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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Alison Murdoch. Show more
Tourism businesses across Britain are uniting today to call for a cut to VAT. Farming Today visits a farmhouse B&B to find out how a reduction would benefit rural tourism. Show more
Steve Backshall presents the cirl bunting. Show more
Through the prism of history, Jonathan Freedland considers our attitudes towards young people who volunteer to fight in foreign wars. Show more
How publishing PM Harold Macmillan mixed politics with business. Robert McCrum's stories of great British publishers. From October 2013. Show more
Beth hangs out with a rival band’s lead singer and now has different ideas of how the band should proceed. Stars Anneika Rose. Show more
Amanda Foreman argues that political engagement and influence didn't necessarily come from the ballot box. From 2014. Show more
Tom discovers Grandad in a stool-softening ad. Lucy figures Dad needs a classier present. Stars Mark Bonnar. From July 2012. Show more
You and Yours
Cheap Chicken; Portas Towns; Driverless Cars
56 minutes
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With Winifred Robinson. The test results that reveal how raw chicken is being bulked out with extra water. And from Stockton-on-Tees, how Mary Portas has helped the high street. Show more
Face the Facts
Prostitution: Red Light? Green Light?
27 minutes
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John Waite investigates the varying approaches to street prostitution across the UK, from open tolerance in some areas to zero tolerance in others. Show more
Edward Stourton presents national and international news.
Kathy Willis explores the Victorian lust for orchids and Charles Darwin’s use of them as a key scientific tool. From 2014. Show more
PC Burns is handing out advice, and Mike is dog tired. Show more
Harper is a simple soul but his life is complicated. Then the ground starts to shift - literally. Stars Graeme Hawley. Show more
Money Box
Pension freedoms; The pros and cons of P2P lending; Tax credits deadline looms
28 minutes
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Savers are to receive free independent guidance when given access to their pension pots from April 2015, the pros and cons of P2P lending and the tax credits deadline looms. Show more
Inside Health
Back pain and paracetamol, blood thinning drugs, drug driving, kidney stones
28 minutes
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New research shows that paracetamol does not help back pain; the overuse of blood thinning drugs; new laws on limits for driving on prescribed drugs and treating kidney stones. Show more
Thinking Allowed
Non-Networking Graduates; Race and Consumption
28 minutes
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Race and consumption - Laurie Taylor explores the ways in which racial meaning is produced in everyday contemporary culture. Also, working class graduates who refuse to network. Show more
Why search engines cannot be expected to respect individuals' 'right to be forgotten', the campaign to save BBC 3 and London Live's request to cut live programming. Show more
The tsar orders a full mobilisation of the Russian army. Historian Margaret Macmillan looks back through contemporary accounts of the events leading up to the First World War. Show more
Coverage and analysis of the day's news.
A return of the popular impressions show with Jon Culshaw, Lewis MacLeod, Jan Ravens, Duncan Wisbey and Debra Stephenson. Show more
Lynda makes a breakthrough. Meanwhile, things are tense at Lower Loxley. Show more
Front Row
Adrian Dunbar, Tasmin Little, Mood Indigo, Katie Paterson
30 minutes
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Line of Duty's Adrian Dunbar on directing Beckett's Catastrophe, violinist Tasmin Little's sounds of summer, Audrey Tautou in Michel Gondry's Mood Indigo and artist Katie Paterson. Show more
Beth hangs out with a rival band’s lead singer and now has different ideas of how the band should proceed. Stars Anneika Rose. Show more
Michael Buerk presents combative, provocative and engaging debate. Show more
Adjoa Andoh on raising a child who sensed from a very young age that he was a boy trapped in a girl's body. Show more
4 Extra Debut. How the Bronze Age legacy of Alan Garner’s home and nearby Jodrell Bank, inspires his novels. With Martin Goodman. From 2014. Show more
Through the prism of history, Jonathan Freedland considers our attitudes towards young people who volunteer to fight in foreign wars. Show more
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In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. Death toll rises as UN school and market struck in Gaza. With Carolyn Quinn. Show more
With Johannes under arrest, it falls to Nella to do what she can to sell the warehouse full of sugar before it rots. Read by Emilia Fox. Show more
4 Extra Debut. Can the boffins add smells to broadcasts? Secrets of the Institute of Radiophonic Evolution. With William Beck. From 2014. Show more
A woman married to a philandering husband finds surprising solace during a turbulent flight. Stars Lesley Manville. From 2014. Show more
Susan Hulme reports on the House of Lords' last day before its long summer break. Peers debate same-sex marriage laws, curbs on judicial review and the healing power of music. Show more
The Listening Project
William and Elizabeth - Finding Love in Orkney
5 minutes
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Fi Glover introduces a couple who moved to Orkney as business partners and now reflect on how they fell in love with the remote islands and with each other. From July 2014. Show more
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Tensions at home are released by a lizard hunt. Show more
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