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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Andrew Graystone. Show more

Farming minister George Eustice announces new measures to stop the decline of the European sea bass stock. However, not all fishermen welcome the new rules. With Charlotte Smith. Show more

Martin Hughes-Games presents the common crane. Common cranes were extinct in the UK in the 17th century. Show more

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Ashley is 15 and refusing the cancer treatment that could save his life. Should the medical team and his mother persuade him? Or should they accept his decision? Show more

Mrs Armitage has consented to an abortion and a sterilisation. A study of 1960s marriage starring Helen McCrory and Paul Ready. Show more

China has become a top maker and taker of underground ketamine. Celia Hatton sees the impact of the drug and explores the Fortress, the drug village at the centre of the trade. Show more

Dr Janina Ramirez decodes Edouard Manet's masterpiece A Bar at the Folies-Bergere with Prof Griselda Pollock and Dr Karen Serres. Show more

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Consumer affairs. Derby-based The Hearing Clinic becomes the first claims management company to be fined by the claims management regulator for making nuisance calls. Show more

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Why does the character of the devouring mother have such force? Jo Fidgen and company discuss DH Lawrence's Sons and Lovers. Show more

Emma feels left out, and Susan wants to move with the times. Show more

An imagined meeting for Winnie-the-Pooh artist Ernest Shepard and grown-up Christopher Robin Milne. Stars Oliver Ford Davies. From July 2013. Show more

It is 175 years since Thomas Hardy was born in Higher Bockhampton in Dorset. Helen Mark visits the landscape that features throughout his writing and where his heart remains. Show more

Colin Salmon presents an appeal for Special Olympics Great Britain. Show more

James Naughtie and a group of readers talk to American writer AM Homes about her darkly comic novel May We Be Forgiven, which won the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction. Show more

Presented by Antonia Quirke. Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood discusses his score for There Will Be Blood, which he will be performing live in August. Show more

Science news with Adam Rutherford, including discussion on the radiation effects after Hiroshima, and whether the first atomic bomb tests started the Anthropocene. Show more

Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.

An obsessive quest for fitness in ‘Stepping Out’ and a tale of over-zealous security in ‘The Vigilant Rabbit’. From 2015. Show more

Self-doubting Kate gets a pep talk. Ruth and David get moving. Show more

Arts news, including Guy Ritchie on The Man From U.N.C.L.E., fantasy writer China Mieville on his new collection of short stories and the actor George Cole remembered. Show more

Mrs Armitage has consented to an abortion and a sterilisation. A study of 1960s marriage starring Helen McCrory and Paul Ready. Show more

The charity Kids Company and its charismatic founder Camila Batmanghelidjh have endured weeks of negative headlines. Reporter Simon Cox investigates accusations of mismanagement. Show more

California has some of the world's most productive farmland. The state has also endured four years of drought. What happens when water becomes the most valuable commodity of all? Show more

Science news with Adam Rutherford, including discussion on the radiation effects after Hiroshima, and whether the first atomic bomb tests started the Anthropocene. Show more

Steve Punt turns investigator, reopening the mysterious case of a woman found dead inside a tree. Show more

We discuss modern-day attitudes towards nuclear weapons. Show more

Paul is still resisting writing a new novel and Claude's bank is taking bigger and bigger risks. Read by Peter Serafinowicz. Show more

Using the Bible, the Monarchy and Audrey Hepburn, Jeremy Hardy looks at self-improvement. With Carla Mendonça. From 2014. Show more

In the first of a double bill, Jarvis Cocker wanders the lava fields of Iceland in search of the unseen forces of night. He meets sheep, enters a volcano and stumbles upon a wake. Show more

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Helen Scales explores the impact of shells on agriculture and geology and peeks into the driven world of the collector. Show more

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