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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Debbie Thrower of the Bible Reading Fellowship and founding Anna Chaplain. Show more

The Environment Secretary, George Eustice, says a carbon tax on imported meat could protect British farmers from being undercut on environmental standards. But how would it work? Show more

Sir David Attenborough presents the hyacinth macaw of the Brazilian Pantanal. Show more

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

Were tens of thousands of people getting their jab in Bolton every single day? Show more

Sergeant Rhys Rutledge of the Welsh Guards explains why he thinks people deserve a second chance after turning his own life around from convicted drug dealer to successful soldier. Show more

Women and environmental art and why, after decades of social progress, is motherhood still so much harder than it needs to be? Show more

Nick Wallis provides an update into developments in the Post Office scandal, including startling new revelations from the Court of Appeal. Show more

Mark Steel visits Derbyshire’s towns Matlock and Matlock Bath, performing a bespoke stand-up show for the residents. From 2017. Show more

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With equilibrium restored, the narrator is desperate to learn more about her new companions but finds the widowed sisters unbearably discreet. Read by Ruth Gemmell. Show more

We look at why home testing PCR kits may not deliver results in time for travel, and will a trade deal make Australian wine cheaper? Show more

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Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague.

Liza Ward revisits her youth in 1990s Manchester to reveal how her life was blighted by the effects of poverty and gang crime – and how she found a way to overcome them. Show more

Adam offers the benefit of his experience and Emma attempts to manage expectations. Show more

Horace Rumpole's client asks him to do something he has always sworn he will not do - appear for the prosecution. Show more

Adam Shaw, guests and listeners discuss the art of complaining effectively. Show more

Teenage musicians on tour help psychologists to work out whether moods are contagious. Show more

Coalmining & Luddism: Laurie Taylor explores the meaning of progress in a post industrial era. Show more

Foreign coverage was cut right back during the pandemic. Will it return? Show more

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

BBC News has learned that tens of thousands of women who were underpaid their state pension, may not be eligible for the money they are owed.

When the library is threatened from an unexpected quarter, Snoo gains some friends and Alice sacrifices her favourite tunic. Starring Rebecca Front and Morwenna Banks. Show more

Mia confesses her feelings and Jazzer finds himself out in the cold. Show more

Es Devlin on Forest for Change, filling the courtyard of Somerset House. Phoebe Boswell on new exhibition Here. Update on current Covid rules and guidance to amateur choirs. Show more

Ian Blatchford and Tilly Blyth on weird goings-on at The Royal Institution with hallucinatory gas and the impact of Gillray's Scientific Researches! in a new age of chemistry. Show more

Combative, provocative and engaging live debate chaired by Michael Buerk. With Giles Fraser, Melanie Phillips, Ash Sarkar and Ella Whelan. #moralmaze Show more

Sergeant Rhys Rutledge of the Welsh Guards explains why he thinks people deserve a second chance after turning his own life around from convicted drug dealer to successful soldier. Show more

Psychologist Kimberley Wilson and Dr Xand van Tulleken take a journey around the human body. Today it’s the turn of the airbags, the lights… the lungs! Show more

Foreign coverage was cut right back during the pandemic. Will it return? Show more

In depth reporting, intelligent analysis and breaking news from a global perspective

With equilibrium restored, the narrator is desperate to learn more about her new companions but finds the widowed sisters unbearably discreet. Read by Ruth Gemmell. Show more

Stand-up comedian Twayna Mayne explores the subject of food and how it shapes our identity with chef and broadcaster Andi Oliver and academic and podcaster Chantelle Lewis. Show more

Returning to twist itself into the news, Jon Holmes's The Skewer. This week, Martin Bashir interviews Prince Andrew, and Dominic Cummings' dragon burns it all to the ground. Show more

A new after hours series re-imagining a long night of the soul that left its mark. The real and the imaginary blur as actor Jonathan Forbes sees a figure at the window, looking in. Show more

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The racism of the last few decades has become more subtle than the unacceptable rallying cries of skinheads, but it lurks everywhere still and is just as much of a threat. Show more

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