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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Rev Dr Karen Smith.

More bad news for dairy farmers: world prices have declined by 45 per cent since February. Plus a gamekeeper convicted of killing birds of prey could face jail. With Anna Hill. Show more

Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the North American Swainson's hawk. Show more

Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

Kirsty Young talks to conductor Marin Alsop. Show more

Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female perspective on the world.

Robert Forrest's thriller set in 10th century Japan. A wolf roams the palace, earthquake and fire threaten, and a young Empress takes the future of the known world into her hands. Show more

4 Extra Debut. First celebrated in 1967, dancers, designers, police and parade-goers experience the Leeds West Indian Carnival. From 2014. Show more

Discovering a poet on the colony sets off a bomb, a monster, a sword fight and a poem. Stars Nicholas Lyndhurst. From August 2014. Show more

In the final episode of Season 1, the Wilson family wave Victor off to war. Another lost boy. Show more

Problems behind the scenes cause more delays for disabled people relying on the government's Access to Work programme. Also, why vets are over-prescribing antibiotics for pets. Show more

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Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Mark Mardell.

Food writer Alison Clarkson follows up with eight people on a run-your-own-chippy course, six months after it ends. From October 2014. Show more

Bert is on hand to help, and Charlie has got plans for Adam. Show more

By Julie Mayhew. May 1749. Grainger's travelling fair develops an astonishing new act, care of Sebastian Fox and his 'electrickery'. Show more

The Next Horticultural Generation: Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme in front of an audience of 150 young gardeners during London's Landscape Show. Show more

4 Extra Debut. A doctoral student arrives from America to study an obscure poet with an interest in the occult. Read by Jessica Raine. Show more

Matthew Bannister on conductor Christopher Hogwood, Israeli General Yitzhak Hofi, broadcaster Sheila Tracy, mathematician Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw and singer Lyndsey de Paul. Show more

Presented by Roger Bolton. Today editor on tough foreign news and attracting new listeners. Will the missing You and Yours minutes return? Plus Matthew Taylor on political debate. Show more

Fi Glover introduces a conversation about how a grandfather passed his love of cooking down to his granddaughter, even though he died when she was just six months old. Show more

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Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by special guest John Finnemore for a comic romp through the week's news. With Pippa Evans and Mitch Benn. Show more

Ruth makes a suggestion, and Phoebe talks to Hayley. Show more

Presented by John Wilson. Members of Genesis discuss a new documentary about the band, and Sarah Churchwell reviews David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow, which stars Lindsay Lohan. Show more

Neil MacGregor discovers how coins reveal the range and diversity of the Holy Roman Empire, with around 200 different currencies struck in the different territories of Germany. Show more

Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from Surbiton High School in Surrey with Baroness Williams, Emily Thornberry MP, Michael Gove MP & Patrick O'Flynn MEP. Show more

Adam Gopnik thinks there is a simple reason for the recent findings that short men enjoy stable marriages. It is not that they are desperate to please, but are desperate to prevail. Show more

The end of the beginning, perhaps, but a long long way from the end. With Katie Angelou, Keely Beresford, Michael Bertenshaw. Show more

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A special programme from California. Ritula Shah asks if soft power is effective in a world with high-profile conflicts such as Gaza, Ukraine and Syria. Show more

Crispin Hershey makes amends for past wrongs and dabbles in writing sci-fi, to his agent's despair. Alone in Iceland, he has a disturbing encounter. Read by Robert Glenister. Show more

Professor Edith Hall explains her love for the life and work of American actress Lucille Ball. With Matthew Parris. From 2014. Show more

4 Extra Debut. Musician Soweto Kinch offers his view of Birmingham, a city of artistic endeavour and surprising cultural nuances. From 2014. Show more

Fi Glover with a conversation between friends about the challenges of parenting, especially when you want to make up to your adopted child for the difficulties of her early life. Show more

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Neil MacGregor discovers how coins reveal the range and diversity of the Holy Roman Empire, with around 200 different currencies struck in the different territories of Germany. Show more

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