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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon Anne Easter. Show more

Anna Louise Claydon visits Jack’s Veg in Kent to find out about a pop-up festival creating mouthwatering menus from offal Show more

To folk musician and Mercury Prize nominee Sam Lee, the nightingale has long been a passion. For this Tweet of the Day, Sam considers the relationships of this amazing songster. Show more

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 154 sonnets collected and printed in 1609 of which some are famous, many are glorious, most are inspiring and several are unsettling. Show more

On the jubilee bank holiday, Kate Garner, daughter of Chas Hodges - of Chas and Dave fame, performs her musical tribute 'Platinum Queen' live. Show more

Ukrainians transported into Russia, Poland's shifting borders, plus a voyage across Europe by lorry, a journey in the footsteps of Béla Bartók, and whatever happened to Bonn? Show more

Richard Wilson wants a holiday. But he's not sure he wants to leave his flat. So maybe it's time to explore the possibilities of his very own doorstep. Show more

Brands say their powders and bottled shakes offer quick, convenient and 'nutritionally complete' meals. Greg Foot finds out whether these liquid lunches are worth the hype. Show more

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Oliver Bullough traces Britain's vital role in the growth of 'offshore' money laundering. In this episode, Oliver explores how, in recent years, the state has struggled to stop it. Show more

Tracy knows when she’s onto a good thing, and the numbers don’t add up for Ruth. Show more

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

Clare travels to the Isles of Scilly and visits Tresco to walk around the islands and its outstanding gardens with Mike Nelhams. Show more

Stand-up comedian Daliso Chaponda makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Link Education International. Show more

Johny Pitts and the joys of words and gardens with Benjamin Myers on his novel The Perfect Golden Circle and Charlie Porter and Charlotte Moore on a rich history of garden writing. Show more

In a new series of style with substance, Mary Portas looks at menswear past, present and future. We visit the V&A and meet JW Anderson, Edward Crutchley and Priya Ahluwalia. Show more

Society itself and the ways we live have been transformed in 70 years of science. Marnie Chesterton, Andrea Sella, and Gemma Milne take a tour of the archive. Show more

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

Celebrations on the first of four days to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee have begun. And 17 people at an immigration facility have been on hunger strike.

Milton is recruited by the kindliest Secret Service in the world to oversee a tense spy swap on the Severn Bridge. Show more

It’s all work and no play for Brian, and why is Jazzer keeping everyone waiting? Show more

To mark the platinum jubilee, Front Row reviews the culture Britain was enjoying in 1952, from the surreal sounds of The Goon Show to the Bollywood classic Aan. Show more

With the eyes of the world on Ukraine rather than Afghanistan, how is the Taliban coping with a nation facing food shortages, a failing economy and a bombing campaign by ISIS-K? Show more

Two women who became disabled on the brink of adulthood come together to examine the legacy - how life changed, the cost and what disability has unexpectedly given them. Show more

Society itself and the ways we live have been transformed in 70 years of science. Marnie Chesterton, Andrea Sella, and Gemma Milne take a tour of the archive. Show more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 154 sonnets collected and printed in 1609 of which some are famous, many are glorious, most are inspiring and several are unsettling. Show more

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Billy Wilder decides to shoot "Fedora" in Greece and Calista gets the call to go and help. Her job is described as "interpretation services" but it turns out to be more integral. Show more

13 million people in the UK can be classed as disabled. The first ever all-disabled line-up of acts on Radio 4 takes us on a unique, refreshing, sometimes spiky rollercoaster ride. Show more

Music writer Laura Barton visits parts of the rugged countryside of Northumberland and the coastal city of Sunderland to explore how music and landscape are intimately related. Show more

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Writer and broadcaster Jeremy Paxman’s vivid and compelling history of how coal shaped our nation. It is read by Adrian Scarborough. Today, the human cost. Show more

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