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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Dr Stephen Wigley. Show more

The programme takes an in-depth look into pest control in the UK. Plus falling farm incomes, how drones are being used on farms, and farming bison. Show more

Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the story and sound of the reed warbler. Show more

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Mishal Husain presents the first programme in a new monthly series, featuring despatches from journalists and writers across the UK on all aspects of life in contemporary Britain. Show more

Bettany Hughes investigates charisma at the Acropolis, in a recording session with Live Aid founder Bob Geldof and on the pages of a best-selling novel with author Ben Okri. Show more

Sara Pascoe on her book Animal which explores the science behind being female. Plus, male nurses share their experiences, women who love Leicester City, and midlife crisis at 30. Show more

Zoe is growing up under the same weather as anyone else but it seems to mean more to her. A drama by Katie Hims. Hot days revising for exams. Show more

Martin Plimmer explores how false memories can be artificially generated to change behaviour, with implications for advertising, military intelligence and addiction treatment. Show more

Richard and Robert Sherman wrote Feed the Birds for the film Mary Poppins. Richard recalls how Walt Disney adored it. From 2016. Show more

On this day in 1916, cheers met the announcement in Parliament that three Irish rebel leaders had been executed, and in Ashburton, Emily is on course for collision with her fiance. Show more

Winifred Robinson talks to listeners about debt and mental illness issues. Show more

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Some parents are keeping their children off school in protest against new tests for six and seven-year-olds. Martha Kearney speaks to England's schools minister, Nick Gibb. Show more

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown focuses on the relationship between Tamora the Goth Queen and Aaron the Moor in Titus Andronicus. Show more

It's a busy day on The Green, and Lilian picks up a bargain. Show more

Cassius persuades Brutus that Caesar's ambition is a threat to the republic and a conspiracy is formed. Show more

Jay Rayner hosts the culinary panel programme from King's Lynn. Featuring panellists Annie Gray, Tim Hayward, Andi Oliver and Lizzie Mabbott. Show more

How should we eat to reduce our carbon footprint? No meat? Local meat? Or fast-growing meat? Tom Heap chairs a debate from the Bristol Food Connections festival with four experts. Show more

Michael Rosen on a new Roald Dahl dictionary collecting the amazing words he invented - like squackling and wondercrump. With Laura Wright and Susan Rennie. Show more

Lt-Gen Sir Graeme Lamb chooses the wartime spy, Krystyna Skarbek, AKA - Christine Granville. With Matthew Parris. From 2016. Show more

Thousands of fans celebrate their team becoming the most unlikely champions.

Isy recounts the tale of an unhappily married dinner lady and teacher, who find solace in their workplace friendship. From 2014. Show more

Pat sees an opportunity, and it is deadline day at the Dower House. Show more

Alexander Masters discusses A Life Discarded, artist Mona Hatoum on her show at Tate Modern, the creators of new TV comedy series The Windsors, plus Charles Dance on Coriolanus. Show more

Artist Ben Rivers reinterprets the strange, poetic and sometimes brutal narratives of Moroccan storyteller Mohammed Mrabet. Part of a new commission by Radio 4 and Artangel. Show more

Eliza Manningham-Buller, former director of MI5, questions whether our widespread intolerance of failure does more harm than good. Show more

We speak to a woman who's blind but also has celebral palsy, about the rising cost of care now the Living Wage has gone up. And we hear from the UK's only blind taekwondo Master. Show more

The second in this year's nominations for the All in the Mind Awards, plus Nick Payne's new play Elegy, set in a world where everything about the brain's functioning is known. Show more

Mishal Husain presents the first programme in a new monthly series, featuring despatches from journalists and writers across the UK on all aspects of life in contemporary Britain. Show more

The latest weather forecast.

Reporting and analysis from a global perspective. The EU Commission has backed a Turkey visa deal. The World Tonight talks to a German MEP who does not approve of the deal. Show more

Claire's job hunt falters as she becomes concerned about her family and her relationship with Luke. Read by Emily Bruni. Show more

Bullying and bickering. Stephen K Amos's teenage years in 1980s South London. By Jonathan Harvey with Stephen K Amos. From 2014. Show more

Sean Curran reports as MPs defy the Lords over changes to the government's housing plans and express concern at the recent upsurge in fighting in the Syrian city of Aleppo. Show more

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On John Lewis-Stempel’s farm it’s spring - the time for catching a glimpse of those mad March hares. Read by Bernard Hill. Show more

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