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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with George Craig, a Methodist local preacher in Cardiff.

A new report says the UK government isn't doing enough to protect soil health. The Environmental Audit Committee says productive land could be made unusable through degradation. Show more

Kate Humble presents the woodcock. Show more

Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Margery Kempe (1373-1438), the English mystic who went to Jerusalem and dictated her life story, said to be the first autobiography in English. Show more

A tribute to Carla Lane who died this week. Natasha Barnes on taking centre stage in Funny Girl. And Jess Phillips MP on reclaiming the net. Show more

Bertie's mother has vanished but is his classmate Olive the right person to give him advice and support? Stars Sophie Lawrence. Show more

French trades unions battle President Hollande over his government's new work bill. Show more

On the fiftieth anniversary of the London Film-makers' Co-operative, Miranda Sawyer explores the work of artist film-makers who rescued film from the grip of commercial cinema. Show more

How does leg hair know its been cut and how long to grow back? And why do we have body hair? Drs Adam Rutherford and Hannah Fry demand an answer. Show more

Have we reached 'peak stuff'? It's the idea that societies eventually spend less on acquiring items, because with disposable income comes the desire to spend money on experiences. Show more

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Analysis of news and current affairs.

Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson captures the sounds of an extraordinary dawn performance when he joins a group of male black grouse at a traditional courtship site. Show more

Peggy is taken by surprise, and Toby is on the hustle. Show more

Kitchener's new civilian army is massing in the valley of the Somme. It includes one Kenny Stokoe, local football hero for Marshall's, and spurned suitor of Edie Chadwick. Show more

Clare Balding and the new head of Ordnance Survey, Nigel Clifford, walk along Wayfarers Walk from Coombe Gibbet to Highclere on the Berkshire/Hampshire border while talking maps. Show more

Storyteller Giles Abbott, who is blind, presents an appeal on behalf of Snowdon Trust. Show more

Mariella Frostrup talks to celebrated Colombian novelist Juan Gabriel Vasquez. His new novel, Reputations, tells the story of a famed political cartoonist forced to face his past. Show more

Director Shane Black on why buddy movies tend to be about men. Director Louise Osmond and producer Rebecca O'Brien talk about their documentary on Ken Loach, Versus. Show more

Adam Rutherford and guests geneticist Steve Jones, mathematician Marcus du Sautoy and writer Gaia Vince discuss how scientific research can stop humans destroying the planet. Show more

Eleven thousand jobs are at risk

Paul Sinha looks at some of the heroic pioneers in the field of exploration, and the subsequent stupid deaths. From 2016. Show more

Will has an idea, and it does not take much to rile Pip. Show more

Arts news, interviews and reviews. John Wilson talks to Nile Rodgers, on the eve of BBC Music Day. Plus Jesse Eisenberg on his new play co-starring Kunal Nayyar. Show more

Bertie's mother has vanished but is his classmate Olive the right person to give him advice and support? Stars Sophie Lawrence. Show more

What caused tension between 'genocide' and 'crimes against humanity' – and between the two lawyers who devised these two apparently related legal concepts? Show more

Evan Davis presents the business magazine. Asset management - or asset stripping? Evan asks his guests when making a profit from running a business becomes simple plundering. Show more

Adam Rutherford and guests geneticist Steve Jones, mathematician Marcus du Sautoy and writer Gaia Vince discuss how scientific research can stop humans destroying the planet. Show more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Margery Kempe (1373-1438), the English mystic who went to Jerusalem and dictated her life story, said to be the first autobiography in English. Show more

The latest weather forecast.

In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. David Cameron insists his target to bring down net migration can be achieved if the UK chooses to remain within the EU. Show more

Miss Lucy tells the students the truth about the future that awaits them. Show more

4 Extra Debut. Enchanting, absurd and funny stories from the mind of celebrated US writer Simon Rich. Stars Peter Serafinowicz. From 2016. Show more

Sarah Montague finds out how a failing school improves, by looking at one of the secondary schools at the centre of Birmingham's so-called Trojan Horse scandal. Show more

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.

Back in Bucks, then out to Washinton DC, where Roald Dahl is also writing stories. He soon begins one called Gremlins. Show more

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