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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Monsignor Tony Rogers.

Farming news with Charlotte Smith. The Welsh food minister defends his decision to give £500,000 to farm charities, rather than fund disposal of animals killed in the snow. Show more

Susan Hulme with all the news from Westminster, as MPs debate the Chancellor's plans for boosting the housing market and the use of police cautions. Show more

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Putney Debates of 1647, when factions of the New Model Army considered a possible new constitution for England. Show more

Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook on 'leaning in' and 'being nice' to make it to the top. Anne Frank's step-sister Eva Schloss talks about surviving Auschwitz. Online dating in your 50s. Show more

The elder wife of shopkeeper Sardar Aka is suddenly ill. Or is she just sick with jealousy of his younger wife? The doctor will know. Show more

Linda Pressly meets the vigilantes fighting Mexico's criminal gangs in Guerrerro State. Show more

4 Extra Debut. An exploration of the filmmaker Frank Capra's enduring vision of the American dream, including It's A Wonderful Life. From 2013. Show more

Robert Llewellyn on electric cars, behind the scenes on the McDonalds production line, and tattoos that go wrong. Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. Show more

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David Hendy follows the writer Thomas Carlyle's grumpy attempts at soundproofing, as next door’s noise became harder to escape. Show more

Neil comes to a decision, and Pip makes her excuses to David. Show more

By Ewa Banaszkiewicz. Robert Glenister and Aisling Loftus star as a father and daughter whose relationship is irreparably fractured by his gambling addiction. Show more

Helen Mark visits Lyme Regis, along Dorset's Jurassic coast, to explore the Undercliffs, a fascinating jungle-like terrain that has been created by 200 years of landslips. Show more

Keira Bartlett, who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder, presents an appeal on behalf of OCD Action. Show more

Taiye Selasi discusses her debut Ghana Must Go, Gillian Cross on After Tomorrow and dystopian futures for children, and Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, the novel behind the famous opera. Show more

Film news. Francine Stock talks to Jeremy Irons about global waste documentary Trashed, and asks if films can really change the world. Plus Susanne Bier on reinventing the romcom. Show more

Quentin Cooper on the remarkable zebrafish and its newly published genome, what may have caused the Khash earthquake in Iran, and the man who drives NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars. Show more

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Comedian and activist Mark Thomas creates a People's Manifesto from policies of his Gulbenkian Theatre audience. From 2013. Show more

Helen does some straight talking, and Tom forges ahead. Show more

John Wilson meets singer-songwriter Kacey Musgraves; Gus Van Sant's film Promised Land, starring Matt Damon; the launch of BBC Proms 2013; photographers using found images. Show more

The elder wife of shopkeeper Sardar Aka is suddenly ill. Or is she just sick with jealousy of his younger wife? The doctor will know. Show more

In the wake of the suspension of children's hearts surgery at Leeds General Infirmary, Hannah Barnes asks who parents can trust to tell them where will offer the best care? Show more

India is embarking on a huge programme to give the country's 1.2 billion people a unique identity through fingerprints and iris scans. Peter Day asks if the project can work. Show more

Paul Evans explores the human self, after discovering that only one in ten cells in our bodies is human; the rest are microbial cells. So, if we're not all human, what are we? Show more

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Putney Debates of 1647, when factions of the New Model Army considered a possible new constitution for England. Show more

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Five writers on Granta's list of the 20 best British novelists under 40. A young man returns from training to his rural home to find it unchanged, but no longer where he belongs. Show more

What does it mean to be normal? Travelling the UK, Jon Ronson puts a manual of mental disorders to the test. From April 2013. Show more

Rachel Byrne reports on events at Westminster.

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In South Africa, Emma meets her mother's sister Fay and they talk of the past, which Emma's mother had left behind when she moved to England. Show more

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