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A reflection and prayer to start the day with Canon Simon Doogan

Government scientists to start farm trials of a vaccination for bovine TB, they say it's a major milestone.
Farmers replanting wildflower meadows say pollinators are thriving. Show more

Steve Backshall presents the house martin. Show more

News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

Annie Nightingale, broadcaster and DJ, shares the eight tracks, book and luxury item she would want to take to if cast away to a desert island. With Lauren Laverne. Show more

Mary Trump on the book she has written about her famous uncle. Show more

By Katherine Jakeways. In the aftermath of Hannah’s 40th birthday party, Hannah and Mark assess the carnage, huddled together in the family treehouse. Show more

Writer Jerry Brotton navigates the transformation from paper to digital mapping, from print to pixels, and asks what is being gained and lost. Show more

Jane leaves husband Pete, throwing Ken and Margaret’s weekly milk order into chaos. Stars Alison Steadman. From 2020. Show more

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Adunni may finally be able to be free. Show more

Face coverings are compulsory in enclosed public spaces in England from today with fines of upto £100 for those who refuse. But will it be left to shop staff to enforce the rules? Show more

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Mon-Thurs: Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Sarah Montague. Fri: Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark Mardell.

Aged 18, Jacob Dunne was convicted of manslaughter for killing a man with a single punch. This is the story of Jacob's transformation, with help from the unlikeliest of places. Show more

Emma and Ed face a dilemma and Alice is not happy Show more

When Caroline had an affair with Jen's husband, their 30-year friendship was over. A year on, Jen's mother is determined her husband's memorial will prompt a reconciliation. Show more

Kathy Clugston hosts this week's horticultural panel show. Show more

By Divya Ghelani. Leicester, 1989 and Pramila’s training for a charity skipathon does not run entirely smoothly. Show more

Matthew Bannister on civil rights campaigner John Lewis, publisher Tony Elliott, educationalist Wendy Cooling and nutritionist Alan Howard. Show more

Sarah Sands, the outgoing Editor of Today on Radio 4, is heading off to a monastery on a retreat. Has her three year tenure driven her to seek silence and solitude? Show more

Afternoon news and current affairs programme, reporting on breaking stories and summing up the day's headlines

Boris Johnson has admitted the government didn't understand coronavirus well enough at the start of the outbreak

Miles Jupp hosts a virtual festival featuring his favourite personalities and performers from the worlds of comedy, literature and spoken word. Show more

Director Mira Nair talks about A Suitable Boy, her new six part television adaptation of Vikram Seth's vast novel, and the BBC's first historical drama without any white characters. Show more

By Katherine Jakeways. In the aftermath of Hannah’s 40th birthday party, Hannah and Mark assess the carnage, huddled together in the family treehouse. Show more

Chris Mason presents political debate from Broadcasting House in London with Dame Margaret Beckett MP, James Cleverly MP, Peter Hitchens and Dr Linda Yueh. Show more

Rebecca Stott tells the remarkable story of 536 AD - the year the sun 'disappeared' and the devastating pandemic that followed. Show more

Christine Finn explores the appeal of recorded natural sound and how it has been manipulated by musicians since the first live broadcast of birdsong in 1924. Show more

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Adunni may finally be able to be free. Show more

Comedian Sarah Keyworth and author Lissa Evans talk about books they love with Harriett Gilbert, including the best-seller Wild by Cheryl Strayed. Show more

At the beginning of the Cold War, musical inventor Leon Theremin managed to bug the US embassy in Moscow. His device is a predecessor of a technology that surrounds us every day. Show more

News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament

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When Rob Lawrie volunteered at the Calais Jungle he didn't think it would lead to smuggling charges: worse follows when he finds out that the man he tried to help has deceived him. Show more

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