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A short reflection and prayer, with Tony Macaulay. Show more

A new report, commissioned by pesticide manufacturers, claims that a European ban on neonicotinoid seed treatments costs the EU oilseed industry 900 million euros a year. Show more

David Attenborough presents the collared dove. Show more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Nietzsche's influential ideas about what it means to be moral. Show more

Diarmaid MacCulloch reveals the influence of the Book of Common Prayer on how people speak and pray today. From 2017. Show more

Barbara Taylor Bradford's novels; spending nothing for a year; kids' rotten teeth; giving your partner the silent treatment; women trade unionists. Show more

Siblings Rebeka and Dardan return to their native village in Kosovo and are forced to confront the painful truth of what happened to their parents. Show more

Ordered to cook sea bass by murderous Islamist militants - the terrifying ordeal of the siege at Dhaka's Holey Artisan Bakery. Show more

Hull is UK City of Culture. John Godber takes a drive round the city with people who will keep its cultural heart beating long after the circus has left town. Show more

On this day in 1917, riots erupted in Hamburg over food shortages, and in Tynemouth too there is unrest on the streets. Show more

Consumer affairs programme. The tradition of asking a father's permission to marry his daughter. The fast growing market in luxury pet food. Show more

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A British man has been identified as the author of a report claiming Russia holds compromising information about Donald Trump. Former England team manager Graham Taylor has died. Show more

Ivan Hewett tests if harmony is a reflection of history using Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. With Gerard McBurney. From 2017. Show more

David tries to make amends, and Brian looks to cheer up Adam. Show more

Third series of the criminal family saga, based on GF Newman's novel. Jack and Brian are back in prison after a kilo of cocaine was found in Jack's flat. Show more

Helen Mark stands on the south side of the Humber Bridge to see the flooded clay pits that make up the landscape around Barton-upon-Humber. Show more

Singer Corinne Bailey Rae makes an appeal on behalf of Pump Aid. Show more

Mariella Frostrup talks to Nadeem Aslam about his new book The Golden Legend, a timely look at religious intolerance in contemporary Pakistan. Show more

Cinema magazine programme. Francine Stock takes a trip to La La Land, the musical which has swept the board at the Golden Gobes, with critics Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Tim Robey. Show more

Why the simplest explanations are not always the best when it comes to science. Where you read your science affects not just what you know about it, but what you think you know. Show more

Donald Trump's nominees for Defence Secretary and CIA chief defend US intelligence agents

Swedish 'Midsommerafton' approaches, and Geoff is forced to be Lord of the Dance and go skinny-dipping. Show more

Helen picks her moment, and Freddie wants to keep a low profile. Show more

Cellist Natalie Clein, Lemony Snicket TV drama, Zal Batmanglij and Danny Brocklehurst on The OA, Laura Cumming on Velázquez. Show more

Siblings Rebeka and Dardan return to their native village in Kosovo and are forced to confront the painful truth of what happened to their parents. Show more

Where has the fall of Aleppo left its citizens, Syria and the region? David Aaronovitch finds out. Show more

With demand soaring and austerity continuing to bite, Louise Cooper meets NHS clinicians who are trying to do more for less. How might the service become more productive? Show more

Why the simplest explanations are not always the best when it comes to science. Where you read your science affects not just what you know about it, but what you think you know. Show more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Nietzsche's influential ideas about what it means to be moral. Show more

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Donald Trump's choices for defence secretary and head of the CIA have both expressed confidence in the US intelligence agencies - in spite of criticism by the president elect. Show more

In forensic detail, with excruciating honesty, the Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard relives the story of his life and reflects on his teenage years and the death of his father. Show more

From Diet of Worms, the Irish sketch troupe behind acclaimed BBC4 series The Walshes, comes KULT, a show about five lowly Irish employees of a Nordic furniture company in Dublin. Show more

Sean Curran reports from Westminster, where a former head of NATO has harsh words for Donald Trump. Show more

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