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Spiritual reflection to start the day with writer and broadcaster Anna Magnusson.

Defra's new lab to study pests and diseases that are destroying trees. An £11 million research facility to help food producers has opened in Kent. Plugging the hungry gap. Show more

Nature writer Melissa Harrison muses on the mimicking sounds of starlings, particularly one that learned the ring of her family phone causing calamity in the house. Show more

News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

Fiona Hill, foreign affairs specialist, 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

Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire. Show more

The writer Anna Freeman returns with a new series of stories about lives changed by art. This week, stories of things washed up and things washed away. Show more

Richard Wilson has an extraordinary urge to go back to his birth place, Greenock. Who better to accompany him than fellow Scot David Tennant? Richard persuades David to drive. Show more

On the 25th anniversary of Radiohead's masterpiece OK Computer, the author Sarah Hall examines the album's prophetic, predictive qualities. Show more

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Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Jonny Dymond.

Robert Carlyle backs his suitcase and heads back to the early days of budget air travel to see how it reshaped our world. Show more

Fallon puts her foot in it, and Freddie may have bitten off more than he can chew. Show more

With partner Katie working away, Tanya’s eco-worrying hits fever pitch when the baby flushes a packet of wipes down the toilet, the fatberg in the sewer suddenly seems much closer. Show more

Neil MacGregor's series on the role and expression of beliefs continues with a focus on our relationship with the dead. Show more

Kathy Clugston and the panel are in Shropshire. Show more

A contemporary dancer's disagreement with her elderly neighbour is interrupted by an unearthly sound. Written by Abby Oliveira. Show more

Matthew Bannister on activist Kathy Boudin, actor Dennis Waterman, biologist Sidney Altman, night club owner Régine Zylberberg. Show more

Director of the Proms and Radio 3 Controller Alan Davey explains why video game music is being played this year and whether any Russian music or musicians will be taking part. Show more

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

Boris Johnson is to visit Northern Ireland next week, with the power sharing executive and the Stormont Assembly in paralysis over post-Brexit trade controls.

Andy Zaltzman throws some headlines at Mark Steel, Amy Gledhill, Angela Barnes and Michael Deacon. Show more

Historian Greg Jenner hears a fragment of archive recorded at Smithfield Market in 1935 and reflects on British food supply chains then and now. Show more

Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode celebrate one of the great doyennes of Hollywood in what would have been her centenary year. Show more

Chris Mason presents political debate and discussion from Cornwall College in Camborne with Catrina Davies, Jim McMahon MP, Selaine Saxby MP and John Stevens. Show more

Bernardine Evaristo calls for a rethink of 'hackneyed catch-all' vocabulary like 'woke' and 'cancel culture'. Show more

Robert Carlyle travels back to the '90s to see how forgotten events reshaped our world. A second chance to hear some of this week's episodes. Show more

In-depth reporting, intelligent analysis and breaking news from a global perspective

Bridget goes home for Christmas, finding herself once again single and sleeping in a single bed in her parents' spare room. Show more

Tony Wilson was Mr Manchester - on Granada TV, at Factory Records and in the Hacienda. Here Terry Christian explains why he means so much to him, with help from Paul Morley. Show more

Mark D'Arcy canvasses opinion on the measures contained in the Queenless Queen's Speech and busts some urban parliamentary myths.

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In 1985 , Jarvis is living in an empty factory building with no heating and struggling to make a success of the band when an ill-advised stunt goes wrong and everything changes. Show more

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