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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Alison Murdoch, director of the Foundation for Developing Compassion and Wisdom. Show more

Would you want to use Facebook on top of Snowdon? Anna Hill hears claims that better broadband is the way to improve rural tourism. Show more

David Attenborough presents the guillemot. Show more

Morning news and current affairs with Justin Webb and Evan Davis, including George Osborne on spending cuts, plus Syria arms embargo and female literary villains. Show more

Can we live healthier lives in old age? Jim Al-Khalili talks to Prof Dame Linda Partridge, who studies the genetics of ageing, with the hope that one day she can slow it down. Show more

In the first of three interviews on the theme of immigration, Clive Myrie talks to Alp Mehmet, vice-chair of Migration Watch. Show more

Ute Lemper on her latest song cycle, crime writer Dana Stabenow, the 18th-century inventor of Coadestone, and are women in The Apprentice as catty as they seem? With Samira Ahmed. Show more

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Commentary on the final day of the second Test between England and New Zealand from Headingley, with Jonathan Agnew, Bryan Waddle, Simon Mann, Michael Vaughan and Jeremy Coney. Show more

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Sir John fills his castle with wounded soldiers, and De Warenne fills his trousers with ice. Medieval sitcom stars James Fleet. From May 2012. Show more

It's a busy time for Jennifer and Tony gets things underway. Show more

Mark Lawson reviews vampire film Byzantium, plus Lucy Kirkwood on her play Chimerica, Audrey Niffenegger on working with the Royal Ballet, and Nicholas Hytner's Cultural Exchange. Show more

Abandoned by her salesman husband, Pearl Tull is left to bring up her three children alone. The story of a fractured Baltimore family dramatised by Rebecca Lenkiewicz. Show more

Rob Broomby reports on growing concern about Iran's nuclear intentions, as it continues to defy the UN and nuclear watchdog the IAEA. Is Iran playing for time to develop a bomb? Show more

Peter White is joined by Dr Fred Reid, Ellie Southwood and Seema Flower to discuss the reasons why 75% of blind people in the UK are unemployed. Show more

New knowledge about the brain is feeding its way into the classroom, but there are fears that neuromyths are thoroughly muddled up with neurofacts. With Claudia Hammond. Show more

Can we live healthier lives in old age? Jim Al-Khalili talks to Prof Dame Linda Partridge, who studies the genetics of ageing, with the hope that one day she can slow it down. Show more

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Pope Alexander VI begins his reign with caution, impressing the Romans while keeping his mistress and his children in check as best he can. Read by Robert Glenister. Show more

Britain's leading ventriloquist brings the crafty art back to radio. With Jim Al-Khalili and Wagner from X Factor. From 2013. Show more

Muchelney means 'Great Island' and this village in the Somerset Levels is often cut off. In the highest flood in living memory, and Alan Dein meets the people who live there. Show more

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Family holidays to the south coast expose the darker side of life in the north. Paul Morley on what it means to be a northerner. From May 2013. Show more

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