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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Anna Drew, director of communications with the Canterbury Diocese. Show more

Farming Today embarks on a week of reports looking at the issues surrounding crop protection. Plus a visit the Gloucestershire farm where BBC Springwatch is being filmed. Show more

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Cameraman Mark Smith on an unusual encounter with a corncrake. Show more

News and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

Cultural discussion programme. Kirsty Wark explores the boundaries between gender, race and class with Thomas Page McBee, Gary Owen, Kayo Chingonyi and Penny Woolcock. Show more

In an essay about truth and identity in the digital age, Andrew O'Hagan recalls working with Julian Assange on a ghost written memoir of the Wikileaks editor. Read by the author. Show more

Salt-N-Pepa, one of the first female hip-hop acts to make it into the UK Top Ten, on their return to touring. Terrorism and domestic violence. The art of seduction. Show more

4 Extra Debut. Beth's estranged father asks her to take a road trip to Moscow. But is everything as it seems? Stars David Threlfall. From 2017. Show more

Grace Dent follows 23-year-old Koye as he weighs up whether to abandon his home-grown fashion label for a corporate job in the City of London. Show more

Josh Widdicombe, Helen Keen, Susie Dent and Natalie Haynes join Gyles Brandreth in a word-obsessed comedy panel game. From 2014. Show more

How do cats find their way back to their old home when they move house? Drs Rutherford and Fry investigate feline super-senses. Show more

Price rises look set to continue as the value of the pound fluctuates; Will electric cars overtake Boris bikes in London, And cheap sun cream sold for one pound...do they work? Show more

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The impact of 9/11, recalled by Jeremy Bowen in his personal history of the Middle East. He remembers the dark days after the attack, watching how the US would react. Show more

Bridge Farm's secret is out, and Pip faces difficult questions. Show more

By Lucy Caldwell. A 19-year-old Northern Irish student finds herself having to make a terrifying decision when she discovers she is unexpectedly pregnant. Show more

Steve Punt hosts the battle of wits as three students from St John's College, Cambridge, take on their professors. From 2017. Show more

Think beer. Think boys with beards? Think again. Beer sommelier Jane Peyton and brewer Jaega Wise introduce Sheila Dillon to the women making waves in the beer industry. Show more

Documentary. Young adult fiction author Steven Camden investigates why there are so few love stories for teenage boys. Show more

Ernie Rea and guests discuss the religious significance of the moon. Has space exploration diminished its allure? Show more

Confusion over date of Queen's Speech, Theresa May apologises to backbench Conservative MPs over general election

Nicholas Parsons returns for his 50th year and the 78th series of the award-winning panel show. His guests this episode are Paul Merton, Pam Ayres, Zoe Lyons and Julian Clary. Show more

Pat delivers a telling off, and Lower Loxley's prodigal son returns. Show more

Brian Cox on playing Churchill, Sophia McDougall reviews The Barbican's sci-fi exhibition, Helen McCrory on her role in Fearless and Adam Smith on re-booting film franchises. Show more

4 Extra Debut. Beth's estranged father asks her to take a road trip to Moscow. But is everything as it seems? Stars David Threlfall. From 2017. Show more

Emma Barnett explores what happened in Oklahoma City after the devastating 1995 bomb. Show more

With angst over European security growing, why is Germany such a reluctant military power? Chris Bowlby discovers how German pacifism has grown since World War II. Show more

A murmuration of starlings is one of our great British wildlife spectacles and never ceases to inspire and amaze as Brett Westwood discovers in a reed bed on the Somerset Levels. Show more

Cultural discussion programme. Kirsty Wark explores the boundaries between gender, race and class with Thomas Page McBee, Gary Owen, Kayo Chingonyi and Penny Woolcock. Show more

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The Prime Minister says: 'I got us into this, I'll get us out'. Show more

By Arundhati Roy. In Delhi, landlord Biplab Dasgupta discovers that his tenant is absent. Reminiscences about an enduring love lead to the vivid memory of a coded message. Show more

Playwright John Godber takes a drive around Hull, UK City of Culture 2017, in the company of the artists, actors, musicians and writers who keep its artistic heart beating. Show more

Comedian Sara Pascoe presents her favourite and funniest readings, including killer putdowns by Tina Fey, to the Radio Theatre audience. Readers: Olivia Poulet and John Robins. Show more

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In an essay about truth and identity in the digital age, Andrew O'Hagan recalls working with Julian Assange on a ghost written memoir of the Wikileaks editor. Read by the author. Show more

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