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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rt Rev Chris Edmondson, Bishop of Bolton. Show more

Another Country: Featuring a Briton who became French so he could vote there, plus flash fiction and the couple with 10,000 books. Danny Baker reads Your News. Show more

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Richard Uridge is in the Northamptonshire countryside to discover the inspirational landscape of Rockingham Forest. Show more

Is there a future for common land? Sarah Swadling explores an ancient grazing tradition and asks if its decline is having a serious impact on landscape, farming and wildlife. Show more

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Morning news with John Humphrys in Athens and Evan Davis and Justin Webb in London, featuring Boris Johnson's first interview following his London mayoral election victory. Show more

Sian Williams and Richard Coles with David Cassidy, Cilla Black's Inheritance Tracks, John McCarthy on the Paris Metro, Patrick Duffy in his caravan, poet Luke Wright in the park. Show more

Yasmeen Khan explores the bling-filled world of the British Asian wedding, where tradition meets Bollywood dreams. From 2012. Show more

Sue Cameron of the Daily Telegraph asks if power is draining away from Westminster. Show more

Correspondents with stories from Greece, Italy, Ireland, Kenya and the Russian Arctic. Show more

Short-changed by your energy company? The HMRC phone odyssey, benefit confusion over capping, IFA's ordered to pay landmark compensation and when is a faster payment fast? Show more

A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi Toksvig. With Jeremy Hardy, Phill Jupitus and Hugo Rifkind. Show more

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Jonathan Dimbleby presents a panel discussion of news and politics from Marlborough Science Academy, St Albans with Hilary Benn, David Willetts, Paddy Ashdown and Christine Blower. Show more

Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's edition of Any Questions? Topics include the election results, airport queues and performance-related pay for teachers. Show more

By JL Carr. Birkin, a WW I survivor, spends a month in the country uncovering a medieval mural. He finds compassion and love, riches he thought the war had blown away. Show more

Cerys Matthews celebrates the life of the great gospel singer and civil rights campaigner, Mahalia Jackson. From 2012. Show more

Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane Garvey.

The day's top news stories, with sports headlines.

Another Country: Featuring a Briton who became French so he could vote there, plus flash fiction and the couple with 10,000 books. Danny Baker reads Your News. Show more

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Clive Anderson is joined by Alison Steadman, Richard Wilson and John O'Farrell. Nikki Bedi talks to would-be conductor Marcus Du Sautoy. With music from Django Django and Eska. Show more

Multi-lingual, intelligent and the surprise choice for arguably the biggest job in British sport - Roy Hodgson. Gerry Northam profiles the man with a 36-year coaching career. Show more

Tom Sutcliffe and his guests poet Cahal Dallat, anthropologist Kit Davis and academic and critic John Mullan review cultural highlights. Show more

More than 50 years after Dr Beeching wielded his axe, Michael Portillo looks back at the cuts and assesses the impact they have had on Britain's railways over the past five decades. Show more

Uncle Fred is still at Blandings Castle masquerading as a 'brain doctor', while a prize-pig is purloined. Stars Alfred Molina. Show more

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Clare Melford, CEO of the International Business Leaders Forum, argues that businesses need to learn about the tenets of Buddhism to thrive while being sustainable. Show more

The Rt Rev James Jones visits Liverpool, High Down and Forest Bank prisons, witnesses the 'processing' of inmates, measures a cell and talks to prisoners about why they are there. Show more

Paul Gambaccini hosts the wide-ranging music quiz, with contestants from Gateshead, London and Hertfordshire. From 2012. Show more

Paul Farley explores the American poet Elizabeth Bishop's extraordinary years in Brazil, and how her rootless, traveller's condition inspired her writing. Show more

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By Diana Hendry. Distracted by an apostrophe obsession, a woman fails to notice that her lover is not all that he seems. Read by Monica Gibb. Show more

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