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Prayer and reflection with the Rev Dr Bert Tosh. Show more

Plans for a large scale rabbit farm in Nottinghamshire are meeting local objections. The villagers main concerns are increased traffic, smell, pollution and the layout of the site. Show more

Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and Evan Davis, debating middle age loneliness, the Greek debt crisis and the alternative to Gaddafi. Show more

Animator and film director Terry Gilliam joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs. Show more

Presented by Jenni Murray. A Muslim Miss Universe GB? Women on Fleet Street - does it matter if only 26 per cent of reporters on national papers are women? And new play 5 @ 50. Show more

Young Billy finds nice digs when sent to work in Bath. But his landlady has a strange love of taxidermy. Stars Doreen Mantle. Show more

Every six weeks, an exclusive group of women in affluent Putney in south-west London meets to discuss a book they have all been reading; Alan Dein joins them. Show more

American humorist David Sedaris reads from his comedy essays, including memories of a snowy childhood and his experience of being in a long-term relationship. From April 2010. Show more

A year after ash cloud disrupted air travel, are we prepared for the future? William Dalrymple explains the business of literature festivals and we hear from backyard astronomers. Show more

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Tim Harford and the team look behind the numbers in the news. In this programme, they examine tuition fees, drugs testing and inflation. Show more

Will isn't happy with what he hears and Usha faces a dilemma. Show more

4 Extra Debut. Trapped at home with her dependent mother, audio describer Hazel seeks an alternative, romantic life. Stars Kathryn Hunt. Show more

Bob Flowerdew, Pippa Greenwood and Anne Swithinbank join gardeners in Llandeilo and District Gardening Club for a horticultural discussion. Peter Gibbs chairs. Show more

How the Civil War became etched on the American consciousness for generations to come. Show more

Matthew Bannister on film director Sidney Lumet, Nobel Prize-winning scientist Baruch Blumberg, Steely Dan's studio engineer Roger Nichols and Gaelic singer Ishbel MacAskill. Show more

Matthew Sweet discusses the fashion sense of the Vikings with Tom Hiddleston, one of the stars of Thor, and explores the wild west with Shirley Henderson. Show more

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Clarrie makes her point and Peggy feels flustered. Show more

With Kirsty Lang, who reviews David Foster Wallace's posthumous novel The Pale King, which is published today. Show more

Young Billy finds nice digs when sent to work in Bath. But his landlady has a strange love of taxidermy. Stars Doreen Mantle. Show more

Jonathan Dimbleby dips into the archives to hear how events of the early 1950s in Britain and America were reflected in two radio debate programmes of the time.

Reflecting on animal identities, Sir David recalls seeing "whitey" - a blackbird with a white feather in his garden. From 2011. Show more

Stories by Michelle Lipton exploring what happens when people are driven by fear. Henri is faced with an impossible choice as we get nearer to the truth behind the disappearances. Show more

When women go missing from the streets and homes of Manchester, the media goes into overdrive. Local reporter Gemma Hayes discovers the truth but will she break the story? Show more

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Tom finally learns the truth behind his connection to the Stonehouse family and the identity of the man with the scar on his face whom he has feared since childhood. Show more

Conductor Charles Hazlewood chooses the composer of West Side Story, Leonard Bernstein. With Matthew Parris and Humphrey Burton. From April 2011. Show more

As the Party's inaugural street protest gets rained on, Jared's musical publicity backfires. Stars Tim Key. From March 2010. Show more

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Esteemed French psychologist Marie de Hennezel uses her experience of working with the dying to argue that proximity to death is not to be feared. Read by Alexandra Mathie. Show more

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