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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Alison Murdoch. Show more

Anna Hill reports on the Herefordshire County Council tenant farm sell-off, the Soil Association releasing its annual organic sales report and animal welfare in the slaughterhouse. Show more

Steve Backshall presents the story and sound of the lesser black-backed gull. Show more

Alan Winfield, Professor of Robot Ethics in Bristol, discusses ethical and unethical robots, and the behaviour of swarms of small biologically inspired robots with Jim Al-Khalili. Show more

Interview series. Lucy Mangan feels she avoids responsibility whenever she can. She talks to Bea Harvie, who, at the age of 13, became a carer when her father got ill. Show more

Poets Michael Symmons Roberts and Paul Farley interrogate the myth of the doomed poet. Today they explore the lives - and suicides - of John Berryman and Sylvia Plath. Show more

Listener Nakita's upbeat story of caring for her disabled son Nayan, how to deal with physical violence as a carer, Clover Stroud on her memoir and life as a female police officer. Show more

Young Bertie decides on drastic imaginative action to keep his psychotherapist happy. Starring Crawford Logan. Show more

From Skynet and the Terminator to Ava in Ex Machina, artificial intelligences pervade our cinematic experiences. Adam Rutherford asks if we are ready for AI in the real world. Show more

Kevin Le Gendre continues his exploration of how jazz was received in the UK and looks at the influence of the visits of Duke Ellington before and after World War II. Show more

Rupan Deol Bajaj was the first woman in India to bring a case of sexual harassment to trial. It took nearly 17 years before she eventually won. Show more

Winifred Robinson hosts a phone-in on caring for elderly relatives. Is it everyone's duty to take more responsibility? Show more

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When a woman's partner disappears, she sets out to find him. Her detective work appears to show some unsettling truths about the man she loves. Grace Dent presents. Show more

Eddie goes a step too far, and Harrison tries to drum up support. Show more

Like many Glasgow teenagers, Rida argues with her mum and stresses about exams. But as a young Muslim, the escape that she dreams of online contains danger she has yet to imagine. Show more

4 Extra Debut. Josie Long hears stories of hope found amid the darkness including tales of love letters and treacherous waters. From 2017. Show more

Yasuni National Park in Ecuador is known as the most biodiverse place on earth yet the Ecuadorian government is allowing drilling for oil there. Tom Heap finds out what is at stake. Show more

Is emoji really the world's fastest-growing language? What do the emoji we use say about us? And why are they so popular? Michael Rosen finds out. Show more

Murray Lachlan Young, Deborah Frances-White and Harriett Gilbert discuss Robert Graves, Ajay Close and Toni Morrison. From 2017. Show more

A heterosexual couple have lost their latest legal battle to have a civil partnership -- but pressure is growing on the government to consider a change in the law.

Mark asks why it’s so hard to get to the bottom of what makes people look and feel good. With Tim Key and Tom Basden. From 2014. Show more

Roy is taken by surprise, and Lilian uses her contacts. Show more

Gurinder Chadha discusses her film Viceroy's House; America after the Fall: Painting in the 1930s at the Royal Academy; designer Christopher Bailey on the influence of Henry Moore. Show more

Young Bertie decides on drastic imaginative action to keep his psychotherapist happy. Starring Crawford Logan. Show more

A landmark government review in 2012 of education for excluded pupils was damning. Has this 'flawed system' for some of 'the most vulnerable children in the country' improved? Show more

Dr Tanvir Bush discusses her novel based around hate crimes towards disabled people, comedian Gough talks about film-making, and Gary O'Donoghue pays tribute to actor Tim Gebbels. Show more

Dr Mark Porter presents a series that aims to demystify perplexing health issues. Topics include Vitamin D, an air ambulance blood trial and phantom limb pain. Show more

Alan Winfield, Professor of Robot Ethics in Bristol, discusses ethical and unethical robots, and the behaviour of swarms of small biologically inspired robots with Jim Al-Khalili. Show more

Reporting from Maryland, USA, where immigration raids have started already. And the Court of Appeal has rejected a bid to extend civil partnerships to heterosexual people. Show more

Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about slavery in America. Read by Clarke Peters. Show more

Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by Prof Carlos Frenk, Prof Matthew Cobb and comedian Katy Brand as they discover how science can make the seemingly invisible visible. Show more

Sean Curran reports from Westminster as the House of Lords has a second day of debating legislation which takes the UK out of the EU. Show more

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Poets Michael Symmons Roberts and Paul Farley interrogate the myth of the doomed poet. Today they explore the lives - and suicides - of John Berryman and Sylvia Plath. Show more

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