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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with Alison Murdoch. Show more

Tourism businesses across Britain are uniting today to call for a cut to VAT. Farming Today visits a farmhouse B&B to find out how a reduction would benefit rural tourism. Show more

Steve Backshall presents the cirl bunting. Show more

All the news from Westminster where peers are divided over potential links between a rise in anti-Semitism and Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip. With Susan Hulme. Show more

Through the prism of history, Jonathan Freedland considers our attitudes towards young people who volunteer to fight in foreign wars. Show more

How publishing PM Harold Macmillan mixed politics with business. Robert McCrum's stories of great British publishers. From October 2013. Show more

England v India: Commentary on the fourth day of the third Test, from Southampton, with Jonathan Agnew, Ed Smith, Phil Tufnell, Michael Vaughan, Geoff Boycott and Rahul Dravid. Show more

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England v India: Commentary on the fourth day of the third Test, from Southampton, with Jonathan Agnew, Ed Smith, Phil Tufnell, Michael Vaughan, Geoff Boycott and Rahul Dravid. Show more

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Lynda makes a breakthrough. Meanwhile, things are tense at Lower Loxley. Show more

Line of Duty's Adrian Dunbar on directing Beckett's Catastrophe, violinist Tasmin Little's sounds of summer, Audrey Tautou in Michel Gondry's Mood Indigo and artist Katie Paterson. Show more

Beth hangs out with a rival band’s lead singer and now has different ideas of how the band should proceed. Stars Anneika Rose. Show more

Michael Buerk presents combative, provocative and engaging debate. Show more

Adjoa Andoh on raising a child who sensed from a very young age that he was a boy trapped in a girl's body. Show more

4 Extra Debut. How the Bronze Age legacy of Alan Garner’s home and nearby Jodrell Bank, inspires his novels. With Martin Goodman. From 2014. Show more

Through the prism of history, Jonathan Freedland considers our attitudes towards young people who volunteer to fight in foreign wars. Show more

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In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. Death toll rises as UN school and market struck in Gaza. With Carolyn Quinn. Show more

With Johannes under arrest, it falls to Nella to do what she can to sell the warehouse full of sugar before it rots. Read by Emilia Fox. Show more

4 Extra Debut. Can the boffins add smells to broadcasts? Secrets of the Institute of Radiophonic Evolution. With William Beck. From 2014. Show more

A woman married to a philandering husband finds surprising solace during a turbulent flight. Stars Lesley Manville. From 2014. Show more

Susan Hulme reports on the House of Lords' last day before its long summer break. Peers debate same-sex marriage laws, curbs on judicial review and the healing power of music. Show more

Fi Glover introduces a couple who moved to Orkney as business partners and now reflect on how they fell in love with the remote islands and with each other. From July 2014. Show more

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