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The Wildlife Trusts say the government's Biodiversity Net Gain ambition is too low, and there should be a 20% net gain for nature. Show more

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Having recorded a number of bird calls in Australia, back home, musician Fyfe Dangerfield manipulates their speed and pitch to experiment in music and melody composition. Show more

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Bryony on her latest book, Mad Woman. Show more

From the rubble of the dot com crash, an ambitious young Harvard student with a passion for hacking, sets up an exciting new website. Show more

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A consumer group is taking BT to court saying it overcharged millions of landline customers. The firm denies the claim saying it was a 'technical pricing issue'. Show more

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Poet Paul Farley goes walking in circles to ask why human beings find loops and rings so significant and symbolic. He starts with a Neolithic stone circle at Castlerigg in Cumbria Show more

Fallon has a suggestion for Alice, and David lends a hand. Show more

Film-maker Yorgos Lanthimos talks to John Wilson about the influences on his work and his creative process. Show more

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Jaega Wise seeks to uncover some of the connections between what we eat, and how it can make us love. Show more

Jenny Kleeman asks if an unprecedented data theft from at-home DNA testing company 23andMe was a racially motivated attack - and if our genetic code can ever be stored safely. Show more

Is religion funny? Comedian Eman El Husseini talks to Aleem Maqbool about her belief that religion is itself is funny and how this influences her stand-up material. Show more

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More than a million people have fled to the area from their homes elsewhere in Gaza

Sue Perkins challenges guests Tony Hawks, Eleanor Tiernan, Heidi Regan and Paul Merton to speak for 60 seconds without repetition, deviation or hesitation. Show more

Revenge is sweet for Adam, and Tony’s on the ropes. Show more

Bryce Dessner of rock band The National on his new piano concerto, and how artists have depicted the flight into Egypt. Show more

An investigation into why schools are having to pay tens of thousands of pounds extra from their budgets for what they say are inflexible and over-priced PFI maintenance contracts. Show more

New migrants, and first, second and third generation immigrants are encouraged - or told - that they must integrate into 'British culture', but what exactly is it? Show more

Ben Garrod and Jess French get under the skin (and blubber) of a marine mammal which is comfortably at home at land and sea, the sea lion. Show more

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Isherwood's novel piquantly evokes the atmosphere of Berlin during the rise of the Nazis. It is often cited as one of the inspirations for the musical Cabaret. Show more

Michael Rosen talks to neuroscientst Julia Ravey about whether we think and act differently when speaking a non-native language. From the decisions we make to the morals we hold. Show more

How just doing a few kind things for your family and friends could help reduce your inflammation, protecting you from chronic illness, and even give your own mental health a boost. Show more

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John Vaillant explores the past and the future of our ever-hotter, more flammable world. In 2016, Fort McMurray in Canada, experienced a wild fire on a level never before seen. Show more

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