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Kirsty Young interviews the Rt Hon Eric Pickles MP. Show more

A return visit to Birmingham for regulars Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden, plus Jeremy Hardy on the panel and Jack Dee in the chair. Show more

Sheila Dillon looks at the role food plays in different faiths and how churches, temples and mosques are increasingly being tasked with feeding recession victims. Show more

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Hardeep Singh Kohli cooks for Peter Woolf and Will Riley, whose friendship started when Peter broke into Will's house. From December 2012. Show more

Eric Robson chairs the horticultural panel programme from Rayleigh in Essex, where he is joined by gardening experts Matt Biggs, Christine Walkden and Bunny Guinness. Show more

Fi Glover introduces a startlingly honest conversation: Civil partners for nine years, Lyn and Mary reconsider their relationship, after Lyn served six weeks for drink-driving. Show more

The Count unearths a scandal that links two of his remaining enemies. Starring Iain Glen, Toby Jones and Paul Rhys. Show more

Mariella Frostrup talks to India Knight about her hilarious new novel 'Mutton', and to MC Beaton about her latest Agatha Raisin murder mystery 'Hiss and Hers'. Show more

Roger McGough presents some tree poems, old and new, as the country contemplates losing its ashes. Part of a short season of tree programmes on BBC Radio 4. Show more

Zoe Williams inspects high-flying and failing academy schools to find out what they are doing differently and to assess education secretary Michael Gove's education revolution. Show more

Lesley Curwen profiles the business tycoon Sir Philip Green, who this week sold a stake in flagship fashion chain Topshop and Topman for a reported £500 million. Show more

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Sheila McClennon makes her selection from the past seven days of BBC Radio. Show more

Neil's worries increase, and Matt is out to impress. Show more

A new term and second year student Lila plans to teach the Freshers everything she knows. With Anna Crilly. From September 2010. Show more

Florence Wyle takes her dearest friend Frances Loring to revisit their past - set in stone. Read by Liza Ross. Show more

Tim Harford asks what severe morning sickness tells us about the chances of having twins, and looks at the Chancellor's Autumn Statement to find the bigger picture of the economy. Show more

Obituary series. Matthew Bannister on Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, jazz composer and pianist Dave Brubeck, Indian politician Bal Thackeray and boxer Hector Camacho. Show more

Paul Lewis and guests put the Autumn Statement under the microscope, plus financial advice shake-up, fees vs commission and is it safer to buy on a credit or a debit card? Show more

Beatrice Achieng presents an appeal on behalf of the charity Build Africa. Show more

Peter Day visits two Swiss pharmaceutical companies, one huge and one tiny and linked by their quest for a treatment for Alzheimer's, to look at the future of drug discovery. Show more

Preview of the week's political agenda at Westminster with MPs, experts and commentators. Discussion of the issues politicians are grappling with in the corridors of power.

Stephen Glover of the Daily Mail analyses how newspapers are covering the biggest stories in Westminster and beyond. Show more

The latest news from the world of film with Francine Stock, including Martin McDonagh and Sam Rockwell on Seven Psychopaths, and Charlotte Rampling on I, Anna. Show more

Twilight: writer Sarah Cuddon considers the special qualities of those 'in-between times' that bookend each day. Show more

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Laurie Taylor explores a new book that charts and celebrates gay male identity and culture. Also, a crisis of work identity amongst railway workers. Show more

The bells of St Nicholas's Church, Durweston, Dorset. Show more

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