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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the Rev Sharon Grenham-Toze. Show more

The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. Charlotte Smith hears how farmers will have to do more for the environment in order to receive farm subsidies. Show more

Keith Macdougal reports on Prime Minister's Questions, the perils of asbestos in schools, and fears for the future of bees. Show more

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of the great Russian writer Anton Chekhov. Show more

Women in Iraq 10 years on - an exhibition at the Imperial War Museum North; the female lobby in Rome for the papal election; introducing partners to parents - what can go wrong? Show more

Fred has been encouraged in his writing by a WEA tutor. Show more

Australia's aborigines thrust into the front line of global economics. Kate Adie presents this and more BBC despatches from Lebanon, Venezuela, Nepal and South Sudan. Show more

Ian McMillan reveals the heart of Poetry and Jazz, where words are given an extra dimension by the musical cadences and rhythms of jazz, and detects its strong beat today. Show more

Energy minister Greg Barker on the Green Deal take-up, Lee Hendrie on how he lost £10 million and went bankrupt, and how car fuel economy claims might not be what they seem. Show more

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It's 1734, and a British diplomat has seen an expected inheritance slip through his fingers. But he's ready for a fight, as Tim Marlow discovers on a Yorkshire country estate. Show more

Emma is ecstatic. Meanwhile Ed springs a surprise. Show more

by Sebastian Baczkiewicz. Starring Paul Hilton and Kate Fleetwood. Pilgrim hopes to find an end, at least to the war of attrition with Birdie, at best to his own immortality. Show more

Michael Weltike tries to persuade Clare of the benefits of barefoot walking, on a wintry wander in the West Country. Show more

Ben Brooks-Dutton, who has been helped by the charity, presents an appeal for Winston's Wish. Show more

Mariella Frostrup with new fiction and non-fiction. AL Kennedy discusses her book On Writing, and novelist Justin Cartwright provides a guide to South African writer JM Coetzee. Show more

Francine Stock discusses Ken Loach's archive documentary The Spirit of '45 and the challenges of making a second film after a successful debut with Eran Creevy, director of Shifty. Show more

Drinking water on Mars, the latest findings from the Red Planet. Big eyes in Neanderthals were no advantage, cholera history questioned, and tapeworm genetics. With Quentin Cooper. Show more

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Jeremy explores what it is to be a man. How do you get skills in DIY, self-confidence and violence? From March 2013. Show more

Tom hears some home truths, and Josh steps into the breach. Show more

John Wilson with arts news, interviews and reviews, including Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel on the importance of music-making for young people. Show more

Fred has been encouraged in his writing by a WEA tutor. Show more

Joshua Rozenberg investigates government powers to strip Britons of their citizenship. Plus, should a woman escape liability if she was pressured to commit the crime by a man? Show more

Evan Davis asks his guests what it takes to rescue a sinking company.

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