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Former soldier Emile Simpson draws on his experience in Afghanistan to argue that we need to rethink the way we fight wars now the boundary with politics has been blurred. Show more

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Mark Tully investigates the relationship between dance and spirituality in conversation with dancer and choreographer Akram Khan and with music from three continents. Show more

Tessa Dunlop visits Galloway, Scotland's most important milk-producing area, and meets a dairy farmer who is revolutionising the way he works. Show more

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In a special report, Kevin Bocquet investigates clergy safety and asks what kind of safety provisions are made for those working ministry. Show more

Alexei Sayle presents an appeal on behalf of the Simon Community. Show more

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A reflection for Holocaust Memorial Day with the Rev Ruth Scott. Show more

Adam Gopnik hails the development of the self-drive car as the way to rescue his male identity after years as a non-driver. Show more

Chris Packham presents the mandarin duck. Show more

Sunday morning magazine programme with news and conversation about the big stories of the week. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.

Peggy makes an announcement, and Ed feels guilty. Show more

Kirsty Young interviews English sailing star Sir Ben Ainslie. Show more

Sheila Dillon finds out why humble Greek yogurt triggered a worldwide food craze. Show more

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The latest national and international news with Shaun Ley, including children in police cells, regulating industry on the moon, and why is the UK less productive than Italy? Show more

Owen Bennett Jones reports on the ways in which outside interests try to gain access to Westminster's corridors of power without anyone breaking the rules. Show more

Peter Gibbs hosts an edition of the gardeners' panel discussion from Sparsholt College. With Chris Beardshaw, Bob Flowerdew and Pippa Greenwood answering listeners' questions. Show more

In 1964, a group of West German students helped more than 50 people escape from East Berlin through a tunnel that they had dug under the Berlin Wall. Show more

4 Extra Debut. Mr Harding finds his peaceful life disrupted when his would-be son-in-law questions the large income he receives. Stars Tim Pigott-Smith. From January 2014. Show more

Roger McGough presents listeners' poetry requests. With Bernard O'Donoghue, Helen Mort and Paul Farley reading their own work. Show more

With a report due shortly on claims that the Royal Bank of Scotland profited by forcing some viable businesses into insolvency, Jane Deith hears from some of those affected. Show more

After the LibDems' internal disputes over Lord Rennard, Fiona Evans takes us back to primary school, and to four newly elected candidates of the school council. Show more

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Stewart Henderson makes his selection from the previous seven days of BBC Radio. Show more

Peggy is taken aback, and Pat cannot keep silent. Show more

The horses fall out over literary matters. An epistolary equine love story starring Stephen Fry and Daniel Rigby. From January 2014. Show more

Chief mouser to the Cabinet Office gives a cat's eye view of life at Number 10 under Gordon Brown. With Tracy Wiles. From 2012. Show more

By Sarah Salway. It's 1927, and George has brought his sheep from Aberdeenshire to keep the grass short on Clapham Common. He's invited to visit sick children at an open air school. Show more

Tim Harford presents a detailed looked at the impact immigration has on the public purse. Plus single women; alcohol and mouth cancer; and a tennis puzzle to ponder. Show more

Matthew Bannister on Tory fundraiser Lord McAlpine, broadcasting campaigner Jocelyn Hay, poet Amiri Baraka, runner and MP Sir Christopher Chataway, and conductor Claudio Abbado. Show more

Paul Lewis presents the latest news from the world of personal finance, looking at how HSBC are preventing some customers withdrawing large amounts of cash. Show more

Alexei Sayle presents an appeal on behalf of the Simon Community. Show more

Peter Day travels to Cork in Ireland to find out what life is really like in a country just recently released from the constraints of an EU bailout.

Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators.

Kevin Maguire of the Daily Mirror looks at how newspapers covered the week's biggest stories.

Francine Stock talks to Meryl Streep about her Oscar-nominated role in August: Osage County. Plus Oscar Isaac on working with the Coen Brothers in Inside Llewyn Davis. Show more

Mark Tully investigates the relationship between dance and spirituality in conversation with dancer and choreographer Akram Khan and with music from three continents. Show more

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Laurie Taylor explores the role of music in our lives with Prof David Hesmondhalgh, and Falu Bakrania discusses British Asian musical culture in the late 1990s. Show more

The bells of St Mary and St Chad, Brewood, Staffordshire. Show more

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