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Spiritual reflection to start the day, with the Rev Dr Alison Jack, assistant principal of New College, Edinburgh. Show more

There's been a sharp rise in the cost of insurance claims for farmers who've had fires on their land. NFU Mutual says it paid out £47.9m last year. Show more

Chris Packham presents the brent goose. Show more

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

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the paradoxes attributed to Zeno of Elea (c490-430BC) which have stimulated mathematicians and philosophers for millennia. Show more

Jenni Murray presents, with features including a look at the little black dress, a community dance production inspired by football, housing after prison and Autumn poetry. Show more

George Allen's 1904 diary of his record-attempting walk, freely adapted by Stephen Wakelam. It is day ten, and the terrain, weather and inner doubts are challenging. Show more

Kate Adie presents reports from Najaf on the rising death toll in Iraq, from Ecuador on transgender parents and from Egypt on the Copts as enterprising recyclers. Show more

Motown records put out an LP of recordings of African American soldiers talking about fighting in Vietnam. Alvin Hall explores what they had to say and how their views have changed.

On this day in 1916, a German seaplane was spotted over Dover, and Hugh and Juliet Cavendish try to create a perfect day. Show more

A poem for the beginning of Autumn - Gerard Manley Hopkins' Hurrahing in Harvest. Read by Simon Russell Beale. Part of Four Seasons - a day of poems for the turning year. Show more

Consumer affairs programme. A look at standards in the permanent make-up industry. Show more

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New figures obtained by the BBC show that tens of thousands of operations were cancelled by English hospitals, but not officially counted. Show more

Adrian Moore explores the idea of infinity through history: the verge of modern thought and grasping the infinite. From 2016. Show more

The Bull has an unexpected guest, and Joe is having a nose round Glebe Cottage. Show more

Harper is a simple soul but his life is complicated. Then the ground starts to shift - literally. Stars Graeme Hawley. Show more

Clare Balding walks part of the Pilgrims Way with Canon Clare Edwards, from Canterbury Cathedral, and Jackie McAll, who is about do the 130-mile route as a pilgrimage of gratitude. Show more

Frank Gardner makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Calvert Trust. Show more

By Lavinia Greenlaw. Shortlisted tale about a teenage girl on a deep dark moor who is drawn into a different darkness. Read by Kate O'Flynn. Show more

W. B. Yeats: The Wild Swans at Coole. Read by Sinead Cusack. Part of Four Seasons - a day of poems for the turning year. Show more

Looking at the latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. A soundtrack special with composer David Arnold's notes on Independence Day. Show more

Adam Rutherford is joined by astronaut Tim Peake, astrophysicist Zita Martins and oceanographer Helen Czerski for a special edition from the New Scientist Live Festival. Show more

Robin Robertson reads his autumnal poem Fall. It is a version of a poem by Rilke. Show more

UN aid convoy reaches rebel-held Damascus suburb; Bake Off's Mary Berry shuns Channel 4 offer.

Britain's only national local radio station returns to the airwaves in a one-off special - a spectacular world premiere adaption of Charles Dickens' David Chizzlenut. Show more

Emma offloads her worries to Peggy, and the quest for Flower and Produce Show success begins. Show more

Hull's City of Culture 2017 programme details; Emma Donoghue on her new novel The Wonder; a poem for autumn from Zaffar Kunial; Ira Sachs on Little Men; K J Orr NSSA short story. Show more

George Allen's 1904 diary of his record-attempting walk, freely adapted by Stephen Wakelam. It is day ten, and the terrain, weather and inner doubts are challenging. Show more

Why has it been so difficult to find peace in Syria, and what are the complicating factors which are getting in the way of a deal? Show more

How has London's French business community fared since Brexit? Caroline Bayley explores why so many have made their home in the capital and asks if that will continue. Show more

Adam Rutherford is joined by astronaut Tim Peake, astrophysicist Zita Martins and oceanographer Helen Czerski for a special edition from the New Scientist Live Festival. Show more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the paradoxes attributed to Zeno of Elea (c490-430BC) which have stimulated mathematicians and philosophers for millennia. Show more

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In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. US and Russia are in emergency talks in an attempt to revive the ceasefire in Syria. Show more

Originally commissioned to celebrate the 2016 BBC National Short Story Award. In Jenn Ashworth's tale, The Authorities: A Modern Elegy, a body lies on the beach. Why? Show more

Symphonious sketches including commentary from the World Ham Shouting Championships and harassment from a footy hero. From 2013. Show more

Marian Keyes, Nikki Bedi and Harriett Gilbert discuss books by Barbara Kingsolver, Imtiaz Dharker and Nick Hornby. From 2016. Show more

A short anthology of autumn poems, old and new, to mark the beginning of the season. Liz Berry reads her poem, Bill Patterson and Simon Russell Beale perform the others. Show more

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The biography of novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard, author of The Cazalet Chronicles, who died in 2014, from the award-winning biographer Artemis Cooper. The final Cazalet Chronicles. Show more

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