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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Rania Hafez, founder director of the professional network Muslim Women in Education and a member of the Muslim Institute. Show more

Farming on floodplains. Brexit-proofing at the Bath & West Showground. The rural vote in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Show more

Paul Brook describes the benefits of birdwatching for mental health. A sighting of a water rail lifted his mood during a period of depression. Show more

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

Elif Shafak, writer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. She has published ten novels and is the most widely-read female novelist in Turkey today. Show more

George Stubbs took the horse apart in order to paint it accurately. But the horse has had its revenge, getting under the collective cultural skin of humankind, haunting our dreams. Show more

Jenni Murray speaks to secretary of state for education Justine Greening and Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron. Plus Ramadan and eating disorders. Show more

Bindi is preparing for the big opening of her development, but not everyone shares her vision. Starring Meera Syal. Show more

Mishal introduces dispatches on a Cornish school closure, a Hull improvised singing group, Morris dancing on the A2, an opera club and young men's yearning for a six-pack. Show more

The private detectives, for whom no fee is too small, investigate a spate of sporting injuries. Stars Jessica Hynes. From 2015. Show more

On this day in 1917, Canadian flying ace Billy Bishop shot down three German planes on a solo flight behind enemy lines, and in Folkestone, Dorothea is on a mission for the truth. Show more

Why three of the big six banks have said they will not lend money for new homes with onerous ground rents. Show more

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Pip has a surprise visitor, and Pat has lots of questions. Show more

By Fred D'Aguiar. John Reasonable is a freed black slave, a skilled silk weaver, engaged by Shakespeare to make costumes for the Rose Theatre, but he also has a jealous apprentice. Show more

Eric Robson and the panel visit Suffolk. James Wong, Bob Flowerdew and Bunny Guinness answer the horticultural questions from the audience of local gardeners. Show more

By Jess Kidd. A man in a pub tells a story about an island in the Atlantic which was once home to monks and old gods and, maybe, an immortal princess. Read by Tadhg Murphy. Show more

Julian Worricker on TV presenter John Noakes; Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega; dancer Pat Stewart; navigator Wing Commander Rex Sanders; rock musician Gregg Allman. Show more

More or Less gives some context to issues that are being discussed during the current election campaign. Who pays income tax, cutting migration and where in the UK is cold? Show more

Sisters who are both doctors are acutely aware of their responsibility in being the one to tell family members about their loved one. Fi Glover presents. Show more

A Conservative election candidate is being prosecuted following the 2015 general election

Satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Miles Jupp. Jeremy Hardy, Desiree Burch, Simon Evans and Helen Lewis are Miles' guests for another round of News Quizzing. Show more

Jill feels under attack, and Neil must remain impartial. Show more

'The Discovery of Mondrian' with Jonathan Jones. Plus how the arts feature in party manifestos, playwright Alice Birch on Anatomy of a Suicide and 40 years of Bob Marley's Exodus. Show more

Bindi is preparing for the big opening of her development, but not everyone shares her vision. Starring Meera Syal. Show more

Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Ormiston Bolingbroke Academy in Runcorn with a panel including Damian Green, Paul Nuttall MEP, Keir Starmer and Jo Swinson. Show more

Howard Jacobson explains why he is renouncing George Eliot's greatest novel, Middlemarch. Show more

The seventh omnibus of Season 10, Our Daily Bread, set in Folkestone, in the week, in 1917, when the death toll from the Folkestone air raid reached 72. Show more

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In the last big TV appearance of the election May and Corbyn appear separately on Question Time after the Prime Minister refused to go head-to-head. Show more

F Scott Fitzgerald’s previously unpublished tale about honour, morals and the gulf between generations. Read by Stuart Milligan. Show more

Broadcaster Iain Lee chooses performance artist, wrestler and star of TV’s Taxi, Andy Kaufman. With Matthew Parris. From 2017. Show more

Janice Long meets three performing arts students taking on big and controversial issues in their work during their final year at Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. Show more

Engineers discuss the industry from a female perspective, and why they moved to Hull to work on the world's longest blade in commercial operation. Fi Glover presents. Show more

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