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A reading and a reflection to start the day with the Rev Peter Baker. Show more

Farming and countryside news with Anna Hill. Rare crops could be lost under EU plans, and 75 percent of UK native livestock breeds are under threat according to a DEFRA report. Show more

Libby Purves meets actor Brian Cox, adventurer Jason Lewis, artist Adela Jusic and singer June Tabor. Show more

The Saudi Arabian government's first advert to tackle domestic abuse, keeping Elizabeth Fry on English £5 notes, young feminists, and the pleasures and pains of a really good sulk. Show more

Polly, Louise and Hugo find that telling people about your love does not always produce the results you would like. Show more

Jonny Dymond explores how Panama fared since full control of running the 'Big Ditch' canal was bestowed on it? From 2013. Show more

Katy Brand, Alex Horne, Richard Herring and Natalie Haynes vie for wordy supremacy chaired by Gyles Brandreth. From 2013. Show more

Should advertising be allowed in schools? There's a lot of it about already. Plus Winifred Robinson talks to celeb gardener Chris Beardshaw about Chelsea and living with arthritis. Show more

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In the last of our party leader interviews ahead of the local elections, Martha Kearney hears from David Cameron of the Conservatives. Email wato@bbc.co.uk, twitter: #wato. Show more

Piers visits Ewelme, a small village in the scoop of the Chiltern Hills, where his sister is buried across the way from Jerome K Jerome. Show more

Matt receives some interesting information. Show more

Funny and poignant verse drama based on the story of how poet Ian McMillan's parents got married during the Second World War. Starring Billy Boyd (Pippin in Lord of the Rings). Show more

Financial phone-in with Paul Lewis discussing student finance. Show more

Followers of Harold Camping were convinced the earth would end on May 21, 2011. What happens when fundamental beliefs are so publicly shattered? Claudia Hammond reports. Show more

Laurie Taylor explores a unique piece of research conducted by BBC Lab UK and social scientists. Plus a tribute to the criminologist Geoff Pearson. Show more

Steve Hewlett discusses the rival Royal Charters with acting Times editor John Witherow and Christopher Jefferies, wrongly named by some in the press following Jo Yeates' murder. Show more

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Spoof phone-in show from the creators of The Fast Show, starring Rhys Thomas as Gary Bellamy. Show more

Paul makes his wishes clear. Show more

Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush on his new film The Eye of the Storm; Melvyn Bragg discusses a Rembrandt self-portrait for the Cultural Exchange; artist Ellen Gallagher. Show more

Polly, Louise and Hugo find that telling people about your love does not always produce the results you would like. Show more

Andrew Rawnsley chairs a live discussion with top journalists as they debate what should be said in three newspaper-style leading articles about the top stories of the moment. Show more

Daniela Papi explores the dark side of volunteering overseas. Show more

Forty per cent of the world's amphibian species are at risk of extinction. Tom Heap asks if people know or care enough to save them from dying out. Show more

Libby Purves meets actor Brian Cox, adventurer Jason Lewis, artist Adela Jusic and singer June Tabor. Show more

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UAE president at Downing Street - a balance between human rights and trade? After the Bangladesh factory collapse, could the country's access to EU markets be reconsidered? Show more

Debs and Abdi have been painting his new flat with the help of cheerful little Rebecca. But then Abdi's first day at work sparks a devastating flashback to his last day in Dadaab. Show more

Nathan Caton illustrates what can happen when you don't listen to your mum. With Adjoa Andoh and Curtis Walker. From May 2013. Show more

Sketch show written by David Quantick, featuring Graeme Garden, Johnny Daukes, Deborah Norton, Katie Maskell, Dan Antopolski and Andrew Crawford. Show more

Peter White talks to deaf actress Genevieve Barr about her lead acting role in a BBC drama in which she played a deaf girl who preferred silence to hearing with a cochlear implant. Show more

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In 1997, Margaret Thatcher invited Charles Moore to write her biography. This is the first volume of his portrait of the former prime minster. The reader is Nicholas Farrell. Show more

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