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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Rachel Mann, Anglican priest and feminist theologian. Show more

Anna Hill hears about a new report which suggests UK farmers should move away from growing sugar beet in the interest of public health. Show more

RSPB warden Heather Bennett recalls how the lapwing began her love affair with nature. Show more

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how animals influence the behaviour of others of their species by secreting or excreting chemical substances. Show more

Jenni speaks to Mary Akrami and Christina Lamb and asks why there are no women involved in the current peace negotiations between US negotiators and the Taliban. Show more

The strange cloud above Glan Don finally breaks. Drama set in a village on the wild Welsh coast. Starring Sion Pritchard. Show more

Uruguay's cautious route to legal cannabis sales, selection for the Gurkhas in Nepal, Haitian tensions, Pakistani painted trucks and moth silk from Madagascar. Show more

Who owns Shakespeare? The tourist industry? The English? The world? Branding and graphic designer Teresa Monachino goes in search of the contradictions in Brand Bard. Show more

Maurice can’t help but reveal more than he intended about his past to his aspiring biographer. Read by Enzo Cilenti. Show more

Why pubs offering more than just drinking and eating are popular with young people. Show more

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Liza Ward recalls how she became caught up in a web of gang culture, and meets former gang members who are now trying to reverse a new explosion of street violence. Show more

Jill is shocked by the truth about recent events and Kenton pleads for mercy Show more

Rida, a Glasgow Asian teenager, was radicalised and travelled to Syria. Now she has returned and been arrested. How will she deal with the past, and what future can she expect? Show more

Clare Balding and her fellow walkers take in the delights of rural Suffolk which include a severed head and a drove of hares. Show more

Jane Horrocks makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the charity Send a Cow. Show more

Swedish novelist Niklas Natt Och Dag discusses his novel The Wolf and the Watchman, and two trained criminal barristers explain how they made the switch to writing crime fiction. Show more

Antonia Quirke and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh embark on a pilgrimage to Dungeness to pay their respects to film-maker Derek Jarman on the 25th anniversary of his death. Show more

Goodbye Mars Opportunity rover - Adam Rutherford asks what's next? Forests and carbon, Ethiopian bush crow Show more

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Victims offer harrowing evidence to inquiry

Comedian Mark Steel visits the island of Malta and performs a bespoke stand-up show for the local audience.

Will struggles as Nic's anniversary approaches and Susan deals with an emergency Show more

Odaline de la Martinez on the London Festival of American Music, Paul Conroy and Anastasia Taylor-Lind discuss war photography, TV drama Flack reviewed, and Peter Tork remembered. Show more

The strange cloud above Glan Don finally breaks. Drama set in a village on the wild Welsh coast. Starring Sion Pritchard. Show more

Does Chinese telecoms giant Huawei present a threat to national security? Show more

What is the point of an audit if it fails to detect when a company is about to go under? The sudden collapse of BHS, Carillion and Patisserie Valerie has prompted calls for change. Show more

Goodbye Mars Opportunity rover - Adam Rutherford asks what's next? Forests and carbon, Ethiopian bush crow Show more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how animals influence the behaviour of others of their species by secreting or excreting chemical substances. Show more

Pope Francis opens four-day summit on sexual abuse of children by priests. Show more

Maurice can’t help but reveal more than he intended about his past to his aspiring biographer. Read by Enzo Cilenti. Show more

Enchanting, absurd and funny stories from the mind of celebrated US writer Simon Rich. Starring Freya Parker. From 2019. Show more

Sean Curran and the team with all the news from today's sitting at Westminster as MPs try to find out when they will finally get a meaningful vote on Brexit. Show more

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Gainsbourg offers Birkin one of the most iconic songs of the decade, Je T'aime. The release of the song blows Europe's mind. Show more

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