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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Anna Drew. Show more

Drought in Queensland, Australia where farmers have had four failed wet seasons. BBC weather forecaster Peter Gibbs tells Charlotte Smith about wider changing weather patterns. Show more

Kate Humble presents the stone curlew. Show more

Kirsty Young interviews entrepreneur Levi Roots, whose business success began following an appearance on Dragon's Den in 2007. Show more

Bella has some happy news, but it is not so happy for Bill. Are their lunches in danger of being ditched? Show more

Emma Beck's daughter Mary was stillborn in 2010. Six years on she talks to other parents and clinicians about stillbirth and asks why nine babies like Mary die in the UK every day. Show more

A pure moment of happiness and a song for a season that doesn't usually get sung about. Stars Carrie Quinlan. From 2014. Show more

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Sports Direct is criticised for how staff are treated, the government is told there aren't enough new houses, and there is a look at how cafes are tapping into the cycling market. Show more

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The Chancellor has talked about resetting fiscal policy, what are the implications? Economic statistics show a fall post-referendum. And how is Donald Trump's speech going down? Show more

In 1962, the world came closer to nuclear war than ever before or since. Bridget Kendall hears the story in the words of four people who were there. Show more

Brian pulls some strings, and Toby changes his tune. Show more

McLevy is kidnapped by a grieving father who seeks vengeance for the death of his son. Jean, Roach and Mulholland join forces in a desperate bid to find the Inspector. Show more

Peter Gibbs presents the show from the GQT Summer Garden Party at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. With panellists Matthew Wilson, Matt Biggs, Anne Swithinbank and Jim McColl. Show more

Stephen Rea reads Eoin McNamee’s story of the friendship between Victor and the elderly Lily, who seems to be searching for something among the fragmented memories of her life. Show more

Matthew Bannister on humanitarian Abdul Sattar Edhi, neuroscientist Suzanne Corkin, mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano, comedy director Garry Marshall. Show more

Following questions over Brexit coverage, listeners have more axes to grind over BBC impartiality across the output. And how does the Strictly Come Dancing Prom work on radio? Show more

Fi Glover introduces a conversation in which a three-year-old debates the concept of good and evil with his mother, and Darth Vader makes an appearance! Show more

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Police say "multiple" people have been killed. A key indicator suggests the UK economy is shrinking after the Brexit vote. The Chancellor says he could "reset" fiscal policy.

Theresa May's first cabinet meeting, an investigation into the Winter Olympics doping scandal, and the new England manager makes his satirical debut. Show more

Anna needs more information, and Jill voices her concern. Show more

Mark Rylance discusses playing The BFG, Pixie Lott on moving from pop star to stage actor in Breakfast at Tiffany's, and 26-year-old conductor Alpesh Chauhan on his Saturday Prom. Show more

Bella has some happy news, but it is not so happy for Bill. Are their lunches in danger of being ditched? Show more

Ritula Shah presents political debate and discussion from the Central United Reformed Church in Derby, with Hazel Blears, Richard Burgon MP, Anna Soubry MP and Peter Hitchens. Show more

Via steak and kidney pie and a spot of Morris dancing, AL Kennedy reflects on Englishness...at a time, she writes, "when Englishness is struggling to decide what it can be". Show more

Bridget Kendall presents an oral history series tracing decisive moments of the early Cold War.

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In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. Police in Germany say several people have been killed and wounded in a gun attack on a shopping centre in Munich. Show more

Murdo is beginning to feel trapped at Uncle John and Aunt Maureen’s house in Alabama. Read by Finn den Hertog. Show more

4 Extra Debut. Francesca Simon, Lloyd Langford and Harriett Gilbert debate Madeleine L'Engle, Richard Brautigan and Georges Simenon. From 2016. Show more

Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster and looks back at a month of momentous political events. Show more

Fi Glover hears a retired primary school head and a long-serving district nurse lament the bureaucracy and e-correspondence that has replaced the personal touch. Show more

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Survivors of the First World War recall the siege of Kut-Al-Amara, which began in late 1915, drawing on the sound archives of the Imperial War Museums and the BBC. With Dan Snow. Show more

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