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A reflection and prayer to start the day with the Rev Jonathan Thomas, pastor of Cornerstone Church in Abergavenny. Show more

How climate change is affecting wildfires in the UK.
Rural broadband and the communities in Wales still waiting after a provider went bust.
Using sheep to manage giant hogweed. Show more

The clacking call of the stonechat punctuates nature writer Melissa Harrison's memories of cagoule-clad walks on Dartmoor with her family. Show more

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

Jim Al-Khalili unravels the tangled chains of genetic (and epigenetic) inheritance, with geneticist Anne Ferguson-Smith. Show more

Lois Pryce talks to Yasmin Khan about acceptance in the face of chronic fatigue. Show more

A new Woman’s Hour discussion series about life for women in the world’s most populated country. Show more

A World Health Organization team heads to Wuhan to search for the origin of Covid. But with the Chinese government closely involved, how free will they be to find the truth? Show more

Zakia Sewell explores the ideas of identity, aesthetics and social conditioning that lie within 'taste'. Show more

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Controlling who crosses the UK’s borders was a big promise of Brexit. For some, it was THE promise. So how’s it working? Adam Fleming investigates. Show more

The grass may be greener for Harrison, while Adam waves the white flag. Show more

By Al Smith, writer of Lifelines. A double bill of dramas looking at the crisis facing the NHS, both for those trying to challenge its workings from without and within. Show more

Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures centred on a specific point on the map. Show more

Nazi eugenic policies went much further, much faster than any other country. What drove them, and how did they make it happen so swiftly? Show more

Dr Jack Brown profiles the two high-profile metro mayors who are rebalancing power in England's great northern cities. Show more

The comedian and the writer talk to Harriett about favourite books, including one of Orwell's less well known novels Show more

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Janey doesn’t know how long she’s got left, so she’s telling ALL the jokes! This is her extraordinary story. Fearless and unflinching, yet life affirming stand-up at its very best. Show more

The walls close in on Lee, and Eddie hatches a plan. Show more

Hollywood actor Elliot Page on his coming-out memoir, Pageboy; marking Jewish history; cult film The Wicker Man at 50, celebrated in music; Sir Michael Hopkins remembered. Show more

A disturbing investigation into the torture and torment of monkeys, presented by Rebecca Henschke. Show more

Amar Latif and Wayne Pugh tell us about their sight loss journeys and how a sense of adventure and love of the great outdoors has played a part. Show more

A discussion on whether men have a friendship problem from the Cheltenham Science Festival with author Max Dickins, evolutionary expert Professor Robin Dunbar, and GP Radha Modgil Show more

Jim Al-Khalili unravels the tangled chains of genetic (and epigenetic) inheritance, with geneticist Anne Ferguson-Smith. Show more

Post Office bosses asked to repay bonuses wrongly paid for completing inquiry into scandal

Could Ireland end its historic neutrality policy?

And is Pixar's golden age over?

Mira feels that she and Lemoine have finally connected as the billionaire joins Birnam Wood for an evening of pad thai - and some LSD-fuelled group bonding. Read by Kerry Fox. Show more

India Rakusen explores the surprising historical relationship between the figure of the witch and the right to land. Show more

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