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Prayer and reflection with Quaker and author Alastair McIntosh. Show more

'Mum brought eyes and hearts home from the butcher'. The early life of plastic surgeon Nigel Mercer. Also his thoughts on NHS funding, taking 'jug ears' seriously and 'good' death. Show more

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Fowey in Cornwall is home to the annual Daphne Du Maurier festival and the area features in some of her best known work. Clare Balding takes a literary walk around the town. Show more

Farmers say the drought could mean this year's wheat harvest will be the worst for 30 years. Some farmers in East Anglia say they're expecting a 50 per cent drop in yield. Show more

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Morning news and current affairs, with John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Is the UK facing a summer of discontent? Plus Greece's debt rollover and an Archers relic. Show more

Richard Coles with Esther Rantzen, poet Luke Wright, a man who hoaxed the nation and a widow who discovered her husband was gay; Inheritance Tracks by opera singer Lesley Garrett. Show more

Sandi Toksvig meets novelist Richard Gwyn and translator Peter Bush to discuss Catalonia and she talks about the Cornish coast with author Philip Marsden. Show more

4 Extra Debut. Hardeep Singh Kohli discovers the royal connections linking Ascot racecourse with fashion for over 300 years. From June 2011. Show more

Coverage of the third day of the Third Test between England and Sri Lanka, from the Rose Bowl. Commentary by Jonathan Agnew, Christopher Martin Jenkins and Roshan Abeysinghe. Show more

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Clive Anderson is joined by Kathy Griffin, Douglas Henshall, Marcus Brigstocke, Jo Bunting and Terence Blacker. Music from Kyla La Grange and Fatoumata Diawara. Show more

Writers create a fictional response to the week's news. Terence Blacker imagines the plight of a newspaper editor faced with mountains of Sarah Palin's leaked emails. Show more

Tom Sutcliffe and his guests writer Rowan Pelling, poet Paul Farley and novelist Deborah Moggach review the week's cultural highlights. Show more

Music journalist Paul Morley explores the rise and mysterious fall of light orchestral music in Britain in the 1950s. From 2011. Show more

By Mike Walker, inspired by Holinshed's Chronicles. Richard II struggles to introduce culture to a war-based court. With Patrick Kennedy and Blake Ritson. Show more

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Nick Robinson and his panel examine the European Court of Human Rights, which has generated controversy with its judgement on prisoner voting. Show more

Paul Gambaccini welcomes three former winners, for the semi-finals of the 2011 search to find the nation's musical mastermind. Show more

A literary landmark and it's effect on a city; an examination of how Dublin has embraced Ulysses. With Peter White. From 2011. Show more

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William's day is interrupted by an irate woman, with unexpected vengeful results. Read by Charles Swift. Show more

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