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Spiritual reflection to start the day with Father John McLuckie of Old St Paul's Episcopal Church, Edinburgh. Show more

Meat processors defend their record on tackling the backlog of pigs on farms.
Scottish salmon producers and Brexit. Disease-resistant elm trees. Show more

Chris Packham presents the blue tit. Show more

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Lyse Doucet, journalist, shares the eight tracks, book and luxury item she would take with her if cast away to a desert island. With Lauren Laverne. Show more

Why British Vogue’s February cover has made history, the GB women to watch at the Beijing Winter Olympics and why 'Insta mums' are on trend. Show more

What are researchers learning about the prevalence of mental illness among convicted terrorists, and the role it plays in their actions? Raffaello Pantucci investigates. Show more

Comedy set in a Scots-Asian corner shop. Mrs Birkett alerts the interest of the immigration services. Written by and starring Sanjeev Kohli and Donald Mcleary. Show more

Sian Thomas concludes Virginia Woolf's classic modernist novel. Today: with old and new friends gathered together at the party, Clarissa cannot but help think to the past. Show more

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In 1922, Albert Einstein wins the Nobel Prize and Easy Lessons in Einstein is published. Time is shown to be relative - as it is in the indigenous Australian experience. Show more

Phoebe drops a bombshell and Chris is struggling. Show more

When Alfie (24) starts a new job, the last thing his boss Samuel (53) is expecting is romantic interest. If they start a relationship, will everyone cope with such an age gap? Show more

Is blending an art or a science? Philosophy Barry Smith asks why some blends work and others don't. In this programme, the blending of whisky. Show more

Horticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts, chaired by Kathy Clugston. Show more

A darkly comic story about a couple who run a Welsh smallholding and a miracle chicken. From award-winning short story writer, Rachel Trezise, read by Alexandria Riley. Show more

Julian Worricker on diplomat Sir Crispin Tickell, comedian Barry Cryer, tennis champion Darlene Hard and singer Elza Soares. Show more

How fast is our economy really growing? And does comparing the number of food banks to the number of McDonald’s restaurants in the UK tell us anything about food poverty? Show more

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Andy Zaltzman is joined by Elis James, Ola Labib, Zoe Lyons and Ed Balls to give an un-redacted update on the weeks events, including partygate, levelling up and gas prices. Show more

Greg Jenner questions whether a 1962 clip of Porton Down tells the whole story. Show more

Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye return with a new series as they create an entirely new playlist. Gary Crosby, Dinara Klinton and Kojo Samuel help choose the first five tracks Show more

Chris Mason presents political debate and discussion from Portaferry with Conor Burns MP, Chris Hazzard MP, Professor Deirdre Heenan and Peter Weir MLA. Show more

Will Self deplores the British attitude to children, seeing a mix of sentimentality and cruelty, and a culture which for decades allowed child sex abuse to hide "in plain view". Show more

Four things from 1922 with an impact a century later: the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb; Nosferatu; Pirandello's Henry IV; Einstein, time and indigenous Australian modernism. Show more

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Sian Thomas concludes Virginia Woolf's classic modernist novel. Today: with old and new friends gathered together at the party, Clarissa cannot but help think to the past. Show more

This week's books are a mix of fact and fiction chosen by Writer and TV gardener Alan Titchmarsh and the Yorkshire farmer and presenter Amanda Owen. Show more

Mark D'Arcy reports on a busy Friday as MPs debate private members bills and peers consider plans to crackdown on television advertisements for less healthy food and drink.

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The author’s family face bewildering changes as Albania undergoes the painful transition from a one-party Communist state to an embryonic capitalist democracy. Show more

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