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A reflection and prayer to start the day with the Rt Revd Mary Stallard, Assistant Bishop in Bangor. Show more

Milk prices are rising faster than ever and are likely to hit rates in the coming months as have never seen before. Show more

Chris Packham presents the mute swan. Show more

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hegel's ideas on history as the progress of the consciousness of freedom, and whether we enjoy more freedom now than those in past centuries. Show more

Agnetha, Freida, Benny and Björn spent five weeks performing their songs in motion capture suits so that their movements could be captured and turned into ABBA-TARS. Show more

Escape from Russian occupation, the Romanians helping Ukrainian refugees, plus poverty and riches in the Cayman Islands, wolves in Montana, and wifi comes to the remote Himalayas. Show more

Exploring the connection of two people through a ballet shoe - Francesca Hayward, principal dancer for the Royal Ballet, and her retired shoemaker, Bob Martin. Show more

How Romi Savova, founder and CEO of Pensionbee, found a gap in the market to form a company that lets you combine different pension pots online. Show more

From AI and apps to ‘sonic technology’, the latest electric toothbrushes promise you a ‘professional clean’, but do they deliver? Greg takes to the dentist chair to find out. Show more

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Erica McAlister on the long overlooked bee experiments of Charles Henry Turner whose painstaking research on bee intellect questions whether bigger brains are always better. Show more

Brian is put on the back foot, and should Alistair be worried about a friend? Show more

Playwright and screenwriter Peter Flannery has rewritten his multi-award winning and highly acclaimed television series for BBC Radio 4. Show more

Clare is heading steeply uphill in the second of two back-to-back hikes in the Mourne Mountains. Show more

Music broadcaster Clemency Burton-Hill makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Live Music Now. Show more

Chris Power talks to Atticus Lish about his new novel The War for Gloria. Plus revisiting Jean Rhys with Miranda Seymour and Jo Hamya. Show more

In the last of the series, Jill Lepore finds Silicon Valley's cryptocurrency craze foreshadowed in dystopian science fiction. Show more

Why are non-African monkeypox cases causing concern? Also, the first complete human genome from a Pompeiian cadaver, and how YouTube is aiding animal behaviourists. Show more

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

Rishi Sunak has revealed a raft of measures to help households with soaring energy costs.

Inspired by Pauline's favourite teddy bear, Milton opens a cherished items repair shop but soon discovers he's bitten off more than he can mend. Show more

Neil knows what’s best for his family, and Lily’s caught in the middle. Show more

Meg Mason on her novel Sorrow and Bliss, and Katie Puckrik and Diran Adebayo review Pistol, The Midwich Cuckoos and the exhibition Edvard Munch Masterpieces from Bergen. Show more

The Dean of Chapel at Trinity College, Cambridge, the Revd Dr Michael Banner is the preacher at a service for Ascension Day, live from St Martin-in-the-Fields in London. Show more

Why are non-African monkeypox cases causing concern? Also, the first complete human genome from a Pompeiian cadaver, and how YouTube is aiding animal behaviourists. Show more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hegel's ideas on history as the progress of the consciousness of freedom, and whether we enjoy more freedom now than those in past centuries. Show more

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Meera Syal continues Monica Ali’s bighearted and hilarious story of two very different families brought together by marriage. Today: pulling together but falling apart... Show more

The Chancellor Rishi Sunak announces a £15 billion package of help with energy bills and the cost of living.

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In Patrick Radden Keefe's book on America's opioid crisis it's 2019, eight Sackler family members face an ever growing number of lawsuits and public condemnation. Kyle Soller reads Show more

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