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

The Wildlife Trusts are demanding £420 million should be spent on conservation along the route of the HS2 rail line. And, the world's longest running insect survey turns 50. Show more

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Kate Humble presents the red-throated diver. Show more

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Anne McElvoy talks about the future of capitalism with social theorist Jeremy Rifkin, sociologist Saskia Sassen and Tory MP Kwasi Kwarteng. Show more

J.K. Rowling looks at why Scotland has the highest number of MS sufferers in the world, explains her passion for Scottish rugby and asks, what is the power and myth of the shoe? Show more

With her husband Franco in prison, Caterina must decide whether to join the Camorra and become leader of the Riccardi clan. Show more

Myf Barker, 74, is turning her enormous home into a wedding venue in the hope that it will make money. Kate Lamble meets the family and uncovers memories amid the chaos. Show more

It is the Edinburgh Festival and Clare's birthday, so what is her husband playing at? Stars Julie Graham, Hilary Lyon and Simon Greenall. From April 2014. Show more

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Martin Sixsmith examines the evolution of clinical psychiatry, starting with the origins of the asylum movement. From April 2014. Show more

Tony confronts Peggy, and Jill moves to Brookfield. Show more

Teaching has become a dirty word at Hayborough University, and when a new dean of research development comes on board, she urges partnerships abroad. Show more

Steve Punt hosts the battle of wits as three students from Aberystwyth take on their professors. From April 2014. Show more

Tim Hayward on the evolution of Jamaican food in the UK with chefs and cooks in Bristol.

4 Extra Debut. Film maker Penny Woolcock explores the lives of Sheffield’s Mottershaw family who, in 1903, made cinema history. From 2014. Show more

Aleks Krotoski asks how human beings can cope with a world saturated by data. For some it is clay to be moulded and built with, while for others it is the route to self-knowledge. Show more

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David Mitchell hosts, as Lloyd Langford, Jon Richardson, Katherine Ryan and Graeme Garden talk with deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as Wales, Fish, Mouths and Perfume. Show more

Brian's in pain. Meanwhile, Rob supports grateful Helen. Show more

David Haig on writing and starring in a play about the weatherman who postponed D-Day; Ziggy Marley on the importance of reggae in his music; Prey, starring John Simm, reviewed. Show more

With her husband Franco in prison, Caterina must decide whether to join the Camorra and become leader of the Riccardi clan. Show more

More American veterans of Afghanistan and Iraq are dying by their own hands than in combat. Michael Goldfarb investigates the reasons behind the suicide surge. Show more

For some in South Korea, old age has meant making some tough choices. In a park in Seoul, Lucy Williamson finds an old profession getting some surprising new recruits. Show more

Prof Chris Riley speaks to space lawyers, scientists and commercial spaceflight entrepreneurs and argues that we need to act now to preserve the moon for all mankind. Show more

Anne McElvoy talks about the future of capitalism with social theorist Jeremy Rifkin, sociologist Saskia Sassen and Tory MP Kwasi Kwarteng. Show more

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Global news with Ritula Shah. Publicist Max Clifford is found guilty of sex offences, a teacher at a Leeds school is stabbed to death and MPs debate the HS2 rail link. Show more

As Londoners fall seriously ill from a highly contagious virus, TV shopping channel presenter Stevie Flint goes in search of her boyfriend, who has stopped returning her calls. Show more

Michael Rosen goes to Glasgow to hear about the Scots language with Sanjeev Kohli. Show more

Sean Curran reports from Westminster, as MPs return from their Easter break.

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Miner Walter Parkin's family arrive in Yorkshire's Dearne Valley. Life is not easy for daughter Winnie. Read by Richard Stacey. Show more

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