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Jane Austen's classic comedy of young love and romantic meddling, read by Eve Best. 6/10 Emma struggles to feel friendly towards Jane Fairfax. Show more

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Frances Fyfield visits the Ricordi Archive in Milan to see the lavish manuscript of Puccini's final and unfinished opera Turandot. Show more

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Shielding guidance for 2.2 million vulnerable people in England to be eased.

David Mitchell persuades Lucy Porter, Zoe Lyons, Sean Lock and Jack Dee to talk with deliberate inaccuracy. From 2020. Show more

Kirsty attempts to make the best of a bad situation and there’s panic at Brookfield. Show more

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Lynne Truss observes the people of Meridian Cliffs, a small wind-battered town on the south coast of England, where Sarah Birkett dreams of discovering new rooms in her house. Show more

Covid halted this year's Tokyo Games but in truth it was already in trouble. Writer David Goldblatt asks whether the future of the Games itself is fit for the 21st Century? Show more

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Helen Lewis examines the lives of women who have made a difference - individuals who rose above their circumstances to effect much needed change. Some were deemed to be difficult. Show more

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