderers' found unique ways to commemorate the 500th year anniversary of the battle of Flodden. Show more
Martin Bell presents an appeal for Street Child Africa. Show more
Mariella Frostrup presents a Children's Laureate special. Malorie Blackman, Dame Jacqueline Wilson and Michael Rosen discuss the role of the Children's Laureate. Show more
The Film Programme
Idris Elba on Mandela; Films for 2014; Newcastle Film Club
28 minutes
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Francine Stock talks to Idris Elba about playing Mandela. Plus films to watch out for in 2014 with Charles Gant and Kevin Markwick, and the award-winning Newcastle Film Club. Show more
BBC Inside Science
Ancient Human Occupation of Britain
30 minutes
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The ancient inhabitants of Britain - when did they get here? Who were they, and how do we know? Alice Roberts meets the AHOB team, who have been digging for answers. Show more
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From Ed Miliband to Lady Gaga, Jon Culshaw and Debra Stephenson explore the bizarre private lives of famous folk. From January 2014. Show more
Peggy receives a troubling phone call, and Helen has to change her plans. Show more
Front Row
Last Vegas; Jarvis Cocker and Martin Wallace; Tom Price
30 minutes
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Sculptor Tom Price on his exhibition at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Jarvis Cocker and Martin Wallace on their film about Sheffield steel, and new comedy Last Vegas reviewed. Show more
Widower Edward Vernon can no longer resist speculating - putting Hester's bank at risk. Stars Joseph Kloska. Show more
Jenny Chryss examines growing calls for a public inquiry into allegations of widespread falsification of evidence by the police during the 1984 miners' strike. Show more
Peter Day investigates how much the music industry has changed in the past decade and asks how businesses, and musicians, have had to adapt as a result. Show more
BBC Inside Science
Ancient Human Occupation of Britain
30 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
The ancient inhabitants of Britain - when did they get here? Who were they, and how do we know? Alice Roberts meets the AHOB team, who have been digging for answers. Show more
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Plato's Symposium, one of the Greek philosopher's best-known works and an influential text about the nature of love. Show more
The latest weather forecast.
In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective.
After painstaking detective work, Chief Inspector Aronsson makes his way to Bosse's farm. And we learn how Allan once found himself in a room with Kim Il Sung and Mao Tse-Tung. Show more
Laurie Taylor looks back at 50 years of cultural studies, established with the founding of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham University in 1964. Show more
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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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