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Spiritual reflection to start the day with Bob Fyffe, general secretary of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland.

Very tall masts will be needed for 4G mobile coverage in rural areas. Laws covering what can be fed to farm animals could be relaxed to allow insect protein to be used in feed. Show more

Bill Oddie presents the sand martin. Show more

Jim Al-Khalili talks to leading scientists about their life and work. Philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett talks to Jim about the evolution of the human brain. Show more

Half of England's pregnant teens gone. Vanished. Not taken, just not falling pregnant. Michael Blastland presents a real-life Whodunnit. He asks, 'Did Mark Zuckerberg do it?'. Show more

Berger reflects how paintings depict time and how we value the landscape around us. Read by Simon McBurney and Harriet Walter. Show more

Professor Tanya Byron talks about teenagers. We start a new series called The Text I'll Never Forget. And the gardener, Alys Fowler, on Birmingham canals and new relationships. Show more

DCI Alma Blair's romantic dinner for two rudely interrupted with news of a body by the bidet. Stars Julie Hesmondhalgh. Show more

Mary-Ann Ochota asks why scientists have managed to send probes to interstellar space but have not yet managed to reach the earth's mantle, which lies just a few miles beneath us. Show more

Documentary. Lucie Skeaping tells the story of post-diary Samuel Pepys through the music he commissioned, some of it played for the first time in 300 years. Show more

Tim Harford introduces inventions, ideas and innovations that have helped to create the modern economic world. A cautionary tale of an impactful invention. Show more

Consumer phone-in. A new study suggests being disabled makes you twice as likely to face food poverty. How do you make ends meet if you are disabled? Show more

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Helen Arney and Dr Kat Arney explore the Victorian legacy: why did beards explode under Queen Victoria? From 2017. Show more

Justin aims to please, and Peggy speaks her mind. Show more

Jim returns from China in triumph and is rewarded by being promoted to makeshift vice chancellor. But a rather shady educational company wants to do a deal with the university. Show more

Jay Rayner and his panel visit Bermondsey in London. Joining him are Dr Annie Gray, Sophie Wright, Andi Oliver and Itamar Srulovich. Show more

The British fishing industry sharply declined during out membership of the European Union. Will Brexit bring a revival? Tom Heap investigates. Show more

In the final part of the series, journalist and broadcaster Matt Everitt talks to industry insiders about the decisions that have transformed the record industry. Show more

Spandau Ballet's Gary Kemp chooses the 19th century architect-designer, Edward William Godwin. With Matthew Parris. From 2017. Show more

Nearly sixty people -- many of them children -- have been killed in a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held town in Syria.

Tony, Bill, Andree and Sid head to Swansea in search of Harry Secombe. Stars Kevin McNally. From April 2017. Show more

David's plan backfires, and Adam is left in the lurch. Show more

Author Elif Shafak reviews a new film about the poet Neruda, Batman to Broadchurch - the challenge of casting on screen, Magnus Mills on his new novel The Forensic Records Society. Show more

DCI Alma Blair's romantic dinner for two rudely interrupted with news of a body by the bidet. Stars Julie Hesmondhalgh. Show more

Documentary. Ellie Cawthorne investigates the multimillion pound online trade in fake essays and dissertations, hearing from cheating students and the people who write them. Show more

Peter White puts questions to Steve Vaid, the acting CEO of the charity Guide Dogs. Plus, why Pingo, a guide dog from Slovenia, is facing a demand to be returned to the country. Show more

As part of Radio 4's Cold War season, Document unearths new evidence from key moments in the 1940s and 1950s. Here, Gordon Corera re-examines the CIA's attempt to subvert Albania. Show more

Jim Al-Khalili talks to leading scientists about their life and work. Philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett talks to Jim about the evolution of the human brain. Show more

In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. On the programme are a White Helmet rescuer and a chemical weapons inspector. Show more

Rumours about the re-emergence of the serpent spread and Cora has an unexpected encounter with a villager. Read by Ruth Gemmell. Show more

Bridget discusses how adverts ruined her sex life and why twitter is a sexist's natural habitat. With Fred MacAulay. From 2015. Show more

Paddy O'Connell and Bob the dog are in Stroud, where locals are fiercely proud of their independent retail tradition. From 2016. Show more

Sean Curran reports from Westminster as peers debate the fate of EU citizens living in the UK after Brexit. Show more

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