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Prayer and reflection with Rabbi Dr Naftali Brawer. Show more
Charlotte Smith hears how changes to subsidies in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland could mean an end to 'slipper farming'. Show more
Sean Curran has the best of Thursday's debates in the Commons and the Lords. Show more
Veteran hairdresser Vidal Sassoon is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. Show more
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A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi Toksvig with panellists including Jeremy Hardy, Sarah Millican and Paul Sinha.
There's an unwelcome visitor at Rickyard Cottage, and Jennifer hears some home truths. Show more
With Kirsty Lang. Tamsin Greig on Jumpy, a new play about parenting; and a review of Holy Flying Circus, a TV drama about the outrage caused by Monty Python's Life Of Brian. Show more
Ian's ambitions have stretched too far and he is now jogging frantically around the Edge, running for his life. But who, or what, is he running from? Show more
Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a panel debate about news and politics from St Mary's School, Ascot, with Chuka Umunna. Chris Grayling, Rita Clifton and Kevin Maguire. Show more
Will Self praises the beauty of wind turbines and says protests against them spring from a misconceived idyllic view of our already man-made landscape. Show more
A tragic comedy about hubris and political manipulation, depicting the principal events of Shirley Porter's time as 'The Westminster Whirlwind' in the 1980s. By Gregory Evans. Show more
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With Robin Lustig. National and international news and analysis. Show more
Three young boys meet on a passenger ship bound for London. The boys manage to persuade Mr Daniels to be the 'responsible adult' supervising them. Show more
A Good Read
Mary Beard & Bidisha at The Cheltenham Literature Festival
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4 Extra Debut. Harriett Gilbert, Mary Beard and Bidisha on books by Margaret Atwood, Stella Gibbons and Homer. From 2011. Show more
News from Westminster.
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Peter Ackroyd's biography of Isaac Newton sparks Hitchens' nostalgic rumination on science and Cambridge. Read by Roger Allam. Show more
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