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The coronavirus epidemic is a growing crisis for England's chief medical officer. Mark Coles finds out about the man in charge and asks how he will face the challenge ahead. Show more

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Journalist Remona Aly investigates how power can be found in vulnerability. Without weakness, she explains, there is no room for resilience to rise or character to form. Show more

On Clock House Farm in Kent, scientists and engineers are testing a fleet of robots which can perform a variety of tasks, from transporting boxes of fruit to pest control. Show more

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A look at the ethical and religious issues of the week

Sophie Leggett, who has the gene for early onset dementia, makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of The National Brain Appeal. Show more

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On 4th August 2020, a nuclear sized explosion at Beirut port killed around 200 people, injured more than 6000 and displaced 300 000, hard by the most ancient churches of the East. Show more

John Connell puts aside hopes of a foreign holiday and walks instead in the footsteps of the Irish monk and journeyman, Saint Brendan. Show more

Chris Packham presents the nocturnal red-necked nightjar of the Spanish countryside. Show more

News with Paddy O'Connell including the Olympics with gold medal winner Tessa Sanderson. With the news review, Tessa Sanderson, Andrew Pierce and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown. Show more

Ian demands the truth and Roy has romance on his mind Show more

An extended version of Tweet of the Day featuring the common and black redstart with Michaela Strachan, Bill Oddie and Matt Merritt. Show more

Nazir Afzal, lawyer, shares the eight discs, book and luxury item he would want him if cast away on a desert island. With Lauren Laverne. Show more

Rory Sutherland looks at how certain brands, from Tupperware to Ann Summers, harness the power of social proofing - our desire to align our consumer purchases with 'people like us' Show more

David Mitchell gets Zoe Lyons, Richard Osman, Henning Wehn, and Holly Walsh to lie with some truths. From July 2021. Show more

After the lives of elderly and disabled people living in care homes were brought sharply into focus during the pandemic, Sheila Dillon looks at how catering is done in care homes. Show more

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

Cats versus dogs, autograph hunters, Huntington’s Disease and madcap ways of fundraising. Kofi Smiles presents. Show more

Kathy Clugston hosts the horticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts. Show more

Caroline Lucas explores the impact of the radical German politician Petra Kelly who founded Die Grünen and inspired a generation of European Green politicians. Show more

One of the great historical novels of recent times, telling the story of Theseus, his quest to discover his true identity, and his fatal encounter with the Minotaur in Minoan Crete Show more

Tahmima Anam answers readers' questions about her award winning novel, A Golden Age which follows a family during the Bangladesh War of Independence. Show more

Adam Buxton uncovers the influence of British music videos in the early years of MTV, 40 years after the network first launched. Show more

Twenty years after the UK's worst outbreak of the livestock disease foot-and-mouth, Dave Howard recalls how it affected the Herefordshire hill-farming community where he grew up. Show more

The coronavirus epidemic is a growing crisis for England's chief medical officer. Mark Coles finds out about the man in charge and asks how he will face the challenge ahead. Show more

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Lindsey Chapman chooses the best of BBC audio this week. Show more

A shop assistant is keen to serve a celebrity she sees. Christine Kavanagh performs Jenny Eclair’s comic monologue. From 2020. Show more

Tessa Coates explores the rise in modern witchcraft in young women.

Graeme Macrae Burnet’s series continues as Dr Maeder’s sessions bring some uncomfortable truths about Max’s home life to the surface. Read by Robin Laing and Alasdair Hankinson. Show more

Comedian Mark Steel tells Roger Bolton how he gets away with satirising the towns and cities he visits in Mark Steel's in Town, which has now been running for over a decade. Show more

How to tame aggressive debt collectors, and the customers taking legal action to get access to their cash. Show more

Sophie Leggett, who has the gene for early onset dementia, makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of The National Brain Appeal. Show more

Writer Octavia Bright looks at how Bret Easton Ellis's novel continues to resonate, 30 years after its publication. Show more

Alex Forsyth is joined by Conservative MP Huw Merriman, Labour's Baroness Angela Smith, Paralympic champion and crossbench peer Tanni Grey-Thompson and journalist Jason Groves. Show more

Francine Stock discusses the 1985 film My Beautiful Laundrette with director Francis Lee and the lasting impression it made on him. Show more

Journalist Remona Aly investigates how power can be found in vulnerability. Without weakness, she explains, there is no room for resilience to rise or character to form. Show more

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Matthew Syed looks at how adopting an alter ego can help us to access confidence, push ourselves in the face of challenge and, ultimately, become the best versions of ourselves. Show more

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