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A spiritual reflection and prayer to start the day with the Rev Richard Frazer of Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh. Show more

What is the future for the world dairy market? Experts meet in Edinburgh to discuss ways forward. Presented by Charlotte Smith. Show more

Chris Packham presents the North American blue jay. Show more

Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.

Italy 1943: Chiara has to learn how to be a mother to the Jewish boy she has saved. Starring Greta Scacchi and Juliet Aubrey. Show more

Despatches include a look at what is behind the new wave of violence in Israel and stories from Myanmar, France, Senegal and China. Show more

The story of Cruachan Power Station and the art it has inspired, 50 years on from its completion and in anticipation of the premiere of the forthcoming work, Master Rock. Show more

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New crime statistics include fraud for the first time - what's the true scale of it? Plus how some car dealers are breaking the law with selling tactics. Show more

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News and current affairs analysis. Including crime figures, Kids Company inquiry by MPs and the SNP conference in Aberdeen. Presented by Martha Kearney and Shaun Ley. Show more

Geneticist Steve Jones accompanies Peter Snow to a chilly corner of South East Scotland in the past and the future to explore human evolution and the origins of the red head. Show more

It is a poignant day for Ruth, and Phoebe is in the driving seat. Show more

Miller is now in his late sixties, and it has been a long time since he had a major success. In Mike Walker's drama, a mysterious young visitor compels him to look back on his life. Show more

Clare Balding walks with Matthew Hopwood from Winterbourne Bassett to Avebury in Wiltshire. Show more

Leona Knox presents the Radio 4 Appeal for Neuroblastoma Children's Cancer Alliance UK. Show more

Mariella Frostrup talks to novelist Andrew Michael Hurley, whose gothic novel The Loney has been one of the publishing stories of the year. Show more

Francine Stock talks to Tom Hiddleston about his upcoming films, Ben Foster discusses Lance Armstrong, and Yorgos Lanthimos talks about his satire The Lobster. Show more

In a special programme, Adam Rutherford and Francine Stock explore time travel in science and cinema. Show more

England's to get its first new grammar school site for 50 years.

Good Lord! - exactly what Marcus Brigstocke has become to determine if we really need that second chamber. From October 2015. Show more

Rob is right by Helen's side, and the Fairbrothers are off to Norfolk. Show more

New film Pan reviewed, Titian to Canaletto: Drawing in Venice, Lisa Genova on her new novel Inside the O'Briens, and dramatist Marcus Gardley on A Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes. Show more

Italy 1943: Chiara has to learn how to be a mother to the Jewish boy she has saved. Starring Greta Scacchi and Juliet Aubrey. Show more

While the media focuses on the migrants in Calais desperate to get to the UK, we look at the tens of thousands who do make it each year. Who are they, and how do they get here? Show more

Companies like Royal Mail, Saga and the AA have recently listed their shares on the stock market. But why do firms want to float, and how must they adapt to becoming a plc? Show more

In a special programme, Adam Rutherford and Francine Stock explore time travel in science and cinema. Show more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hans Holbein's role in the Tudor Court, painting Henry VIII as he asserted himself as supreme head of the Church during the Reformation. Show more

Scottish prosecutors want to interview two Libyans they have indentified as new suspects in the Lockerbie bombing investigation.

After Betty's mysterious death, suspicion falls on Henry. Show more

A witty, fact-packed A-Z of evolution, via stand-up and sketches. With Claire Price and Jenni Murray. From October 2015. Show more

Susan Hulme reports from Westminster where there is torrid questioning of the head of the collapsed charity Kids Company. Show more

Fi Glover hears a grandmother and her grandson reflect on their special relationship, after she took on his care when he was 10 months old, because of his mother's heroin habit. Show more

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The ferment in the country and King James's insistence on an oath of allegiance brings religious tensions to the fore in 1606. Show more

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