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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon Steve Williams. Show more

Charlotte Smith hears about the power of Natural Capital and what carbon offsetting could mean for UK agriculture. Show more

Wildlife artist Jane Smith listens in the fog to a great northern diver and is drawn towards the strange eerie call of the bird. Show more

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Japan is ageing extremely rapidly, so what can it teach us about living in an old society? Show more

The Derry Girls actor Jamie-Lee O'Donnell on her new show about prison officers. Show more

Plans for a new international shipping lane through Istanbul have been dubbed 'crazy' by Turkey's president, who thought it up - and by his opponents. Will the project go ahead? Show more

Musician Nadine Shah, tackling grief and her first tour in two years, immerses herself in the fitness phenomenon Barre and the controversial story of its originator, Lotte Berk. Show more

Bill Nighy and Anna Calder-Marshall star in AL Kennedy's comic series about love in later life. It's the village fete and John has a surprise for Maggie. Show more

Changes to the testing regime for passengers and the confessions of a fraudster involved in a £70m housing scam. Show more

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Public historian Greg Jenner watches archive of the veteran campaigner Mary Whitehouse and reflects on the portrayal of private life through time. Show more

Amy faces an uphill struggle and Tony learns to compromise Show more

Ben has a severe phobia of his heart. Then one day his greatest fear comes true. An original drama inspired by a true story. Show more

Ian Marchant in on Dartmoor, finding out how new technology is helping to discover structures which may have been left by the earliest farming communities more than 5000 years ago. Show more

Dame Evelyn Glennie makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the charity Help Musicians. Show more

James Naughtie and Bookclub readers talk to Abir Mukherjee about A Rising Man, the first in his Wyndham and Bannerjee detective series, set in Calcutta during the time of the Raj. Show more

Making predictions can be hard, especially about the future. In his guide to thinking better, Professor Steven Pinker explores the cognitive flaws that hobble us as forecasters Show more

Helen Czerski explores life in the extreme ocean depths with a panel of deep sea biologists. What does the deep ocean biosphere do for us, and what's at stake if it's damaged? Show more

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

The tennis player is being held in a hotel in Melbourne after Australia refused him entry over his Covid vaccination status.

Ramesh is jealous after Malcolm gets close to Lenzie's new trendy butcher. Starring Sanjeev Kohli and Donald Mcleary. From 2020. Show more

Someone receives an unexpected gong and Jennifer promises help. Show more

Director Joe Wright on his new musical Cyrano, poet Hannah Lowe on winning the Costa prize and our panel review Iranian film A Hero. Show more

It's nearly been a year since Brexit, so what have the costs and gains been so far, what's yet to be sorted out, and how has our relationship with our European neighbours changed? Show more

Through one woman's story, we hear how the silence surrounding childhood sexual abuse compounds trauma in ways that ripple through survivors' lives. Show more

Helen Czerski explores life in the extreme ocean depths with a panel of deep sea biologists. What does the deep ocean biosphere do for us, and what's at stake if it's damaged? Show more

Professor Abigail Williams asks how we read now, as offence, outrage and the prejudices of authors past and present dominate the literary landscape. Show more

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Bill Nighy and Anna Calder-Marshall star in AL Kennedy's comic series about love in later life. It's the village fete and John has a surprise for Maggie. Show more

Sketches dredged from the Nether Regions of Rob Grant and Andrew Marshall’s fermented brains. Scream in terror. Then listen to the show. Then scream in terror again. Show more

Susan Hulme reports on a sobering warning from the foreign secretary over the situation on Ukraine's border

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Five writers on looking at art, to mark the 50th anniversary of Ways of Seeing - the 1972 TV series presented by John Berger, which was turned into a bestselling book. Show more

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