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A cross-party independent commission has been set up to suggest ways to improve the new EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement and smooth current difficulties. Show more

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Prof Dame Theresa Marteau tells Jim Al-Khalili why she changed her mind about how to change behaviour. Show more

Actress Tuppence Middleton talks to clinical psychologist Dr Gazal Jones about her OCD. What's going on in the brain? And what's the best way to get treatment? Show more

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Moon and Gnac from Italo Calvino's Marcovaldo, dramatised by Toby Jones and starring Mackenzie Crook and Toby Jones. Show more

Our modern comfortable way of life is only made possible by burning through a finite stock of fossilised chemical energy. Show more

Renowned baritone Roderick Williams picks his highlights from over three centuries of opera in Britain and discovers what our opera story can tell us about British identity. Show more

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It was the biggest bank heist in British and Irish criminal history. Belfast writer Glenn Patterson has unfinished business with the 2004 Northern Bank robbery. Show more

Jazzer’s out to impress while christening plans leave Alice ragged.

Victorian detective drama starring Brian Cox and Siobhan Redmond. Written by David Ashton.
Episode two: A Man Of Honour. Mulholland is challenged to a duel. Show more

Jay Rayner hosts a culinary panel show packed full of tasty titbits. Show more

How well protected is Britain's coast and its wildlife after Brexit? Chef and campaigner Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall joins Peter Gibbs to examine the health of our seas. Show more

Michael Rosen and BBC presenter Ben Boulos talk about how we change names. Show more

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown picks Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, the author of Things Fall Apart. Show more

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The rollout of Johnson & Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine is put on hold due to safety concerns

Collection of lockdown recordings pondering questions around birth. Do twins share a soul or get one each? From 2021. Show more

Kate demands to be heard while Harrison offers an ear. Show more

Review of Ammonite, which stars Kate Winslet as Mary Anning; Jack Holden's play Cruise, set in 1980s Soho; Mark Gwynne Jones celebrates the Peak Districk through word and sound. Show more

Innsmouth is not what Kennedy expected. Heawood gets a surprise in Iraq. Stars Barnaby Kay and Jana Carpenter. Show more

Emily is a wheelchair-user deciding if she wants a baby with her partner, CJ. The pair go looking for advice, including from the UK's highest-profile disabled parent, Alison Lapper. Show more

Why large numbers of children are missing out on learning daily living skills. And the blind footballer who's turning his passion for the beautiful game into a business. Show more

Chris van Tulleken on the human behaviours that are causing pandemics, paying the price for getting too close to animals by degrading their territory and allowing viruses to jump. Show more

Prof Dame Theresa Marteau tells Jim Al-Khalili why she changed her mind about how to change behaviour. Show more

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Dame Esther Rantzen, ‘proper legend’ of broadcasting, is whisked into a private room in Broadcasting House for a chat with Fi and Jane. From November 2018. Show more

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In Paula Byrne's shrewd new biography of one of the twentieth century's wittiest novelists, Barbara Pym's broken heart is mended in 1930s Germany. Hattie Morahan reads. Show more

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