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With the Reverend David Arnott.

"It feels like begging, it's degrading." Listeners talk about living on benefit. Presented by Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracey, plus our special guest star Mark Lawson. Show more

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Clare Balding walks with a group of women who have produced their own book of walks in the Peak District called 'Women's Ways'. Show more

Charlotte Smith visits a farm with one million laying hens, as battery cages are phased out across Europe. UK egg farmers fear they may now lose out to cheap imports. Show more

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Morning news and current affairs with Sarah Montague and Evan Davis, featuring George Soros on the China/US currency war and Gyles Brandreth's love of piers. Show more

As Neil MacGregor's world history comes to an end, Evan Davis visits the British Museum to discover what objects were contenders for the last, 100th, episode. Show more

Fi Glover with Lady Editor Rachel Johnson, poet Luke Wright, and actor Sean Wilson who swapped Corrie for cheesemaking; Carol Vorderman shares her Inheritance Tracks. Show more

John McCarthy talks to Michael Allen and Patrick Barkham about what draws people into the British countryside, and to Susanna Hoe about visiting Tasmania. Show more

Steve Punt turns detective, investigating the curse of the Crying Boy paintings and why, in house fires in the 80s, the pictures were the only items to survive unscathed. Show more

Andrew Rawnsley looks at how the main UK parties are repositioning themselves in unchartered political waters. Show more

Kate Adie introduces despatches from correspondents in Burma, the US state of Nevada, Kashmir, Spain and Algeria. Show more

Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal finance. Show more

Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical news quiz. With Jeremy Hardy, Sue Perkins and Andy Hamilton. Show more

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Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from City of London Academy, in Southwark, London with questions for the panel including historian David Starkey. Show more

Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's edition of Any Questions? Show more

After bugging London's US Embassy, inventor Leon Theremin and his ex-lover must avoid both the CIA and the KGB. Based on real events. Stars Tom Hollander. Show more

Pianist James Rhodes explains the role Beethoven's final piano concerto has played in his life. With John Suchet. From October 2010. Show more

Presented by Jane Garvey. David Tennant; Arlene Phillips; Ingrid Betancourt; your views on child benefit; and music from Marina and the Diamonds. Show more

Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the sports headlines with Ritula Shah.

Evan Davis and guests navigate some of the new media routes into a consumer's consciousness. They also discuss whether it's better to be optimistic in business, or realistic. Show more

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Clive Anderson is joined by Barbara Taylor-Bradford, James Sherwood, Hugh Bonneville, Emma Freud, Belinda Carlisle and David Quantick. With music from Erland & the Carnival. Show more

Mary Ann Sieghart examines the career and character of Yvette Cooper, the new Shadow Foreign Secretary and one half of the famous Labour political couple. Show more

Tom Sutcliffe and his guests, literary critic John Carey, novelist Deborah Moggach and architecture critic and writer Tom Dyckhoff, review the cultural highlights of the week. Show more

Theatre director Jude Kelly argues the case for The Battleaxe character, once a staple of British drama but now just a memory. Show more

Tina Pepler's dramatisation of Christopher Isherwood's semi-autobiographical novel set in 1930s Germany. Isherwood arrives in Berlin and joins a motley crew of lodgers. Show more

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From divorce to bereavement, this week's parenting experts debate the best way to break bad news to children. Mariella Frostrup and guests ask whether it's always best to be honest. Show more

Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz. The North of England take on the South of England. Show more

'Home' is the theme for National Poetry Day 2010. Roger McGough shares poems by TS Eliot, AA Milne and RL Stevenson. Show more

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A husband on holiday with his wife is tested to the limit by the tantrums of a young boy, which ultimately prompts his wife to look at him in a new light. Read by Philip Jackson. Show more

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