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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Juanita Francis, Youth Pastor at Ruach City Church, London. Show more

Britain's last mud-horse fisherman Adrian Sellick is facing an uncertain future. He's catching less shrimp than ever before and there's no-one to take over this iconic trade. Show more

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David Attenborough presents the wood warbler. Show more

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Kirsty Wark with biographer Dan Richards, theatre director Rebecca Frecknall, Icelandic shepherdess Heida, and Financial Times journalist Sarah O'Connor. Show more

Jane Garvey talks to a true crime magazine editor, podcast host, criminologist and ex-police officer about our obsession with true crime. Show more

4 Extra Debut. Two police officers patrol East London but they’ve no idea of the trouble that is heading their way. Starring Nisha Nayar. Show more

Tom Heap sets off on a guilt trip road trip to find out why people like him won't give up the things they know are destroying the planet. Show more

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New figures on care-home evictions. The dramatic rise in people taking up self-defence. We visit Worcester, where the UK's pollen forecasts are made. Show more

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Is blending an art or a science? Philosophy Barry Smith asks why some blends work and others don't. In this programme, the blending of whisky. Show more

Tom is backed into a corner and Elizabeth makes a breakthrough. Show more

Hermione and Joe confront the complexities and joys of friendship and love in both their lives and face up to commitments. Starring Deborah Findlay and Alun Armstrong. Show more

Russell Davies asks the questions in the latest heat of the annual general knowledge tournament Show more

Dan Saladino meets the scientists working on the future of a truly global food, the banana.

Ernie Rea discusses the events leading up to the Amritsar Massacre 100 years ago. Show more

Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons reads from the King James Version of the Book of Psalms, containing some of the most beautiful poetry in the Bible. Show more

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Sri Lanka government blames Islamist group for Easter bombings, as more victims named

David Mitchell gets Richard Osman, Holly Walsh, Luisa Omielan and Jack Dee to lie with some truths. From 2019. Show more

The pressure piles on Mia, and Alan offers some words of encouragement. Show more

Al Murray, Eliza Carthy and David Mark on finding inspiration down their local and how the arts are helping keep pubs open. Show more

4 Extra Debut. Two police officers patrol East London but they’ve no idea of the trouble that is heading their way. Starring Nisha Nayar. Show more

Forty-year-old Katie gambled over £50,000 in one night and investigates how online gambling firms target vulnerable people. Show more

Brazilians wept when their 200-year-old National Museum - repository of the nation's memory - went up in flames in 2018. But staff have vowed it will rise from the ashes. Show more

Professor Deborah Bowman explores how being struck down by serious illness has irrevocably altered her take on medical ethics and what it means to be a patient. Show more

Kirsty Wark with biographer Dan Richards, theatre director Rebecca Frecknall, Icelandic shepherdess Heida, and Financial Times journalist Sarah O'Connor. Show more

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It's New Year’s Day 2003, and a hangover is the least of Adrian’s problems. He attends an art exhibition in London with his new love, Daisy. Show more

A special edition of Mastertapes in which Richard Hawley welcomes John Wilson to the Crucible in his home town of Sheffield to talk about the craft of songwriting. Show more

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Nathaniel Rich's account of how the course of climate change could have been halted in the 1980s and why it wasn't. Show more

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