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Charity has become big business. One recent study estimates that the British give about as much to charity as they spend on beer. But what’s the best way to elicit donations? Show more

Johnny attempts to support a friend and Kate puts her foot in it. Show more

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The health secretary, Matt Hancock, calls on the UK to remain "disciplined" and maintain social distancing despite forecasts of warm weather this weekend.

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Bitches Brew, Miles Davis's double album, released 50 years ago, Cressida Cowell on keeping house-bound children entertained and educated; best video games in a time of lockdown. Show more

Series of short stories by Anton Chekhov on the subject of marriage. A story of regret about a coffin maker whose wife of 50 years is taken seriously ill. Show more

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Andrew Green and students at the University of Hertfordshire create an instant oral history archive on the subject of retirement across one weekend. Show more

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Anton Lesser reads the finale to Hilary Mantel's acclaimed Thomas Cromwell series. Today: as Cromwell prepares for the end, he thinks back over his life, and the ghosts of the past Show more

Books worth reading chosen by the former Chief Prosecutor for the North West Nazir Afzal and the novelist Maggie Gee. Show more

Two Jerseymen who joined up in World War II recall their return to the island in 1946 and how their experience of war changed them forever. Fi Glover presents. Show more

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As one of Britain’s greatest novelists, Dickens has to contend with adulation and farewells. Read by Penelope Wilton. Show more

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