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Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Jenny Wigley.
Charlotte Smith hears that farming methods must change if we want to feed the world. There are warnings that unless rural wages rise, the countryside will become a retirement home. Show more
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Coverage of the second day of the Third Test between South Africa and England from Newlands, Cape Town. Commentary by Jonathan Agnew, Gerald De Kock and Christopher Martin-Jenkins. Show more
Sheila Dillon is joined by Jeanette Orrey and Hugh McLennan, two of the top movers and shakers in the school meals revolution. Show more
Ernie Rea discusses the place of faith in international aid and development. To what extent are western aid agencies in danger of imposing secular values on developing countries? Show more
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Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game with Paul Merton, Julian Clary, David Mitchell and Gyles Brandreth. From January 2010. Show more
Fallon goes into hiding. Show more
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. The Costa Book Awards; the latest Meryl Streep rom-com; author Walter Mosley. Show more
Dramatisation of Vikas Swarup's whodunit, set in India. Suspect number one: the mobile phone thief with big dreams. Show more
Melanie Phillips travels to the north-east of England to meet unemployed young people who are struggling to find their way into the labour market. Show more
The BBC's Colombo correspondent Charles Haviland travels around Sri Lanka. The island's conflict may be over, but can the government and army that won the war now win the peace? Show more
Clare Balding investigates the human voice and the way we use it. Cicely Berry, the voice coach of the Royal Shakespeare Company, divulges the secrets of the trained speaker. Show more
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Melvyn Bragg travels to Wadham College, Oxford, where the young Christopher Wren and friends experimented in the garden of their inspirational college warden, John Wilkins. Show more
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News and analysis with Ritula Shah. Why Al Qaeda has established itself in Yemen. The election campaign starts in earnest. What will the next year hold for Afghanistan? Show more
Anna is discomfited by Katri's unusual honesty. But what game is Katri playing? Read by Indira Varma. Show more
From school classrooms to sports grounds, Michael Rosen investigates silence, and the times when staying silent can speak volumes. Show more
How children's writer Brenda Rawnsley convinced leading artists to donate pictures to post-war British schools. With Jackie Morris. From October 2008. Show more
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4 Extra Debut. Tall tales of true love from modern rural Ireland and its recent past. Dermot Crowley reads matchmaker Willie Daly's memoir. Show more
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