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In the wake of a major racism row, can new Yorkshire County Cricket chair Kamlesh Patel deliver the club from the biggest crisis in its 158-year history? Show more

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Mark Tully discusses acts of commemoration with campaigner and Ravensbruck survivor Selma Van de Perre and introduces music and readings inspired by the wars of the last 100 years. Show more

In Japan bamboo is farmed - both for bamboo shoots as food, and for use in architecture. Nick Luscombe visits a bamboo farm about an hour north of Tokyo, to find out how it's done. Show more

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William Crawley explores the week's religious and ethical news. Show more

Voice coach Mark De-Lisser makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Belong: Making Justice Happen. Show more

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Rev Dr Rosa Hunt (Co-principal, Cardiff Baptist College) and Rev Jamie Washam (Pastor, First Baptist Church in America, Rhode Island) lead a transatlantic service of remembrance. Show more

Zoe Strimpel reflects on the 'paralysis of ambivalence' in relation to motherhood. Show more

Martin Hughes-Games presents the Hawfinch. The Hawfinch exerts 180 pounds per square inch with it massive bill to crack open tough seeds to get at the soft kernels inside. Show more

The walls close in on Kirsty and Oliver’s kindness knows no bounds. Show more

Officer AD Bridges and former Second World War prisoner, John Wyatt, reflect on the impact of the final bugle call. From 2000. Show more

Live coverage from Whitehall of the solemn ceremony when the nation remembers the sacrifices made in the two world wars and in more recent conflicts. Commentator: Paddy O'Connell Show more

Angela Frazer-Wicks tells her extraordinary story of being a mother. Show more

John Lloyd and Holly Walsh welcome comedian Griff Rhys Jones, writer Mary Roach and poet Lemn Sissay. From 2021. Show more

Leyla Kazim visits 2021’s Best Shop or Market finalists – a food co-op, farm shop and market which are supporting local production and communities, and creating local food networks Show more

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Edward Stourton looks at the week’s big stories from both home and around the world.

Three powerful men-only chats about PTSD, how to be a modern man and racism in sport. Fi Glover presents. Show more

Kathy Clugston has a look through the GQT archive for this special winter edition of the show. Show more

Lynsey Hanley looks at controversial proposals for a large housing development surrounding Ian and Angela's converted oast house in Tudeley, Kent. Show more

E*** comes to terms with their true identity after reading a genderless love story and discovering the gay club scene. Show more

Chris Power talks to Stella Duffy and Anna Von Planta about Patricia Highsmith's notebooks and diaries, published for the first time a century after the iconic author's birth Show more

What's the line of poetry that will live in your head forever? Vanessa Kisuule tells the stories of poems that speak to us so strongly that we return to them again and again. Show more

How some businesses claimed furlough payments while employees carried on working. Show more

In the wake of a major racism row, can new Yorkshire County Cricket chair Kamlesh Patel deliver the club from the biggest crisis in its 158-year history? Show more

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Boris Johnson says Cop deal sounds death knell for coal

Sangita Myska chooses the best of BBC audio this week. Show more

Roy’s walking on egg shells while Jennifer’s feelings are bruised. Show more

Stephen Mangan asks his guest David Quantick to reveal three guilty secrets inside his virtual confessional box. From 2021. Show more

The next story in a new series for Radio 4. Little Purlington might seem like an ordinary Essex village, but is anything but. Today: secrets and lies from the local teen rebel... Show more

As COP26 comes to a conclusion, listeners put their questions to the BBC’s outgoing Science Editor David Shukman. Show more

Matthew Bannister on diplomat Sir Archie Lamb, record producer John Boyden, 'refusenik' Ida Nudel, Iranian President Abolhassan Banisadr. Show more

Can you borrow money against your environmentally-friendly house, problems with universal credit, and how crooks are stealing the one-time passcodes that should be protecting you. Show more

Voice coach Mark De-Lisser makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Belong: Making Justice Happen. Show more

Birth rates in many countries are getting lower and societies are aging. Clare McNeil asks if we should worry about this or welcome it to mitigate climate change Show more

Carolyn Quinn assesses the Cop summit with former Cabinet minister Robert Buckland, Labour frontbencher Sarah Jones, former government adviser Mo Hussein and journalist Jess Elgot. Show more

Will a venomous snake die if it bites itself? Science sleuths Drs Rutherford and Fry investigate toxic animals. From 2021. Show more

Mark Tully discusses acts of commemoration with campaigner and Ravensbruck survivor Selma Van de Perre and introduces music and readings inspired by the wars of the last 100 years. Show more

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Matthew Syed examines what happens when we’re rendered speechless, and how we can find words when we need them most. Show more

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