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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Judy Merry. Show more

With Anna Hill. Nearly half of the fish caught under the UK's quotas are caught by non-British boats. Endangered Scottish wildcats get a financial boost to help their numbers. Show more

Liz Bonnin presents the advancing, leaping and queuing male blue manakin of Brazil. Show more

Gary and Charlotte struggle with very different approaches to hormone blockers, while Amy embarks on some dramatic interior decoration. Show more

Few creatures have infiltrated our psyche as much as wolves. Can we share the planet with these enigmas of the wild, or will we always want to eradicate them from our lives? Show more

4 Extra Debut. Supporters of the Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra, including Alan Bennett, tell its short history from 1947-1955. From 2014. Show more

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Consumer phone-in with Winifred Robinson. Do people treat you differently when you are older? Show more

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Bettany Hughes investigates charisma at the Acropolis, in a recording session with Live Aid founder Bob Geldof and on the pages of a best-selling novel with author Ben Okri. Show more

Alice makes a radical decision, and Pip and Josh have a late-night chat. Show more

Three childhood friends reunite at a key moment in their lives in Marcella Evaristi's comic drama about sexual identity and mid-life crises in middle-class Glasgow. Show more

Jay Rayner and his team of culinary experts take questions from a local audience in Greenwich. Show more

Sinéad O'Connor answers audience questions about her most personal album, 2007's 'Theology'. With John Wilson. From 2014. Show more

Michael Rosen is joined by author Tom Chatfield and his 15-month-old son and linguists Laura Wright and Kriszta Szendroi to discuss the first sounds and words that babies learn. Show more

Journalist Laura Bates chooses the 19th-century American children’s author, Louise May Alcott. With Matthew Parris. From 2014. Show more

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Tom finds himself on a moor in search of a potentially devastating family secret while his mum and gran dress wells! From 2014. Show more

Carol and Jim go under cover, and Lynda has an exhausting rehearsal. Show more

Arts news. Ridley Scott's Exodus reviewed, the phenomenon of the Serial podcasts, Phillip Breen on The Shoemaker's Holiday, and Quvenzhane Wallis and director Will Gluck on Annie. Show more

Gary and Charlotte struggle with very different approaches to hormone blockers, while Amy embarks on some dramatic interior decoration. Show more

Now in her 80s, Joan Bakewell admits she is becoming more forgetful. But is this a normal part of ageing, or dementia? And what might she expect and how she should prepare? Show more

Richard Osman co-hosts Pointless on BBC TV and talks to Peter White about the impact his eye condition, Nystagmus, has on his work.
Nystagmus has the effect of 'wobbly' eyes. Show more

Claudia Hammond investigates the condition perinatal obsessive compulsive disorder. Are mirror neurons overhyped, and does a baby pick up anxiety more from its mother or father? Show more

Sarah Richardson explores the implications of a newly-discovered document which shows that women in Lichfield voted in a parish election in 1843 - decades before the suffragettes. Show more

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Resolute in her decision to raise her son alone, Tess vows never to explain herself to anyone again. Read by Niamh Cusack. Show more

Comic and transvestite Andrew O'Neill, married and in a steam punk band, shares his thoughts on gender identity. From December 2014. Show more

William Hague outlines radical plans for English votes on English laws made at Westminster. Joanna Shinn reports on that and on the best of the rest in the Commons and the Lords. Show more

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Peter Hennessy is joined by David Hope, a former senior Scottish judge on the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, to discuss how further devolution will change the constitution. Show more

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