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Mark Coles profiles the award-winning British spoken word poet, podcaster, and advocate for social change, George the Poet. Show more

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Musician Jahnavi Harrison argues that, while guru is almost a dirty word in the west, having a guru can in fact offer great benefits as we progress through our lives. Show more

Verity Sharp visits 'Real Seeds' in Pembrokeshire, a small scale organic seed-producing company. She finds out how they've coped with a huge surge in demand during the pandemic. Show more

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A look at the ethical and religious issues of the week

Actor Annabelle Dowler makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Hope for Justice. Show more

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The theme of the Keswick Convention this year is 'Faithful.' Preacher Alasdair Paine (vicar of St Andrew the Great, Cambridge) preaches on Psalm 78 in the Convention's new venue. Show more

Bernardine Evaristo on how racist online vitriol against England players revealed social media at its most toxic. Show more

Liz Bonnin presents the morepork or Ru-Ru, New Zealand's only surviving native owl. Show more

News with Paddy O'Connell including a look at new isolation rules for essential workers. Reviewing the news: Nimco Ali, Joan Bakewell and Adrian Goldberg. Show more

There’s a shock for Brian, and Helen makes a breakthrough. Show more

An extended version of Tweet of the Day featuring the golden oriole with Fyfe Dangerfield, Miranda Krestovnikoff and Frank Gardener. Show more

Robert Macfarlane, writer, shares the eight discs, book and luxury item he would take with him if cast away to a desert island. With Lauren Laverne. Show more

Rory Sutherland explores how the 1987 AIDS campaign 'Don't Die of Ignorance' transformed social attitudes and potentially saved the lives of tens of thousands of people. Show more

Radio 4's antidote to panel games comes for a final time from the Radio Theatre in Broadcasting House but with a virtual audience drawn exclusively from Scotland. Show more

Dan Saladino finds out why a UN summit to transform the global food system has become so controversial. It has generated 2500 ideas for change but also a boycott by protesters. Show more

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Jonny Dymond looks at the week’s big stories from both home and around the world.

Conversations about the benefits of exercise on mental health; the trials of running food outlets in Northern Ireland post-Brexit and between a policeman and a former criminal. Show more

Peter Gibbs and the panel are at Horatio's Garden, London and South East. Show more

Meteorologist Peter Gibbs looks at the impact of British Antarctic Survey scientist Joe Farman who first spotted the hole in the ozone layer. Show more

Joseph continues to wander the byways of England and have adventures that reveal humanity's foolishness in Shaun McKenna's remixed version of Fielding's comic satire of the day. Show more

Elizabeth Day talks to Anuk Arudpragasam about his new Booker-longlisted novel, A Passage North. Plus celebrating debut writers in later life with Stephen Walsh and Rosanna Amaka. Show more

Roger McGough talks poetry with his fellow Mersey poet, who chooses poems by writers as various as Charles Bukowski, Bertold Brecht and Sophie Hannah. Show more

Scotland has the highest number of drug deaths in Europe. Dani Garavelli follows activist Peter Krykant as he attempts to challenge half a century of drug policy in the UK. Show more

Mark Coles profiles the award-winning British spoken word poet, podcaster, and advocate for social change, George the Poet. Show more

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Civil liberties groups say requiring proof of Covid jabs would create a "two-tier society"

Ricky Ross chooses the best of BBC audio this week. Show more

Late-night comedy on BBC Radio 4: Sarah Parish plays the neighbour from hell in Jenny Eclair's comic monologue. Show more

Arthur Smith's show about his father Syd. From Al Alamein to Colditz to patrolling the streets of post-war London, an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Music from Kirsty Newton. Show more

The new boy challenges Max to expand his horizons in the second part of our new commission from Graeme Macrae Burnet. Read by Alasdair Hankinson and Robin Laing. Show more

Will there be a full audience to hear the Proms which are returning next week and will the flags be flying? The Proms Director David Pickard answers listeners' questions. Show more

Matthew Bannister tells the life stories of people who have recently died, from the rich and famous to unsung but significant. Show more

Thousands of people say they’ve been shut out of their bank accounts without warning or explanation. Show more

Actor Annabelle Dowler makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Hope for Justice. Show more

A year on from the toppling of the statue of Edward Colston in Bristol, how is the city dealing with his legacy? Show more

Alex Forsyth is joined by Conservative MP Laura Farris; Shadow Treasury Minister James Murray; the SNP's deputy Westminster leader, Kirsten Oswald; plus journalist Paul Waugh Show more

Bruce Robinson: Withnail and me. Antonia Quirke talks to writer-director Bruce Robinson about the phone box in Withnail And I that has become a shrine for fans of the movie. Show more

Musician Jahnavi Harrison argues that, while guru is almost a dirty word in the west, having a guru can in fact offer great benefits as we progress through our lives. Show more

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Ray and Vi Donovan’s son, Christopher, was murdered 20 years ago. They met the boys who killed him to ask why. Matthew Syed considers ideas that underpin restorative justice. Show more

Bells on Sunday comes from the church of St Laurence, Reading in Berkshire Show more

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