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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Shirley Jenner, lecturer at the University of Manchester. Show more

Food, farming and the countryside with Caz Graham. Scottish farmers and crofters demonstrate outside Holyrood to raise awareness of the importance of the rural economy. Show more

Bill Oddie presents the rook. Show more

Kirsty Young's castaway is the nuclear engineer and scientist Dr Dame Sue Ion, who chooses the eight records that she would take with her to a desert island. Show more

Jenni Murray speaks to Uzo Aduba from Orange is the New Black, Lloyds CEO Inga Beale and film-maker Gini Reticker. Plus misremembering family stories. Show more

Jane has to make a decision, but what should she do? As the pressure from St John grows, Jane pleads for more time. Show more

Five years on from Japan's tsunami, the Asia editor of the Times, Richard Lloyd Parry, talks to those who feel they have seen, or even been possessed by, the ghosts of the dead. Show more

Sue Perkins' moral and ethical posers for Bridget Christie, Michael Rosen, Laura Dockrill and Adil Ray. From March 2014. Show more

In search of a Sumerian goddess, and the pillaging of Iraq's most important museum Show more

A look at the guide used by salesmen who conned hundreds of vulnerable people into taking out expensive loans. Plus, Tesco CEO Dave Lewis on the supermarket's efforts to cut waste. Show more

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The US ambassador defends President Obama and says the special relationship is stronger than ever, Labour announces new fiscal rules, and why people under 35 may be pessimistic. Show more

Sunil Khilnani explores the life and work of India's master of the short story Saadat Hasan Manto. Show more

Ed feels he is on the right track, and the Bull's punters are not going hungry. Show more

Jon Culshaw stars in this satire inspired by the Young British Artists movement and the Momart warehouse fire. Also stars Ronni Ancona, Ben Crompton, Carl Prekopp. Show more

Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from Northamptonshire. Chris Beardshaw, Anne Swithinbank and Matthew Wilson answer questions from the audience. Show more

4 Extra Debut. Two sisters have to find new grazing ground for their ponies marking the start of some horsey intrigue. Read by Amelia Bullmore. Show more

Reeta Chakrabarti talks about music producer Sir George Martin, US first lady Nancy Reagan, internet pioneer Ray Tomlinson and children's author Gillian Avery. Show more

Roger Bolton asks if the BBC has had too much coverage of the US presidential election - and if it is anti-Donald Trump. And we go behind the scenes at In Tune and the Lent Talks. Show more

Fi Glover introduces a conversation between an employer and a disabled employee, neither of whom expected they would be having this conversation. Show more

Mr Johnson said an independent Britain could forge a new free trade deal with the EU, based on the example of Canada, and urged those backing an exit to hold their nerve. Show more

Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by Suzi Ruffell, Jon Holmes, Mitch Benn and Jessica Ransom to present the week in news through stand-up and sketches. Show more

Temperatures are raised behind closed curtains. Meanwhile, the curtains at the village hall are proudly hung. Show more

The Ones Below reviewed, Afghan rapper and activist Sonita speaks out, Tate funding post-BP analysed, Comedy Playhouse in context, and the music of War Horse, with Kirsty Lang. Show more

Jane has to make a decision, but what should she do? As the pressure from St John grows, Jane pleads for more time. Show more

Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion from Spalding in Lincolnshire with a panel including Peter Davis, Kate Hoey MP, Norman Lamb MP and Anna Soubry MP. Show more

Adam Gopnik deplores the fashion for attacking so-called 'cultural expropriation', as in the recent fuss over American students wearing sombreros at a Mexican theme party. Show more

Professor Sunil Khilnani presents audio portraits of figures who have shaped the arc of Indian history over 2,000 years. Show more

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In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. Are conditions in the South Sudan crisis now worse than Syria? Show more

Queenie’s waiting but running out of time. She reveals why she has hidden from Harold for over 20 years. Stars Paul Venables. Show more

4 Extra Debut. Joe Dunthorne, John O'Farrell and Harriett Gilbert choose Denis Johnson, Cathy Rentzenbrink and Marilynne Robinson. From 2016. Show more

Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster, where peers debate gambling and MPs discuss deporting foreign criminals. Show more

Fi Glover introduces a conversation between an employer and a disabled employee which makes clear the prejudice she has been subjected to but also the power of new beginnings. Show more

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Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney's translation of Virgil's Aeneid, Book VI, in which Aeneas travels into the underworld to meet the spirit of his father. Read by Ian McKellen. Show more

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