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A reading and a reflection to start the day with Canon Sarah Rowland Jones, Priest in charge of the City Parish of St John the Baptist in Cardiff.

Climate change and farming at COP 23. Plus a farm turning eggs into liquid and a new UK charter for trees 800 years after the last one. Show more

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Wildlife sound recordist Gary Moore describes the elation of tracking down notoriously elusive golden pheasants and seeing one basking in sunshine posing for a mate. Show more

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Cultural discussion programme. Andrew Marr discusses empire and the changing world order with Maya Jasanoff, Robert Colls, Ishion Hutchinson and Gideon Rachman. Show more

Neil MacGregor focuses on the creation of sacred spaces built for engagement with the divine, including a 4,000-year-old temple in Mesopotamia and a new cathedral in Kenya. Show more

Can pole dancing ever lose its sexual connotations? What is it like to live in towns marked by past tragedies? Sexual harassment in Westminster. Plus love in the Georgian era. Show more

4 Extra Debut. Growing her successful dairy business has bred some powerful enemies for Megan, who desire her ruin. Starring Bettrys Jones. Show more

Grace Dent returns with a new series of untold stories. Here, the story of a former care home manager who was sacked after posting a photo of one of her residents on Facebook. Show more

Maureen Lipman and Jasper Britton play a mother and son with a very special relationship in this poignant and funny tale of three journeys by Gary Brown. Show more

Return of the series that explains what is really at stake with Brexit. Chris Morris begins by discovering who could be in control when the final deal is done.

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4 Extra Debut. Penelope Lively's memoir explores the metaphorical garden, from Eden to Monet's water lilies at Giverny. Read by Stephanie Cole. Show more

Justin issues an ultimatum, and Alistair has concerns. Show more

Disgraced police inspector Alia Khan seeks a life of obscurity. But murder soon comes knocking at her door. Show more

Nigel Rees hosts the quotations quiz with Sally Phillips, Matthew Parris, Kate Williams and Frog Stone. From November 2017. Show more

Dan Saladino gets a practical fermentation masterclass with the world-renowned teacher and author of The Art of Fermentation, Sandor Ellix Katz. Show more

To celebrate Hull's strong (if little-known) ballet tradition, dancers from four of the city's dance schools take to the streets to perform a new piece by the Royal Ballet. Show more

Aleks Krotoski explores whether technology is changing our experience and relationship with shame. Show more

The technology giant moved the money after a tax loophole in Ireland was closed, following pressure from American and European politicians

David Mitchell gets Mark Steel, Holly Walsh, Tony Hawks and Fred Macaulay to lie with some truths. From 2017. Show more

Lilian tries to prevent a disaster, and Roy cannot help fearing the worst. Show more

Kenneth Lonergan talks to Kirsty Lang about adapting EM Forster's Howards End for television. Plus Hannah McGill discusses the acclaimed indie film, The Florida Project. Show more

Neil MacGregor focuses on the creation of sacred spaces built for engagement with the divine, including a 4,000-year-old temple in Mesopotamia and a new cathedral in Kenya. Show more

In the second part of her series examining the place of confidence in modern life, Laura Barton considers how far our schooling and social background influence our confidence. Show more

James Tilley finds out what political lessons we can learn from power struggles within chimpanzee groups and how our evolutionary past may affect decisions we make today. Show more

Beavers are back in the UK, hundreds of years since they last lived with us. Brett Westwood asks if we can recover our cultural links with these architectural animals. Show more

Cultural discussion programme. Andrew Marr discusses empire and the changing world order with Maya Jasanoff, Robert Colls, Ishion Hutchinson and Gideon Rachman. Show more

International development secretary Priti Patel is rebuked for failing to tell the Foreign Office about a series of meetings in Israel. Show more

It is 1992 in Melbourne, and Australia's most wanted criminal, Ziggy Heidl, needs a ghostwriter for his memoir. But he is due to go on trial in 6 weeks. Show more

Sabrina Mahfouz and Inua Ellams explore the escalating popularity of spoken word and how it has become the breeding ground for a whole new generation of writers. Show more

Sean Curran reports from Westminster on a debate about the leak of the Paradise Papers, financial documents that throw light on the top end of the world of offshore finance. Show more

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4 Extra Debut. Penelope Lively's memoir explores the metaphorical garden, from Eden to Monet's water lilies at Giverny. Read by Stephanie Cole. Show more

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