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Church bells from St John the Evangelist, Sidcup, Kent. Show more

Sam Kane tells Dominic Lawson how she met the challenges which destroyed her family and business career after surgically changing her gender three times in the past twenty years. Show more

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Rabbi Harvey Belovski discovers the tension between togetherness and personal space at the heart of every marriage and reveals the dance between these two polarities. Show more

In Nottinghamshire there's an estate where the land is still farmed in the medieval way. Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough meets the strip farmers of Laxton. Show more

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Why do some Muslim women wear a burka when others feel a simple headscarf is enough to be compatible with their Islamic values? Mona Siddiqui and Fatima Barkatulla discuss. Show more

Broadcaster Gaby Roslin makes an appeal on behalf of National Literacy Trust. Show more

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'Shining like stars' is this year's Keswick Convention theme. The preacher is Derek Burnside, principal of Capernwray Hall Bible School in north west England. With Emu Music. Show more

As we near the end of four years of collective reflection on the First World War, Michael Morpurgo discusses the importance of never taking peace for granted. Show more

Comedian Chris Turner is an established act at the Edinburgh Festival and elsewhere. Possibly less well known is his interest in birds, as this Tweet of the Day explores. Show more

Sunday morning magazine programme with news and conversation about the big stories of the week. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.

Sue MacGregor reunites Shirley Williams, Bill Rodgers and David Owen to look back on the bitter split within Labour that drove them to form the Social Democratic Party in 1981. Show more

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Sheila Dillon visits Shetland to meet the people who are transforming Shetland's food culture. Show more

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Global news and analysis.

Martin Wolf argues that, to be a truly democratic and prosperous society, we need a new and comprehensive movement devoted to public engagement with economics. Show more

Eric Robson and the team are at the Edinburgh Festival. Matthew Wilson, Bunny Guinness and Bob Flowerdew answer questions from an audience of local gardeners and festival goers. Show more

Fi Glover introduces conversations between friends who have supported each other through difficult experiences and find the positive in their situations. Show more

Taut crime thriller by leading Polish writer Zygmunt Miloszewski, dramatised for radio by Mark Lawson. Wartime intrigue and modern politics mesh in a murder mystery. Show more

Claire Fuller discusses the appeal of setting a novel in a crumbling country house and Neil Gaiman explains why we should all read Lud-in-the-Mist, a forgotten fantasy classic. Show more

Roger McGough is joined by Kate Tempest, who shares a selection of her favourite poems from the Poetry Please archive of listeners' requests. Show more

Wildlife and arts broadcaster Lindsey Chapman chooses her BBC Radio highlights of the past seven days. Show more

Sam Kane tells Dominic Lawson how she met the challenges which destroyed her family and business career after surgically changing her gender three times in the past twenty years. Show more

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The final of the 2018 BBC New Comedy Award, live from Edinburgh. Hosted by Mark Watson. Show more

Pressure mounts for Elizabeth, and Fallon wakes up to a shock. Show more

The results of the BBC New Comedy Award 2018 final, live from Edinburgh. Hosted by Mark Watson. Show more

By Alison MacLeod. Believing themselves to be bound for Syria, three not very radical young men prepare on Brighton beach. Show more

Jon Sopel, Lyse Doucet and Steve Rosenberg discuss reporting foreign news in extraordinary times and answer listener questions with Roger Bolton. Show more

Matthew Bannister on yachtsman Tony Bullimore, campaigner Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga, comedian Barry Chuckle, activist June Jacobs and fiddle player Tommy Peoples. Show more

Ayeisha Thomas-Smith and Steve Bugeja present an everyday guide to economics. Why an Essex mum wanted her jewellery melted down and what it says about government debt. Show more

Broadcaster Gaby Roslin makes an appeal on behalf of National Literacy Trust. Show more

Online banking has grown massively. But as Ruth Sunderland discovers, some in the banking business still think high street branches and personal service have a bright future. Show more

Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts and commentators.

Heathers 30 years on. Show more

Rabbi Harvey Belovski discovers the tension between togetherness and personal space at the heart of every marriage and reveals the dance between these two polarities. Show more

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Josie Long presents stories about creating something out of nothing, with fresh starts and the beginning of the end. From 2018. Show more

Church bells from St John the Evangelist, Sidcup, Kent. Show more

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