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How did Loretta Lynch, a black woman from North Carolina, whose own mother picked cotton as a girl, get to be the top law enforcement official in the US? Edward Stourton finds out. Show more

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Mark Tully asks if the economic growth that politicians use to judge a country's state of health can undermine people's spiritual well-being. Show more

Chris Packham relives programmes from the Living World archives. In this programme recorded in 2000, Lionel Kelleway joins Chris Perrins in Oxford in search of 'devil-birds'. Show more

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Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme, presented by Edward Stourton, including Nepal, church bells and fossil fuels. Show more

Helen Lederer presents an appeal for BasicNeeds. Show more

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Gerard Brooks directs the renowned Methodist Central Hall Choir in a feast of Methodist hymns live from Methodist Central Hall, with the superintendent, the Rev Martin Turner. Show more

David Cannadine reflects on the merits of youth and age in political leaders, and finds the current set taking their parties into next week's election strikingly young. Show more

David Attenborough presents the second of four recordings marking the dawn chorus, this time the heather moors of Allendale in Northumberland. Show more

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

Jolene and Kenton are under a cloud, while Peggy has bought a present. Show more

Sue MacGregor reunites cast and creatives to explore how director Peter Brook's revolutionary A Midsummer Night's Dream at the RSC in 1970 changed theatre and Shakespeare forever. Show more

Sue Perkins' moral and ethical posers for Iain Stirling, Shappi Khorsandi, Suzanne Moore and Dan Tetsell. From April 2015. Show more

Sheila Dillon reports on how 15 years of the BBC Food and Farming Awards have captured changes in the UK's food and food culture. Show more

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Global news and analysis, presented by Mark Mardell.

Peter Gibbs is in Devon to chair the horticultural panel programme. Bunny Guinness, Anne Swithinbank and Matthew Wilson join him to answer an array of gardening conundrums. Show more

Captain Grimes disappears. Margot invites Paul to tutor her son Peter, where he meets eccentric Otto. Stars Kieran Hodgson. Show more

Libyan writer Hisham Matar talks to James Naughtie and a group of readers about his acclaimed first novel In the Country of Men, which was nominated for the Man Booker Prize 2006. Show more

One hundred and fifty years ago, one of the most significant American poets of the 19th century worked as a wound-dresser in the Civil War. What became of his poetry afterwards? Show more

Lucy Ash investigates the mass rapes by Soviet troops in Germany at the end of World War II, committed in part as revenge for Nazi atrocities in the Soviet Union. Show more

How did Loretta Lynch, a black woman from North Carolina, whose own mother picked cotton as a girl, get to be the top law enforcement official in the US? Edward Stourton finds out. Show more

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Chris Hawkins chooses his BBC Radio highlights from the past seven days. Show more

It is Dawn Chorus Day, and the plot thickens for David. Show more

The Now Show gang present a series of election specials. Presented by Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis, with Laura Shavin, John Robins, Ben Partridge, Deborah Orr and Adam Kay. Show more

Whilst in France, Karl is engulfed by memories of an encounter with a local woman on an earlier visit. Read by David Acton. Show more

Is the number of Catholic nuns on the up? Tim Harford explores polling data, and stand-up mathematician Matt Parker explains his theory for finding a life partner. Show more

Matthew Bannister talks about Everton FC chairman Philip Carter, cinematographer Andrew Lesnie, anti-nuclear campaigner Margaret Harrison, MSP Tom McCabe and actress Claire Gordon. Show more

Paul Lewis interviews George Osborne, looks at the latest fixed-rate mortgage deals and talks to the chief executive of Wasps Rugby about plans to raise £35 million in bonds. Show more

Helen Lederer presents an appeal for BasicNeeds. Show more

Immigration is one of the key issues of the general election. Peter Day asks businesses, big and small, how important the flow of foreign workers is to their bottom line. Show more

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

Kevin Maguire of the Mirror analyses how the newspapers are covering the biggest stories. Show more

Presented by Francine Stock. Festen director Thomas Vinterberg discusses his latest adaptation of Far from the Madding Crowd. Show more

Mark Tully asks if the economic growth that politicians use to judge a country's state of health can undermine people's spiritual well-being. Show more

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Laurie Taylor explores the relationship between masculinity, militarism and health, with a look at post traumatic stress in combat veterans. Plus managing beds in the NHS. Show more

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