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A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with Haydon Spenceley. Show more

An environmentalist says the UKs National Parks are becoming ‘dead zones’, a leading figure in the institution defends them. Show more

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Join Mary Beard for a Roman bar crawl through the streets of Pompeii. With all but the wealthiest urban Romans unable to cook at home it was the bars where life really went on. Show more

We look at how keeping objects from deceased loved ones can help with grief, we hear from a listener with summer seasonal affective disorder and talk about anxiety in older people. Show more

Three young women talk about how the increasingly difficult challenges of the rental market has affected their lives, plans and sense of stability. Show more

Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe launch a brand new series, along with composer Neil Brand and jazz singer Natalie Duncan. Show more

In darkness, 18,000 men in parachutes and gliders take flight across the Channel to Normandy. Paddy O’Connell hears from those who were there how the beginning of D-Day unfolded. Show more

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Call You & Yours. Are you spending more money locally, and on what? Shopping closer to home is a legacy of the pandemic. Have your shopping habits changed? Show more

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We examine the Conservative party's pledge for pensioners, and hear from Rishi Sunak's constituents in North Yorkshire. Plus, the latest from Rafah.

Ittai Gradel starts buying from a mysterious seller with a seemingly endless supply of ancient, precious gemstones at bargain prices. But soon his suspicions start to grow. Show more

There’s a crisis at Casey Meats, and Lilian treads carefully. Show more

By Helen Cross. An explosion of 'warlike dimensions' silences the town of Scunthorpe. Real-life stories and drama combine to mark 50 years since the Nypro disaster. Show more

Evaporating answers, mysterious music and disappearing dialects - Josie Long presents short documentaries about things in danger of becoming lost. Show more

Garden Utopias: Laurie Taylor peers behind the privet hedge to discover the dreams which inspired suburban greenery. Also, the promise of allotments and guerrilla gardening. Show more

Michael Sheen explores the strange art of acting, from Stanislavski to today. Show more

David Yelland and Simon Lewis discuss the parties' PR strategies for the general election, as well as how PR has been put on the stand at the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry. Show more

PM introduces its General Election Tombola, picking some of the constituencies it will visit during the campaign. Also, cloud measuring and the latest on the Trump trial.

Many displaced Palestinians are still sheltering in Rafah from the conflict

Weather presenter Carol Kirkwood shares her cat obsession and presenter Clara Amfo reveals her love of trainers. From 2020. Show more

Jakob has bad news to impart, and Lynda launches her latest scheme. Show more

Benedict Cumberbatch on his Netflix series Eric, Bernard Butler plays a song from his new solo album, and new Kafka exhibition at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Show more

The most senior family court judge has described the growing use of a court order that detains vulnerable children and restricts their freedom as his single most worrying issue. Show more

Often a boon to accessibility, technology can also involve barriers. We discuss accessibility problems encountered by blind users of Ticketmaster and Sonos speakers Show more

Your guide to the law and the legal decisions that have a bearing on everyone in the UK. This week: protest law, building on greenbelt, and needing a "lasting power of attorney". Show more

Evan Davis sits down with Simon Beckerman, the founder of the pre-loved fashion platform Depop. Show more

The UK's first black female MP has been allowed back into the Parliamentary Labour party after race row probe, but will she stand in the election? Show more

In the next episode in the long-awaited sequel to Brooklyn, Eilis feels herself pulled back to Ireland, when her mother-in-law's plans to adopt Tony's baby slowly emerge... Show more

We return to Fred’s story about confronting terrifying creatures in the Alaskan wilderness. And Danny visits a town famous for America’s most notorious alleged Bigfoot sighting. Show more

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In darkness, 18,000 men in parachutes and gliders take flight across the Channel to Normandy. Paddy O’Connell hears from those who were there how the beginning of D-Day unfolded. Show more

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