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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Dr Craig Gardiner.

Proposals for a blanket EU ban on fishing with drift nets - UK fishermen say they are unfairly paying the price for illegal fishing elsewhere in Europe. Show more

Michaela Strachan presents the ringed plover. Show more

Susan Hulme reports from Westminster.

Zoe Shipton's fascination with rocks started when she was a child. Now a professor of geology at Strathclyde University she talks to Jim Al-Khalili about earthquakes and fracking. Show more

Tim Dowling is not overly driven, but he is fascinated by those who are. He talks to businesswoman and Apprentice runner-up Saira Khan about the nature of ambition. Show more

Life with a disabled child, triathlons, the modern slavery bill, author Katharine McMahon on The Woman in the Picture, the belongings of newly adopted Chinese children. Show more

Michael is after a Jon replacement while Frannie has called Mary Ann to her house for a mysterious meeting. Stars Jos Slovick. From July 2014. Show more

Monty Don examines how we make room to preserve the pronghorn and wildebeest migrations in North America and Africa. Show more

Poet and performer John Hegley thinks he might be descended from the leading French Baroque composer and theorist Jean-Philippe Rameau and sets out to see if he is. Show more

What would make you happy? How about working fewer hours? Would it increase your productivity? Should the government be using public money to make us all happier? Show more

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Martha Kearney presents national and international news.

Roger Law heads to Shanghai to discover how the ultra-rich Chinese turn to butlers to keep their houses in order. From July 2014. Show more

Alice looks after her dad, and Ruth is resolute. Show more

4 Extra Debut. Estranged brothers Danny and Jimmy are about to meet for the first time in 20 years. Stars Simon Delaney and Michael McElhatton. Show more

Helen Castor takes the chair for Radio 4's popular history magazine programme, looking at what some are describing as a crisis in our industrial heritage museums. Show more

Our minds control our bodies, of course, but psychology tells us that what we do with our bodies also influences our thoughts. Michael Blastland investigates. Show more

Ian Marchant traces the story of how barbed wire privatised America, from DeKalb, Illinois where 'the devil's rope' was invented, to the Barbed Wire Museum at La Crosse, Kansas. Show more

Al Murray, Tarek Osman and Harriett Gilbert discuss good books by Naguib Mahfouz, Philip Roth and Joseph Heller. From 2014. Show more

Suffragettes protest about their treatment in prison. Show more

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Stephen K Amos, plus Wil Hodgson, Gavin Webster and Shazia Mirza present a guide to belief and opinion. From 2014. Show more

Jim speaks his mind, and Neil goes into hiding. Show more

Reviewing Halle Berry in sci-fi series Extant, three directors on the value of museums, the influence of A Hard Day's Night and Amanda Levete on the legacy of architect Louis Khan. Show more

Michael is after a Jon replacement while Frannie has called Mary Ann to her house for a mysterious meeting. Stars Jos Slovick. From July 2014. Show more

The government wants to help small businesses by ensuring their bills are paid on time. But can it succeed when even some public sector contracts are leaving companies in trouble? Show more

Red Szell tests the new and much talked about SmartGlasses being developed by Oxford University and are you self conscious about eating out? Show more

Dr Mark Porter discusses the risk of Ebola cases in the UK, why bike saddles could cause erectile dysfunction, the pros and cons of recording consultations and insect bites. Show more

Zoe Shipton's fascination with rocks started when she was a child. Now a professor of geology at Strathclyde University she talks to Jim Al-Khalili about earthquakes and fracking. Show more

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The neighbours constantly seem to want things from Ove. But he's had enough. He misses his late wife so much. He decides to end it all and join her in the afterlife. Show more

Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by comedian Dave Gorman and maths author Alex Bellos to discuss the joy of numbers and why we are all closet mathematicians at heart. Show more

A senior civil servant tells the Home Affairs Committee of his concern at the disappearance of files relating to paedophile activity. Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. Show more

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Pasternak begins an affair with Olga Ivinskaya. A dangerous move. She is later sentenced to hard labour. Read by Nigel Anthony. Show more

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