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The bells of St Mary the Virgin in Bowdon, Cheshire. Show more

The so-called 'fake sheikh' - journalist Mazher Mahmood - has hit the headlines again. Edward Stourton profiles this controversial figure. Show more

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Mark Tully negotiates the challenges, pitfalls and delights of translating ideas, emotions, and even music, into different languages, cultures and forms of expression. Show more

In the first of two programmes from the Turks and Caicos Islands, Tom Heap joins local naturalist Bryan Naqqi Manco for a night safari in search of the Caicos pygmy boa constrictor. Show more

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Gaza, Iraqi Christians and the early Christian finds from the 'Pompeii of the north'. Show more

David Dimbleby presents an appeal for homeless charity The Passage. Show more

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The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.

Festival Mass in St John's Church, Buxton, sung to Mozart's Missa Brevis in B flat by the Buxton Madrigal Singers with a sermon by Canon Simon Taylor, Chancellor of Derby Cathedral. Show more

Republican or royalist, we all need something or someone in which to invest our loyalty. Will Self reflects on what really lies behind our sense of patriotism. Show more

Michaela Strachan presents the story and sound of the rock pipit. Show more

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

Contemporary drama in a rural setting.

Kirsty Young talks to Dame Wendy Hall, fellow of both the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society. Show more

A return visit to the Assembly Hall in Worthing for regulars Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden plus Harry Hill on the panel and Jack Dee in the chair. Show more

English and Welsh wines appear to be on the up and up. Sheila Dillon goes to the vineyards to investigate. Show more

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Shaun Ley presents national and international news, including an in-depth look at events around the world. Email: wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend.

India is falling in love with Western classical music. In his home city, Mumbai, Zareer Masani finds keen audiences, surprises - a choir of sex workers' children - and controversy. Show more

Eric Robson chairs the horticultural panel programme from Chester Zoo. Show more

Fi Glover with conversations between couples who together find the strength to make a fresh start, eliminate starvation in a small Tanzanian town, and deal with fatal illness. Show more

Ian McKellen stars as Eugenie's miserly father, a man whose terror of poverty overrides his love for his child. Gripping dramatisation of Balzac's classic. From July 2014. Show more

Jessie Burton takes Mariella Frostrup back to Golden Age Amsterdam with The Miniaturist, plus Viv Groskop and Matt Haig on this summer's best beach reads and Deborah Levy at home. Show more

Jarvis Cocker uncovers the hidden treasure Betjeman's Banana Blush, an album made by Sir John Betjeman in 1974. Show more

Reactions to British soldiers shooting unarmed protesters in Dublin. Show more

John McCarthy meets the Kurds of Iraq, the one stable community in a nation broken into warring fragments. How did they achieve their unique status and can they maintain it? Show more

The so-called 'fake sheikh' - journalist Mazher Mahmood - has hit the headlines again. Edward Stourton profiles this controversial figure. Show more

The latest weather forecast.

The best of BBC Radio this week with Isy Suttie Show more

There's a special guest at the village fete, and Lilian wins on points. Show more

Wife Mary's worried Toyah Willcox will live up to her wild 80s' image when she's invited to sing one of John's songs. From July 2014. Show more

Kei Miller's clever and multilayered story draws together themes of slavery, Glasgow's empire past in Jamaica and the most traditional of British drinks, tea. Show more

What happened to BBC iPlayer? Did the Moral Maze panellists behave like squabbling children? And what makes TMS duo Geoffrey Boycott and Jonathan Agnew tick? Show more

Julian Worricker on actors James Garner and Dora Bryan, naturalist Philip Wayre, physician and AIDS researcher Joep Lange, and escapologist Alan Alan Show more

John Waite investigates claims by leading figures in the charity sector that they are being silenced by gagging clauses, threats of closure and fear of losing funding. Show more

David Dimbleby presents an appeal for homeless charity The Passage. Show more

The downturn has made everyone worry more about money. But while we may want to be thriftier, Chris Bowlby discovers why we are stuck with high personal and household debt. Show more

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

Dennis Sewell of the Spectator looks at how newspapers covered the week's big stories.

Austria-Hungary delivers its ultimatum to Serbia. Meanwhile British attention is diverted by the threat of civil war in Ireland. France is gripped by a sensational murder trial. Show more

Mark Tully negotiates the challenges, pitfalls and delights of translating ideas, emotions, and even music, into different languages, cultures and forms of expression. Show more

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Elevators: A cultural history. Laurie Taylor explores the origins and meaning of 'the lift' as an urban fact of life. Also, political militants who enter the electoral mainstream. Show more

The bells of St Mary the Virgin in Bowdon, Cheshire. Show more

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