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A reflection and prayer to start the day with Sister Geraldine Smyth OP.

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Misha Glenny on the extraordinary story of the Russian empire... and what it means today. Show more

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Journalist Ian Wylie travels to five small towns that rarely make the national news to meet the local reporters still passionate about telling the stories of their communities. Show more

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Pianist Sir Stephen Hough talks to John Wilson about his formative cultural influences. Show more

Paul Gambaccini asks the questions in the always-eclectic quiz about music. Show more

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Neil Brand unearths the story of Hammer Horror's modernist soundtracks and the leading avant-garde composers who scored them, and explains the nuts and bolts of scary music. Show more

Professor Brian Cox tells Aleem Maqbool what he thinks about God, religion and science. Plus three fascinating guests discuss whether the war between science and religion is over. Show more

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David Carrick, who served as an armed officer, has admitted dozens of rape and sexual offences against 12 women.

Sue Perkins challenges Paul Merton, Jennifer Saunders, Julian Clary and Anna Maxwell Martin to speak for 60 seconds without repetition, deviation or hesitation. Show more

Is Brad about to seize the day? Tony has a surprising plan. Show more

Grammy award winning record producer Rick Rubin, theatre director Rebecca Frecknall on a Streetcar Named Desire and Clarinetist Kinan Azmeh performs live in the Front Row studio. Show more

A London schoolgirl disappears. Four years later she's found in Syria with ISIS. Some say she’s a monster, others a victim. What really happened? Josh Baker investigates. Show more

Why an Italian judge in Sicily is taking kids away from Mafia families. Show more

Philip Ball tells the story of Ramon Llull, the medieval prophet of computer science. During the Crusades, he argued that truth could be automated. It was a dangerous idea. Show more

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