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The Rev Dr Emma Loveridge takes listeners to her own private wilderness, which she has created in east Devon to reflect on Jesus's 40 days and 40 nights in the wilderness. Show more

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Poet Ross Sutherland explores the consequences of repeating oneself. Featuring music from Steve Reich and David Lang. Show more

Ruth Sanderson visits Ahimsa Dairy in north Leicestershire to hear about their struggle to establish what they regard as an ethical alternative to modern milk production. Show more

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Edward Stourton explores Sikh women and the turban, the church tackling middle-class bias, and sin in the modern era. Show more

Noma Dumezweni makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Theatre for a Change. Show more

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How do we choose what to keep and what to leave behind on Lent pilgrimage? Live from Pugin's shrine of St Augustine in Ramsgate, Kent. With the rector Fr Marcus Holden. Show more

Adam Gopnik says the secret of happiness lies in unexpected pleasures, like finding yoghurt is vanilla when you expect it to be plain. Show more

David Attenborough presents the raven. Show more

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

A helping hand for Helen? And it is a big day for Brookfield. Show more

Kirsty Young interviews architect Dame Zaha Hadid, who chooses the eight records she would take with her to a desert island. Show more

John Lloyd and Sarah Millican welcome comedian Susan Calman, artist Adam Lowe, and TV naturalist Lucy Cooke. From 2016. Show more

Despite reports of falling sales in Japan, sake is now seeing a rise in interest in the UK. Sheila Dillon asks what has caused it and explores the race to brew the first UK sake. Show more

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Global news and analysis.

4 Extra Debut. Photographer Eamonn McCabe, curates pictures especially for radio, choosing ten images that move and inspire him. From 2015. Show more

Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from Tutbury Castle in Staffordshire. Bunny Guinness, Matthew Wilson and Bob Flowerdew answer questions from the audience. Show more

Fi Glover with The Listening Project's first conversation using signing - one of a pair between hearing mothers and deaf children - and another about film versus digital legacy. Show more

4 Extra Debut. A wronged woman plans diabolical punishments for her husband and his mistress. Darkly comic fairy tale starring Hattie Morahan. Show more

Meg Rosoff, best known for her books for young people, talks to Mariella Frostrup about her debut novel for adults, Jonathan Unleashed. Show more

Roger McGough presents poetry old and new, happy and sad and everything in between. Poetry from UA Fanthorpe, Robert Frost, Ben Jonson and Wilfred Owen. Show more

Current affairs documentary series. Are international conflicts creating tensions between Sunni and Shia Muslims in communities across the UK? Shabnam Mahmood investigates. Show more

As the United Kingdom's attempts to improve its status in the EU intensify, novelist Will Self imagines how Europe might respond to the UK's demands. Show more

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Boris Johnson has announced that he will argue for Britain's exit from the European Union

Antonia Quirke chooses her BBC Radio highlights, including bare-faced bluffers, avid readers, celebrity therapists and the lows and highs of heroin. Show more

Is Brookfield all set for change? Jolene is making an effort for Lent. Show more

Milton Jones, Susie Dent, Alun Cochrane and Natalie Haynes vie for wordy supremacy. Chaired by Gyles Brandreth. From 2013. Show more

A couple are washing up one day when a casual conversation shows a startling difference between them. Read by Henry Goodman. Show more

Is Today reporting the junior doctors' debate fairly? Was Radio 4 self-indulgent in covering David Bowie's death? Today's editor answers listener comments. Show more

Matthew Bannister on UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, French Vogue editor Edmonde Charles-Roux, screenwriter Norman Hudis, US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Show more

Why do gas and electricity cost more in some parts of the UK? A look at the nurses' cash or pension offer. Plus the risks involved in investing in crowdfunding property schemes. Show more

Noma Dumezweni makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Theatre for a Change. Show more

Why does inheritance arouse such powerful emotions? Jo Fidgen explores how the concept raises fundamental questions about duty, the family and equality. Show more

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

Hugh Muir of the Guardian analyses how the newspapers are covering the biggest stories. Show more

Radio 4's weekly look at the world of film. Francine Stock talks to American animator and film-maker John Lasseter about his career and his latest movie Zootropolis. Show more

Poet Ross Sutherland explores the consequences of repeating oneself. Featuring music from Steve Reich and David Lang. Show more

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Laurie Taylor asks what can be learnt about nationalism by looking at a country's cultural institutions. Plus discussion on imagining utopias. Show more

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